Politics & Government News

6:09 AM on Tuesday, August 12

President Javier Milei of Argentina is helping to launch a $1 million initiative to improve diplomatic relations between Israel and several Latin American countries

5:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

US inflation was unchanged last month, though core prices accelerated

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Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place

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

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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

5:17 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

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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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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