Politics & Government News

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Ms. Lauryn Hill and her Fugees’ bandmate Wyclef Jean are set to bring their pointed and political music to Global Citizen Festival this fall

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Abdul El-Sayed made history this month in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate

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Human Rights Watch says Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members from a local organization focused on women's and children's rights

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David Jolly, a former Republican now running for Florida governor as a Democrat, is trying to revive the state's political battleground status

3:32 AM on Thursday, August 13

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Kuril Islands for the first time, sparking a protest from Japan

12:11 AM on Thursday, August 13

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s fashion has evolved with her politics

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A special election is taking place Thursday in the seaside town of Clacton, just east of London

12:02 AM on Thursday, August 13

A federal judge in Miami has postponed a hearing on whether social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in custody

9:54 PM on Wednesday, August 12

U.S. immigration officials say they didn’t publicly disclose the death of a Guatemalan man who had a seizure at a New Jersey detention center because they weren’t notified that he died after they sent him to the hospital

9:44 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey on what was effectively a decoy plane, while President Donald Trump was secreted onto another plane following an Iranian threat

3:50 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A Houston-based law firm tapped to receive a $150 million federal contract to provide legal representation unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody has dropped out

2:56 PM on Wednesday, August 12

President Donald Trump was sued in federal court Wednesday to stop him from making money off a new, paid service at his Truth Social company offering early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. policy

6:11 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has died, according to state media

4:04 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness

9:02 PM on Tuesday, August 11

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a leadership vote among his party’s lawmakers less than three months before an election