Politics & Government News

11:28 AM on Sunday, December 21

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to build a new aircraft carrier

9:52 AM on Sunday, December 21

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea

9:15 AM on Sunday, December 21

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline

6:03 AM on Sunday, December 21

Dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians say there were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while stymying wind and solar

5:18 AM on Sunday, December 21

Turning Point USA has endorsed Vice President JD Vance as the Republican nominee for the next presidential election

4:59 AM on Sunday, December 21

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been drawn back into the foreign policy fold like he was during Trump's first term

2:52 AM on Sunday, December 21

Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

2:43 AM on Sunday, December 21

Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank

11:55 PM on Saturday, December 20

A Kremlin envoy says peace talks on a U_S_-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine are proceeding “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving “quickly.”

9:02 PM on Saturday, December 20

Turning Point USA's AmericaFest convention has been marked by internal feuds among conservative figures

9:00 PM on Saturday, December 20

Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government

4:35 PM on Saturday, December 20

Thousands of mourners have gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to mark a week since two gunmen targeted a Jewish festival, killing 15 people

2:47 PM on Saturday, December 20

President Donald Trump says he’s endorsing Nassau County’s Republican executive for governor in next fall’s New York race

2:08 PM on Saturday, December 20

1:24 PM on Saturday, December 20

At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation

11:54 AM on Saturday, December 20

The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released

11:07 AM on Saturday, December 20

U.S. forces have stopped a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters

12:03 AM on Saturday, December 20

A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa has killed eight people and wounded 27, according to Ukraine’s emergency service

9:01 PM on Friday, December 19

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya

8:03 AM on Friday, December 19