Politics & Government News

2:07 PM on Tuesday, June 2

The European Union’s Electoral Observation Mission to Colombia has discarded President Gustavo’s Petro’s claims of fraud in Sunday’s presidential election

1:45 PM on Tuesday, June 2

The Trump administration has placed sanctions on Iran’s largest digital asset exchange, Nobitex, and three others

1:24 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has taken a turn in the White House briefing room

1:18 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman has won a hotly contested race to be the next president of the 193-member United Nations General Assembly

1:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Some researchers at the University of California Berkeley are disputing the National Science Foundation's claim that they failed to disclose funding from outside the U.S. The foundation cited incomplete disclosures when it suspended nearly $21 million for 18 research grants last month

12:56 PM on Tuesday, June 2

The White House Correspondents Association dinner has been rescheduled for July 24

12:40 PM on Tuesday, June 2

12:27 PM on Tuesday, June 2

A federal judge has heard from voting rights groups and a coalition of two dozen states that want the courts to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot, The plaintiffs argued in two lawsuits that Trump’s order should be found unconstitutional because the states and Congress, not the president, have the power to set election rules

10:05 AM on Tuesday, June 2

New York Democrats are wading into the national redistricting wars — just don’t expect a victory before this year’s hotly contested midterm elections

9:59 AM on Tuesday, June 2

President Donald Trump on Monday adjusted tariffs on some steel, aluminum and copper imports, lowering some tariffs on farming equipment and extending tariffs on other equipment

8:54 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Two of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed militias say they will start handing in their weapons to authorities

8:23 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Zimbabwe’s justice minister has introduced a constitutional amendment bill to extend the tenure of the country's 83-year-old president and change the election process

8:08 AM on Tuesday, June 2

New York’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project

6:57 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Prosecutors have detailed how the estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon embezzled more than 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party

6:18 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Democrats and Republicans say President Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence seems unqualified

5:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

5:17 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began

12:45 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility

12:04 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister by leading a center-left coalition of four parties

9:40 AM on Saturday, May 30

Businesses big and small have started receiving refunds after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump improperly imposed some tariffs on imported goods