Politics & Government News

1:11 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition has submitted a bill to dissolve parliament, taking a preliminary step toward holding new elections later this year

12:56 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Official figures show that the number of people deported to El Salvador from the United States nearly doubled in the first months of 2026

12:19 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Incumbent Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis has declared victory for the Progressive Liberal Party in securing a second term in office in a snap election

11:58 AM on Wednesday, May 13

French President Emmanuel Macron has concluded his Africa visit with talks in Ethiopia

11:58 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The giant machines that will bore a train tunnel beneath the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey are being assembled

10:55 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Environmental groups say the expected closure of a detention center in the Florida Everglades is linked to their lawsuit

10:30 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Senate Republicans have again blocked Democratic legislation that would halt President Donald Trump’s war with Iran

10:19 AM on Wednesday, May 13

French prosecutors have asked judges to sentence former President Nicolas Sarkozy to seven years in prison and fine him 300,000 euros ($330,000)

9:10 AM on Wednesday, May 13

President Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing has sent U.S.-China trade into a freefall and forced companies on both sides of the Pacific to regroup

9:03 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law requiring nonpartisan elections for most local officials in Atlanta's five most populous counties

8:30 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Dr. Marty Makary's resignation from his post atop the Food and Drug Administration is widening a leadership gap that already existed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

8:04 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The European Union's energy commissioner says a jet fuel shortage can't be ruled out in the long term

7:55 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The Senate has confirmed Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve

7:41 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The Trump administration is expanding its fraud-busting initiative in federal health programs

6:54 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year's elections

6:47 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The European Commission plans to urge all EU nations to ban gay “conversion therapy.”

5:33 AM on Wednesday, May 13

A burst of gunfire rang out in the Philippine Senate, sparking chaos in the building where authorities had tried to arrest a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court in connection with a deadly government crackdown on drugs

9:19 PM on Tuesday, May 12

Americans paid more for their groceries in April, but high gas prices were only one of the reasons why

9:02 PM on Tuesday, May 12

“The Hills” reality television show villain Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of Los Angeles, positioning himself as a savior and promising to tackle the city's disorder and dysfunction

8:43 AM on Tuesday, May 12

Prominent U.S. executives from Big Tech and Wall Street to agriculture and aerospace joined President Donald Trump on his trip to China