Politics & Government News

7:34 AM on Monday, July 27

Japan and China are giving conflicting accounts about whether their foreign ministers briefly spoke last week

7:19 AM on Monday, July 27

Democrat James Talarico is challenging Republican Ken Paxton in a closely watched U.S. Senate race in Texas

2:59 AM on Monday, July 27

Former South Korean President President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of making false statements during his presidential campaign

5:26 PM on Sunday, July 26

The party led by Peru’s president-elect Keiko Fujimori has won the Senate presidency in an alliance with another conservative party and is paving the way for the incoming government

4:20 PM on Sunday, July 26

President Donald Trump’s border czar said the vetting of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in the deadly shooting of a Colombian native in Maine is under internal review

3:13 PM on Sunday, July 26

The four American troops killed during renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran in recent weeks are no longer listed as part of the Iran war death toll in the Pentagon’s official casualty count

2:52 PM on Sunday, July 26

Former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai has reunited with his family in London after more than five years in a Hong Kong prison

1:46 PM on Sunday, July 26

Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has recalled its ambassador to Argentina after President Javier Milei insulted Brazilian officials while in their country

1:24 PM on Sunday, July 26

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu says New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “fomenting hate” by calling the prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested if he visits the city

1:03 PM on Sunday, July 26

Guyana’s government has appointed a group of international experts to investigate the recent sinking of a state ferry that killed dozens of passengers in the country’s worst maritime disaster on record

12:32 PM on Sunday, July 26

Romania has shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace

12:25 PM on Sunday, July 26

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that halted President Donald Trump's efforts to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot

11:04 AM on Sunday, July 26

Cuba has held a traditional rally to commemorate one of the revolution’s most important anniversaries but former President Raúl Castro was conspicuously absent

10:28 AM on Sunday, July 26

The United States has not attacked Iran for a second day, and Tehran says it has also halted attacks

9:59 AM on Sunday, July 26

Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online

9:00 AM on Sunday, July 26

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to, and that has been adopted around the world

6:01 AM on Sunday, July 26

The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania

3:45 AM on Sunday, July 26

World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations

1:05 AM on Sunday, July 26

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has returned to his country to face corruption charges

8:10 PM on Saturday, July 25

The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing