Politics & Government News

12:12 AM on Saturday, October 25

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine have killed at least four people and wounded 16 others, according to local officials

10:37 PM on Friday, October 24

Polls opened in the Ivory Coast to elect a new leader as longtime President Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term after key contenders were barred from contesting

9:12 PM on Friday, October 24

Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security

9:07 PM on Friday, October 24

Donald Trump has seized a central role on the global stage, leaving European allies on the sidelines

9:05 PM on Friday, October 24

9:03 PM on Friday, October 24

A government program in Spain is training African migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages

9:02 PM on Friday, October 24

Polling places open Saturday for in-person voting in two of the year’s most closely watched elections: The New York City mayor’s race and the contest to pick New Jersey’s next governor

9:01 PM on Friday, October 24

The rights of trans youth could be a factor Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial election and legislative control in Richmond

7:44 PM on Friday, October 24

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces significant foreign policy challenges just days after taking office

6:01 PM on Friday, October 24

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have started talks ahead of a landmark ASEAN summit that will welcome East Timor as the bloc’s 11th member and mark U.S. President Donald Trump’s first trip to Asia since returning to the White House

5:00 PM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump is heading to Asia for his first trip this term to the continent, where he’s expected to try to strike investment deals, work through trade talks and further some peace efforts

3:39 PM on Friday, October 24

The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown

12:07 PM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump is urging his supporters in New Jersey to vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli

7:10 AM on Friday, October 24

The leader of Canada’s most populous province says he’ll pull the anti-tariff ad that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada

6:18 AM on Friday, October 24

Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents

5:32 AM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump is going to Asia and will meet face to face with the leaders of Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and China

1:51 AM on Friday, October 24

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the United States to expand sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies to the whole sector

10:07 PM on Thursday, October 23

Anyone who watched U.S. President Donald Trump vow to condition financial aid to cash-strapped Argentina on the outcome of a “very big” and “very important” vote in the South American country would be forgiven for thinking that his close ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, was up for reelection

9:27 PM on Thursday, October 23

Voters in Ireland are going to the polls to elect one of two women as their new president

7:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s pulling the TV ad that caused President Donald Trump to say he was ending trade negotiations with Canada