Politics & Government News

8:24 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Mexican import taxes on more than 1,400 products from China and other Asian countries will be as high as 50%, as the country tries to shore up domestic production and pass on some of the Trump administration’s tariff pain

7:57 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Traditional news outlets were careful in their coverage of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination to not show graphic images of the event

7:56 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Authorities seeking new person of interest in Charlie Kirk assassination, no one currently in custody, official says

7:23 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Some out-of-state National Guard to remain in DC though November at request of Trump administration, Ohio governor says

7:04 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given some respite on Wednesday after a Supreme Court justice voted to acquit him from all charges in his alleged coup trial

5:45 PM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump’s goal of appointing a majority of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors faced a setback Tuesday when a court blocked his unprecedented attempt to fire Lisa Cook

4:33 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Mexico City’s mayor says three people died and 70 were injured in the explosion of a gas tanker truck along a major Mexico City highway

4:05 PM on Wednesday, September 10

2:49 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed

2:41 PM on Wednesday, September 10

The administration of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has resurrected the country’s interior ministry in a bid to build alliances with opposition governors

2:21 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Authorities say conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed by a single shot in a targeted attack during an outdoor event Wednesday at Utah Valley University

2:01 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”

12:00 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump administration

10:13 AM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump’s emergency order that federalized Washington’s police force is set to expire

9:41 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry

7:59 AM on Wednesday, September 10

NATO allies have held talks about Russian drones entering Polish airspace

7:18 AM on Wednesday, September 10

The deadly protests in Nepal that forced the country's prime minister to resign on Tuesday were a result of long-simmering discontent ignited by the government’s ban on major social media platforms

11:09 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Soldiers in Nepal’s capital have ordered people to stay home after the military came out in force overnight to halt two days of deadly unrest that prompted the government’s collapse as protesters set buildings on fire

9:11 PM on Tuesday, September 9

South Korea says a charter plane that is planned to carry South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid in Georgia will depart Thursday at noon to return home

3:54 PM on Tuesday, September 9

After the detention of more than 300 South Korean workers in an immigration raid at a Georgia battery plant last week, a charter plane has arrived in Atlanta to bring them home