Politics & Government News

7:52 AM on Saturday, August 15

President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk

4:10 AM on Saturday, August 15

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India’s decades-long Maoist insurgency is nearing its end but warns the country now faces a new battle against people who align with the movement’s ideology

1:47 AM on Saturday, August 15

Myanmar’s military-backed government says it has verified that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of western Rakhine state

Saturday, August 15

A dayslong standoff in the occupied West Bank points to Israel's reluctance to rein in settler violence against Palestinians

8:55 PM on Friday, August 14

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel

6:34 PM on Friday, August 14

A civil rights agency accused of halting a sexual harassment case filed on behalf of female prison guards is now blaming an administrative judge for doing so in error

5:35 PM on Friday, August 14

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent

5:09 PM on Friday, August 14

The homicide rate in the United States dropped to the lowest it’s been in 75 years

4:25 PM on Friday, August 14

A federal appeals court says President Donald Trump’s goal of ending gender-affirming care is not improper and cannot be the basis for quashing a subpoena

2:59 PM on Friday, August 14

Lawmakers have killed a plan that could have allowed grizzly bears to one day return to California

2:34 PM on Friday, August 14

President Donald Trump is downplaying concerns about the USS Abraham Lincoln's extended deployment in the Middle East

2:12 PM on Friday, August 14

A New Mexico jury has found a former high-ranking Democratic legislator guilty of numerous federal charges stemming from a corruption investigation

12:46 PM on Friday, August 14

A Massachusetts mayor has been arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining pandemic loans

12:15 PM on Friday, August 14

Colombia is grappling with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed at least 287 people and affected more than 100,000

9:54 AM on Friday, August 14

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work

9:33 AM on Friday, August 14

The wife of a U.S. soldier has been released from federal immigration custody after spending more than a month detained, according to her family

8:38 AM on Friday, August 14

7:56 AM on Friday, August 14

Vote counting in Zambia’s presidential election was suspended and then restarted under heightened security over reports of violence against election officials and the theft of ballot boxes

5:00 AM on Friday, August 14

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are marking five years since regaining power

2:17 PM on Thursday, August 13

The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln