Politics & Government News

3:34 AM on Saturday, January 24

China's Defense Ministry says the military's top general is under investigation for serious violations of discipline and law

2:42 AM on Saturday, January 24

After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a billion dollars in public funds

2:09 AM on Saturday, January 24

The scale of nationwide protests in Iran and the bloody crackdown that has followed is slowly coming into focus, even though authorities have cut off the country from the internet

8:48 PM on Friday, January 23

The Pentagon has released a National Defense Strategy that chastises U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserts the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere over a longtime goal of countering China

8:36 PM on Friday, January 23

Federal immigration agents in Minnesota are accused of using a 5-year-old boy as "bait" to arrest his father

8:18 PM on Friday, January 23

Guan Heng sought asylum in the United States after exposing human rights abuses in his native China

7:34 PM on Friday, January 23

5:36 PM on Friday, January 23

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Trump administration for approving an oil company's plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state's coast

5:16 PM on Friday, January 23

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online

5:10 PM on Friday, January 23

The Pentagon has been sending U.S. military assets into the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier group and its thousands of troops

4:56 PM on Friday, January 23

The Justice Department says in a sharply worded court filing that a report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents belongs in the “dustbin of history” and should remain sealed

12:40 PM on Friday, January 23

Maine’s leading Republican and Democratic officials are taking different approaches to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s sweeping ongoing action in the state

11:58 AM on Friday, January 23

Mali's government is imposing new fuel rationing to counter widespread fuel shortages caused by armed groups linked to al-Qaida

10:27 AM on Friday, January 23

Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park

8:22 AM on Friday, January 23

Leaders at the World Economic Forum urged countries and businesses to filter out the turmoil from a week of clashes with the Trump administration and focus on boosting growth and fighting inequality

7:14 AM on Friday, January 23

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has signaled that U.S. President Donald Trump to apologize for his false assertion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan

1:03 AM on Friday, January 23

Police have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport

10:49 PM on Thursday, January 22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi

3:27 PM on Thursday, January 22

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's comment that “Canada lives because of the United States” by saying Canada thrives because of Canadian values

11:24 AM on Monday, January 12