Politics & Government News

8:32 AM on Thursday, August 13

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Ms. Lauryn Hill and her Fugees’ bandmate Wyclef Jean are set to bring their pointed and political music to Global Citizen Festival this fall

8:00 AM on Thursday, August 13

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Abdul El-Sayed made history this month in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate

7:03 AM on Thursday, August 13

7:03 AM on Thursday, August 13

Human Rights Watch says Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members from a local organization focused on women's and children's rights

6:40 AM on Thursday, August 13

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s fashion has evolved with her politics

12:04 AM on Thursday, August 13

A special election is taking place Thursday in the seaside town of Clacton, just east of London

12:02 AM on Thursday, August 13

A federal judge in Miami has postponed a hearing on whether social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in custody

9:54 PM on Wednesday, August 12

U.S. immigration officials say they didn’t publicly disclose the death of a Guatemalan man who had a seizure at a New Jersey detention center because they weren’t notified that he died after they sent him to the hospital

9:44 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey on what was effectively a decoy plane, while President Donald Trump was secreted onto another plane following an Iranian threat

4:32 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel

3:50 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A Houston-based law firm tapped to receive a $150 million federal contract to provide legal representation unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody has dropped out

2:56 PM on Wednesday, August 12

President Donald Trump was sued in federal court Wednesday to stop him from making money off a new, paid service at his Truth Social company offering early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. policy

12:34 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter hit the “intended target” during an event attended by thousands of people last year in Utah

6:11 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has died, according to state media

4:04 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness

9:02 PM on Tuesday, August 11

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a leadership vote among his party’s lawmakers less than three months before an election

11:14 AM on Tuesday, July 28