Politics & Government News

12:56 PM on Thursday, July 30

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is interested in joining a new security initiative for Lebanon

12:20 PM on Thursday, July 30

Palestinian authorities have asked the Supreme Court to halt a $656 million judgment in favor of Americans killed or wounded by attacks in Israel

10:40 AM on Thursday, July 30

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cleared a hurdle in the Senate

8:08 AM on Thursday, July 30

7:31 AM on Thursday, July 30

Malaysia has started documenting and screening detained Myanmar nationals as part of a repatriation program

6:01 AM on Thursday, July 30

The European Union plans to invest 10 billion euros to build seven AI gigafactories, aiming to catch up with the U.S. and China

5:06 AM on Thursday, July 30

A new AP-NORC poll shows most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting

3:01 AM on Thursday, July 30

Police have detained a former TV actor-turned-mayor in the latest wave of arrests targeting the opposition

2:17 AM on Thursday, July 30

The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son

12:04 AM on Thursday, July 30

Voters in Manchester are electing a new mayor Thursday to replace Andy Burnham, who left the job to become Britain’s prime minister

12:01 AM on Thursday, July 30

President Donald Trump says car companies are thriving due to tariffs and other key policies he's instituted as president

7:57 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Cuba has loosened restrictions on private businesses to allow imports of foreign goods and medicines, a sector firmly controlled by the Communist-led government

6:56 PM on Wednesday, July 29

A witness to a fatal shooting of a Houston man by a federal immigration agent has been released from a detention facility

6:35 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Senate negotiators are working to resolve thorny differences with leaders of the Southeastern and Big Ten Conferences over revisions to a bill designed to regulate college sports that sponsors want a vote on before the chamber goes on summer break next week

6:29 PM on Wednesday, July 29

The townspeople of St. Mary’s can now breathe a sigh of relief

12:35 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general has stalled as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote

11:12 AM on Wednesday, July 29

The billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app has repeatedly run into trouble with both the Kremlin and Western officials as he cast himself as a champion of free speech

5:03 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

7:38 PM on Tuesday, July 28

CBS's "60 Minutes" has announced a slate of new correspondents and contributors for its 59th season

7:37 AM on Sunday, July 26

Former Rep. Cori Bush, outside the courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued, promises to reverse her ouster from Congress