Politics & Government News

11:27 AM on Saturday, November 1

Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman elected governor of Kentucky, has died

5:12 AM on Saturday, November 1

Four Bulgarians have been sentenced for vandalizing Paris' Holocaust Memorial with blood-red hands

4:08 AM on Saturday, November 1

Pakistan has partially reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, allowing thousands of stranded Afghan refugees to return home

3:26 AM on Saturday, November 1

A crowd surge at a Hindu temple in southern India has left at least nine people dead and dozens injured

2:02 AM on Saturday, November 1

Foreign ministers from Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom have called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan

12:38 AM on Saturday, November 1

Official results in Tanzania election show President Samia Suluhu Hassan winning with 97.6% of the vote

11:07 PM on Friday, October 31

A small company in Vermont that specializes in women's cycling apparel is at the center of the fight over President Donald Trump's contentious tariff policy

11:02 PM on Friday, October 31

The final stretch of New York City's mayoral race has candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo painting two very different pictures

10:24 PM on Friday, October 31

9:20 PM on Friday, October 31

The chief of staff to President Javier Milei of Argentina has resigned, less than a week after the governing party won a new mandate to accelerate his program of radical reform in pivotal midterm elections

8:21 PM on Friday, October 31

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back against the Trump administration's investigation of cases that she brought against the president and National Rifle Association

6:30 PM on Friday, October 31

President Donald Trump is returning to “60 Minutes” for an interview for the first time after settling a lawsuit this summer over the newsmagazine's interview with rival Kamala Harris

4:57 PM on Friday, October 31

In Minneapolis, where Somali refugees helped revitalize entire neighborhoods, the community was stunned by the presidential order capping annual refugee admissions at 7,500, the lowest number since the program began in 1980

3:38 PM on Friday, October 31

President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced

3:01 PM on Friday, October 31

Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities are causing delays at airports as the government shutdown nears the one-month mark

12:47 PM on Friday, October 31

U.S. national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard says America’s former strategy of “regime change or nation building” has ended under President Donald Trump

11:42 AM on Friday, October 31

President Donald Trump wants Republicans in the Senate to kill a longstanding rule called the filibuster

8:25 AM on Friday, October 31

Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown

8:11 AM on Friday, October 31

Tens of thousands of students and other opponents of Serbia's populist president are gathering in the city of Novi Sad

2:13 AM on Friday, October 31

The president of a Republican-aligned think tank has defended Tucker Carlson after the conservative media personality offered a platform to a far-right activist known for pushing white nationalist and antisemitic views