Politics & Government News

9:50 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi is in critical condition in an Iranian hospital

8:15 AM on Wednesday, May 6

8:00 AM on Wednesday, May 6

6:44 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica during his visit to Spain next month

6:19 AM on Wednesday, May 6

China’s diplomatic role in the Iran war has come into sharper focus after talks between Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers on Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping

4:52 AM on Wednesday, May 6

An Iranian man who murdered his wife has lost his landmark court bid to prevent Australia from sending him to live on a tiny Pacific island

1:33 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Reporters Without Borders says Burkina Faso's authorities secretly detained and abused a prominent journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift facility

10:44 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Police say a number of Australian women with alleged ties to Islamic State group militants face charges if they return from Syria

10:29 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has appointed a new attorney general to the national prosecutor’s office, putting an end to a fierce, years-long struggle between the anti-corruption progressive and former top prosecutor Consuelo Porras

8:13 PM on Tuesday, May 5

7:52 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Antigua and Barbuda swore in a new Cabinet on Tuesday after Prime Minister Gaston Browne's party won a fourth consecutive election

7:19 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Costa Rica’s outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves will remain a top official in his successor’s government, granting the outgoing populist immunity in the face of his legal troubles

6:20 PM on Tuesday, May 5

White House officials are renewing calls on China to use its influence with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz

5:52 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Seven candidates who want to be California's next governor have engaged in sharp attacks on each other on issues from gas prices to taxes to immigration

1:09 PM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump is renewing his criticism of Pope Leo XIV

11:42 AM on Tuesday, May 5

The primary election in Ohio has set up what is expected to be one of the most expensive races for U.S. Senate this year as Republicans try to hold on to the chamber, while biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy will face a challenge from the state’s former health director as he seeks to keep the governor’s office in GOP hands

5:45 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Romania’s pro-European coalition has collapsed after lawmakers voted in favor of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan

5:10 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump says he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, but that the American forces’ blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place

11:12 PM on Monday, May 4

President Donald Trump is having some success in his latest attempt to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way

11:06 PM on Monday, May 4

A majority of Republican Indiana state senators whose opponents were endorsed by President Donald Trump have lost