Politics & Government News

3:41 AM on Friday, July 10

Senegal's top judicial body has rejected a constitutional amendment aimed at expanding parliament's role and reducing presidential powers

2:36 AM on Friday, July 10

The U.N. women's agency says at least 1 million have lost access to access to humanitarian aid and other critical support as a result of budget cuts over the last 18 months

12:45 AM on Friday, July 10

The Philippines has commemorated the anniversary of a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated China’s claims in the South China Sea

5:50 PM on Thursday, July 9

A federal appeals court has upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons

4:09 PM on Thursday, July 9

A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation

3:59 PM on Thursday, July 9

Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx has won the Republican primary for Colorado governor

3:47 PM on Thursday, July 9

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his decision to visit Saudi Arabia despite its poor human rights record

1:41 PM on Thursday, July 9

The preliminary hearing for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has attracted intense national and significant international attention

11:59 AM on Thursday, July 9

African countries have secured $900 million in new financial commitments to expand access to clean cooking

11:13 AM on Thursday, July 9

A South Florida airport has officially changed its name to the President Donald J

11:05 AM on Thursday, July 9

Opponents of the Hungarian government's efforts to oust the president have gathered for a protest in Budapest at the urging of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

10:05 AM on Thursday, July 9

Mexico plans to request criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody or during immigration operations under the Trump administration

8:26 AM on Thursday, July 9

Democrats in Maine are beginning a sprint to nominate a new candidate for a pivotal U.S. Senate seat

5:22 AM on Thursday, July 9

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken about Turkey as well as U.S. moves in the Persian Gulf

2:20 AM on Thursday, July 9

China has launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific, drawing international criticism from many countries in the region

12:06 AM on Thursday, July 9

Nominations have opened in a Labour Party election to replace Keir Starmer as Britain's prime minister

11:51 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The funeral for Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was designed to showcase unity in a country that is bitterly split over his decades-long rule

10:40 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Authorities in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are using loudspeakers and a network of volunteers and community leaders to relocate people from risky areas to safety

9:06 PM on Wednesday, July 8

President Donald Trump's plan to build a triumphal arch that would alter the Washington, D.C., skyline has won initial approval from a key federal agency

9:02 PM on Wednesday, July 8

A video played in a Utah court reveals that the defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing told his roommate “he wishes he hadn’t done it” the day after Kirk was shot in the neck while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University