Politics & Government News

2:36 PM on Sunday, October 5

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Who gets paid during a federal shutdown

2:35 PM on Sunday, October 5

France's new prime minister has named a government, bringing back former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as defense minister

11:35 AM on Sunday, October 5

Somali government forces have ended a six-hour siege by militants at a major prison near the president’s office in Mogadishu

9:51 AM on Sunday, October 5

Syria has held its first parliamentary elections since Bashar Assad was ousted nearly a year ago

7:14 AM on Sunday, October 5

Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown

6:36 AM on Sunday, October 5

Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday, forcing the shutdown of Vilnius Airport

4:40 AM on Sunday, October 5

At least five people were killed after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight in a major attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure

1:36 AM on Sunday, October 5

Severe rainfall in Nepal has triggered landslides, lightning strikes, and flooding, killing at least 44 people on Sunday

7:47 PM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland

7:43 PM on Saturday, October 4

Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon

6:17 PM on Saturday, October 4

Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has been widely condemned for text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”

4:19 PM on Saturday, October 4

More than 600 couples have married simultaneously in Asunción, Paraguay

3:11 PM on Saturday, October 4

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard members to Chicago, where on the same day Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman they said tried to run them over

10:37 AM on Saturday, October 4

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival

7:40 AM on Saturday, October 4

A monumental Supreme Court term is set to begin with major tests of presidential power on the agenda

2:38 AM on Saturday, October 4

In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democrats is one of the most conservative members of the male-dominated party seen as an obstacle to women’s advancement

9:45 PM on Friday, October 3

Japan’s governing party has elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, making her likely to become the country’s first female prime minister

6:05 PM on Friday, October 3

President Donald Trump is making plans for a significant aid package for U.S. soybean farmers

1:15 AM on Thursday, October 2

Syria is holding parliamentary elections for the first time since its autocratic former president, Bashar Assad, was unseated in December

9:19 PM on Sunday, September 21

Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader Saturday to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba