Politics & Government News

7:54 AM on Friday, October 3

The U.N. food agency has announced cuts to food assistance for hundreds of thousands in Somalia, where millions face the devastating effects of climate change and severe hunger

7:53 AM on Friday, October 3

Trump administration pauses $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, leveraging shutdown to pressure Democrats

7:20 AM on Friday, October 3

U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize has drawn added attention to the annual guessing game over who its next laureate will be

5:37 AM on Friday, October 3

A Turkish journalist has appeared in court to defend himself against accusations of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

5:32 AM on Friday, October 3

France's new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announces he will not use special constitutional powers to force his budget through parliament

4:51 AM on Friday, October 3

Highest Dutch court orders government to reevaluate a license to export F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel

2:02 AM on Friday, October 3

The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week

2:00 AM on Friday, October 3

12:12 AM on Friday, October 3

Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies

12:04 AM on Friday, October 3

The Trump administration is tapping National Guard and Army Reserve lawyers to be temporary immigration judges after firing dozens of existing judges

11:48 PM on Thursday, October 2

India and China plan to resume direct flights between some of their cities after a five-year suspension

9:36 PM on Thursday, October 2

A decade after 1 million migrants arrived in Germany from war-torn countries like Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, the country has changed

7:26 PM on Thursday, October 2

New Mexico legislators moved quickly to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trump’s cuts in federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs

4:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield

3:48 PM on Thursday, October 2

Federal health officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill, prompting outrage from some abortion opponents aligned with President Donald Trump

1:08 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states

11:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Youth-led demonstrators in Morocco took to the streets for a sixth straight night despite fear of violence after three people were killed by security forces

6:42 AM on Thursday, October 2

Hospitals say that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

3:54 AM on Thursday, October 2

Hundreds of Israeli police officers have been deployed to the port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier

1:09 AM on Thursday, October 2

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg is set to abdicate the throne Friday after 25 years, passing the role to his eldest son, Guillaume