Politics & Government News

6:25 PM on Sunday, August 17

Early results show Bolivia’s presidential vote headed for first-ever runoff between centrist and right-wing candidates

10:32 AM on Sunday, August 17

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas

6:40 AM on Sunday, August 17

A U.S. official says Russian leader Vladimir Putin has agreed that the United States and European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war

6:27 AM on Sunday, August 17

Trump envoy: Putin agreed US, Europe could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO collective defense mandate

6:02 AM on Sunday, August 17

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities

5:17 AM on Sunday, August 17

American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’ shipbuilding expertise and capacity to help boost its own capabilities

4:37 AM on Sunday, August 17

The U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding

3:25 AM on Sunday, August 17

European and NATO leaders will join President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine

3:18 AM on Sunday, August 17

European leaders to join Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for White House meeting with President Trump

10:26 PM on Saturday, August 16

Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to treat its smaller neighbor as a sovereign nation

10:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Chilean actor Sebastián Solorza is already a household name for many Chileans

9:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party

9:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East

9:01 PM on Saturday, August 16

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine

9:00 PM on Saturday, August 16

Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel

5:33 PM on Saturday, August 16

South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city

4:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Evo Morales, Bolivia's former president, has expressed uncertainty about threats from right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they gain power

3:35 PM on Saturday, August 16

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska

11:02 AM on Saturday, August 16

Three Republican-led states are deploying hundreds of members of their National Guard to Washington to assist in the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department

5:29 AM on Saturday, August 16

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak