Politics & Government News

2:23 PM on Monday, December 15

The Turkish Defense Ministry says it has shot down an “out of control” aerial drone that approached Turkey's airspace from the Black Sea

2:16 PM on Monday, December 15

Silk Eyes races past Mr. Thunder at the top of the stretch, thrilling the crowd at a racetrack in Venezuela’s capital

2:08 PM on Monday, December 15

The New York Mets’ ballpark, a Bronx golf course once operated by President Donald Trump’s company and a slot parlor near John F. Kennedy International Airport will be the sites of New York City’s first Las Vegas-style resort casinos

2:04 PM on Monday, December 15

The Colombian government’s delegation in peace talks with the National Liberation Army or ELN has rejected an “armed strike” that the Marxist rebel group is conducting this week in response to the U.S. military’s naval buildup in the Caribbean

2:00 PM on Monday, December 15

The death toll from last week's building collapse at a Hindu temple site in South Africa has risen to five

1:57 PM on Monday, December 15

South Sudan’s government has grounded four aircraft registered under the United Nations mission there, alleging that they were used for illegal surveillance and smuggling

1:54 PM on Monday, December 15

Ryan Routh, convicted of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, has decided to use an attorney for his sentencing

1:45 PM on Monday, December 15

In the week since Texas' new “bathroom bill” went into effect, some opponents of the restrictions have begun challenging both the spirit and the letter of the law

1:11 PM on Monday, December 15

12:09 PM on Monday, December 15

The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria have been identified

11:58 AM on Monday, December 15

President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy

11:30 AM on Monday, December 15

The government of Trinidad and Tobago says it will allow the U.S. military access to its airports in upcoming weeks as tensions between the United States and Venezuela remain high

10:02 AM on Monday, December 15

The European Union has imposed sanctions on five businessmen linked to Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft

8:24 AM on Monday, December 15

Two onetime attorneys for President Donald Trump and an aide who all worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign appeared for a preliminary hearing in Wisconsin on felony forgery charges related to a fake elector scheme

3:17 AM on Monday, December 15

The head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency says President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war.”

1:25 AM on Monday, December 15

Many prominent people are paying tribute to Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, after they were killed in their Los Angeles home on Sunday

1:00 AM on Monday, December 15

U.S. officials say Washington has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend

11:40 PM on Sunday, December 14

Prosecutors played audio recordings to show jurors that a Wisconsin judge knew what was at stake when she directed an immigrant to a private door while federal agents were in the courthouse to arrest him

9:03 PM on Sunday, December 14

Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, a vocal critic of China's Communist Party, has been convicted of conspiracies of sedition and foreign collusion under a national security law

7:24 PM on Sunday, December 14

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court