Politics & Government News

6:30 AM on Thursday, July 9

Democratic socialists have recently won elections in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Denver

5:32 AM on Thursday, July 9

New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of Congo, according to the government

5:20 AM on Thursday, July 9

China has launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific, drawing international criticism from many countries in the region

5:11 AM on Thursday, July 9

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Jewish adults in the U.S. don’t feel well represented by political leaders at a troubling moment for many in their community

3:06 AM on Thursday, July 9

Nominations are opening in a Labour Party election to replace Keir Starmer as Britain's prime minister

3:05 AM on Thursday, July 9

Australia has agreed to sell uranium to India for peaceful purposes

2:51 AM on Thursday, July 9

The funeral for Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was designed to showcase unity in a country that is bitterly split over his decades-long rule

1:40 AM on Thursday, July 9

Authorities in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are using loudspeakers and a network of volunteers and community leaders to relocate people from risky areas to safety

12:15 AM on Thursday, July 9

Cuban doctors are working in hospitals in Italy's Calabria region under a long-running program despite U.S. efforts to end it

12:06 AM on Thursday, July 9

President Donald Trump's plan to build a triumphal arch that would alter the Washington, D.C., skyline is getting another review from the federal agency whose approval he needs to build it

12:02 AM on Thursday, July 9

Utah prosecutors plan to play audio clips in open court of law enforcement officials interviewing the roommate of the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk

12:01 AM on Thursday, July 9

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is closing Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary by arguing she is the party’s strongest candidate to beat Republicans

8:23 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after a woman who dated him said he drunkenly forced her to have sex despite her telling him to stop

5:39 PM on Wednesday, July 8

President Donald Trump says he believes the ceasefire with Iran is over

4:17 PM on Wednesday, July 8

President Donald Trump has flown partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of making the full trip aboard the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted jet he arrived in

1:30 PM on Wednesday, July 8

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1:23 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed

1:16 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The Maine Democratic Party has voted to hold a convention now that Graham Platner has announced he'll drop out of the U.S. Senate race

12:01 AM on Wednesday, July 8

Prosecutors in Utah played a video clip that provided a rare glimpse of Tyler Robinson after the defendant in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk first turned himself in

12:01 PM on Monday, June 22