Politics & Government News

8:59 AM on Sunday, August 16

Cambodian artist Bou Meng, one of only seven people known to have survived a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center, has died at 85

7:42 AM on Sunday, August 16

The national redistricting competition between the parties means California's conservative voters are going through the same thing as Democratic voters in Republican strongholds

7:38 AM on Sunday, August 16

Benjamin Franklin's son William was buried in London following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced to leave America

2:49 PM on Saturday, August 15

Democrats have approved dueling messages on immigration enforcement, disagreeing on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed

9:19 AM on Saturday, August 15

Liechtenstein’s royal house says the tiny country’s rules of succession will be changed so that a woman could in the future inherit the principality’s throne

8:37 AM on Saturday, August 15

President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships

8:18 AM on Saturday, August 15

Democratic voters are turning out for this year’s primaries at levels not seen in more than 20 years

7:52 AM on Saturday, August 15

President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk

5:38 AM on Saturday, August 15

Taliban rulers have celebrated the fifth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan

4:10 AM on Saturday, August 15

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India’s decades-long Maoist insurgency is nearing its end but warns the country now faces a new battle against people who align with the movement’s ideology

1:47 AM on Saturday, August 15

Myanmar’s military-backed government says it has verified that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of western Rakhine state

12:01 AM on Saturday, August 15

Democrats seeking the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 will need to prove themselves early on in states where Black and Latino voters and union members are key supporters

Saturday, August 15

A dayslong standoff in the occupied West Bank points to Israel's reluctance to rein in settler violence against Palestinians

8:55 PM on Friday, August 14

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel

6:54 PM on Friday, August 14

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday

6:34 PM on Friday, August 14

A civil rights agency accused of halting a sexual harassment case filed on behalf of female prison guards is now blaming an administrative judge for doing so in error

5:35 PM on Friday, August 14

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent

4:25 PM on Friday, August 14

A federal appeals court says President Donald Trump’s goal of ending gender-affirming care is not improper and cannot be the basis for quashing a subpoena

1:52 PM on Friday, August 14

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his government has triggered an economic reciprocity law against U.S. tariffs

11:31 AM on Monday, August 3