Politics & Government News

10:02 PM on Friday, June 19

The Kennedy Center's management isn't committing to new shows or staff expansion, even as it considers options short of a full two-year closure that a federal judge blocked last month

6:56 PM on Friday, June 19

Observers are calling Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution while the grandson of former President Raúl Castro says in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward

5:38 PM on Friday, June 19

Asylum seekers deported by the U.S. to Sierra Leone are being told they'll be sent back to their home countries despite legal protections by U.S. courts

5:36 PM on Friday, June 19

President Donald Trump has now endorsed both Republican candidates for governor in South Carolina

4:09 PM on Friday, June 19

President Donald Trump has unveiled the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet now converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft

3:45 PM on Friday, June 19

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has decided to strip Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland's highest state distinction

3:10 PM on Friday, June 19

3:09 PM on Friday, June 19

A federal judge has rejected former President Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter

1:33 PM on Friday, June 19

A monitoring group says a boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for European shores capsized off the coast of Libya last week, leaving 51 people dead or missing

1:19 PM on Friday, June 19

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors to walk through the doors of Obama’s new presidential center, personally greeting them

12:33 PM on Friday, June 19

Several opposition members have been arrested in Armenia as a top pro-Russia party has asked the top court to annul the election win by the ruling party led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

9:11 AM on Friday, June 19

The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans seems to be nearing a breaking point

8:23 AM on Friday, June 19

A disagreement has erupted within the European Union over opening communication lines with Moscow about Russia’s war in Ukraine

7:11 AM on Friday, June 19

Andy Burnham’s victory in a special U.K. election Friday could lead to the end of Keir Starmer’s premiership

5:02 AM on Friday, June 19

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Trump’s approval on Iran remained low, at 34%, even as a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart negotiations materialized

4:25 AM on Friday, June 19

Andy Burnham is a political insider turned outsider aiming to be Britain’s next prime minister

3:10 AM on Friday, June 19

As people gathered to celebrate Juneteenth at events across the U.S., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential center

12:04 AM on Friday, June 19

The American push for high-stakes talks with Iran has hit a snag

10:15 PM on Thursday, June 18

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will fight attempts by rival Andy Burnham to oust him from office

3:01 PM on Thursday, June 18