Politics & Government News

7:33 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Pakistani authorities have asked the Supreme Court to review or withdraw an order requiring imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to receive a medical exam at a private hospital

1:23 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk’s killing have pointed to an engraved bullet in arguing that Kirk was targeted for how the defendant perceived his politics

1:02 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The race for Nigeria’s top job began Wednesday as the West African nation’s electoral commission formally opened the campaign season

8:02 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has pleaded guilty to plotting to conceal federal records related to research on the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic

5:55 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over concerns about the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants

5:50 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A legal environmental group is suing the U.S. government after the Trump administration announced plans to auction off sections of water around American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining

3:57 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Japan and the Organization of American States have signed a deal to award Haiti a $3 million grant to help it register voters as the troubled country prepares to hold general elections for the first time in more than a decade

3:19 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, according to authorities in the West African country

3:05 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A Democratic congresswoman says the person Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted in Maine last month when an officer shot and killed a motorist was not subject to a final removal order

3:05 PM on Tuesday, August 18

3:00 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A human rights group says that forced labor persists on massive sugarcane plantations across the Dominican Republic

2:56 PM on Tuesday, August 18

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman says it’s a “head scratcher” that President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina’s Republican Senate runoff

2:49 PM on Tuesday, August 18

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide

1:26 PM on Tuesday, August 18

More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers, as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths

12:57 PM on Tuesday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump is angry with Oman over its talks with Iran about managing the Strait of Hormuz that lies between the countries

12:30 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Minnesota's attorney general is suing the governor of Texas, asking a federal judge to compel the extradition of a federal immigration agent charged with wounding a man and then lying about it during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis

12:07 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has suspended state work on proposed mining projects near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

11:40 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Fierce fighting between government troops and militias in Somalia's southwestern city of Baidoa has killed dozens, including at least four civilians

11:18 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Voters in the Alabama, Florida, and Wyoming primary are deciding which candidates to advance to the general election in races for governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House

10:30 AM on Tuesday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Oman because he is unhappy the country is close to a deal with Iran to manage ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz