Politics & Government News

11:03 PM on Sunday, February 22

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday is likely to be a test run of the message that Republicans will give to voters in November’s elections for control of the House and Senate

11:01 PM on Sunday, February 22

School was canceled in several Mexican states and local and foreign governments alike warned their citizens to stay inside following the army’s killing of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” and the violence it spurred

9:34 PM on Sunday, February 22

Ethiopia's Tigray region is bracing for the possibility of renewed conflict over three years after warring parties signed a peace deal

8:48 PM on Sunday, February 22

The Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives, notching a major victory

6:35 PM on Sunday, February 22

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been reelected to the top post of the ruling Workers’ Party, with delegates crediting him for bolstering the country’s nuclear arsenal and strengthening its regional standing

2:32 PM on Sunday, February 22

The Republicans and former Republicans who gathered in suburban Washington this weekend are warning that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are tearing at the very fabric of U.S. democracy

11:37 AM on Sunday, February 22

Officials say Syria has emptied the al-Hol camp, long known for holding women and children with alleged links to the Islamic State group

11:34 AM on Sunday, February 22

The Mexican army says it has killed the powerful leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in a military operation

9:40 AM on Sunday, February 22

The European Commission says the United States needs to honor its tariff deal with the EU after the Supreme court blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s trade agenda

9:37 AM on Sunday, February 22

Oman says the next round of talks between the United States and Iran will be Thursday in Geneva

8:43 AM on Sunday, February 22

An armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida

8:06 AM on Sunday, February 22

U.S. Secret Service says an armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida

7:05 AM on Sunday, February 22

Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates

7:02 AM on Sunday, February 22

6:09 AM on Sunday, February 22

France is summoning U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner to protest American comments about the killing of far-right activist Quentin Deranque

5:52 AM on Sunday, February 22

Hungary is threatening to block new EU sanctions on Russia and slow EU help for Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries resume

4:47 AM on Sunday, February 22

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is sending a U.S. Navy hospital ship to Greenland because people there are sick and lack care

11:22 PM on Saturday, February 21

The state lawmaker favored to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the House is no stranger to the national spotlight

11:07 PM on Saturday, February 21

A woman who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing a country where homosexuality is illegal says the Trump administration's third-country deportation system sent her to another one

10:49 PM on Saturday, February 21

The Department of Homeland Security says the Global Entry program shuts down for as long as the partial government shutdown continues