Politics & Government News

3:01 AM on Tuesday, December 9

China's premier says higher tariffs have dealt a “severe blow” to the world economy, even as China's own trade surplus has surged past $1 trillion

1:56 AM on Tuesday, December 9

11:34 PM on Monday, December 8

The first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing

10:40 PM on Monday, December 8

Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya has ordered authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández

10:23 PM on Monday, December 8

Cuba’s top court says a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island

10:05 PM on Monday, December 8

9:14 PM on Monday, December 8

Mexican authorities have detained former Chihuahua Gov. César Duarte, accused of laundering money diverted from state coffers

7:31 PM on Monday, December 8

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month

6:10 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law

5:13 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal magistrate judge has rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race

4:28 PM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump says he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China

3:22 PM on Monday, December 8

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest Republican candidate for Georgia governor to attack campaign finance rules that allow Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to raise unlimited contributions

12:31 PM on Monday, December 8

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation

8:12 AM on Monday, December 8

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas

7:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony

7:19 AM on Monday, December 8

The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members

6:15 AM on Monday, December 8

Thailand and Cambodia have resumed fighting over disputed territory, just months after agreeing to a ceasefire

4:13 AM on Monday, December 8

British, French and German leaders met in London with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of European support for Kyiv at what they called a “critical moment” in the U.S.-led effort to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

3:55 AM on Monday, December 8

Benin's government has said Sunday's short-lived coup left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers

11:04 PM on Sunday, December 7

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago