Politics & Government News

7:19 AM on Thursday, December 4

UK sanctions Russia’s GRU intelligence agency over a 2018 nerve agent attack that Britain says was ordered by Putin

7:00 AM on Thursday, December 4

6:27 AM on Thursday, December 4

A Lithuanian court has convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country’s coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros or about $5,800

4:28 AM on Thursday, December 4

Britain and Norway have announced joint naval patrols to protect undersea cables from Russia

1:19 AM on Thursday, December 4

Turkey’s energy minister has called for the supply of oil and gas in the Black Sea to be protected

12:10 AM on Thursday, December 4

Two recent killings — one of an outspoken representative of the lime growers, the other a popular mayor standing up to the cartels — in Mexico's western Michoacan state have sent a clear message that organized crime is in charge, something residents have known for years

12:10 AM on Thursday, December 4

10:41 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Honduras' former President Juan Orlando Hernández has thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for pardoning him in his first message after leaving prison

8:22 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Ann Bedsole, a trailblazer in Alabama politics who became the first woman elected to the Alabama Senate, has died

8:01 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and planted the president’s name on the organization’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control

7:40 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making the rounds in Washington

7:35 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Farmers have driven their tractors to Mexico City to protest a new national farming water distribution proposal

6:20 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of contempt from Donald Trump was a shock in the country’s largest Somali community in Minnesota

5:31 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike

4:56 PM on Wednesday, December 3

One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most vocal accusers is urging judges to grant the Justice Department’s request unseal to records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying that “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”

4:07 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The family of a Colombian man has filed a formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats

1:48 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen

12:37 PM on Wednesday, December 3

U.S. President Donald Trump has called Somali immigrants living in the United States “garbage” and wants them to leave

8:14 AM on Wednesday, December 3

The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen

2:20 AM on Wednesday, December 3

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday he’s weighing a possible apology to North Korea over suspicions that Seoul’s former conservative leader intentionally sought to raise military tensions between the war-divided rivals in the buildup to his brief martial law declaration in December