Politics & Government News

2:37 PM on Saturday, November 22

Brazilian police have arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro on suspicion of plotting to flee and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt

11:54 AM on Saturday, November 22

A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity

11:48 AM on Saturday, November 22

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 31 Ukrainians jailed in Belarus on criminal offences, the latest step in Minsk’s effort to thaw relations with the West

9:12 AM on Saturday, November 22

There was a time when presidential hopefuls were coy about their ambitions

9:10 AM on Saturday, November 22

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change

4:42 AM on Saturday, November 22

The McNeese Cowboys square off against the George Washington Revolutionaries at John Gray Gymnasium in George Town, Cayman Islands

3:26 AM on Saturday, November 22

Gunmen abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s School in Niger state, Nigeria, according to an updated tally issued Saturday by the Christian Association of Nigeria

12:02 AM on Saturday, November 22

The Justice Department is on the clock to release files relating to Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump signed a measure passed by Congress

12:02 AM on Saturday, November 22

Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein

11:10 PM on Friday, November 21

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has announced she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026

10:13 PM on Friday, November 21

World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies have broken with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit in South Africa despite opposition from the United States

9:41 PM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump says he’s “immediately” ending temporary legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota

8:23 PM on Friday, November 21

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, says she is resigning from Congress in January

3:43 PM on Friday, November 21

Authorities have arrested seven local bodyguards in connection with the assassination of a popular mayor in western Mexico

3:32 PM on Friday, November 21

The fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s transgressions spans oceans and continents, from the vulnerable girls he exploited to the elite people and institutions that chose to get involved, cover it up — or look away

3:08 PM on Friday, November 21

The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide

2:47 PM on Friday, November 21

An American proposal to end the war in Ukraine puts the country in a delicate diplomatic position — caught between placating its most important ally, the United States, and not capitulating to Russia, its much larger neighbor that launched a full-scale invasion nearly four years ago

8:18 AM on Friday, November 21

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says she is resigning from Congress in January

12:01 AM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump has met the man who had proudly proclaimed himself “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare,” but he seemed to find the opposite

11:44 AM on Monday, November 17

Nigeria has suffered its second mass school abduction this week with authorities confirming an attack on a Catholic school in north-central Kebbi state