Politics & Government News

3:54 AM on Thursday, August 28

Iranian diplomat warns it will make 'no sense' for Tehran to work with nuclear inspectors if UN sanctions are reimposed

3:10 AM on Thursday, August 28

Authorities in Rwanda say seven migrants have been transferred from the United States to the East African country under a deportation agreement with the U.S. The Rwanda government said Thursday the deportees arrived in mid-August

1:17 AM on Thursday, August 28

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in six years to attend a military parade next week

1:15 AM on Thursday, August 28

Japan’s top trade negotiator has abruptly canceled a trip to Washington aimed at issuing a joint statement on a tariffs deal with the Trump administration

1:05 AM on Thursday, August 28

7:17 PM on Wednesday, August 27

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to attend military parade in Beijing next week, North Korean and Chinese state media say

4:26 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020

3:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Florida's chief financial officer has issued subpoenas to Orange County workers, saying they did not fully cooperate with the state's DOGE audit

3:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act

3:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A teenager has been sentenced to seven years in a youth rehabilitation facility for shooting Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay

2:55 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job

2:40 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Mexico says its postal service is suspending package shipments to the United States, following similar steps taken by countries from the European Union and elsewhere

2:22 PM on Wednesday, August 27

An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith

2:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Demonstrators have hurled rocks at a convoy carrying Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Mieli as his campaign caravan cut through Buenos Aires province, the cradle of the country’s left-leaning opposition movement

2:06 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The United Nations agency that coordinates international mail deliveries says it's working to get small parcels dispatched to the United States again by resolving confusion over the pending elimination of a U.S. tariff exemption

2:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Rural hospitals are bracing for financial losses due to President Trump's tax and spending cut bill

1:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Indiana's legislative leaders met privately with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss redistricting, according to an Indiana House spokesperson

1:24 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board