Politics & Government News

6:49 AM on Monday, August 31

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey faces a competitive Democratic primary challenge in Massachusetts on Tuesday from U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton in his bid for a third full term

3:59 AM on Monday, August 31

Japan’s Defense Ministry has disclosed details of an 8.9 trillion yen ($55.6 billion) budget request for the next fiscal year that officials say will increase significantly after the government adopts new security and defense plans later in the year

12:13 AM on Monday, August 31

An election in eastern Germany on Sunday could produce the first far-right state governor in the country’s post-World War II history

11:10 PM on Sunday, August 30

Colleges around the country are seeking approval for a new federal grant program, Workforce Pell, to aid students enrolled for short-term job training

10:41 PM on Sunday, August 30

Leaders from some of the world’s least populous states are gathering in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

7:44 PM on Sunday, August 30

Plans in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections

5:16 PM on Sunday, August 30

The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world’s most powerful countries

5:00 PM on Sunday, August 30

Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States

4:39 PM on Sunday, August 30

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week in effort to clamp down on Iran transactions

2:59 PM on Sunday, August 30

Colombia's president says a key leader of the dissident factions of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces has been killed during a military operation

9:57 AM on Sunday, August 30

Members of the Polish special forces are taking part in an exercise that simulates moving through enemy lines and launching a drone strike on a key enemy location

6:46 AM on Sunday, August 30

Young Massachusetts voters agree that 80-year-old U.S. Sen. Ed Markey stumbled when asked during a debate how he uses artificial intelligence

6:16 AM on Sunday, August 30

At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus

3:39 AM on Sunday, August 30

Iceland's voters have rejected a referendum to restart negotiations to join the European Union

Sunday, August 30

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has sailed past Singapore as it heads home

11:47 PM on Saturday, August 29

Guinea-Bissau is voting in a referendum to decide on granting new presidential powers

5:06 PM on Saturday, August 29

President Donald Trump says he will attend the Presidents Cup matches next month near Chicago as the honorary chairman

5:02 PM on Saturday, August 29

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus

2:33 PM on Saturday, August 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to President Trump’s “Lake America” decree with a billboard declaring “Lake Ontario

12:05 PM on Saturday, August 29

U.S. officials say British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom