Politics & Government News

7:47 AM on Friday, September 26

Slovakia's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment recognizing only two sexes, male and female

7:02 AM on Friday, September 26

The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

6:00 AM on Friday, September 26

6:00 AM on Friday, September 26

5:34 AM on Friday, September 26

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable.”

5:33 AM on Friday, September 26

Thune says in an AP interview there's a 'way out' of a government shutdown if Democrats 'dial back' their demands

4:37 AM on Friday, September 26

4:22 AM on Friday, September 26

The UK government has announced that British citizens and permanent residents must have a digital ID card to work

4:02 AM on Friday, September 26

Defense ministers from European countries with borders close to Russia and Ukraine are holding talks on building a drone wall to plug gaps in their defenses following several airspace violations

3:43 AM on Friday, September 26

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says Hungary will keep buying fossil fuels from Russia despite demands from President Donald Trump

12:21 AM on Friday, September 26

Behind the scenes at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, key countries and regional organizations have been coordinating efforts to try to end the war in Sudan

12:19 AM on Friday, September 26

A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came to the U.S. alone

11:16 PM on Thursday, September 25

China has opened an investigation into whether Mexico's import tariffs are a trade barrier

11:06 PM on Thursday, September 25

Intrusions into NATO’s airspace blamed on Russia have reached an unprecedented scale, raising questions about whether the Kremlin is trying to test the alliance’s willingness to respond to a direct attack or divert its attention and resources from the war in Ukraine

11:05 PM on Thursday, September 25

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is getting his chance to speak at the U.N. General Assembly's annual meeting of world leaders

11:02 PM on Thursday, September 25

President Donald Trump has sent American warships to the waters off Venezuela and has boasted about strikes on alleged drug boats

11:01 PM on Thursday, September 25

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies has reached new heights as his Justice Department brings criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expands his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist organizations."

10:46 AM on Thursday, September 25

President Donald Trump has held talks with Pakistan's prime minister at the White House

9:50 AM on Thursday, September 25

Slovenia has banned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the country

11:06 AM on Friday, August 29