Politics & Government News

7:43 AM on Sunday, November 23

The killing of a Bedouin couple in Syria’s Homs province has triggered renewed sectarian tensions

5:53 AM on Sunday, November 23

Poorer nations at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have urged world leaders to address climate action and debt issues affecting the developing world

1:43 AM on Sunday, November 23

The McNeese Cowboys take on the George Washington Revolutionaries at John Gray Gymnasium in George Town, Cayman Islands

10:05 PM on Saturday, November 22

President Emmanuel Macron's promise to win over far-right voters in France is faltering

9:04 PM on Saturday, November 22

Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro is preparing to serve a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup

9:02 PM on Saturday, November 22

President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians

3:13 PM on Saturday, November 22

President Donald Trump’s chaotic political universe has at least one consistent law that rises above any other: The president has no permanent friends and no permanent enemies

2:36 PM on Saturday, November 22

As Chileans prepare to vote in a presidential runoff between a communist and a hard-right veteran politician, the man who has emerged as the election’s biggest power broker has refused to support either candidate

11:37 AM on Saturday, November 22

Brazilian police have arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro on suspicion of plotting to flee and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt

11:27 AM on Saturday, November 22

President Donald Trump says he's teaming up with legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to revamp the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews

9:56 AM on Saturday, November 22

U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan

8:54 AM on Saturday, November 22

A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity

8:48 AM on Saturday, November 22

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 31 Ukrainians jailed in Belarus on criminal offences, the latest step in Minsk’s effort to thaw relations with the West

2:26 AM on Saturday, November 22

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt

1:36 AM on Saturday, November 22

Ukraine’s Western allies have rallied around the country as they push to revise a U.S. peace plan seen as favoring Moscow

9:03 PM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump is resurfacing his argument that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn’t “have the cards” to continue on the battlefield

9:02 PM on Friday, November 21

The Justice Department is on the clock to release files relating to Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump signed a measure passed by Congress

7:13 PM on Friday, November 21

World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies have broken with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit in South Africa despite opposition from the United States

12:32 PM on Friday, November 21

The fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s transgressions spans oceans and continents, from the vulnerable girls he exploited to the elite people and institutions that chose to get involved, cover it up — or look away

11:07 AM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump’s decision to back down from some tariffs is being celebrated by tea importers, who say the levies have been devastating this year