Politics & Government News

2:43 AM on Monday, October 20

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has delivered a speech on the opening day of a major Communist Party meeting

2:05 AM on Monday, October 20

Three months ago, Rodrigo Paz was a little-known Bolivian opposition senator with a famous father and a mixed reputation as mayor

12:03 AM on Monday, October 20

A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments over whether President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, has been unlawfully serving as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey since earlier this year

11:45 PM on Sunday, October 19

Asian markets have surged after Wall Street finished a winning week, overcoming worries over bank lending and the trade war with China

11:21 PM on Sunday, October 19

Japan’s governing party leader Sanae Takaichi is on track to become the country’s first female prime minister

10:24 PM on Sunday, October 19

China has reported that its economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July-September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand

8:44 PM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump says the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers

8:34 PM on Sunday, October 19

Bolivian election authority says preliminary results show that centrist Rodrigo Paz has won presidential race

8:01 PM on Sunday, October 19

China has expanded its export rules on rare earths, requiring foreign firms to get approval for exporting products containing even small amounts of China-originated materials

2:02 PM on Sunday, October 19

Freed from the prison where he had been serving time for ripping off his campaign donors, former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he’s humbled by his experience behind bars

9:01 AM on Sunday, October 19

It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance

8:56 AM on Sunday, October 19

Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug leader’ and announces an end to US aid to the country (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Trump called Petro an 'illegal drug dealer')

8:05 AM on Sunday, October 19

Americans are increasingly worried about their ability to find a good job under President Donald Trump

7:32 AM on Sunday, October 19

State emergency management officials say they're facing funding challenges from the federal government that threaten the country's ability to respond to crises

5:45 AM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump has suggested that the Donbas region of Ukraine should be divided, leaving most of it under Russian control, to end the ongoing war

5:29 AM on Sunday, October 19

Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift have been buoyed after Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate

4:17 AM on Sunday, October 19

Kenyan former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been buried at his rural home amid political uncertainty over the future of opposition in a country that has previously been marred by post election violence and anti-government protests

1:34 AM on Sunday, October 19

Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will respect a ceasefire mediated by Qatar and Turkey

12:20 AM on Sunday, October 19

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party

11:01 PM on Saturday, October 18

One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as its top leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather to map the country’s goals for the next five years