Politics & Government News

5:50 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The United Nations says Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country

4:41 PM on Wednesday, August 12

4:35 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Republicans in Minnesota see a chance to regain influence after a fraud scandal rocked state government

4:34 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The Texas Broadband Development Office has paused disbursements of federal funds for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program

4:24 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A new law in Pennsylvania aims to resolve a long-standing legal battle over natural gas rights, but it might have sparked more complications

3:53 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The Department of Justice has charged nearly a dozen people with participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to help hundreds of Chinese nationals fraudulently obtain green cards through sham marriages to U.S. citizens

3:48 PM on Wednesday, August 12

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend time with her young family

3:19 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom

3:06 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A liquefied natural gas terminal near New Orleans is seeking a major expansion under a new Trump administration emergency permitting process

2:17 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A Pentagon review has found that U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last year killed more than 150 civilians

1:34 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Morocco has beefed up security along its border with Spain as calls have resurfaced on social media for mass crossings into the Spanish city of Ceuta, raising concerns of another surge, similar to the one last month when tens of thousands of migrants rushed the border

12:51 PM on Wednesday, August 12

11:32 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Results in Democratic primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut have reiterated that Democratic voters are hungry for change, even as they remain divided over the party’s ideological future

11:10 AM on Wednesday, August 12

David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of the time

8:37 AM on Wednesday, August 12

7:55 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Survivors have described a tragic ferry disaster on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, where at least 44 people have died

4:39 AM on Wednesday, August 12

A drone strike has ignited a fire at an electrical substation in western Libya, knocking it out of service

5:07 PM on Tuesday, August 11

U.S. inflation slowed last month and a measure of underlying price pressures also cooled, suggesting higher oil and gas prices from the Iran war are only having a limited impact on broader costs in the economy

8:34 AM on Thursday, August 6

7:18 AM on Tuesday, August 4

President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy and other issues