Politics & Government News

6:36 AM on Sunday, September 28

President Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for a potential government shutdown

5:30 AM on Sunday, September 28

Maine has one of New England’s highest food insecurity rates

5:29 AM on Sunday, September 28

The death toll from a stampede at a political rally in Tamil Nadu, India, has reached 40

4:52 AM on Sunday, September 28

The death toll among Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war has topped 66,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry

4:47 AM on Sunday, September 28

Over 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says

12:55 AM on Sunday, September 28

Iran is weighing how to respond to reimposed United Nations sanctions over its atomic program

12:53 AM on Sunday, September 28

Seychelles will hold a rerun vote after no outright winner in presidential election, according to official results

11:06 PM on Saturday, September 27

Moldovans are voting in a tense parliamentary election plagued by claims of Russian interference

11:06 PM on Saturday, September 27

Keir Starmer is facing challenges within his party less than 15 months after becoming Britain's prime minister

11:03 PM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump’s consolidation of power and targeting of his political opponents bring back unnerving memories for those who have watched elected leaders undermine democracies elsewhere in the world

10:48 PM on Saturday, September 27

Democratic women have made gains in state legislatures and are now nearly equal in number to Democratic men in state legislatures since 2016, according to the The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University

7:25 PM on Saturday, September 27

A man who was wrongfully deported from the United States to his native El Salvador has been moved from a Virginia detention center to a facility in Pennsylvania

6:55 PM on Saturday, September 27

Officials have put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave a day after federal immigration agents arrested him because they said he was in the country illegally

6:43 PM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown

12:30 PM on Saturday, September 27

The health minister in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu says a stampede at a rally for a popular actor and politician has killed at least 36 people and injured 40 others

9:41 AM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump says he will send troops to Portland, Oregon

12:02 AM on Saturday, September 27

The United Nations has reimposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program

11:49 AM on Friday, September 26

4:09 AM on Monday, September 22

The United Nations has reimposed nuclear sanctions on Iran, putting new pressure on Tehran’s ailing economy as tensions remain high in the wider Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip

4:04 AM on Monday, September 22

United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program have been reimposed