Politics & Government News

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A ground-dwelling bird known for its elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected

11:35 AM on Thursday, February 26

The Pentagon is building up the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades

11:08 AM on Thursday, February 26

The European Union has agreed to expand funding for citizens needing to leave their home countries to access safe abortions elsewhere in the 27-nation bloc

11:03 AM on Thursday, February 26

10:51 AM on Thursday, February 26

Texas U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt’s rivals are increasing their attacks on the two-term Republican ahead of Tuesday’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate

10:45 AM on Thursday, February 26

South Africa's foreign minister says at least two South Africans have died fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine after being tricked into traveling there by a recruitment scheme

10:40 AM on Thursday, February 26

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to stand with Israel “shoulder-to-shoulder, opposing terrorism and its supporters.”

9:23 AM on Thursday, February 26

The island of Jersey has voted to legalize assisted dying for some terminally ill adults, as a similar bill stalls in the U.K. Parliament

9:08 AM on Thursday, February 26

U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain has announced she will step down as the head of the humanitarian organization in three months to focus on her health

9:06 AM on Thursday, February 26

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6:59 AM on Thursday, February 26

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the Scandinavian country will hold a parliamentary election on March 24

5:08 AM on Thursday, February 26

Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

3:00 AM on Thursday, February 26

Iran’s military capabilities were badly degraded by 12 days of Israeli and U.S. strikes last year

11:16 PM on Wednesday, February 25

South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program

11:13 PM on Wednesday, February 25

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the city's authorities under a national security law

8:12 PM on Wednesday, February 25

Fighting has resumed in South Sudan eight years after a fragile peace was agreed

6:33 PM on Wednesday, February 25

Kim Jong Un says North Korea can completely destroy South Korea if it feels threatened, and he refuses to engage with Seoul