Politics & Government News

6:22 AM on Thursday, February 19

Bulgaria’s new prime minister, Andrey Gyurov, says the country stays firmly pro-Western as it heads into another election

5:08 AM on Thursday, February 19

A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life in prison for rebellion tied to his short-lived martial law order

1:54 AM on Thursday, February 19

South Korean court says former President Yoon Suk Yeol is guilty of rebellion over brief imposition of martial law

11:02 PM on Wednesday, February 18

A U.S. representative from Texas says immigration authorities deported a 2-month-old baby with bronchitis to Mexico along with his family

10:23 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Congress elects José Balcázar as interim president of Peru after the removal of José Jerí

10:07 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Afghanistan is facing a surging child malnutrition crisis as aid cuts leave most families without food or treatment

9:20 PM on Wednesday, February 18

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un held a ceremony to unveil the deployment of 50 new launch vehicles for nuclear-capable short-range missiles threatening rival South Korea as he flaunted his expanding military capabilities ahead of a major ruling party congress

9:12 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared an emergency and requested that President Donald Trump provide federal resources to help the city fight a sewage system leak that has dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River in its early stages

8:54 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Federal investigators say a veteran agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration took cash to push fraudulent visa applications through the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic

8:33 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Democrats are playing catch-up in having online influencers and content creators promote their candidates and priorities

8:31 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to travel to Israel next week to update Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks

7:42 PM on Wednesday, February 18

The top U.S. military commander for Latin America has met with Venezuela’s acting president in Caracas as both sides discuss security and policy goals

3:03 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Leila Shahid, the first female Palestinian diplomat, who held prominent posts in Europe during some of the most tumultuous years of the Mideast conflict, has died in France at the age of 76

2:30 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Members of the nation’s only unsalaried legislature are asking voters to reconsider their volunteer status that has endured since statehood in New Mexico

11:31 AM on Wednesday, February 18

José María Balcázar has become Peru's new interim president, replacing another interim leader who was removed over corruption allegations just four months into his term

11:13 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Members of the United Nations Security Council are calling for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasting Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution

8:27 AM on Wednesday, February 18

A new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory

4:25 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine have ended with no sign of a breakthrough

12:09 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Bernie Sanders has traveled to Los Angeles to kick off a campaign for a proposed “billionaires tax” that has set off an uproar in the Silicon Valley and led to divisions among Democrats

7:41 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she hopes to deepen her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump