Politics & Government News

2:33 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Reporters Without Borders says Burkina Faso's authorities secretly detained and abused a prominent journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift facility

12:58 AM on Wednesday, May 6

British voters are casting ballots in elections that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term

12:02 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts

11:44 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Police say number of Australian women with alleged ties to Islamic State group militants face charges if they return from Syria

11:29 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has appointed a new attorney general to the national prosecutor’s office, putting an end to a fierce, years-long struggle between the anti-corruption progressive and former top prosecutor Consuelo Porras

9:13 PM on Tuesday, May 5

8:52 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Antigua and Barbuda swore in a new Cabinet on Tuesday after Prime Minister Gaston Browne's party won a fourth consecutive election

8:19 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Costa Rica’s outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves will remain a top official in his successor’s government, granting the outgoing populist immunity in the face of his legal troubles

7:20 PM on Tuesday, May 5

White House officials are renewing calls on China to use its influence with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz

6:56 PM on Tuesday, May 5

A federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, claiming that the new organization passed over a white male employee for a promotion in favor of a lesser qualified woman to meet its diversity goals

6:52 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Seven candidates who want to be California's next governor have engaged in sharp attacks on each other on issues from gas prices to taxes to immigration

2:09 PM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump is renewing his criticism of Pope Leo XIV

12:42 PM on Tuesday, May 5

The primary election in Ohio has set up what is expected to be one of the most expensive races for U.S. Senate this year as Republicans try to hold on to the chamber, while biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy will face a challenge from the state’s former health director as he seeks to keep the governor’s office in GOP hands

6:45 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Romania’s pro-European coalition has collapsed after lawmakers voted in favor of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan

6:10 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump says he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, but that the American forces’ blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place

12:12 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump is having some success in his latest attempt to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way

12:06 AM on Tuesday, May 5

A majority of Republican Indiana state senators whose opponents were endorsed by President Donald Trump have lost

12:03 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Democrat Chedrick Greene has won a special election in Michigan, securing the party’s control of the state Senate through the remainder of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s term

12:01 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Ohio's primary election set up two marquee matchups in November

11:54 PM on Monday, May 4

Indigenous people are gathering to honor loved ones who have gone missing or been killed