Politics & Government News

8:04 PM on Saturday, June 13

Mexican authorities are investigating the homicide of a mayor in San Miguel Amatitlan, Oaxaca

5:28 PM on Saturday, June 13

The Trump administration killed Venezuelan gang leader El Niño Guerrero during an airstrike conducted by the U.S. military in southeastern Venezuela

3:57 PM on Saturday, June 13

President Donald Trump says he will appoint one of his personal lawyers to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, filling a pending vacancy after Trump tapped the man currently in the job to be director of national intelligence

3:27 PM on Saturday, June 13

Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ supporters march in Romania and Bulgaria for annual pride parades

2:02 PM on Saturday, June 13

Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome in rival demonstrations over migration

12:36 PM on Saturday, June 13

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron will meet over dinner at the Palace of Versailles after the upcoming G7 summit of leading industrialized nations in France

12:09 PM on Saturday, June 13

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney continued his efforts to align with Europe and pivot away from its longstanding ally, the United States, meeting with leader of Ireland and saying middle power countries shouldn’t compete for favor with America

10:15 AM on Saturday, June 13

Donald Trump is making a splash by hosting a UFC event at the White House, marking his 80th birthday and the nation's 250th anniversary

10:08 AM on Saturday, June 13

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order that sought to eliminate “inappropriate content” at national museums, parks and landmarks

8:13 AM on Saturday, June 13

Momentum for a deal to end the Iran war is growing

7:39 AM on Saturday, June 13

The decision by Senate Democrats to let a key surveillance authority lapse comes as they're increasingly emboldened in their legislative fights against President Donald Trump

7:07 AM on Saturday, June 13

Hundreds of members of Nepal's LGBTQ+ community and their supporters have taken to the streets of Kathmandu to celebrate Pride Month

3:02 AM on Saturday, June 13

When U.S. President Gerald Ford and leaders of the five other leading democracies gathered at a 14th-century castle outside Paris on Nov. 15, 1975, they planted the seed for what subsequently became the Group of Seven nations

2:08 AM on Saturday, June 13

The letters spelling out President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of Kennedy Center are now gone

1:11 AM on Saturday, June 13

A confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says that the international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border

12:16 AM on Saturday, June 13

In 1976, as the United States prepared to celebrate its 200th anniversary, the mood was ambivalent

9:20 PM on Friday, June 12

President Donald Trump says a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang

7:09 PM on Friday, June 12

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward

1:16 PM on Friday, June 12

The Kennedy Center is running out of options to keep President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the iconic performing arts venue

11:35 AM on Friday, June 12

Pakistan's prime minister says the United State and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East