Politics & Government News

4:29 PM on Sunday, May 10

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has arrived in the Netherlands to defend her country’s claim to a mineral- and oil-rich region in western Guyana before the United Nations highest court in a dispute that has spanned decades

3:39 PM on Sunday, May 10

Community and human rights groups say between 800 and 1,000 families have been forced to flee their homes in the mountains of central Mexico as a criminal mafia attacks them with handmade explosive launched from drones and powerful weapons

3:22 PM on Sunday, May 10

French President Emmanuel Macron has kicked off a visit to Kenya ahead of a two-day Africa Forward Summit

2:35 PM on Sunday, May 10

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11:22 AM on Sunday, May 10

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his job after poor local election results for his Labour Party

11:03 AM on Sunday, May 10

Venezuela says an oil spill that originated in Trinidad and Tobago has caused serious environmental damage along the coastlines of at least two of its states and in a gulf area near the Caribbean nation

7:09 AM on Sunday, May 10

A referendum on Oregon's primary ballot seeking to repeal a Democratic gas tax increase is complicating the affordability message central to the party's midterm election strategy

1:08 AM on Sunday, May 10

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands

5:24 PM on Saturday, May 9

Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has reshuffled several top government posts and removed his brother from a key position

1:22 PM on Saturday, May 9

Rebels in Congo say the United States has fallen short as a mediator in efforts to end the conflict in the African country’s mineral-rich east

8:13 AM on Saturday, May 9

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings

8:06 AM on Saturday, May 9

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans

7:26 AM on Saturday, May 9

A new congressional map in Tennessee splits the majority-Black city of Memphis into three districts

6:37 AM on Saturday, May 9

President Donald Trump is making significant changes to the nation's capital as he focuses on renovations and new projects

5:57 AM on Saturday, May 9

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pledging to revive his struggling government amid calls to resign after disastrous local elections for his Labour Party

3:42 AM on Saturday, May 9

Hungary's Péter Magyar has taken his oath of office to become the country's new prime minister, ending Viktor Orbán’s autocratic 16-year rule

11:51 PM on Friday, May 8

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed confidence in a victory in Ukraine during a military parade in Moscow marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II

11:01 PM on Friday, May 8

As Donald Trump's meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping approaches, the family of Hong Kong's jailed activist Jimmy Lai is hopeful that the U.S. President could help free their father

11:01 PM on Friday, May 8

The congressional map appears to be tilting more red amid the latest flurry of redistricting developments across the U.S. Virginia's supreme court this week rejected a new districting plan on procedural grounds

1:26 PM on Friday, May 8

President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners