Politics & Government News

1:33 PM on Monday, February 23

Europe's asking for answers about US President Donald Trump's announcement of a 15% global tax, or tariff, on imports

1:24 PM on Monday, February 23

A federal court ruling means the new Utah voting districts that give Democrats an improved shot at winning a U.S. House seat can be used in this year’s election

1:19 PM on Monday, February 23

Federal court rejects GOP-led Utah Legislature's latest attempt to put congressional map that helps Democrats on hold

12:47 PM on Monday, February 23

Canada’s foreign minister says her country is working on an aid package for Cuba as it faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U.S. oil embargo

12:45 PM on Monday, February 23

Professional journalists sifting through the trove of documents released in the Epstein files have some help — a cadre of citizen journalists or sleuths who have become obsessed with the material

12:33 PM on Monday, February 23

Britain’s government says it is considering legal changes to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession

12:13 PM on Monday, February 23

British police have arrested Peter Mandelson — a former U.K. ambassador to the United States — in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties with Jeffrey Epstein

12:11 PM on Monday, February 23

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says pressure is building on President Donald Trump as courts and Congress push back on his tariff agenda

11:53 AM on Monday, February 23

Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group has declared a unilateral ceasefire ahead of next month's congressional elections

11:05 AM on Monday, February 23

The 21-year-old North Carolina man who entered a gate at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a shotgun before he was shot and killed worked as a golf course groundskeeper and sold illustrations of golf courses

9:51 AM on Monday, February 23

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change

9:37 AM on Monday, February 23

A federal judge has permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate

8:31 AM on Monday, February 23

Supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye have held a prayer service in a Catholic cathedral to press for his release

8:30 AM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports

8:00 AM on Monday, February 23

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration’s interests in the Western Hemisphere

4:22 AM on Monday, February 23

Hungary has blocked the European Union’s latest sanctions plan against Russia, and said it will hold up a big new loan for Ukraine

4:21 AM on Monday, February 23

Rob Jetten has become the Netherlands’ youngest-ever and first openly gay prime minister as his new minority coalition takes office

12:05 AM on Monday, February 23

When the American men’s hockey team retreated to their locker room to celebrate their Winter Olympics gold medal win, they were joined by a special guest from the United States: FBI Director Kash Patel

12:01 AM on Monday, February 23

Twenty-five members of the Mexican National Guard died in six separate attacks after special forces killed the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel

10:39 AM on Tuesday, February 10

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced the biggest crisis of his leadership because of his decision to appoint a close ally of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the plum job of U.K. ambassador to the United States