Politics & Government News

3:19 PM on Monday, November 10

A legislative package that could end the weekslong government shutdown leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions

2:38 PM on Monday, November 10

China says it's making good on its pledge to crack down on chemicals that can be used to make fentanyl after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping negotiated steps to ease a trade war

2:21 PM on Monday, November 10

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a veteran of city and state government to be his first deputy mayor as he prepares to carry out his ambitious agenda

2:05 PM on Monday, November 10

The state agency in charge of Texas' highway system says people need more ways to get around if the population is going to continue to grow

1:48 PM on Monday, November 10

The top Democratic senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the Trump administration made a $7.5 million payment to the government of Equatorial Guinea amid an effort deport people to the West African country

1:22 PM on Monday, November 10

1:16 PM on Monday, November 10

The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether a former Louisiana inmate can sue prison officials who shaved his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs

1:00 PM on Monday, November 10

An inquiry into allegations that South Africa’s Black-led governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes has been postponed on its first day

1:00 PM on Monday, November 10

12:51 PM on Monday, November 10

Bonnie Watson Coleman says she won’t seek reelection next year

12:30 PM on Monday, November 10

11:58 AM on Monday, November 10

U.S. President Donald Trump says his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted

11:53 AM on Monday, November 10

The Veterans Day holiday began more than a century ago, albeit under a different name, as a celebration of the end of World War I

11:52 AM on Monday, November 10

Lebanese authorities have released the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday after he paid a $900,000 bail, ending his 10-year detention for allegedly withholding information about a missing Lebanese cleric

11:47 AM on Monday, November 10

Lebanese authorities release son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, detained since 2015, after he pays $900,000 bail

11:33 AM on Monday, November 10

Belarus’ authoritarian leader is threatening to seize over 1,000 Lithuanian trucks stranded in the country following the closure of its border with Lithuania after repeated incursions by air balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes

11:03 AM on Monday, November 10

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6:05 AM on Monday, November 10

President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election

12:20 AM on Monday, November 10

A thick layer of smog has enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, as pollution levels surge, worsening a public health crisis