Politics & Government News

6:56 AM on Monday, July 6

Nigel Farage is facing mounting scrutiny over undeclared financial gifts including a 5 million pound donation from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire

5:55 AM on Monday, July 6

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is doing all he can to get his 26-year-old son-in-law elected to his old congressional district in the vast north woods of Wisconsin

12:16 AM on Monday, July 6

A French appeals court may prevent Marine Le Pen from running for president again

11:57 PM on Sunday, July 5

Australia and Fiji have signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win within a year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific

11:14 PM on Sunday, July 5

The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become the nation’s largest hub of deportation flights

11:09 PM on Sunday, July 5

President Donald Trump will be heading to Ankara, Turkey, for the annual NATO summit

7:33 PM on Sunday, July 5

Canada is expected Monday to choose between German and South Korean bids to build a multibillion-dollar fleet of 12 submarines

7:10 PM on Sunday, July 5

The Philippine Senate has started the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte in a politically volatile event that will unfold against the backdrop of her feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thousands of police officers were deployed to secure the Senate on Monday

6:59 PM on Sunday, July 5

President Donald Trump has posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama boarding Air Force One covered with graffiti

2:59 PM on Sunday, July 5

Tennessee National Guard members assigned by the Trump administration to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man who authorities say turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downtown pursuit

1:40 PM on Sunday, July 5

President Donald Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa while attending the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey

1:03 PM on Sunday, July 5

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow has suspended her campaign for the U.S. Senate

12:49 PM on Sunday, July 5

A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted

11:31 AM on Sunday, July 5

French President Emmanuel Macron plans to visit Syria soon, according to Syrian state media

10:35 AM on Sunday, July 5

The Trump administration won't seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

7:01 AM on Sunday, July 5

Pope Leo XIV is going on summer vacation after a whirlwind finale to the first half of 2026

1:10 AM on Sunday, July 5

Paris' appeals court is set to rule Tuesday on Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement case

12:07 AM on Sunday, July 5

Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep the United States anchored to the world’s biggest military alliance

11:03 PM on Saturday, July 4

Prosecutors will present their case this week against the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk

10:47 PM on Saturday, July 4

Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling confidence in their safety as Iran pushes back on U.S. demands in negotiations to permanently end the war