Politics & Government News

12:12 PM on Saturday, September 19

The city of Dearborn, Michigan, says its diversity and welcoming nature are to blame for a lawsuit accusing it of favoring Muslim holidays over the holidays of other religious faiths

11:42 AM on Saturday, September 19

Israel's president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker a decade ago

7:14 AM on Saturday, September 19

Russia’s liberal opposition Yabloko party says that one of its election observers lost consciousness while being arrested by police at a St. Petersburg polling station

5:18 AM on Saturday, September 19

The U.N. General Assembly is about to host its yearly meeting of world leaders

4:55 AM on Saturday, September 19

It’s hard to imagine a Republican who’s done more to draw a sharp contrast with the president than Brian Fitzpatrick

4:51 AM on Saturday, September 19

Several of the nation’s largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks

2:37 AM on Saturday, September 19

Denmark’s foreign minister has expressed cautious optimism about an agreement with the United States over Greenland in the wake of Donald Trump's announcement of a deal to bolster American military presence on the island

9:08 PM on Friday, September 18

President Donald Trump’s conflict with Iran has not led to the doomsday oil price spike many feared at the start of the war

9:03 PM on Friday, September 18

Will Lawrence, a progressive Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan, is trying to harness unease over the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development to defeat Republican Rep. Tom Barrett

6:48 PM on Friday, September 18

Thousands of people have come to protest outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

5:55 PM on Friday, September 18

The first state visit by the leader of China in more than a decade takes place next week when President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for high-stakes talks at the White House with President Donald Trump

5:09 PM on Friday, September 18

Bolivia’s conservative government has won congressional backing for an international loan and moved to end diesel subsidies, risking political backlash

4:07 PM on Friday, September 18

The United Nations has announced the appointment of U.S. agriculture official Luke Lindberg to head the World Food Program

2:46 PM on Friday, September 18

President Donald Trump says he has a deal with Denmark to bolster the U.S. military presence in Greenland

11:31 AM on Friday, September 18

President Donald Trump announced that all 50 states will join a program to provide Most Favored Nation pricing for some Medicaid drugs

11:21 AM on Friday, September 18

Two men deported by the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea were arbitrarily arrested and mistreated, according to their lawyers and rights groups

10:10 AM on Friday, September 18

The Trump administration has started building the border wall in the Big Bend region of west Texas

5:28 AM on Friday, September 18

President Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage

11:34 PM on Thursday, September 17

Iran says it has struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz

11:09 AM on Monday, August 31