Politics & Government News

5:55 PM on Saturday, January 10

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe has died at 88

5:00 PM on Saturday, January 10

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners

4:56 PM on Saturday, January 10

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

4:43 PM on Saturday, January 10

The organization that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing cold water on talk of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado giving her recent award to President Donald Trump

3:20 PM on Saturday, January 10

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order to protect Venezuelan oil revenue from judicial proceedings

1:22 PM on Saturday, January 10

12:38 PM on Saturday, January 10

A man who is known for grabbing Nancy Pelosi's podium during the U.S. Capitol riot is running for a county office in Florida

11:30 AM on Saturday, January 10

President Donald Trump says he wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates

9:27 AM on Saturday, January 10

Thousands of Yemenis have rallied in the southern city of Aden to support a separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates

9:05 AM on Saturday, January 10

Members of Congress are considering the possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE officer shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota

9:01 AM on Saturday, January 10

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation

8:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America

5:19 AM on Saturday, January 10

Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country

4:56 AM on Saturday, January 10

Greenland’s party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to take control of the island

12:36 AM on Saturday, January 10

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Greenland and says Washington must take control of the strategically located island

11:46 PM on Friday, January 9

North Korea's military has accused South Korea of flying drones across the border, warning of consequences for what it calls “unpardonable hysteria.”

9:16 AM on Friday, January 9

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran

9:16 AM on Friday, January 9

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela

10:58 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles

5:55 PM on Thursday, January 8