Politics & Government News

2:29 PM on Saturday, August 1

Colombia’s government blamed the nation’s largest remaining rebel group for an explosion outside a police base that injured 11 officers and killed a police dog

10:13 AM on Saturday, August 1

“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie said her family was “desperate” and “begging for help" in the disappearance of her mother

9:49 AM on Saturday, August 1

Venezuelans are looking at the latest round of talks between the ruling party and the opposition with cautious optimism after several failed negotiations

9:48 AM on Saturday, August 1

President Donald Trump is threatening to push forward with a fund to compensate his allies if two Republican holdouts won’t support his nominee for attorney general

9:15 AM on Saturday, August 1

Travelers at a major border crossing between Croatia and Serbia faced hourslong waits on Saturday due to peak summer holiday traffic

7:48 AM on Saturday, August 1

Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland says he's concerned that President Trump might use federal power to influence the fall elections

12:27 AM on Saturday, August 1

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has shifted some of Britain's political power from London to Manchester with "No_ 10 North."

Saturday, August 1

President Donald Trump has for months pressured the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates, claiming it would be “Rocket Fuel!”

10:16 PM on Friday, July 31

The Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences have agreed to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports, ending a breakneck week of negotiations and pulling the bipartisan measure out of what looked like a certain death spiral

8:28 PM on Friday, July 31

Gilberto Cárdenas, a highly respected sociologist who many considered a great advocate for advancing Latino and Chicano identity through academia and art, has died

6:56 PM on Friday, July 31

Disgraced former Congressman George Santos has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a federal investigation into his suspicious trades on the prediction marketplace Kalshi

6:42 PM on Friday, July 31

Labour Party candidate Bev Craig has been elected mayor of Greater Manchester after Andy Burnham left that job to become Britain's prime minister

6:16 PM on Friday, July 31

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

5:33 PM on Friday, July 31

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials to help Ukraine gain permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use Starlink for guiding strikes inside Russia

3:47 PM on Friday, July 31

President Donald Trump says his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” while also continuing to defend it

3:30 PM on Friday, July 31

Authorities have released an early ransom note in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in hopes that someone will recognize the writing style

2:38 PM on Friday, July 31

The Trump administration wants to make sure that the Mexican train crews hauling freight just over the border can understand key safety information in English and that the common practice of using foreign crews to cross into America doesn’t threaten U.S. jobs

10:53 AM on Friday, July 31

A main development in the Middle East is that the White House is signaling that President Donald Trump is weighing carrying out new strikes on Iran

8:34 AM on Friday, July 31

Hamas says it has reached an agreement to disarm

1:03 PM on Thursday, July 30

Thousands of migrants have entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco, with at least 57 dying in the attempt, prompting local officials to seek help from Spain's national government