Politics & Government News

2:35 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage

2:22 PM on Friday, September 5

Trump says US will host next year's Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Miami

2:15 PM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will not end his reelection campaign

2:13 PM on Friday, September 5

Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

1:22 PM on Friday, September 5

European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions

1:12 PM on Friday, September 5

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

12:51 PM on Friday, September 5

Judge blocks Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians

12:26 PM on Friday, September 5

Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve

11:22 AM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

11:09 AM on Friday, September 5

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

10:13 AM on Friday, September 5

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, who has poured some of the South American country’s new oil wealth into popular social programs, is poised to serve a second term after this week's election, according to preliminary results Friday

9:38 AM on Friday, September 5

Belarus has detained a Polish monk on suspicion of espionage, the latest escalation in Minsk's long-running standoff with its NATO member neighbor

9:23 AM on Friday, September 5

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the state’s attorney general

8:31 AM on Friday, September 5

Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers are appealing to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children

8:19 AM on Friday, September 5

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services

6:43 AM on Friday, September 5

Lebanon’s Cabinet has met to discuss a plan by the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah and consolidate weapons under state control

4:15 AM on Friday, September 5

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has shaken up his Cabinet after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned over a tax error

12:30 AM on Friday, September 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, particularly while its invasion is still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow's forces

9:11 PM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. winemakers have something to celebrate: the corks they’re popping aren’t subject to tariffs

9:04 PM on Thursday, September 4

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing