Politics & Government News

3:55 PM on Wednesday, November 12

A riot has broken out at a migrant detention center in northern Greece, injuring two police officers and leading to 30 arrests

3:12 PM on Wednesday, November 12

U.N. humanitarian affairs and relief head Tom Fletcher has told The Associated Press that the situation is getting “horrific for civilians” in Sudan

3:07 PM on Wednesday, November 12

South Sudan’s president has dismissed Vice President Benjamin Bol, who had been considered a prospective successor

2:59 PM on Wednesday, November 12

Iraqi election officials have announced preliminary results for Iraq’s parliamentary elections, showing traditional powers still dominate their regions

2:25 PM on Wednesday, November 12

A local court in the Central African Republic has started hearings on a petition to disqualify the country’s leader from the December presidential election

2:13 PM on Wednesday, November 12

The Democratic primary to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine looks different due to the decision of one candidate to drop out and join a different race with high stakes

2:02 PM on Wednesday, November 12

Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband say they've turned over a massive amount of evidence to the defense

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11:22 AM on Wednesday, November 12

A new AP-NORC poll finds U.S. adults’ opinions of how President Donald Trump is managing the federal government have dropped sharply since early in his second term, highlighting the risks posed by the government shutdown and his efforts to reshape the federal workforce

11:12 AM on Wednesday, November 12

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that state lawmakers improperly gave themselves a $1,500 monthly raise

9:34 AM on Wednesday, November 12

Algeria’s president has granted a humanitarian pardon to French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal after a yearlong imprisonment

9:12 AM on Wednesday, November 12

Cambodia's prime minister says a villager was killed in a shooting along the border with Thailand on Wednesday

8:13 AM on Wednesday, November 12

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to say whether he would urge U.S. President Donald Trump to drop his threat to sue the BBC for $1 billion over the broadcaster’s edit of a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election

6:05 AM on Wednesday, November 12

A federal appeals court has heard arguments about a spending law that stopped Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider

12:24 AM on Wednesday, November 12

John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg is making a run for the U.S. House next year

12:11 AM on Wednesday, November 12

Electricity demand will rise much faster than overall energy growth in the coming decades, underscoring the need for diversified energy sources and supply chains, That's according to a new report by the International Energy Agency

12:03 AM on Wednesday, November 12

The federal government shutdown has created delays in some states when it comes to the federal program that helps millions of families heat and cool their homes

12:03 AM on Wednesday, November 12

A former aide to two New York governors is on trial on charges she sold her influence to the Chinese government and illegally profited from the state’s bulk purchase of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

11:05 AM on Friday, November 7