Politics & Government News

6:39 AM on Friday, January 9

President Donald Trump is meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday

6:16 AM on Friday, January 9

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran

6:16 AM on Friday, January 9

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela

6:14 AM on Friday, January 9

Deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump will make it more difficult for struggling communities to get help to fix sewer systems that put health and homes at risk

6:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump will make it more difficult for struggling communities to get help to fix sewer systems that put health and homes at risk

5:48 AM on Friday, January 9

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country

5:39 AM on Friday, January 9

5:27 AM on Friday, January 9

Italy has provided crucial support to plans by the European Union to seal a huge free trade deal with five South American nations

5:19 AM on Friday, January 9

U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea

5:10 AM on Friday, January 9

A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others

4:55 AM on Friday, January 9

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships are in South African waters for a week of naval drills as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela

4:20 AM on Friday, January 9

Lebanon's government has signed a deal with an international consortium for gas exploration in an offshore area bordering Israel

3:42 AM on Friday, January 9

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year

3:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide

2:47 AM on Friday, January 9

European Union officials have visited Syria for the first time to meet with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa

2:43 AM on Friday, January 9

Yemen's Southern Transitional Council and its institutions are being dismantled, the group's secretary-general has announced

11:57 PM on Thursday, January 8

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire

10:57 PM on Thursday, January 8

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas

9:03 PM on Thursday, January 8

Iran's judiciary chief has vowed decisive punishment for protesters, signaling a coming crackdown against demonstrations

7:58 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles