Politics & Government News

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Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors

5:52 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A federal judge has agreed to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who can receive a mail ballot

5:49 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Civil rights groups and researchers pleaded at a public hearing Tuesday for a federal agency to continue its annual collection of workplace demographic data

1:46 PM on Tuesday, August 11

While issuing an executive order urging states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well as their relationship to autism

12:50 PM on Tuesday, August 11

California cities and counties are struggling to meet state housing targets

12:44 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education

12:18 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Turkey's parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants, aiming to advance peace efforts with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK

10:59 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Russia has released an American military veteran, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death

9:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities

8:33 AM on Tuesday, August 11

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Iran is rejecting comments by President Donald Trump, who said that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same

8:00 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has selected a Republican-turned-independent as her running mate in a tough reelection campaign

7:13 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead

4:58 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of defying U.S. presidents

4:03 AM on Tuesday, August 11

U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year that he had “no cards" in the fight against Russia

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is running in a special election where his main opponent is a man dressed as a garbage can

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 11

President Donald Trump likes to say he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions

10:40 PM on Monday, August 10

The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat

2:44 PM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots