Politics & Government News

8:58 AM on Saturday, October 18

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party has announced plans to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term by two years

6:51 AM on Saturday, October 18

Jack Ciattarelli has been endorsed by Donald Trump in next month's New Jersey governor's election and is a strong supporter of the Republican president and his agenda

4:42 AM on Saturday, October 18

A Cameroonian-flagged ship has caught fire in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen

4:35 AM on Saturday, October 18

11:34 PM on Friday, October 17

Protests have erupted in Morocco, driven by young people demanding change

11:21 PM on Friday, October 17

Heavy security has been deployed to Kenya’s western city of Kisumu before the final public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga

9:28 PM on Friday, October 17

Kamala Harris sounds like a party elder and a future candidate at the same time

9:10 PM on Friday, October 17

Filipinos set foot on the North American continent for the first time over four centuries ago, and Filipino Americans are still on a quest to make a cultural footprint

9:08 PM on Friday, October 17

Black lawmakers and voting rights advocates are expressing concern about a potential decline in minority political representation following oral arguments in a Supreme Court case

9:01 PM on Friday, October 17

Britain believes its experience in Northern Ireland could help achieve a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip

7:01 PM on Friday, October 17

Col. Michael Randrianirina has been sworn in as president of Madagascar after a military coup

5:05 PM on Friday, October 17

The White House has joined Bluesky, the social media platform of choice of many in the left-leaning online world

4:19 PM on Friday, October 17

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos has been given clemency by President Donald Trump

3:21 PM on Friday, October 17

New Mexico has its first Republican contender for governor ahead of the 2026 elections, as the three-term city mayor of fast-growing Rio Rancho launched his campaign

1:03 PM on Friday, October 17

Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months

10:42 AM on Friday, October 17

Five remaining universities have been weighing an offer from President Donald Trump to sign a “compact” for higher education

4:54 AM on Friday, October 17

President Donald Trump says he has commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos

4:41 AM on Friday, October 17

China’s No. 2 general and eight other senior officials have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and the military on suspicion of serious official misconduct linked to corruption

9:03 PM on Thursday, October 16

President Donald Trump is calling on Kyiv and Moscow to “stop where they are” and end their brutal war

7:16 AM on Wednesday, October 15

A military coup this week in Madagascar forced the president into exile, joining a list of international leaders who fled their countries or went into hiding during uprisings to avoid incarceration or retaliation