Politics & Government News

3:21 PM on Tuesday, September 22

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that trade negotiations with India are making “good progress” and that the two countries are aiming to conclude talks by the G20 summit in mid-December

3:05 PM on Tuesday, September 22

Canada's top diplomat says her country is embracing its growing prominence as a champion of “middle powers” at the U.N. General Assembly

2:58 PM on Tuesday, September 22

World leaders are painting quite different views of the future of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, with colorful phrases such as killer robots and super intelligence

2:46 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The shooting of a Venezuelan man by a federal immigration officer in Texas has set off renewed protests about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown

2:24 PM on Tuesday, September 22

A federal judge has ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all of its prisons by the end of 2029, saying that inmates in lockups without it are being given punishments that violate their constitutional rights

2:10 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The Trump administration plans to limit refugee admissions in 2027 to 17,500 mostly white South Africans

2:07 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The U.S. Supreme Court won't intervene in a custody dispute over a 5-week-old child who was born in Texas after a surrogate refused a California couple’s wishes to have an abortion

1:18 PM on Tuesday, September 22

President Donald Trump has surprised many by showing support for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a well-known democratic socialist

1:03 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The wife of a detained Chinese American seismologist hopes President Donald Trump can help bring home her husband, Youlin Chen

12:05 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The fight over Missouri’s congressional map appears likely to head to the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time in three weeks

11:34 AM on Tuesday, September 22

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging global leaders to cooperate to tackle the existential threats from climate crisis, runaway artificial intelligence and intensifying inequalities

11:26 AM on Tuesday, September 22

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration directive that would have barred some immigrants from accessing Head Start preschools, plus other federal programs

10:32 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Vice President JD Vance and White House officials are announcing plans to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges

10:15 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Democratic attorneys general from California and New York are suing the Trump administration over its plans to buy back offshore wind leases as it seeks to discourage expansion of wind energy in favor of fossil fuels

8:43 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is warning countries against interfering in others' internal affairs

8:08 AM on Tuesday, September 22

4:18 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Middle Eastern leaders are gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly as conflicts in the region continue

3:22 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Greenland, Denmark and the United States have reached a deal over Greenland's future which has eased tensions among NATO allies

2:15 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.N. General Assembly in New York and expressed hope that the U.S. would help to end Russia's war in Ukraine

9:03 PM on Sunday, September 20

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is pleading for “a world built on interdependence” as he makes his final address to the General Assembly gathering of world leaders