Politics & Government News

3:43 PM on Saturday, April 11

A federal judge has been instructed to reconsider the possible national security implications of halting construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom

3:19 PM on Saturday, April 11

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his election challenger Péter Magyar are holding final rallies on the eve of a pivotal poll

3:02 PM on Saturday, April 11

President Donald Trump has approved major disaster declarations for seven states

11:07 AM on Saturday, April 11

Iraq’s parliament has elected Nizar Amidi as president, five months after elections failed to produce a decisive majority

9:44 AM on Saturday, April 11

As Peru heads into elections, most political parties lack concrete plans to tackle illegal mining, a major driver of deforestation and mercury pollution in the Amazon

9:18 AM on Saturday, April 11

6:37 AM on Saturday, April 11

Britain has put its plan to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritius on hold after the U.S. administration withdrew support for the deal

2:35 AM on Saturday, April 11

Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has been reelected for a sixth term, winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday's election

1:50 AM on Saturday, April 11

Prominent supporters of California Rep. Eric Swalwell's bid for governor are withdrawing their support in a stunning political reversal

12:27 AM on Saturday, April 11

The United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced

12:06 AM on Saturday, April 11

Donald Trump has made a public flex of his political influence abroad on a scale that few, if any, U.S. presidents have, trying to marshal power he’s used domestically to sway races around the world

12:05 AM on Saturday, April 11

Democratic presidential prospects touted the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion policies as a way to advance American values during the National Action Network conference in New York

8:54 PM on Friday, April 10

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has voiced support for China’s push to build a multipolar world and called for deeper ties between the traditional allies

7:33 PM on Friday, April 10

Prominent supporters of California Rep. Eric Swalwell's bid for governor are withdrawing their support Friday in a stunning political reversal

7:13 PM on Friday, April 10

A judge has temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators like Kalshi

4:12 PM on Friday, April 10

A tangled political fight over whether Chicago’s public schools will hold classes on May Day has unraveled in the nation’s third-largest city

3:01 PM on Friday, April 10

President Donald Trump has shared a video of a deadly attack at a Florida gas station, using it to justify his mass deportation agenda

8:23 AM on Friday, April 10

12:31 AM on Friday, April 10

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz

7:04 AM on Thursday, April 9

Many young voters say politics isn’t delivering and they want candidates who offer something new, not just opposition