Politics & Government News

8:07 AM on Friday, May 15

Belarus’ authoritarian leader has greeted U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, who arrived in the tightly controlled country to hold the largest evangelical gathering in its history

7:58 AM on Friday, May 15

U.S. President Donald Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping is considering the case of detained pastor Ezra Jin Mingri

7:32 AM on Friday, May 15

Hungarians Prime Minister Péter Magyar has removed the fences that surrounded a historic building in the capital Budapest while it served as the office of his autocratic predecessor Viktor Orbán

6:30 AM on Friday, May 15

The 2020 election continues to haunt Georgia's political landscape, especially in the Republican primary for secretary of state

6:18 AM on Friday, May 15

The Trump administration has deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite U.S. court orders protecting them from deportation to their homelands

6:16 AM on Friday, May 15

Fifteen people deported from the U.S. to Congo under the Trump administration's policy face difficult conditions

5:42 AM on Friday, May 15

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4:33 AM on Friday, May 15

Louisiana voters will participate in a revamped and stripped-down state primary Saturday and decide the political fate of an embattled Republican U.S. senator targeted for defeat by President Donald Trump

3:44 AM on Friday, May 15

Norway's foreign ministry confirms it has revoked export licenses for a naval missile system to Malaysia, restricting sales of sensitive defense technologies to allies and close partners

3:05 AM on Friday, May 15

A two-day meeting of BRICS foreign ministers in New Delhi has ended without a joint statement due to differing views on the Middle East

12:14 AM on Friday, May 15

Australia says a neo-Nazi network will be the second organization being banned under its new law criminalizing hate groups and support for them

10:29 PM on Thursday, May 14

India has raised fuel prices by 3 rupees per liter to offset losses from higher global oil prices

9:27 PM on Thursday, May 14

Kentucky’s Republican Senate primary to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell is becoming a test of the Republican Party’s transformation under President Donald Trump

9:06 PM on Thursday, May 14

A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act

7:36 PM on Thursday, May 14

Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics

1:48 PM on Thursday, May 14

When Jerome Powell was sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve eight years ago, economists worried that inflation and interest rates were too low and that too few Americans had jobs

8:40 AM on Thursday, May 14

Yemen's government and Houthi rebels have agreed to free more than 1,600 detainees in the largest swap of Yemen's 11-year civil war

3:51 AM on Thursday, May 14

Two Democrats competing to become Iowa's next senator each say they're the best candidate to flip a GOP seat in the U.S. Senate

12:33 AM on Thursday, May 14

Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman