Politics & Government News

5:22 PM on Monday, February 9

President Donald Trump has threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River

4:10 PM on Monday, February 9

Seven months after an alleged $140 million Ponzi scheme collapsed, investors are impatient to recover their money

4:06 PM on Monday, February 9

The United Nations says it’s waiting to find out how much of the nearly $4 billion the United States owes the world organization the Trump administration intends to pay and when the money will arrive

4:00 PM on Monday, February 9

Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office announces corruption charges against Ecopetrol President Ricardo Roa

3:48 PM on Monday, February 9

A federal judge has blocked a California law from going into effect that would ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces, but they will still be required to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number

3:05 PM on Monday, February 9

Two people have been convicted of forgery and other crimes in an election petition scandal in Michigan

2:38 PM on Monday, February 9

2:34 PM on Monday, February 9

A day after the Seattle Seahawks became Super Bowl champions, speculation about the halftime music showdown is making news

2:05 PM on Monday, February 9

Ecologist Greta Wengert warns that illegal cannabis grows are polluting California's public lands

1:47 PM on Monday, February 9

The Winter Olympics have become a platform for political debate in the U.S. American athletes face questions about President Donald Trump's immigration policies

1:32 PM on Monday, February 9

Mexican authorities say that five of the 10 missing workers from a mine operated by a Canadian company in the northwestern state of Sinaloa have been identified among 10 bodies found in clandestine graves last week in a nearby community

10:26 AM on Monday, February 9

Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines of a fuel shortage for refueling on the island

7:55 AM on Monday, February 9

Federal authorities have denied trying to expedite an end to asylum claims for the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area

7:46 AM on Monday, February 9

Thailand’s political scene is shifting as the conservative Bhumjaithai Party wins a decisive election victory

7:35 AM on Monday, February 9

House lawmakers have tried to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating

7:21 AM on Monday, February 9

The U.S. military says it has boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean

2:49 AM on Monday, February 9

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament

1:36 AM on Monday, February 9

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to fight for his job as revelations about the relationship between the former U.K. ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein spiral into a full-blown crisis for his 19-month-old government

11:07 PM on Sunday, February 8

A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of glaciers and snow

2:01 PM on Sunday, February 8

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law