Politics & Government News

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EU regulators are investigating Shein over illegal products and an allegedly addictive app design under the bloc’s Digital Services Act

6:37 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Protesters block major roads around Beirut after Lebanon’s cabinet approves new taxes that raise fuel prices to fund public pay hikes

6:28 AM on Tuesday, February 17

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In 1983, The Associated Press profiled the Rev. Jesse Jackson when he was a 41-year-old civil rights activist preparing his historic 1984 campaign for the presidency

5:19 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections last week, the country’s first since the massive 2024 uprising

5:12 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Tarique Rahman is sworn in as Bangladesh’s new prime minister after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections

5:11 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Family says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader from the era of King to Black Lives Matter, has died

4:25 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Belgium has summoned the U.S. ambassador after he accused the country of antisemitic prosecution over a Jewish circumcision case

4:19 AM on Tuesday, February 17

The United States is planning to deploy more high-tech missile systems in the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies again condemned China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”

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11:08 PM on Monday, February 16

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group

8:07 PM on Monday, February 16

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over what he says is as a lagging response to a January pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington

6:26 PM on Monday, February 16

A federal judge has ordered an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington to be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month

2:51 PM on Monday, February 16

The remains of a well-known Colombian priest who joined a guerrilla group and was killed in combat six decades ago have been identified

12:41 PM on Monday, February 16

The Nigerian military says about 100 U.S. troops plus equipment have arrived in Nigeria to help train soldiers in the West African country

5:57 AM on Monday, February 16

A Ukrainian delegation is heading to Geneva for another round of U.S.-brokered talks with Russian officials, days before next week’s fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor

5:09 AM on Monday, February 16

Iran's top diplomat has held talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Geneva before a second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran

2:51 AM on Monday, February 16

Marco Rubio is backing Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary’s April election during a visit to Budapest