Politics & Government News

1:19 AM on Monday, August 3

The Seto ethnic community once a year turns a village in southeastern Estonia into a symbolic kingdom for a day — complete with entry visas instead of tickets, made-up currency and even a mock military parade

12:58 AM on Monday, August 3

Myanmar’s military government says detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday in a rare moment of contact with the outside world

12:27 AM on Monday, August 3

Maryland lawmakers are set to kick off a special session to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028

12:10 AM on Monday, August 3

The two Democrats running for U.S. Senate in Michigan spent one of their final days campaigning in Detroit-area churches and union halls

12:05 AM on Monday, August 3

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military action against Iran, only to pull back at the last minute

11:26 PM on Sunday, August 2

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies

10:49 PM on Sunday, August 2

Kay Granger, the first Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and who served for nearly three decades, has died

5:01 PM on Sunday, August 2

Key senators have unveiled a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season

4:09 PM on Sunday, August 2

President Donald Trump's announcements on Iran have followed a familiar course over the past five months

3:15 PM on Sunday, August 2

Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after a car accident in Toledo

2:35 PM on Sunday, August 2

Dikra is a 20-year-old migrant from Morocco

12:35 PM on Sunday, August 2

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has confirmed his candidacy for what is likely his last reelection bid

11:44 AM on Sunday, August 2

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno says his former son-in-law, U

10:04 AM on Sunday, August 2

A new AP-NORC poll finds that immigration remains a relative strength for President Donald Trump, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the span of under a week in July

9:51 AM on Sunday, August 2

Israel has shared serious security concerns with the White House about a proposed disarmament deal with Hamas

8:19 AM on Sunday, August 2

Ceuta is grappling with the aftermath of a massive migrant surge

8:02 AM on Sunday, August 2

Even before there was a United States of America, there were patriotic songs

6:01 AM on Sunday, August 2

Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to elect state Supreme Court justices rather than have the governor appoint them

12:09 AM on Sunday, August 2

President Donald Trump says he has decided to hold off on ordering new strikes against Iran after discussions with Gulf allies

4:21 PM on Saturday, August 1

Authorities in Peru say a plane carrying European tourists to view the famed Nazca Lines has crashed into a field outside the Peruvian city of Nazca, killing 13 people