Politics & Government News

Tuesday, January 27

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India and the European Union have reached a free trade agreement to deepen their economic and strategic ties

11:54 PM on Monday, January 26

India's prime minister says it has reached a free trade agreement with the European Union

11:24 PM on Monday, January 26

President Donald Trump is heading to Iowa as the White House tries to focus on affordability ahead of the midterm elections despite fallout over the administration's immigration crackdown

11:14 PM on Monday, January 26

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon

11:03 PM on Monday, January 26

Lawmakers in both parties are calling for investigations following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by a U.S. Border Patrol officer

11:00 PM on Monday, January 26

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heading to China, aiming to improve relations with Beijing amid tensions with the United States

9:14 PM on Monday, January 26

A federal judge in Oregon has dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking Oregon's unredacted voter rolls

7:49 PM on Monday, January 26

Activists say that at least 6,126 people were killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests and many more are still feared dead

7:33 PM on Monday, January 26

A new Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter what state officials have called federal misinformation after immigration officials fatally shot two residents during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown

7:05 PM on Monday, January 26

President Donald Trump is taking a more conciliatory approach with Democratic leaders in Minnesota

5:21 PM on Monday, January 26

After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week’s meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won’t like the result

4:48 PM on Monday, January 26

The shooting deaths of two American citizens at the hands of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis have upended the politics of the Trump administration’s deportation agenda

4:22 PM on Monday, January 26

President Donald Trump strong-armed America’s biggest trading partners into pledging trillions of dollars of investment in the United States

4:12 PM on Monday, January 26

President Donald Trump says he is increasing tariffs on South Korean goods because the country’s national assembly has yet to approve the trade framework announced last year

12:09 PM on Monday, January 26

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats should be viewed as prepositioning before negotiations to renew the countries' free trade pact

11:14 AM on Monday, January 26

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insists Europe cannot defend itself without U.S. military support

7:12 AM on Monday, January 26

A senior Border Patrol commander and some agents are expected to leave Minneapolis as early as Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press

4:55 AM on Monday, January 26

4:21 AM on Monday, January 26

Judges at the International Criminal Court have ruled that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial

11:11 PM on Sunday, January 25

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday as the Trump administration reshuffles leadership of its immigration enforcement operation and scales back the federal presence after a second fatal shooting in the city by federal officers