Politics & Government News

2:03 AM on Monday, November 3

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in after a disputed election sparked deadly protests

1:43 AM on Monday, November 3

The George Washington Revolutionaries host the Maine Black Bears in the season opener

1:04 AM on Monday, November 3

Carlos Mazón, the leader of Spain's Valencia region, has announced his resignation over his government's handling of last year's devastating flash floods

11:33 PM on Sunday, November 2

A Hong Kong court has rejected an attempt by former Tiananmen vigil organizer Chow Hang-tung to quash her indictment

9:50 PM on Sunday, November 2

The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday amid concerns about his personal conduct

9:09 PM on Sunday, November 2

The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month

9:09 PM on Sunday, November 2

President Donald Trump’s administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will comply with court orders that it continue to fund the nation’s biggest food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown

9:05 PM on Sunday, November 2

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House

9:02 PM on Sunday, November 2

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool

8:57 PM on Sunday, November 2

Abu Dhabi has opened a major oil summit with optimism about rising energy prices

8:57 PM on Sunday, November 2

Hearings are set in two states over the deployment of the National Guard as part of President Donald Trump's crime-fighting efforts

8:35 PM on Sunday, November 2

A federal judge in Oregon has once again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday

1:54 PM on Sunday, November 2

Authorities have reported that a mayor in Mexico’s Michoacan state was shot and killed during Day of the Dead festivities

12:19 PM on Sunday, November 2

President Donald Trump says he “won’t be extorted” by Democrats to reopen the government, making clear that he has no plans to negotiate as the government shutdown will soon enter its sixth week

8:35 AM on Sunday, November 2

The death toll from a deadly landslide in western Kenya has risen to 26 after four more bodies were retrieved

7:46 AM on Sunday, November 2

A Nigerian government official says the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally carry out any military operation in Nigeria over its claims of Christian persecution in the West African country

4:39 AM on Sunday, November 2

For President Donald Trump, tariffs — or the threat of them — can bend nations to his will

4:08 AM on Sunday, November 2

North Macedonia's ruling conservatives cemented victory in a local election runoff on Sunday, winning just over two-thirds of the mayoral contests in both rounds, leaving opposition Social Democrats far behind and dashing their hopes of an early general election

10:08 AM on Saturday, November 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria

7:04 PM on Wednesday, October 15