Politics & Government News

10:42 AM on Friday, January 9

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has said Friday she doesn't believe the United States would resort to military force to seize control of Greenland, urging a stronger role for NATO in the Arctic region to address U.S. security concerns

10:08 AM on Friday, January 9

10:01 AM on Friday, January 9

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation

9:14 AM on Friday, January 9

Deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump will make it more difficult for struggling communities to get help to fix sewer systems that put health and homes at risk

9:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump will make it more difficult for struggling communities to get help to fix sewer systems that put health and homes at risk

8:10 AM on Friday, January 9

A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others

7:55 AM on Friday, January 9

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela

7:20 AM on Friday, January 9

Lebanon's government has signed a deal with an international consortium for gas exploration in an offshore area bordering Israel

6:42 AM on Friday, January 9

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year

6:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide

5:47 AM on Friday, January 9

European Union officials have visited Syria for the first time to meet with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa

5:43 AM on Friday, January 9

Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday

4:31 AM on Friday, January 9

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland

4:18 AM on Friday, January 9

Iran leader: Protesters 'ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy,' referring to Trump

11:41 PM on Thursday, January 8

A reporter covering crime in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz has been killed in Poza Rica

7:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon

12:31 PM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges

4:44 AM on Thursday, January 8

Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify

2:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

10:28 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Protesters have confronted federal officers in Minneapolis the day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer