Politics & Government News

6:52 AM on Friday, January 30

President Donald Trump says he'll nominate former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh to be the next Fed chair

6:51 AM on Friday, January 30

Trump will nominate former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair

6:48 AM on Friday, January 30

Israel says it will reopen Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt in both directions over the weekend

5:46 AM on Friday, January 30

Ethiopia’s national carrier cancelled flights to and from its troubled northern region of Tigray as fears grew of a renewed fighting between federal troops and regional forces

4:38 AM on Friday, January 30

Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group in a Syrian camp are hoping for amnesty after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led forces guarding them

4:17 AM on Friday, January 30

Ukraine is waiting to see if Russia will pause attacks on its power grid

4:04 AM on Friday, January 30

Uganda’s army chief accused U.S. Embassy officials of helping opposition leader Bobi Wine as he went into hiding

2:54 AM on Friday, January 30

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived in the Chinese financial center of Shanghai in his bid to boost business opportunities for U.K. firms in the world’s second-largest economy, just hours after President Donald Trump signaled a possible opposition to any deal between Beijing and London

1:24 AM on Friday, January 30

A joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that cyanide, arsenic and copper repeatedly leaked from a facility run by the largest gold miner in Liberia in recent years

12:31 AM on Friday, January 30

Senate leaders were scrambling to save a bipartisan spending deal and avert a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday as Democrats have demanded new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country

12:09 AM on Friday, January 30

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign

Friday, January 30

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda

9:00 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his choice for Federal Reserve chairman on Friday morning

7:16 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that puts pressure on Mexico

6:55 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump is threatening Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America’s northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands

4:04 PM on Thursday, January 29

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has signed a law that will open the nation’s oil sector to privatization

11:37 AM on Thursday, January 29

Costa Ricans appear ready to vote to continue supporting the program of outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves in Sunday’s presidential election

12:34 AM on Thursday, January 29

Democrats and the White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement

12:08 AM on Thursday, January 29

Melania Trump is capping her first year after becoming first lady again with the global release of a documentary about the 20 days before she and President Donald Trump returned to the White House

11:29 AM on Monday, January 12