Politics & Government News

4:35 PM on Thursday, August 6

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home

3:23 PM on Thursday, August 6

President Donald Trump has been highlighting his economic achievements, pointing to record stock market highs and claims of increased hiring, manufacturing, and investment

3:14 PM on Thursday, August 6

Known for his Southern drawl, political flexibility and hawkish foreign policy, Lindsey Graham was an influential Republican in the U.S. Senate with an ability to befriend colleagues of different political persuasions

12:44 PM on Thursday, August 6

An offshore wind company says it's reached a $1.2 billion settlement with the Trump administration to walk away from projects under development off New York, California and Louisiana

12:42 PM on Thursday, August 6

Six years after the world was thrust into a global pandemic, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past

11:06 AM on Thursday, August 6

The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future

10:55 AM on Thursday, August 6

8:46 AM on Thursday, August 6

Pakistan’s government has issued new guidelines for foreign media, formalizing reporting requirements outside the country's three largest cities

8:15 AM on Thursday, August 6

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been abroad for two months, sparking criticism and concerns

6:39 AM on Thursday, August 6

A conference on Tibetan studies in Nepal has been canceled at the request of government officials

5:08 AM on Thursday, August 6

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and they say much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest

4:38 AM on Thursday, August 6

Nigeria's president says security forces have rescued at least 300 people abducted in the country's north

4:19 AM on Thursday, August 6

North Korea has launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea, according to its neighbors

12:01 AM on Thursday, August 6

President Donald Trump is hosting an IndyCar street race in Washington, D.C., as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations

11:56 PM on Wednesday, August 5

The leader of Myanmar's military-backed government has arrived in Thailand on an official visit

9:21 PM on Wednesday, August 5

The United States says it has suspended all government operations in the Mexican state of Michoacan because of a “threat to U_S_ interests."

4:30 PM on Wednesday, August 5

11:52 AM on Wednesday, August 5

It's not clear why a plane was allowed to take off as President Donald Trump’s helicopter was approaching Reagan National Airport in an apparent violation of safety procedures put in place after last year’s midair collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter near that busy Washington D.C. airport

10:46 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she plans to return from exile in India in December despite facing a death sentence in Bangladesh

9:43 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state