Politics & Government News

10:03 AM on Sunday, July 26

Guyana’s government has appointed a group of international experts to investigate the recent sinking of a state ferry that killed dozens of passengers in the country’s worst maritime disaster on record

9:32 AM on Sunday, July 26

Romania has shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace

6:00 AM on Sunday, July 26

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to, and that has been adopted around the world

12:45 AM on Sunday, July 26

World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations

7:10 PM on Saturday, July 25

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry says it denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials that sought to travel to the South American nation next week

5:10 PM on Saturday, July 25

The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing

12:24 PM on Saturday, July 25

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched his own political party, marking a split with former ally Ousmane Sonko

9:55 AM on Saturday, July 25

Belgian authorities have arrested a Canadian woman accused of espionage while working as an intern at NATO's operational headquarters

8:38 AM on Saturday, July 25

Trump’s tariffs are headed to court — again

5:23 AM on Saturday, July 25

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas has toured the state's southern border with Mexico to try to win support from Hispanic voters

5:15 AM on Saturday, July 25

House leaders are sending lawmakers home for the August recess after one of the rockiest sessions in recent memory to campaign for reelection

3:33 AM on Saturday, July 25

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the international community to support the people of Syria

2:37 AM on Saturday, July 25

Economics has a term for what U.S. grocery prices have done in recent years

2:15 AM on Saturday, July 25

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits

2:10 AM on Saturday, July 25

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has been confirmed as the presidential candidate for his father's Liberal Party

2:10 AM on Saturday, July 25

India’s “Cockroach” movement has called off weeks of protests, saying the government has accepted all of its demands

10:55 PM on Friday, July 24

The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, an ornate 13th-century Buddhist temple in Thailand and tidal flats in western South Korea were among several sites added to the World Heritage List on Saturday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea

10:27 PM on Friday, July 24

India’s young protesters are taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with humor as much as street demonstrations, flooding social media with memes, parody videos and jokes while thousands rally across the country

9:00 PM on Friday, July 24

Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine

8:25 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump has returned to the stage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner