Politics & Government News

2:44 PM on Wednesday, September 24

World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly have spoken out against the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, as well as divisive reaction to it

2:33 PM on Wednesday, September 24

A family of three, including a small child, have become the first people to arrive in the U.K. from France under a new “one in, one out” exchange policy in which Britain returns migrants who enter the country without authorization and France sends vetted asylum-seekers

2:24 PM on Wednesday, September 24

More than 100 world leaders have gathered to discuss urgent climate action as Earth continues to heat up

2:20 PM on Wednesday, September 24

A new report finds the Department of Government Efficiency’s remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress

2:15 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Voters in Seychelles are facing key issues like a drug crisis, environmental challenges, and sovereignty questions as they head to the polls

2:06 PM on Wednesday, September 24

An eight-member panel charged with enforcing Nevada's ethics laws has found that Gov. Joe Lombardo did not purposely violate ethics laws in using pictures of him wearing his Clark County sheriff's uniform during his first campaign for office

1:22 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Turning the page on decades of distance, Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa addressed the U.N. General Assembly, marking the first time any Syrian president has done so in almost 60 years

1:20 PM on Wednesday, September 24

A gunman fired on a Dallas immigration field office from a nearby roof, killing two detainees and critically wounding another, before killing himself

1:05 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is skipping this week's U.N. General Assembly, with Premier Li Qiang speaking instead

12:45 PM on Wednesday, September 24

A New York judge warns Justice Department officials they could face sanctions for public comments about Luigi Mangione's prosecution

12:42 PM on Wednesday, September 24

The South Dakota Legislature voted in special session Tuesday to approve a new state prison to replace an overcrowded 140-year-old facility in Sioux Falls

10:36 AM on Wednesday, September 24

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned to his show following a nearly one-week suspension with an emotional monologue but without apologies

9:58 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is telling world leaders that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history."

8:48 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Federal authorities say a shooter with a rifle opened fire from a roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas, killing two detainees and wounding another before taking his own life

8:36 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”

8:18 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas, killing two detainees and wounding another before taking his own life

2:16 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Denmark’s prime minister has given an emotional apology to Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women who were given invasive contraception by the Danish health authorities against their will over decades

12:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A debate has been sparked among Black pastors who are trying to square a heroic view of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist who was gunned down in Utah this month, with the insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism

1:23 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A former Minnesota state senator has been sentenced to six months for breaking into her estranged stepmother’s house

4:30 PM on Thursday, September 18

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show on Tuesday, just under a week after ABC pulled the host off the air indefinitely in the wake of criticism over his comments related the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month