Politics & Government News

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

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

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

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

2:00 AM on Friday, June 19

Democrat Hannah Pingree and Republican Bobby Charles will compete to become Maine’s next governor

12:13 AM on Friday, June 19

Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the incitement conviction of prominent opposition politician Rong Chhun but suspended the remainder of his prison sentence, allowing him to remain free while barring him from politics for years

11:49 PM on Thursday, June 18

About a hundred Colombian guerrilla dissidents have surrendered their weapons as part of a peace process with President Gustavo Petro's government

7:36 PM on Thursday, June 18

Democratic candidates in California have secured the two slots in a special general election to serve out the remainder of former U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term

3:01 PM on Thursday, June 18

11:50 AM on Thursday, June 18

A California labor union has offered to scale back a proposal to temporarily increase taxes on billionaires, but it wasn’t enough to get the governor on board

11:34 AM on Thursday, June 18

The White House says Vice President JD Vance is delaying his trip to Switzerland to lead nuclear negotiations with Iran

9:06 AM on Thursday, June 18

7:37 AM on Thursday, June 18

President Vladimir Putin is hailing Russia’s ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as he hosts a summit intended to strengthen economic and political ties with the bloc

2:55 AM on Thursday, June 18

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe

12:07 AM on Thursday, June 18

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is testing the limits of his newfound political muscle in a bid to reshape the Democratic Party, even if it means challenging his own party’s leadership