Politics & Government News

4:31 AM on Tuesday, September 9

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to deliver a major state of the union speech on the challenges facing the world’s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them

4:14 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Egyptian state media reports prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah may be released from prison through a presidential pardon

4:08 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Two Philippine senators have been implicated in a massive corruption scandal involving flood-control projects

3:35 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Nepal’s government has faced violent protests over a ban on popular social media platforms, leading to police use of deadly force and the resignation of the prime minister

3:03 AM on Tuesday, September 9

A Democratic lawmaker from Austin whose profile has risen with viral videos confronting right-wing policies is launching a long shot bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas

2:57 AM on Tuesday, September 9

The top-elected official in Milwaukee County, who rose out of poverty in one of the state’s poorest neighborhoods, has launched a bid for Wisconsin governor

2:51 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Ukraine's president and a regional official say at least 21 people have been killed when a Russian glide bomb has struck a village in eastern Ukraine as pensions were being distributed to older people

2:43 AM on Tuesday, September 9

A Hong Kong judge has ruled in favor of a lesbian couple’s parental recognition of their son born through reciprocal in vitro fertilization in a landmark case

1:53 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Nepal’s prime minister resigns following violent protests against ban on social media and government corruption

12:23 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a 2006 military coup

11:56 PM on Monday, September 8

Vanuatu is not ready to sign a security and economic treaty with Australia due to concerns about potential restrictions on securing infrastructure funding from other countries

9:22 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech

9:04 PM on Monday, September 8

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices is expected to decide this week whether former President Jair Bolsonaro is guilty or not of plotting to stay in power illegally after his 2022 election defeat

9:01 PM on Monday, September 8

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support

8:50 PM on Monday, September 8

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is expected to take a crucial step to securing a second term when voters go to the polls

8:48 PM on Monday, September 8

Virginia voters are set to choose their congressional candidate to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly

7:05 PM on Monday, September 8

Hong Kong lawmakers are set to debate a government-proposed framework to recognize same-sex partnerships

7:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s prime minister has resigned as protests against a short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent and expanded into broader criticism of his government and accusations of corruption among the Himalayan country’s political elite

10:00 AM on Monday, September 8

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

10:07 AM on Monday, August 25