Politics & Government News

4:12 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Tarique Rahman is sworn in as Bangladesh’s new prime minister after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections

4:11 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Family says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader from the era of King to Black Lives Matter, has died

3:25 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Belgium has summoned the U.S. ambassador after he accused the country of antisemitic prosecution over a Jewish circumcision case

3:19 AM on Tuesday, February 17

The United States is planning to deploy more high-tech missile systems in the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies again condemned China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”

3:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17

3:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17

10:08 PM on Monday, February 16

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group

7:07 PM on Monday, February 16

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over what he says is as a lagging response to a January pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington

5:26 PM on Monday, February 16

A federal judge has ordered an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington to be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month

5:15 PM on Monday, February 16

Drivers in Cuba are facing the prospects of waiting several months to refuel their cars, as fuel shortages caused by a U.S. oil siege intensify

2:57 PM on Monday, February 16

Lawyers say a new group of third-country nationals has been deported by the United States to Cameroon

2:44 PM on Monday, February 16

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has received a Lebanese passport after Lebanon’s president granted him citizenship

1:51 PM on Monday, February 16

The remains of a well-known Colombian priest who joined a guerrilla group and was killed in combat six decades ago have been identified

11:41 AM on Monday, February 16

The Nigerian military says about 100 U.S. troops plus equipment have arrived in Nigeria to help train soldiers in the West African country

4:57 AM on Monday, February 16

A Ukrainian delegation is heading to Geneva for another round of U.S.-brokered talks with Russian officials, days before next week’s fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor

4:09 AM on Monday, February 16

Iran's top diplomat has held talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Geneva before a second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran

1:51 AM on Monday, February 16

Marco Rubio is backing Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary’s April election during a visit to Budapest

11:07 PM on Sunday, February 15

The abduction of 10 mine workers in Mexico's Sinaloa state has raised questions again about the government's touted security improvements

10:10 PM on Sunday, February 15

A Rio Carnival samba school has honored Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a glowing parade, but his rivals are calling it illegal early campaigning

11:04 AM on Monday, February 2