Politics & Government News

2:00 AM on Friday, January 23

Friday, January 23

Vietnam's leader To Lam is re-elected as Communist Party general secretary

11:28 PM on Thursday, January 22

The European Union is ready to implement a free trade agreement with the Mercosur group of South American countries on a provisional basis

8:10 PM on Thursday, January 22

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolves lower house of Parliament, paving the way for Feb. 8 snap election

8:02 PM on Thursday, January 22

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of parliament to pave the way for an early election on Feb. 8

6:11 PM on Thursday, January 22

Federal prosecutors say a Pentagon contractor has been indicted on charges that he illegally handled classified national defense information that he took home from work and later gave to a news reporter

5:38 PM on Thursday, January 22

A federal judge ruled that the academics, who are party to a lawsuit alleging U.S. policy singles out noncitizens for detention or deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses, can seek relief from the court if their immigration status is changed as retribution for taking part in the case

4:01 PM on Thursday, January 22

The Supreme Court for the past year has repeatedly allowed President Donald Trump to fire heads of independent agencies, but it appears to be drawing a line with the Federal Reserve

3:51 PM on Thursday, January 22

A Texas border sheriff who is the brother of Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has been indicted on charges of misusing public equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic

12:40 PM on Thursday, January 22

Venezuela’s legislature is debating a major overhaul of its oil sector, the first since Hugo Chávez's era

10:41 AM on Thursday, January 22

Maine Gov. Janet Mills challenged federal immigration officials to provide arrest warrants, real-time numbers and information about detainees amid a sweeping enforcement operation, saying the state has been left in the dark as fear spreads in immigrant communities

7:28 AM on Thursday, January 22

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is canceling solar projects in Puerto Rico worth millions of dollars as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid

6:57 AM on Thursday, January 22

Federal agents have taken a 5-year-old boy and his father from Minnesota to a detention facility in Texas

6:54 AM on Thursday, January 22

Desperate Palestinians at a garbage dump in a Gaza neighborhood are digging with their bare hands for plastic items to burn to keep warm in the cold and damp winter in the enclave, battered by two years of the Israel-Hamas war

6:41 AM on Thursday, January 22

Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested

5:34 AM on Thursday, January 22

Vice President JD Vance says the Insurrection Act won’t be needed “right now” in Minneapolis after meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city, which has emerged as a national focal point in the clash over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

3:33 AM on Thursday, January 22

European Union leaders have welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to drop his tariff threats over Greenland, but they are wary about his Board of Peace project

3:25 AM on Thursday, January 22

Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has defended his investigations of Donald Trump at a public congressional hearing

10:19 PM on Wednesday, January 21

Campaigning has begun for Bangladesh’s elections next month

9:10 PM on Wednesday, January 21

President Donald Trump launched his Board of Peace on Thursday to lead efforts to maintain a ceasefire in Gaza