Politics & Government News

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

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

6:26 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Mexico’s Senate has selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal adviser to President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the new attorney general

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

5:42 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The United States has inaugurated a massive new consulate compound in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region

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

12:21 PM on Wednesday, December 3

President Donald Trump has announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry

10:46 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas is thanking President Donald Trump for pardoning him and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case

8:47 AM on Wednesday, December 3

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new immigration crackdown in New Orleans

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

12:06 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Britain’s King Charles III and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier put on a show of Anglo-Saxon unity Wednesday as their countries expand cooperation to fend off threats to European security, combat climate change and bolster economic growth

12:02 AM on Wednesday, December 3

President Donald Trump and his top officials have recently criticized Minnesota's Somali community, drawing attention to immigrants from the war-torn East African country