Politics & Government News

12:29 AM on Thursday, June 11

Chandelier and lamps reminiscent of “Harry Potter” or “Titanic” have been installed in Mexico City's busy Hidalgo metro station

11:29 PM on Wednesday, June 10

Pope Leo XIV is travelling to the Canary Islands to draw attention to the plight of migrants who risk their lives every year trying to reach Europe

10:38 PM on Wednesday, June 10

French and Swiss authorities are imposing pandemic-like border restrictions as the G7 summit begins

9:15 PM on Wednesday, June 10

About 75,000 voters in northwest England are about to make a significant decision

9:06 PM on Wednesday, June 10

The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, as well as the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife, is due to appear in federal court to change his not-guilty plea, after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty against him

9:05 PM on Wednesday, June 10

Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas on Thursday night

9:04 PM on Wednesday, June 10

It is up to a New Mexico judge to settle a challenge over the legality of New Mexico’s fledgling universal childcare program, an ambitious and closely watched effort to eliminate daycare costs for all working families

9:04 PM on Wednesday, June 10

A rare lapse in a law that allows the U.S. to gather intelligence abroad has grown more likely

9:01 PM on Wednesday, June 10

Randy Villegas, a populist insurgent, has won the Democratic primary for a House seat representing California’s Central Valley

4:51 PM on Wednesday, June 10

President Donald Trump's UFC fight on the White House's South Lawn requires a monumental effort from more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and about $60 million

2:34 PM on Wednesday, June 10

A federal judge has rejected a government watchdog’s request for a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from forging ahead with a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government

2:10 PM on Wednesday, June 10

The FBI has seized more than a dozen websites that officials say were part of a Chinese effort to target American workers who have access to classified or sensitive government information

10:08 AM on Wednesday, June 10

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block may take longer to open than anticipated

9:19 AM on Wednesday, June 10

The United Nations say that a violent crackdown on a protest in western Afghanistan has killed at least one person

7:07 AM on Wednesday, June 10

Veteran Japanese politician Yohei Kono has died at 89

5:28 AM on Wednesday, June 10

The U.S. has launched airstrikes against Iran, and President Donald Trump says more are coming, as Tehran fired back at countries in the region

3:19 AM on Wednesday, June 10

Amnesty International has accused Israel of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank

3:01 AM on Wednesday, June 10

China is hosting an international conference in Xinjiang to promote economic development efforts in the northwestern region, which once was the site of mass political detentions

9:10 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Bill Gates says he made an error in judgment by ever meeting with Jeffrey Epstein as the Microsoft co-founder faces questions behind closed doors from lawmakers about his relationship with the disgraced financier

8:59 AM on Tuesday, May 26