Politics & Government News

4:42 PM on Monday, October 13

President Donald Trump repeatedly touted the “Abraham Accords” in his high-profile Middle East trip

4:05 PM on Monday, October 13

Democratic former Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has announced that he will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2026

3:52 PM on Monday, October 13

2:51 PM on Monday, October 13

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children’s caregivers if their parents are deported, a measure that had provoked a firestorm of conservative criticism

2:35 PM on Monday, October 13

North Carolina Republicans announce plans to vote on new US House map amid nationwide redistricting battle

2:31 PM on Monday, October 13

Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear watchdog is pushing Ukraine and Russia to agree to local ceasefires so that external power can be restored to Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia

2:20 PM on Monday, October 13

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents

2:19 PM on Monday, October 13

President Donald Trump has declared Israel's war with Hamas over and sees the ceasefire as a chance for lasting peace in the Middle East

1:42 PM on Monday, October 13

Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer has left Cuba for the U.S. at the request of the U.S. government, according to Cuban authorities

12:37 PM on Monday, October 13

As Israel and Hamas traded hostages and prisoners on Monday, President Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament, saying the region is finally at peace and claiming he has now ended eight wars in eight months

12:11 PM on Monday, October 13

Egyptian leader says US President Donald Trump has been awarded his country's top civilian honor

12:00 PM on Monday, October 13

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will travel to the United States this week for talks on the potential U.S. provision of long-range weapons

11:25 AM on Monday, October 13

From Seattle to Baltimore, people in the United States are recognizing Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day

11:07 AM on Monday, October 13

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools

10:34 AM on Monday, October 13

Lebanon’s president says his country and Israel should negotiate to solve pending problems between them since war didn't lead to any positive results

8:33 AM on Monday, October 13

A local candidate in the suburbs of New York City will remain on the November ballot, despite vanishing months ago after a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean

6:04 AM on Monday, October 13

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina says he has fled the country in fear for his life following a military rebellion

5:54 AM on Monday, October 13

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law

11:00 PM on Sunday, October 12

Hamas has released all 20 remaining hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, ending two years of conflict in the Gaza Strip

7:22 PM on Sunday, October 12

Protesters are pedaling through Portland's streets wearing nothing or close to it to rally against the Trump administration