Politics & Government News

5:44 AM on Friday, February 27

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting India to reset strained ties and push deeper trade cooperation with New Delhi

4:04 AM on Friday, February 27

China’s legislature has removed 19 lawmakers, including nine military officers, as President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive shows no sign of letting up

2:15 AM on Friday, February 27

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s

2:11 AM on Friday, February 27

South Korea’s government says it will allow Google to export detailed mapping data of the country to overseas servers under certain security requirements

2:00 AM on Friday, February 27

1:23 AM on Friday, February 27

Nepal heads into a crucial election with three main contenders, after youth protests shook the country’s politics last year and ousted former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli

12:29 AM on Friday, February 27

A crowded Democratic primary in Illinois is shaping up as the next test for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful advocacy organization that has stirred anger and frustration while exacerbating tensions over the war in Gaza

9:20 PM on Thursday, February 26

Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone

6:51 PM on Thursday, February 26

Cuba’s deputy foreign minister says the island’s government is communicating with American officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters

5:48 PM on Thursday, February 26

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s misleading for members of the House to say their package of aviation safety reforms would address the recommendations that her agency made in January to prevent another midair collision like the one last year near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people

5:14 PM on Thursday, February 26

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism

5:10 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Tennessee law that threatens local officials with felony charges and possible imprisonment if they vote for so-called “sanctuary policies” on immigration has been ruled unconstitutional

4:29 PM on Thursday, February 26

President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments

2:32 PM on Thursday, February 26

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology

1:14 PM on Thursday, February 26

The governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will meet in a closed session a day after the FBI served search warrants at the district’s headquarters and the home of its superintendent

12:36 PM on Thursday, February 26

Federal immigration agents have detained a Columbia University student in her campus apartment

11:38 AM on Thursday, February 26

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson says

7:10 AM on Thursday, February 26

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told members of Congress she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and didn't recall ever meeting him

4:41 AM on Thursday, February 26

The Green Party has won a special election in England, a big boost for the small party and a blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose center-left Labour Party was relegated to third place

12:01 AM on Thursday, February 26

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program but walked away without a deal