Politics & Government News

1:32 PM on Sunday, August 17

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas

9:27 AM on Sunday, August 17

Trump envoy: Putin agreed US, Europe could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO collective defense mandate

9:02 AM on Sunday, August 17

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities

8:17 AM on Sunday, August 17

American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’ shipbuilding expertise and capacity to help boost its own capabilities

7:37 AM on Sunday, August 17

The U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding

6:18 AM on Sunday, August 17

European leaders to join Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for White House meeting with President Trump

1:26 AM on Sunday, August 17

Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to treat its smaller neighbor as a sovereign nation

1:05 AM on Sunday, August 17

Chilean actor Sebastián Solorza is already a household name for many Chileans

12:05 AM on Sunday, August 17

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party

12:05 AM on Sunday, August 17

The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East

12:01 AM on Sunday, August 17

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine

Sunday, August 17

Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel

8:33 PM on Saturday, August 16

South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city

7:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Evo Morales, Bolivia's former president, has expressed uncertainty about threats from right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they gain power

6:35 PM on Saturday, August 16

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska

5:23 PM on Saturday, August 16

2:02 PM on Saturday, August 16

Three Republican-led states are deploying hundreds of members of their National Guard to Washington to assist in the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department

8:29 AM on Saturday, August 16

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak

2:48 AM on Saturday, August 16

President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin and now says an overall peace agreement is the next step in ending the war in Ukraine, rather than the ceasefire the American has long championed

1:15 AM on Saturday, August 16

Canada’s government has forced Air Canada and the union representing flight attendants into arbitration after a work stoppage stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world during the peak summer travel season