Politics & Government News

9:43 AM on Saturday, September 12

Bulgarian authorities launched investigations into an explosion at a weapons storage site in central Bulgaria overnight, which came in the wake of another blaze at a munitions depot in recent weeks, raising fears of sabotage

8:59 AM on Saturday, September 12

Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, received $97 million from two cryptocurrency billionaires this weekend

7:58 AM on Saturday, September 12

Court cases involving Twin Cities churches and immigration enforcement highlight how the acrimonious debate continues to roil faith communities more than six months since the federal surge in Minnesota

7:57 AM on Saturday, September 12

Wisconsin Democrats are hoping to unseat a Republican congressman with close ties to President Donald Trump

6:37 AM on Saturday, September 12

Nigeria says two nationals have been killed in South Africa as tensions run high over anti-immigrant protests there

6:17 AM on Saturday, September 12

A fire and riot in a prison in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria has killed at least seven people

4:47 AM on Saturday, September 12

Lebanon’s president has made a rare visit to a southern city amid fears of more Israeli attacks

12:07 AM on Saturday, September 12

In 2018, Democrats flipped 42 Republican-held U.S. House seats, gaining control of the House

8:23 PM on Friday, September 11

A federal judge who ruled 13 years ago that Hispanics were racially profiled in then-Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the sheriff’s office

7:22 PM on Friday, September 11

A California labor leader behind a proposal to tax billionaires has been accused of harassing and intimidating several women who work for an affiliated union

6:44 PM on Friday, September 11

Republicans are aggressively targeting Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan, as the face of the opposition

5:47 PM on Friday, September 11

A North Carolina pastor who led the opening prayer at a recent campaign stop for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison

4:20 PM on Friday, September 11

The House is expected to take up a punishing Russian sanctions package next week, though prospects of passage are uncertain despite the overwhelming support the bill received in the Senate

4:20 PM on Friday, September 11

Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien used the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in Gander, Newfoundland, to praise Canada-U.S. friendship

3:16 PM on Friday, September 11

A New York jeweler has been released from prison in Iran, but he is prohibited from leaving the country

1:07 PM on Friday, September 11

Brazilian presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance a movie about his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro

12:49 PM on Friday, September 11

A federal court has declared that the Energy Department exceeded its authority by forcing a Michigan coal-fired power plant to remain open past its scheduled retirement date last year

11:43 AM on Friday, September 11

President Donald Trump repeatedly mocked Ken Paxton at the Republicans’ midterm convention

12:05 AM on Friday, September 11

The U.S. is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead and the nation shaken

2:52 PM on Tuesday, August 25