Politics & Government News

6:46 AM on Saturday, January 17

Egypt and Sudan welcome President Trump's offer to resume U.S. mediation with Ethiopia over the Nile River water dispute

6:29 AM on Saturday, January 17

A Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the United States for talks on a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war

6:28 AM on Saturday, January 17

A bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation is seeking to reassure Denmark and Greenland after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs if nations don’t support a U.S. takeover of Greenland

5:17 AM on Saturday, January 17

Journalists and media leaders in Bangladesh are demanding protection after recent attacks on two major newspapers

4:34 AM on Saturday, January 17

Canadian leader Mark Carney met China’s Xi Jinping this week

3:45 AM on Saturday, January 17

Syrian government forces have entered a northern town after Kurdish-led fighters decided to evacuate

3:33 AM on Saturday, January 17

Police in Uganda have denied reports that the main opposition candidate in Thursday’s tense election had been arrested

2:45 AM on Saturday, January 17

The family of a 23-year-old Iranian college student believes she was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces

12:01 AM on Saturday, January 17

Sen. Thom Tillis isn't holding back in his final year in Washington

12:01 AM on Saturday, January 17

Work starts around sunrise for the federal officers carrying out the immigration crackdown in and around the Twin Cities, with people in tactical gear streaming from a bland office building

Saturday, January 17

Abigail Spanberger is set to become Virginia's first female governor after centuries of men holding the state's top office

10:00 PM on Friday, January 16

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging U.S. aircraft operators to “exercise caution” when flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities” and satellite navigation interference

8:42 PM on Friday, January 16

A U.S. judge has ruled federal officers in a Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents

8:32 PM on Friday, January 16

US judge rules federal officers in Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters

7:27 PM on Friday, January 16

America’s top trading partners are responding to President Donald Trump’s trade policies by trying to take their business elsewhere

5:18 PM on Friday, January 16

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor said Friday that a judge lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking probe of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell

11:53 AM on Friday, January 16

The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, according to two people familiar with the matter

10:58 AM on Friday, January 16

U.S. President Donald Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland

8:40 AM on Friday, January 16

Across Europe, exiled Iranians are voicing anger at the Islamic Republic's crackdown on protests, which reportedly killed thousands

8:17 AM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of political prisoners