Politics & Government News

3:42 PM on Monday, October 20

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts can’t participate

2:50 PM on Monday, October 20

The chair of the Democratic Party says online comments made by a Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, dismiss rape in the military and criticize both police officers and rural America were wrong, but not disqualifying from office

2:22 PM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump has encouraged a retired Navy SEAL to challenge Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in next year’s Kentucky primary

1:17 PM on Monday, October 20

Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown

12:40 PM on Monday, October 20

Furloughs have begun at the federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile

11:57 AM on Monday, October 20

A Vermont state senator who took part in a Young Republicans group chat on Telegram in which members made racist comments and joked about rape and gas chambers has resigned

11:55 AM on Monday, October 20

A official says U.S. border agents assigned to immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have been given body cameras

10:38 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House

10:33 AM on Monday, October 20

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has rejected calls from some in his party to relax its refusal to deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany

10:05 AM on Monday, October 20

9:33 AM on Monday, October 20

The Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights

9:24 AM on Monday, October 20

As President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a deal for $8.5 billion in rare earth minerals, as a counterpoint to China’s new export restrictions

8:21 AM on Monday, October 20

The United Nations says Houthi rebels have released five Yemeni U.N. staff members and allowed 15 international ones to move freely within the U.N. compound after detaining them over the weekend

6:55 AM on Monday, October 20

Virginia is the last Southern state that has not passed new abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a national constitutional right to the procedure

5:20 AM on Monday, October 20

Ukraine's president says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last week was “positive,” even though he did not secure Tomahawk missiles for the fight against Russia

3:17 AM on Monday, October 20

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party

2:05 AM on Monday, October 20

Three months ago, Rodrigo Paz was a little-known Bolivian opposition senator with a famous father and a mixed reputation as mayor

12:03 AM on Monday, October 20

Federal appeals court judges questioned the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor

11:21 PM on Sunday, October 19

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner

8:44 PM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump says the United States could buy Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers