Politics & Government News

12:16 PM on Monday, August 11

DC Mayor Bowser calls Trump's police takeover 'unsettling and unprecedented' but says city isn't 'totally surprised'

11:56 AM on Monday, August 11

Maine can’t enforce a voter-approved foreign election interference law that a federal appeals court says likely violates the Constitution by limiting political donations

11:11 AM on Monday, August 11

10:58 AM on Monday, August 11

A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina has resigned from the House while awaiting trial on charges of distributing child sexual abuse material

8:14 AM on Monday, August 11

A Food and Drug Administration official who stepped down less than two weeks ago is getting his job back as the agency’s top vaccine regulator

7:53 AM on Monday, August 11

Migrants in Greece with rejected asylum claims will soon be required to wear ankle monitors to speed up deportations

7:42 AM on Monday, August 11

Trump says he's placing Washington, DC, police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard

7:15 AM on Monday, August 11

Germany's chancellor invites Trump, Zelenskyy, NATO, EU leaders to a virtual meeting ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

6:52 AM on Monday, August 11

Much of what ails Bolivia right now seems to converge in a shrunken piece of subsidized bread that La Paz residents call “pan de batalla” or “battle bread.”

6:35 AM on Monday, August 11

Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, President Donald Trump confirmed at a press conference on Monday

5:31 AM on Monday, August 11

4:55 AM on Monday, August 11

Ukraine and its European backers are seeking talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in an effort to protect their security interests ahead of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week

4:43 AM on Monday, August 11

As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office

4:15 AM on Monday, August 11

Included in the Republican Party’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is funding to power President Donald Trump's deportation agenda

3:58 AM on Monday, August 11

A U.S. Congressman has made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country’s interim president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was taken hostage and later confirmed dead in the war-torn country

3:22 AM on Monday, August 11

South Korea’s president will pardon jailed former justice minister and liberal ally Cho Kuk this week, officials said Monday, cutting short his two-year sentence for falsifying academic records to help his children enter prestigious schools

2:55 AM on Monday, August 11

Iran has announced that upcoming talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency will be "technical" and "complicated."

1:46 AM on Monday, August 11

India’s opposition parties have held a protest calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in one of the country’s poorest states, where key elections are scheduled in November

9:15 PM on Sunday, August 10

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has met Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to strengthen economic ties

8:23 PM on Sunday, August 10

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will recognize a Palestinian state