Politics & Government News

11:54 AM on Friday, September 19

Belarus has expelled a Czech diplomat in a tit-for-tat move amid deteriorating relations between Minsk and European Union nations

11:50 AM on Friday, September 19

International rights group Amnesty International has called for urgent action from authorities in the southern African nation of Eswatini to give five men deported there by the United States access to lawyers and explain why they’ve been held in a maximum-security prison for two months without charges

11:42 AM on Friday, September 19

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt order letting transgender, nonbinary people choose passport sex marker

11:30 AM on Friday, September 19

Trump says he and Xi will meet at a summit in South Korea next month and he will travel to China early next year

10:52 AM on Friday, September 19

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to let Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas address its annual meeting by video

10:45 AM on Friday, September 19

House passes a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1, but prospects in the Senate look dim

10:44 AM on Friday, September 19

A group of about 100 pro-democracy activists from Eswatini have protested at the U

8:52 AM on Friday, September 19

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU should slap new sanctions on Russia’s exports of liquefied natural gas, its shadow fleet of aging oil tankers and major energy companies over its war on Ukraine

8:50 AM on Friday, September 19

As late-night talk shows undergo major changes and controversy, a new poll finds most Americans don’t watch them regularly and the ones who do are more likely to be Democrats

8:49 AM on Friday, September 19

As controversy swirls around late-night TV, a new AP-NORC poll finds viewers are more likely to be Democrats

8:48 AM on Friday, September 19

South African trade officials have held talks with their U.S. counterparts in Washington as Africa’s largest economy looks to repair strained relations and negotiate the lifting of heavy tariffs imposed by the United States

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French President Emmanuel Macron hopes that France's recognition of a state will contribute to peace in the Mideast

7:48 AM on Friday, September 19

Voters in southern Arizona will send a new representative to Congress after Tuesday’s special election

7:01 AM on Friday, September 19

A new poll shows Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically

5:06 AM on Friday, September 19

Pakistan’s defense minister says that his nation’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed under the countries’ new defense pact

5:12 PM on Thursday, September 18

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon hosted their late-night shows using a mix of humor and solidarity with suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel

6:14 AM on Thursday, September 18

As Guinea reaches the final days ahead of the key referendum which could open the door for the coup leader to run for president, Conakry, its capital city, is buzzing with campaign events

11:42 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Lawyers for five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July say they have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or explanation and with no access to legal counsel