Politics & Government News

12:34 PM on Thursday, July 23

Three voters supported by the Wisconsin Democratic Party have filed a lawsuit against the state elections commission, seeking a ruling that would allow for voters who have already returned their absentee ballots to void those and request a new one

11:56 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Senate health committee has delayed a vote planned for Thursday on whether to advance the nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

11:47 AM on Thursday, July 23

Senate Democrats want a watchdog at the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the recent departure of a high-ranking IRS attorney who clashed with President Donald Trump's White House after the attorney raised concerns about influence over taxpayer audits

11:44 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia is poised to become a World Heritage Site, joining iconic U.S. landscapes like the Grand Canyon

11:40 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Catholic Church organization Caritas says hundreds of boxes of humanitarian aid from the U.S. are being distributed in two towns near Havana

11:29 AM on Thursday, July 23

Congressional Democrats are squaring off with President Donald Trump's administration over one of the most potent political issues in the country ahead of this year’s midterm elections: Social Security

9:59 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Secret Service says a member of Vice President JD Vance’s security detail is being investigated over a suspected news leak

8:57 AM on Thursday, July 23

Ukraine’s fired defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, has rejected President Zelenskyy's offer to rejoin the government in a different role

7:26 AM on Thursday, July 23

The House has narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain

6:17 AM on Thursday, July 23

Pakistan has rejected Amnesty International’s call for an investigation into a March airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital that the rights group said could amount to a war crime, dismissing the allegations as unsupported

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3:08 AM on Thursday, July 23

The European Union has fined Google $1 billion for breaking digital antitrust regulations

12:24 AM on Thursday, July 23

Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028

10:00 PM on Wednesday, July 22

Thai authorities are searching for those responsible for a deadly attack in the country's troubled deep south

9:08 PM on Wednesday, July 22

Democratic Texas governor's race nominee Gina Hinojosa is focusing on artificial intelligence data centers as a key issue in her campaign against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott

9:03 PM on Wednesday, July 22

In just a week, the dismissal of a Ukrainian defense minister set in motion a transformation of the country’s armed forces that replaced the old guard with a new generation of leadership

7:09 PM on Wednesday, July 22

Amish Shah has won the Democratic primary for an open congressional seat in Arizona