Politics & Government News

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

9:02 PM on Friday, July 24

Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus more than four years after Russia used the country to launch its assault on Kyiv

8:55 PM on Friday, July 24

5:06 PM on Friday, July 24

The Trump administration has again acknowledged in court documents that it terminated $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state,” in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election

4:03 PM on Friday, July 24

Joe Biden has dropped a lawsuit in which he sought block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before the Delaware Democrat was elected president

3:51 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to install signs at the Smithsonian's U.S. history museum

2:59 PM on Friday, July 24

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous territories along their border

1:37 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump keeps finding ways to maintain a wall of tariffs around the American economy

1:14 PM on Friday, July 24

Two sons of a man shot by immigration officers in Houston have told members of Congress about the horror and confusion of learning their father had been killed

1:01 PM on Friday, July 24

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate over progressive Abdul El-Sayed

12:55 PM on Friday, July 24

Virginia officials have released a scientific study on the state's groundwater supply and the possible impact of data centers after months of delays and mounting criticism

11:21 AM on Friday, July 24

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk won a second term Friday despite opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel to keep him in one of the most controversial United Nations posts for four more years

10:31 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices

9:12 AM on Friday, July 24

Federal health officials have linked four more states to an outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite

5:21 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices

2:38 AM on Friday, July 24

A United Nations committee has inscribed a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites

12:03 AM on Friday, July 24

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest set of tariffs has provoked heated objections from America’s trading partners

9:04 PM on Thursday, July 23

Canadian officials are celebrating a new U.S.-Canada bridge over the Detroit River

9:02 PM on Thursday, July 23

Democrats have selected South Carolina to hold the first presidential nominating contest in 2028

4:06 PM on Thursday, July 23

Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries