Politics & Government News

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China says it's suspending all contact with Czech President Petr Pavel

8:29 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Lithuania's government plans to open nine drone training centers to teach thousands of people, including schoolchildren, skills in flying and building drones

7:59 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Republican U.S. Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama has announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate

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Term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis picks Republican state Sen. Jay Collins to be Florida's lieutenant governor ahead of 2026

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President Javier Milei of Argentina is helping to launch a $1 million initiative to improve diplomatic relations between Israel and several Latin American countries

5:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

US inflation was unchanged last month, though core prices accelerated

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A peace deal that requires Kyiv to accept swapping Ukrainian territory with Russia would not only be deeply unpopular

4:13 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network

3:53 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Less than a week after President Donald Trump called for the resignation of Intel’s CEO, shares of the chipmaker are rising after Trump said he had a “very interesting” meeting with Lip-Bu Tan

3:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place

2:40 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

9:03 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention

5:17 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies