Politics & Government News

2:40 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

1:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12

9:56 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones for governor in Georgia

9:20 PM on Monday, August 11

9:01 PM on Monday, August 11

Bolivia's governing Movement Toward Socialism party won't have a big-name presidential candidate on the ballot for the first time in two decades

7:46 PM on Monday, August 11

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung will travel to Washington later this month to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Lee’s office said Tuesday, for talks on trade and defense cooperation in the face of nuclear-armed North Korea and other threats

6:00 PM on Monday, August 11

U.S. lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to maintain a security partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom to supply nuclear-powered submarines

5:09 PM on Monday, August 11

Trump extends trade truce with China for another 90 days, delaying a showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

4:12 PM on Monday, August 11

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3:50 PM on Monday, August 11

3:10 PM on Monday, August 11

The United States and China have clashed at the United Nations over the Panama Canal

1:11 PM on Monday, August 11

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12:55 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will result in less income for the poorest Americans while sending money to the riches, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office

11:56 AM on Monday, August 11

The Malian military government has returned home the first batch of the manuscripts of Timbuktu, dating back to the 13th century, that were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by al-Qaida-linked militants more than a decade ago

5:31 AM on Monday, August 11

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3:51 AM on Monday, August 11

A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful has died after being shot at a political rally two months ago

3:17 AM on Monday, August 11

U.S. President Donald Trump says he expects to know quickly if a deal can be made with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine

11:10 PM on Sunday, August 10

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has emerged as an interlocutor for conservatives in Latin America seeking to connect with the Trump administration

9:02 PM on Sunday, August 10

President Donald Trump says he’s taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed crime is already falling in the nation’s capital

9:00 PM on Sunday, August 10

A federal judge is hearing arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country