Politics & Government News

11:29 AM on Thursday, May 7

History teachers across the U.S. are working to make the nation's founding documents relevant as the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaches

8:20 AM on Thursday, May 7

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2:23 AM on Thursday, May 7

China is signaling that Taiwan will be a priority ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping next week

1:57 AM on Thursday, May 7

The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

1:42 AM on Thursday, May 7

Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña has arrived in Taiwan for his first visit to the self-ruled island

12:05 AM on Thursday, May 7

Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race

10:57 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Southeast Asian leaders plan to issue a contingency plan that upholds international law, sovereignty and freedom of navigation in what could be seen as a veiled rebuke to the United States, Israel and Iran over the Middle East war which has impacted their region, according to a draft declaration seen by The Associated Press

8:34 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law

8:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch

7:33 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first jail suicide attempt has been made public after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse vault for nearly five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute

5:12 PM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award

3:19 PM on Wednesday, May 6

In 24 hours, the Trump administration’s stance on the Iran war has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding and military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic

12:14 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The FBI has searched the Democratic Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop

10:03 AM on Wednesday, May 6

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal into the Red Sea

7:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Punk group Pussy Riot and Ukraine's FEMEN feminist organization have swarmed the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, protesting outside the venue and releasing colored smoke

3:20 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war

12:02 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts

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