Politics & Government News

6:17 PM on Saturday, October 4

Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has been widely condemned for text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”

4:52 PM on Saturday, October 4

Mexico’s Security Ministry says they have arrested an alleged local leader of the Tren de Aragua gang in Mexico City

4:19 PM on Saturday, October 4

More than 600 couples have married simultaneously in Asunción, Paraguay

4:04 PM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Trump administration policy to detain migrant children in adult facilities once they turn 18

3:45 PM on Saturday, October 4

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: How does the shutdown impact National Guard troops

3:11 PM on Saturday, October 4

The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, according to Democratic Gov_ JB Pritzker, who called the move “absolutely outrageous and un-American.”

3:11 PM on Saturday, October 4

Gov. JB Pritzker says Trump administration gave 'ultimatum' and plans to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard members

1:46 PM on Saturday, October 4

Georgia's police have used water cannons and pepper spray to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace

12:54 PM on Saturday, October 4

Both Israel and now Hamas have signaled support for the new U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza and release all remaining hostages there

12:50 PM on Saturday, October 4

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election, official results show

11:35 AM on Saturday, October 4

Mysterious drone flights over the airspace of European Union member countries in recent weeks have alarmed the public and elected officials

10:37 AM on Saturday, October 4

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival

9:42 AM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on human smuggling charges could amount to illegal retaliation

8:21 AM on Saturday, October 4

Protests have erupted in Morocco, driven by young people demanding change

8:19 AM on Saturday, October 4

U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade

5:44 AM on Saturday, October 4

Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback

12:02 AM on Saturday, October 4

Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk

4:41 PM on Friday, October 3

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online in discussing the shutdown

4:50 PM on Monday, September 29

On Friday, 200 Oregon National Guard troops were federalized by President Donald Trump, after he said the city of Portland had become a “war zone.”

10:52 PM on Sunday, September 28