Politics & Government News

11:04 PM on Sunday, December 21

President Donald Trump has announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over

11:01 PM on Sunday, December 21

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have gathered in Kuala Lumpur for a special meeting to address the ongoing border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia

9:42 PM on Sunday, December 21

A Malaysian court has rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the rest of his graft sentence under house arrest

8:02 PM on Sunday, December 21

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has accused President Donald Trump of playing “political games” after the Trump administration denied disaster declaration requests made by the state

6:52 PM on Sunday, December 21

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities

5:34 PM on Sunday, December 21

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired shots at a Cuban immigrant living in the U.S. illegally after he struck that agent and another with an SUV in Minnesota’s state capital

3:19 PM on Sunday, December 21

Rapper Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona

2:28 PM on Sunday, December 21

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to build a new aircraft carrier

12:52 PM on Sunday, December 21

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea

12:15 PM on Sunday, December 21

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline

9:03 AM on Sunday, December 21

Dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians say there were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while stymying wind and solar

8:18 AM on Sunday, December 21

Vice President JD Vance says the conservative movement should welcome anyone who loves America

7:59 AM on Sunday, December 21

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been drawn back into the foreign policy fold like he was during Trump's first term

5:52 AM on Sunday, December 21

Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

5:43 AM on Sunday, December 21

Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank

2:55 AM on Sunday, December 21

A White House envoy says he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine

12:02 AM on Sunday, December 21

Turning Point USA's AmericaFest convention has been marked by internal feuds among conservative figures

7:35 PM on Saturday, December 20

Thousands of mourners have gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to mark a week since two gunmen targeted a Jewish festival, killing 15 people

12:01 AM on Saturday, December 20

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya

11:03 AM on Friday, December 19