Politics & Government News

1:25 PM on Saturday, September 27

Health minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state says 36 people were killed and 40 injured at a political rally

12:23 PM on Saturday, September 27

Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation suit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims

12:23 PM on Saturday, September 27

Russian foreign minister at UN: Any aggression against our country will be met with a 'decisive response'

11:52 AM on Saturday, September 27

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in rural Hungary at a country estate linked to alleged corruption involving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

11:11 AM on Saturday, September 27

The oil-rich central African nation of Gabon has voted in its first legislative and local elections since a 2023 military coup ended a 50-year-old political dynasty

9:27 AM on Saturday, September 27

Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated with the State Department saying it was revoking the visa of Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro's visa

8:56 AM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily aren't American citizens

8:51 AM on Saturday, September 27

Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship

5:44 AM on Saturday, September 27

French authorities report that two women have died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K. on a makeshift boat carrying other migrants

1:24 AM on Saturday, September 27

Moldovans will head to the polls to cast ballots in a tense parliamentary election fraught with claims of Russian interference

12:48 AM on Saturday, September 27

The people of Seychelles are voting in an election to choose a new leader and parliament

12:08 AM on Saturday, September 27

Former FBI director James Comey has been charged with lying to Congress, Jimmy Kimmel is back on air after his suspension over his Charlie Kirk remarks, and world leaders speak at the U.N. These are the week's top stories

12:02 AM on Saturday, September 27

As Congress confronts a possible government shutdown, it's also weighing the Trump administration's willingness to simply halt federal spending — even when it's against the law

12:01 AM on Saturday, September 27

American soybean farmers are worried about where they're going to sell their crops and whether they'll lose money this year because China hasn't bought any for months

10:59 PM on Friday, September 26

10:29 PM on Friday, September 26

South Korea’s top diplomat says his boss has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula

8:18 PM on Friday, September 26

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers

6:18 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump is planning big tariffs on pharmaceuticals, kitchen counters, bathroom vanities, upholstered furniture and heavy trucks

12:14 PM on Friday, September 26

The U.N. Security Council on has rejected a last-ditch effort to delay reimposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program

12:05 AM on Friday, September 26

Surrounded by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that Israel “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza