Politics & Government News

7:55 AM on Thursday, August 14

Justice Department charges 5 cartels leaders and enforcers in latest move against major Mexican drug operations

6:40 AM on Thursday, August 14

The European Union is urging China to revoke sanctions on two Lithuanian banks

6:15 AM on Thursday, August 14

5:52 AM on Thursday, August 14

South Africans is starting a “national dialogue” hat is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country's pressing issues and find solutions

5:32 AM on Thursday, August 14

US producer prices surged last month, rising 0.9% from June and 3.3% from a year ago as Trump’s tariff push costs higher

5:31 AM on Thursday, August 14

3:02 AM on Thursday, August 14

New York’s legal marijuana agency allowed dozens of cannabis dispensaries to open too close to schools after regulators misread state law and are now pushing for a legislative fix to prevent the pot shops from having to relocate

3:00 AM on Thursday, August 14

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region

10:00 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Former Bolivian president Evo Morales has launched a campaign for a contender called “Nulo,” representing a null-and-void vote

9:54 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A group of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots is working together to restore cemeteries on both sides of divided Cyprus

9:05 PM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump’s meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin could be a decisive moment in the war in Ukraine and in the U.S. leader’s anomalous relationship with his Russian counterpart

6:27 PM on Wednesday, August 13

First lady Melania Trump is demanding that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

3:21 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed South Korean claims that North Korea is removing loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border

12:06 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The Brazilian government has unveiled a plan to support local exporters affected by U.S. tariffs

11:05 AM on Wednesday, August 13

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5:16 AM on Wednesday, August 13

U.S. President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to stop his war in Ukraine after their Friday summit in Alaska

1:41 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Clashes have erupted for a second day at protests in Serbia between opponents and supporters of the government

10:01 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Officials say new sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Juneau, Alaska’s capital, have held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage after an ice dam at the nearby Mendenhall Glacier released a massive amount of rainwater and snowmelt downstream

9:07 PM on Tuesday, August 12

President Donald Trump has been using diplomatic appointments as a soft landing for officials leaving his administration

11:06 AM on Monday, August 11

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering