Politics & Government News

12:20 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Vietnam is launching its biggest economic overhaul in a generation, aiming to become Asia’s next “tiger economy.”

9:39 PM on Tuesday, August 12

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call to discuss their deepening ties and war efforts against Ukraine, the countries’ state media said Wednesday, ahead of Putin’s planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska

7:33 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The top Republican in the Washington state Senate has announced he's running for Congress next year

7:21 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A legal battle is playing out in Mexico after police detained a well-known migration activist earlier this month, accusing him of human trafficking

7:08 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Background records of police recruits in Illinois must be available to a prospective employer under a new law in response to last summer's shooting death of Sonya Massey

6:53 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The White House is ordering a review of the Smithsonian museums to align content with President Donald Trump's interpretation of American history

6:28 PM on Tuesday, August 12

President Donald Trump's recent actions have sparked debate over the Posse Comitatus Act, a law from 1878 that limits military involvement in domestic affairs

6:18 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A general has testified that National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force against people protesting immigration raids

6:16 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Former Malian prime minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga has been taken into custody amid a corruption probe, according to his lawyer

6:15 PM on Tuesday, August 12

An independent watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs says VA hospitals have reported an increase in severe staffing shortages

5:43 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately improve conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility

4:57 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Mexico is sending 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration

4:51 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Mexico is expelling 26 cartel figures wanted by US authorities in deal with the Trump administration

4:48 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The U.N. chief has warned Israel that the United Nations has “credible information” of sexual violence and other violations by Israeli forces against detained Palestinians

4:46 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud

4:29 PM on Tuesday, August 12

French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged that France waged a war marked by "repressive violence" in Cameroon before and after its independence in 1960

4:29 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The U.S. government’s gross national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, setting a new record

4:28 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics called President Donald Trump's firing of its commissioner “depressing” and “CRAZY

3:04 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The U.S. government has sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit trading in minerals in eastern Congo

3:00 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The Trump administration's new human rights reports for countries worldwide eliminate mentions of discrimination faced by LGBTQ people and reduce a previous focus on reproductive rights