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

7:29 AM on Monday, August 11

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives has passed transportation funding legislation in a last-ditch effort to stave off deep service cuts at the Philadelphia region’s public transit agency

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