Politics & Government News

4:11 PM on Saturday, May 30

Former Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González is calling for presidential elections as the five-month mark of interim President Delcy Rodríguez’s administration approaches, following a U.S. military intervention that ousted Nicolás Maduro in January

3:55 PM on Saturday, May 30

An upcoming celebration of America's 250th anniversary, called "The Great American State Fair," has faced challenges as several musical guests backed out due in part to its connections to President Donald Trump

3:23 PM on Saturday, May 30

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a moderate Massachusetts Democrat, has secured enough delegate support to appear on the state’s primary ballot

12:06 PM on Saturday, May 30

Colombia has rejected a move by Ecuador’s president to eliminate tariffs on Colombian imports because of a commitment made to an opposition candidate

10:34 AM on Saturday, May 30

A Guyanese soldier has been wounded in a gunfight with armed men in Venezuela along their shared border

10:26 AM on Saturday, May 30

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a judge to recuse herself from a case involving Georgia election records

10:07 AM on Saturday, May 30

Tens of thousands of supporters of Turkey’s main opposition party have marched through Ankara to rally behind their deposed leader

9:58 AM on Saturday, May 30

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau will meet with officials in the Dominican Republic as part of an official two-day trip that included a stop in neighboring Haiti

8:57 AM on Saturday, May 30

Some New Jersey voters are starting to notice Tom Kean Jr.’s monthslong absence from Congress due to an undisclosed medical issue

8:54 AM on Saturday, May 30

Public demand and the increasingly outspoken calls from the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse have driven Congress to mostly set aside party politics in an effort to search for accountability

8:50 AM on Saturday, May 30

Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government

6:32 AM on Saturday, May 30

The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly

3:57 AM on Saturday, May 30

A truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan has overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 36

12:04 AM on Saturday, May 30

Iowa Democrats are deciding between Josh Turek and Zach Wahls in Tuesday's U.S. Senate primary

11:19 PM on Friday, May 29

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Washington remains committed to the Indo-Pacific region while softening past comments that described China as an imminent threat

11:13 PM on Friday, May 29

Donald Trump’s physician says the president is in “excellent health” and is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief after a medical exam Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

9:18 PM on Friday, May 29

President Donald Trump is giving his endorsement to a January study by the Department of Health and Human Services that calls for cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every American child

5:57 PM on Friday, May 29

The Trump administration has revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for the state news agency Xinhua in the U.S. This move follows Beijing's decision to expel Vivian Wang, a New York Times correspondent, apparently over a DealBook event featuring Taiwan's leader

3:32 PM on Friday, May 29

New York Giants linebacker Abdul Carter says he felt the need to call out quarterback Jaxson Dart for introducing President Donald Trump because he felt it was his responsibility to show his teammates and others that he is against that

5:00 AM on Friday, May 29

Democrats gathering this weekend in South Carolina are feeling jubilant following the failure of a GOP-led effort to redraw House district lines more favorably to Republicans