Politics & Government News

10:29 AM on Saturday, June 6

Police in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have arrested dozens of supporters of an outlawed group demanding improved services and greater rights

10:08 AM on Saturday, June 6

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has uses a D-Day anniversary speech in France to link immigration by sea to wartime liberation

8:35 AM on Saturday, June 6

Lebanon’s government has inaugurated the country’s second international airport which is expected to open to the public within weeks

8:16 AM on Saturday, June 6

The upcoming World Cup will feature 48 teams and 104 matches across the United, Mexico, and Canada

7:05 AM on Saturday, June 6

President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office

2:34 AM on Saturday, June 6

Residents of St. Petersburg have been told to stay indoors after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city

12:25 AM on Saturday, June 6

Voters in Kosovo are heading to the polls this weekend for the third time in 18 months

11:05 PM on Friday, June 5

Joe Biden isn't on the ballot this fall, but three of his administration members are running for governor

11:02 PM on Friday, June 5

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers

11:01 PM on Friday, June 5

The Cockroach Janata Party, a satirical online movement, has taken its first steps into real-world politics

7:12 PM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the federal food aid program

6:51 PM on Friday, June 5

Democrat Xavier Becerra has advanced to the general election for California governor after pitching himself as an experienced choice to lead the nation’s most populous state

6:38 PM on Friday, June 5

California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui has advanced to the November ballot after facing a reelection challenge from a younger Democrat

6:25 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.N. food agency says millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high

6:25 PM on Friday, June 5

5:35 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center

5:06 PM on Friday, June 5

Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel

3:31 PM on Friday, June 5

7:19 AM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enter and stay in the U.S. The judge criticized the policy for putting immigrants' lives in "indeterminate legal limbo" and accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law

11:01 PM on Thursday, June 4

Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, insists voters will support him despite controversies about his past