Politics & Government News

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Iraq says one of Lebanon’s largest factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon has been discovered and destroyed

7:12 AM on Tuesday, August 19

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Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud

9:11 PM on Monday, August 18

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Missouri's attorney general is resigning to take a leadership position with the FBI

8:39 PM on Monday, August 18

Jules Witcover, who cowrote one of the nation’s leading political columns for nearly three decades, died Saturday at the age of 98

6:28 PM on Monday, August 18

Thousands of anti-government protesters have marched again in Serbia with baton-wielding police chasing them in downtown Belgrade, prompting Serbia’s president to renew a pledge to crack down on the demonstrators

5:51 PM on Monday, August 18

North Carolina election officials have successfully amended over 20,000 voter registration records

5:25 PM on Monday, August 18

One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer

4:24 PM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own

4:06 PM on Monday, August 18

The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation

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8:53 AM on Monday, August 18

With the last campaigns only one day in the rearview mirror, Bolivia’s political world has delved into preparations for an unprecedented runoff election that will reveal the extent of a centrist senator’s unexpected traction in the presidential vote

8:28 AM on Monday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has called Russian President Vladimir Putin and begun to arrange a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

6:39 AM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump says the U.S. could support a European force in Ukraine to maintain a lasting peace in Russia's war

6:35 AM on Monday, August 18

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War

12:09 AM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

11:54 PM on Sunday, August 17

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage