Politics & Government News

5:34 PM on Sunday, December 21

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired shots at a Cuban immigrant living in the U.S. illegally after he struck that agent and another with an SUV in Minnesota’s state capital

2:28 PM on Sunday, December 21

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to build a new aircraft carrier

12:52 PM on Sunday, December 21

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea

12:15 PM on Sunday, December 21

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline

9:03 AM on Sunday, December 21

Dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians say there were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while stymying wind and solar

5:52 AM on Sunday, December 21

Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

5:43 AM on Sunday, December 21

Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank

2:55 AM on Sunday, December 21

A White House envoy says he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine

12:02 AM on Sunday, December 21

Turning Point USA's AmericaFest convention has been marked by internal feuds among conservative figures

Sunday, December 21

Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government

7:35 PM on Saturday, December 20

Thousands of mourners have gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to mark a week since two gunmen targeted a Jewish festival, killing 15 people

5:47 PM on Saturday, December 20

President Donald Trump says he’s endorsing Nassau County’s Republican executive for governor in next fall’s New York race

5:08 PM on Saturday, December 20

4:24 PM on Saturday, December 20

At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation

2:54 PM on Saturday, December 20

The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released

2:07 PM on Saturday, December 20

U.S. forces have stopped a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters

11:07 AM on Saturday, December 20

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has called for changes in the U.N. Security Council to give Africa a bigger role in global decisions

10:53 AM on Saturday, December 20

Brazil's President Lula da Silva hopes the Mercosur-EU free-trade deal will be signed in January, after it was delayed on Friday

3:03 AM on Saturday, December 20

A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa has killed eight people and wounded 27, according to Ukraine’s emergency service

12:01 AM on Saturday, December 20

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya