Politics & Government News

7:30 PM on Thursday, July 23

The confirmed death toll from the recent capsizing of a state ferry off Guyana’s coast has climbed to 72, with more bodies recovered as a multinational team struggled to salvage the partially submerged vessel

4:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

A federal judicial panel has allowed a new Tennessee congressional map that splits apart a majority-Black district in Memphis

4:41 PM on Thursday, July 23

Alaska has sent more than 3,000 letters to residents asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of this year's elections

3:16 PM on Thursday, July 23

Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court may be deeply conservative but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump

3:06 PM on Thursday, July 23

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will continue to negotiate a new trade deal with the U.S., but the country is willing to respond should new threatened tariffs come into effect

3:00 PM on Thursday, July 23

2:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Trump administration is seeking to rename Manhattan’s Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the country’s busiest transit hub

2:56 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Ashaninka Indigenous people, who reclaimed their territory on the Brazil-Peru border decades ago, now face threats from gangs and drug traffickers

2:52 PM on Thursday, July 23

A group of tribes and environmentalists is urging California to study the feasibility of reintroducing grizzly bears

2:04 PM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court

12:21 PM on Thursday, July 23

The government has withdrawn subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet

10:10 AM on Thursday, July 23

A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas is speaking out for the first time about her arrest while walking to Mass

9:02 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump has celebrated the Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House, calling the team “one of the great brands anywhere in the world.”

8:37 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump is having governors and electricity companies join a pledge aimed at shielding U.S. consumers from higher utility bills because data centers

6:19 AM on Thursday, July 23

A Turkish governor has been sacked after photos of him in tight cycling shorts went viral

5:32 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump says he is imposing new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners

12:21 AM on Thursday, July 23

Young protesters in India are camping on the streets of New Delhi

9:01 PM on Wednesday, July 22

The U.S. Navy is backing away from statements that it would begin to restrict press and public access to sailors’ service histories

6:21 PM on Wednesday, July 22

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is ready to help end the war in Ukraine but acknowledges there's no quick path to a deal

11:33 AM on Wednesday, July 22

Nicaragua’s lawmakers say they will carry out a plan by President Daniel Ortega to abolish elections in the Central American country