Politics & Government News

2:23 PM on Saturday, December 13

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's main challenger has led a large protest in Budapest over alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions

2:15 PM on Saturday, December 13

1:54 PM on Saturday, December 13

Trump says 'we will retaliate' after 3 Americans are killed in Syria attack that the US blames on Islamic State group

11:13 AM on Saturday, December 13

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation that was uprooted from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s is facing widespread outrage over plans to profit from another forced removal

9:22 AM on Saturday, December 13

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is defying Europe’s prevailing winds as isolationism and nationalism flourish elsewhere by standing as the continent’s last major leader still speaking positively about immigration

8:46 AM on Saturday, December 13

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited Iraq to mark the end of the political mission established in 2003 in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation as well as the fall of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship

8:33 AM on Saturday, December 13

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 123 prisoners, state media say, seeking to improve ties with the US

8:03 AM on Saturday, December 13

Chuck Grassley has made a name for himself in Washington with his longtime support for whistleblowers

6:41 AM on Saturday, December 13

US says it will lift some trade sanctions on Belarus as the isolated autocracy seeks to improve relations with the West

5:41 AM on Saturday, December 13

Bulgaria's president plans to consult with parliamentary groups next week to form a new cabinet after the government collapsed during anti-corruption protests

2:35 AM on Saturday, December 13

Fighting is raging along the Thailand-Cambodia border, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim of a new ceasefire agreement

2:29 AM on Saturday, December 13

Eritrea has withdrawn from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development

10:20 PM on Friday, December 12

Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones has launched his campaign for Alabama governor

9:45 PM on Friday, December 12

A federal judge says the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director

9:06 PM on Friday, December 12

A Bolivian court has ordered the country’s former President Luis Arce to remain detained for five months while he awaits trial on corruption charges

9:04 PM on Friday, December 12

Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers

6:32 PM on Friday, December 12

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is threatening contempt of Congress proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton

5:03 PM on Friday, December 12

The Senate failed to get anywhere on health care this week

12:49 PM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump says Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes

11:07 AM on Monday, November 24