Politics & Government News

4:06 PM on Friday, November 28

Trump administration says it is halting all asylum decisions in wake of National Guard shooting

1:42 PM on Friday, November 28

1:34 PM on Friday, November 28

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison

1:25 PM on Friday, November 28

Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez after 2024 drug trafficking sentence

12:06 PM on Friday, November 28

West Virginia communities and officials are honoring two members of the state's National Guard who were shot in Washington, D.C., this week, lauding their dedication to serving their country

12:03 PM on Friday, November 28

Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi plans to visit the U.S. next week to sign a peace agreement with Rwandan President Paul Kagame

11:28 AM on Friday, November 28

President José Jerí of Peru has announced a state of emergency along the country's southern border

10:27 AM on Friday, November 28

Protesters in Tbilisi have marked a year of continuous demonstrations against Georgia's decision to halt EU membership talks

10:07 AM on Friday, November 28

The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP

7:48 AM on Friday, November 28

The Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable organization,” making all involvement with the group a criminal offense

7:17 AM on Friday, November 28

President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status

6:12 AM on Friday, November 28

St. Vincent and the Grenadines has welcomed a new prime minister for the first time in 24 years after Godwin Friday of the New Democratic Party beat Ralph Gonsalves of the Unity Labor Party

3:19 AM on Friday, November 28

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister after seizing power following disputed elections

12:50 AM on Friday, November 28

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country’s lead negotiator in talks with the U.S. The resignation on Friday came hours after Yermak’s residence was searched by anti-corruption investigators

11:38 PM on Thursday, November 27

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks at the Kremlin

10:07 PM on Thursday, November 27

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has arrived in Myanmar on a goodwill visit, becoming only the second foreign leader to visit the Southeast Asian country since it came under military rule in 2021

10:00 PM on Thursday, November 27

Honduras’ homicide and unemployment rates have both improved during the past four years under outgoing President Xiomara Castro

9:31 PM on Thursday, November 27

President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status

9:03 PM on Thursday, November 27

More Iranian women are choosing to forgo the country's mandatory hijab

10:51 AM on Thursday, November 27

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premier of Canada’s oil rich province of Alberta have agreed to work toward building a pipeline to the Pacific Coast to diversify the country’s oil exports beyond the United States, in a move that has caused turmoil in Carney’s inner circle