Politics & Government News

6:32 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Britain will rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student-exchange program, the government has announced

12:37 AM on Wednesday, December 17

12:31 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

12:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

11:58 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Norman Podhoretz, a leading neo-conservative and the former editor of Commentary magazine, has died

9:23 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Costa Rica’s legislature on Monday rejected a second request to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity, blocking an effort by the country’s electoral authority to make the leader face charges that he has been using his power to meddle in upcoming elections

6:56 PM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro

6:51 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro

6:36 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino has returned to the Chicago area, about a month after leaving to lead immigration crackdowns in other cities

5:28 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A federal judge in Washington says he's inclined to deny a preservationist group's request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's ballroom project

4:57 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Israel has barred a private Canadian delegation that included six members of Parliament from entering the occupied West Bank

4:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars

4:37 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore

4:20 PM on Tuesday, December 16

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has offered an unusually candid look inside an ongoing presidency

4:06 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries

1:39 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping an immigrant evade arrest is testifying at her criminal trial that she was shocked by her fellow judge’s behavior

7:58 AM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela

7:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean

12:09 PM on Monday, December 1