Politics & Government News

4:05 PM on Friday, June 19

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana are urging former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations for the trafficking of enslaved Africans

3:45 PM on Friday, June 19

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has decided to strip Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland's highest state distinction

3:10 PM on Friday, June 19

3:09 PM on Friday, June 19

A federal judge has rejected former President Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter

1:33 PM on Friday, June 19

A monitoring group says a boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for European shores capsized off the coast of Libya last week, leaving 51 people dead or missing

1:19 PM on Friday, June 19

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors to walk through the doors of Obama’s new presidential center, personally greeting them

12:33 PM on Friday, June 19

Several opposition members have been arrested in Armenia as a top pro-Russia party has asked the top court to annul the election win by the ruling party led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

9:11 AM on Friday, June 19

The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans seems to be nearing a breaking point

8:23 AM on Friday, June 19

A disagreement has erupted within the European Union over opening communication lines with Moscow about Russia’s war in Ukraine

8:07 AM on Friday, June 19

Italy's government has closed ranks to slam U.S. President Donald Trump over his claim that Premier Giorgia Meloni had “begged” for a photo with him during the recent G7 summit

7:26 AM on Friday, June 19

Democrats and Republicans in some states are already looking at how they could reshape congressional voting districts to gain an advantage in the 2028 elections

7:11 AM on Friday, June 19

Andy Burnham’s victory in a special U.K. election Friday could lead to the end of Keir Starmer’s premiership

6:46 AM on Friday, June 19

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has criticized NATO allies and announced a Pentagon review of their performance

5:19 AM on Friday, June 19

A Vietnamese national deported to South Sudan by the Trump administration under its controversial third-country deportation program was repatriated to Vietnam on Friday after spending more than a year in detention

5:02 AM on Friday, June 19

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Trump’s approval on Iran remained low, at 34%, even as a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart negotiations materialized

4:25 AM on Friday, June 19

Andy Burnham is a political insider turned outsider aiming to be Britain’s next prime minister

3:10 AM on Friday, June 19

As people gathered to celebrate Juneteenth at events across the U.S., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential center

12:04 AM on Friday, June 19

The American push for high-stakes talks with Iran has hit a snag

10:15 PM on Thursday, June 18

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will fight attempts by rival Andy Burnham to oust him from office

3:01 PM on Thursday, June 18