Politics & Government News

2:26 PM on Wednesday, June 3

A new lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a law requiring nonpartisan elections for most local officials in five populous Atlanta-area counties but not the rest of Georgia

12:27 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Poland and Lithuania confirm they are in talks about their role in NATO's nuclear deterrence efforts, which are centered on U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe

12:00 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Montenegro has blocked 87 Serbian men from entering the country after they were deemed to pose a security threat ahead of a European Union summit with Western Balkan leaders

11:58 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Colombian lawyer and presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, has thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for endorsing his campaign

11:49 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Republicans have won a partisan redistricting battle for Congress

11:29 AM on Wednesday, June 3

A federal judge is considering whether to throw out a jury’s guilty verdict against former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers

10:35 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Hundreds have gathered in Syria's capital to mourn former chess champion Rania al-Abbasi and her family, missing for 13 years

9:05 AM on Wednesday, June 3

European Union leaders are pushing back against reliance on American and Asian tech companies

7:33 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Britain's King George III is getting a makeover as America approaches its 250th birthday

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4:03 AM on Wednesday, June 3

When musical acts pulled out of a concert series marking America's 250th anniversary, fearing it might be too closely tied to Donald Trump, the president decided to formally make himself the headlining act

3:01 AM on Wednesday, June 3

A new Gallup poll finds support for same-sex marriage and relationships in the U.S. has stopped rising after two decades

2:31 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Raúl Castro has turned 95, a landmark birthday for a man still helping lead one of the last communist countries in the world

11:01 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Under Trump administration, efforts to address deep-rooted inequities for students of color are being cast as discriminatory against white students

8:19 PM on Tuesday, June 2

A prediction market reported former U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance

7:21 AM on Tuesday, June 2

11:03 PM on Monday, June 1

California’s congressional primaries were a preliminary test of Democrats’ best chance at countering Republican redistricting gains elsewhere this year

11:01 PM on Monday, June 1

Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, has won the New Jersey Democratic primary in the battleground 7th District