Politics & Government News

8:26 AM on Wednesday, February 25

Keir Starmer faces a key test as a special election threatens to deepen the UK Labour Party’s crisis and his own leadership troubles

7:00 AM on Wednesday, February 25

2:03 AM on Wednesday, February 25

The U.S. and South Korean militaries say they will conduct their annual springtime exercises next month to bolster their combined defense posture amid a deepening diplomatic freeze with nuclear-armed North Korea

11:33 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has presented the Purple Heart medal during his State of the Union Address and honored two National Guard members who were shot while patrolling in Washington last year

10:54 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Trump breaks record for longest State of the Union, speaking for more than 1 hour and 41 minutes

10:23 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Federal prosecutors are describing those who participated in a July 4 gathering outside a Texas immigration detention center that left a police officer wounded as antifa members intent on a “violent campaign” to influence U.S. policy

10:07 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Legal advocates are asking a judge to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from urging unaccompanied immigrant children to voluntarily deport themselves

9:41 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Andrei Lankov, a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea who teaches at a Seoul university, says he was expelled from Latvia after being detained during a lecture in the country’s capital

9:12 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump begins delivering State of the Union address

4:40 PM on Tuesday, February 24

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine recommendations for children

3:53 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Authorities say a man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state as sheriff's deputies were on their way to deliver him a domestic violence protection order

12:23 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union has given his State of the Union address

10:32 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy

10:28 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. was sending a hospital ship to Greenland because people there are not getting care, but the claim faces pushback

9:43 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Many Iranians are worried as the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East and the next round of talks in Geneva get closer

8:07 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger offered a sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s depiction of the nation as being in a “golden age” during his State of the Union address

7:00 AM on Tuesday, February 24

The designated survivor for a president's address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too, God willing

12:10 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has spent the last year boasting of his accomplishments while mocking the record of his predecessor, Joe Biden

12:08 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has made the case for his foreign policy efforts to Americans who are increasingly demonstrating uneasiness about his priorities

12:03 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has used a record-length State of the Union to argue that the country is “winning” under his leadership, even as his approval ratings slide