Politics & Government News

11:11 AM on Monday, November 17

The Louvre Museum is temporarily closing some employee offices and a public gallery due to structural fragility

10:45 AM on Monday, November 17

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s estranged sister has publicly accused him of being a longtime drug addict whose alleged cocaine dependence has led to problems in his governance including corruption

10:44 AM on Monday, November 17

Nigeria says more schoolchildren have been abducted in the country’s volatile north

10:44 AM on Monday, November 17

Judge in Comey case raises alarm about 'disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps' by Justice Department

10:43 AM on Monday, November 17

The House is heading towards a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department to release the case files it has collected on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein

10:17 AM on Monday, November 17

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is urging the board that oversees Alabama Public Television to delay a decision to sever ties with PBS

10:00 AM on Monday, November 17

A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts

9:57 AM on Monday, November 17

9:00 AM on Monday, November 17

After a surge in Border Patrol activity in North Carolina’s largest city over the weekend, Gov. Josh Stein says the effort is “stoking fear,” not making Charlotte safer

8:13 AM on Monday, November 17

Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

7:20 AM on Monday, November 17

President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it

7:14 AM on Monday, November 17

6:23 AM on Monday, November 17

A new survey from the American Communities Project shows that pessimism about the country’s future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what’s ahead for the U.S. The poll also found that despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that crime is out of control in big cities, residents of the nation’s largest metropolitan centers are less likely to say that crime and gun violence are among the chief concerns facing their communities than they were a...

5:31 AM on Monday, November 17

A new analysis of consumer data shows that more people in the United States are falling behind on their utility bills

4:45 AM on Monday, November 17

Ukraine has signed a letter of intent to buy up to 100 Rafale warplanes from France, along with drones and ground-to-air systems

3:25 AM on Monday, November 17

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk says an explosion on a railway line linking Warsaw to southeastern Poland was an "act of unprecedented sabotage."

12:39 AM on Monday, November 17

In Chile, a hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in the presidential runoff

11:20 PM on Sunday, November 16

Jamaica, hit by a devastating hurricane last month, has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change

10:56 PM on Sunday, November 16

Schools across the U.S. are seeing a big drop in enrollment from immigrant families

4:39 PM on Sunday, November 16