Politics & Government News

3:35 AM on Wednesday, October 22

John E. Sununu enters GOP primary race in New Hampshire for US Senate seat he lost in 2008

12:50 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Francisco Pinto Balsemão, a former prime minister of Portugal in a turbulent post-coup period who withdrew from front-line politics and created a national media empire, has died

12:31 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Japan’s new foreign minister said Wednesday his country plans to show its determination to further build up its defense power to rapidly adapt to changing warfare and growing tension in the region when U.S. President Donald Trump visits Tokyo next week

9:57 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Peru’s new president declared a state of emergency in the capital in the government's latest attempt to stem a surge in violence that has stirred protests and contributed to the recent downfall of his predecessor

9:07 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Another Africa election this weekend will showcase the tension between a longtime leader and frustrated youth

8:42 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Japan’s exports grew 4.2% in September, according to government data, on robust shipments to Asia that offset the decline to those destined for the U.S., which were impacted by President Donald Trump’s tariffs

8:09 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week

8:03 PM on Tuesday, October 21

An Alabama board is considering a proposal stating that the youth sections of public libraries cannot contain books that “positively” depict transgender themes and topics

4:36 PM on Tuesday, October 21

North Korea has performed its first ballistic missile tests in five months, days before U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders are expected to meet in South Korea

4:16 PM on Tuesday, October 21

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency has withdrawn from consideration after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted

3:49 PM on Tuesday, October 21

President Donald Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insists that any decision on a payout would “have to go across my desk.”

3:29 PM on Tuesday, October 21

An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on New York City’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic Tuesday afternoon, as bystanders and protesters confronted federal agents and tried to block their path

3:13 PM on Tuesday, October 21

New Jersey Republicans have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a county that is key to the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race between Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill

3:05 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has revealed in a podcast that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely recognized as Nazi symbol

2:11 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Authorities say a person found a suspected explosive device in front of the Wyoming Capitol building in Cheyenne and brought it inside, causing the building to be evacuated

1:20 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Federal officers shot a man in the elbow and a deputy U.S. Marshal was hit in the hand with a ricochet bullet during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles

12:36 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Democrats have rallied against a proposed U.S. House map by North Carolina Republicans in Raleigh

6:02 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Senate Republicans projected a unified front at the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at President Donald Trump’s invitation as they refuse to yield to Democratic demands for health care funds into the fourth week of the government shutdown

5:03 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Nicolas Sarkozy, once France's most powerful figure, is now in Paris' La Santé prison

12:31 AM on Tuesday, October 21

A court in Slovakia has convicted a man of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison over last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico