Politics & Government News

2:13 PM on Thursday, July 16

Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has intensified

1:42 PM on Thursday, July 16

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Labor is trying to win over U.S. senators

1:22 PM on Thursday, July 16

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration addressed a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday

12:28 PM on Thursday, July 16

Serhii Koretskyi has been approved as Ukraine’s prime minister

11:40 AM on Thursday, July 16

11:02 AM on Thursday, July 16

The U.S. Treasury last year swelled with revenue from President Donald Trump’s double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country on earth

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The British government plans to tighten oversight of the MI5 spy agency after a report revealed it misled courts about a neo-Nazi informant

9:00 AM on Thursday, July 16

Ava DuVernay has announced a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and which has come under legal attack from President Donald Trump

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Syrian authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle weapons believed to be headed to Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to state media

5:33 AM on Thursday, July 16

A study shows major artificial intelligence models are likely to refuse to criticize restrictive leaders worldwide

3:23 AM on Thursday, July 16

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets across Ukraine to protest the dismissal of his youthful defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov

11:10 PM on Wednesday, July 15

President Donald Trump is making a primetime address to the nation that's expected to include discussion of election issues

11:04 PM on Wednesday, July 15

An activist's hunger strike has become a rallying point for India’s new Cockroach Janta Party, a youth-led movement that emerged in response to exam paper leaks and student suicides

11:03 PM on Wednesday, July 15

A federal panel has given preliminary approval to an updated design for a new underground facility to screen visitors to the White House

11:01 PM on Wednesday, July 15

The twice-yearly changing of the clocks could be a thing of the past if legislation currently in Congress that calls for permanent daylight time makes it through

8:57 PM on Wednesday, July 15

President Donald Trump has fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district