Politics & Government News

9:10 PM on Thursday, December 18

European Union leaders have agreed to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years

9:04 PM on Thursday, December 18

EU leaders agree to provide 90 billion euros to Ukraine over the next two years, summit chairman says

7:35 PM on Thursday, December 18

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” have been removed

6:51 PM on Thursday, December 18

Water leaders in the U.S. West gathered this week with a hefty task hanging over their heads — figuring out a long-term plan for sharing water from the Colorado River

6:48 PM on Thursday, December 18

One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes

6:48 PM on Thursday, December 18

Brazil’s lower house speaker Hugo Motta has decided to remove two lawmakers close to former President Jair Bolsonaro from their seats in the latest blow to the far-right leader serving a 27-year jail sentence for leading a coup attempt

6:40 PM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new concerns about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America

6:28 PM on Thursday, December 18

Honduras electoral officials have launched a special count of the final set of votes in the country’s November presidential election, after three weeks of uncertainty, swirling accusations and pressure from the Trump administration to wrap up the results

6:02 PM on Thursday, December 18

The United Nations General Assembly has approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, its first from the Middle East since the late 1970s

5:53 PM on Thursday, December 18

Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a major figure in late 20th-century state politics, has died at 88

5:51 PM on Thursday, December 18

TikTok has signed a deal to form a new U.S. unit with three American investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — holding a majority stake

5:08 PM on Thursday, December 18

The U.S. Justice Department has sued three states and the District of Columbia for not turning over requested voter information to the Trump administration

4:34 PM on Thursday, December 18

Eileen Higgins has been sworn in as Miami's first female mayor, taking office two weeks after defeating a Trump-endorsed Republican

1:31 PM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center

10:09 AM on Thursday, December 18

A U.S. official says a Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine

8:40 AM on Thursday, December 18

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors

3:02 AM on Thursday, December 18

The European Commission says the European Union is delaying a massive free-trade deal with South American countries after fiery protests by farmers and last-minute opposition by France and Italy

11:51 PM on Wednesday, December 17

European Union leaders have stalled in talks about providing a massive loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets

11:21 PM on Wednesday, December 17

President Donald Trump has offered a glowing account of progress under his watch in a speech from the White House

11:58 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement new work requirements for some Medicaid recipients