Politics & Government News

4:05 PM on Sunday, December 14

Exposure to freezing temperatures near Morocco's border with Algeria has killed nine African migrants

3:53 PM on Sunday, December 14

A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump’s choice for Federal Reserve chair says he would present the president’s views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates

2:15 PM on Sunday, December 14

A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path

12:15 PM on Sunday, December 14

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Sydney beach that killed at least 11 people an act of antisemitism and terrorism

11:59 AM on Sunday, December 14

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Australia's leader, linking calls for a Palestinian state to rising antisemitism

10:53 AM on Sunday, December 14

Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ratified the final results of last month’s parliamentary elections

8:10 AM on Sunday, December 14

State officials engaged in unusual mid-decade redistricting are pushing a new definition of what it means to have “fair maps” for Congress

7:28 AM on Sunday, December 14

Myanmar has called on foreign governments to take back their nationals who have been detained in a crackdown on scam hubs in eastern Kayin, state near the Thai border

7:24 AM on Sunday, December 14

Egypt has unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Luxor

6:01 AM on Sunday, December 14

Polls open in Chile’s high-stakes presidential runoff pitting a communist against an arch-conservative

4:57 AM on Sunday, December 14

Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party has voted to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism

4:38 AM on Sunday, December 14

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees

4:10 AM on Sunday, December 14

Thailand's government reports a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager

12:17 AM on Sunday, December 14

In the past year, tens of thousands hostile to immigrants marched through London chanting “send them home!”

10:05 PM on Saturday, December 13

The Mapuches have endured centuries of battle

6:26 PM on Saturday, December 13

At least two people have been killed and eight critically wounded in a shooting at Brown University

4:01 PM on Saturday, December 13

A climate of fear has gripped Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo, after it fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 group

10:06 AM on Saturday, December 13

President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group

6:46 AM on Saturday, December 13

Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison

2:57 AM on Saturday, December 13

Moscow pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure with drone and missile strikes and Kyiv launched a deadly strike of its own on southwestern Russia, a day before talks involving senior European and U.S. officials aimed at ending the war were set to resume