Politics & Government News

1:24 PM on Monday, September 1

Trump says he's awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

10:49 AM on Monday, September 1

Former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis has been hospitalized after an attack at a rally ahead of next month's parliamentary elections

9:06 AM on Monday, September 1

Lebanon and Syria have agreed to form two committees to address the fate of the nearly 2,000 Syrian prisoners in Lebanese jails and to locate missing Lebanese nationals in Syria

6:37 AM on Monday, September 1

An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries

6:00 AM on Monday, September 1

Iraq's prime minister has presided over the reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in Mosul's Old City

5:00 AM on Monday, September 1

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed economist Minouche Shafik as his chief economic adviser

4:35 AM on Monday, September 1

An art history professor from North Carolina has developed a unique method for drawing portraits of U.S. presidents and first ladies

4:32 AM on Monday, September 1

Violent clashes that have swept across Indonesia and left at least seven people dead are being seen as a major test for President Prabowo Subianto

4:28 AM on Monday, September 1

An accident involving two armored vehicles in Haiti’s capital has left at least two people dead and eight police officers from Kenya injured

4:21 AM on Monday, September 1

Donald Trump has shifted his admiration from Andrew Jackson to William McKinley

3:27 AM on Monday, September 1

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation

3:21 AM on Monday, September 1

Russia is suspected of jamming the radar of EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, a European official says

3:02 AM on Monday, September 1

Australia has agreed to pay Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who cannot be held indefinitely in detention

2:22 AM on Monday, September 1

A new book on the UK royal family says Queen Camilla beat off an indecent attack when she was a teenager by taking off her shoe and bashing the assailant in the groin

2:16 AM on Monday, September 1

A decline in foreign visitors traveling to the United States has stretched well into the summer

1:59 AM on Monday, September 1

Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods

1:03 AM on Monday, September 1

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladmir Putin have met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China

11:03 PM on Sunday, August 31

For decades, Europe has relied upon the U.S. for its security among the stars

8:11 PM on Sunday, August 31

As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force

12:55 PM on Sunday, August 31

A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a weekend car crash in New Hampshire