Politics & Government News

12:50 PM on Saturday, October 4

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election, official results show

8:57 AM on Saturday, October 4

Pakistani authorities have reached a peace agreement with a civil rights alliance, ending days of violent protests in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

8:38 AM on Saturday, October 4

Peter Mutharika has been sworn in as Malawi’s president in a political comeback at the age of 85

8:19 AM on Saturday, October 4

U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade

8:10 AM on Saturday, October 4

Now it's five federal courts that have rejected President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end automatic citizenship for the children of people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily

6:50 AM on Saturday, October 4

More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says

6:02 AM on Saturday, October 4

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used to store power for electrical grids, but some localities are concerned about fire risks

4:44 AM on Saturday, October 4

Ivan Klima, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europe’s 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died

2:11 AM on Saturday, October 4

The streets of Damascus show little sign a parliamentary election is set to take place

1:56 AM on Saturday, October 4

Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as new leader, likely to become country’s first female prime minister

1:24 AM on Saturday, October 4

Hungary remains firm in maintaining its supplies of Russian oil and gas, even as the European Union accelerates efforts to cut Russian energy imports

12:09 AM on Saturday, October 4

Maldives police have arrested eight people during an overnight public protest accusing the government of corruption and curtailment of basic freedoms

12:03 AM on Saturday, October 4

President Donald Trump is using the federal shutdown to push deep spending cuts in states that backed Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024

12:02 AM on Saturday, October 4

Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk

12:01 AM on Saturday, October 4

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have been trading barbs using the term "paper tiger," a phrase popularized by the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong

12:01 AM on Saturday, October 4

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties

9:37 PM on Friday, October 3

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a package of bills aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts

7:45 PM on Friday, October 3

The New York Jets have been accused in a lawsuit of firing a former vice president as part of their response to sexual misconduct allegations against team President Hymie Elhai