Politics & Government News

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Malawi President Chakwera has conceded defeat in election, with former leader Mutharika on course for victory

12:09 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A Florida retiree has been convicted of cyber crimes and blocked from leaving Saudi Arabia until next year over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince

12:05 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Jon Husted planned to run for Ohio governor next year

11:45 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Jimmy Kimmel, nearly breaking down, says it was 'never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man'

11:08 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins special election to U.S. House in Arizona's 7th Congressional District

10:57 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year

10:06 PM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional

9:22 PM on Tuesday, September 23

South Korea has long banned tattooing by anyone without a medical license

9:01 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A senior U.S. Justice Department official has sent a letter to a lawyer for relatives of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, asking pointed questions about a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

5:49 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio

4:51 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Costa Rica's President Rodrigo Chaves has celebrated the failure of an effort to strip his immunity for alleged corruption

2:41 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Ryan Routh has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year

10:56 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Two former Philippine government engineers have told a televised inquiry that most flood control projects, road and other infrastructures they helped oversee in recent years in a province near the capital were substandard or overpriced to compensate for huge kickbacks given to congressmen and senators

5:50 AM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump says he believes Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia

12:13 AM on Tuesday, September 23

A GOP business owner has won a Georgia state Senate race over a Democrat who drew national attention for a better-than-expected showing in a special election last month

12:12 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Voters in southern Arizona have picked Adelita Grijalva to succeed her father, the late U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva

12:08 AM on Tuesday, September 23

World leaders from France to South Korea and South Africa to Suriname have given strong support to the U.N. chief’s call to work together to address challenges like war, poverty and climate chaos