Politics & Government News

1:58 PM on Friday, November 21

A $3 billion dementia research fund in Texas has been blocked temporarily by three voters who claim machines used in this month’s election were faulty

12:24 PM on Friday, November 21

New Jersey Democratic Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill resigned from her seat in the U.S. House and the current governor set special election dates to fill her position for next year

9:55 AM on Friday, November 21

A special election in Tennessee has gained national attention in a heavily Republican district

9:19 AM on Friday, November 21

Thousands of opposition activists have rallied near Sri Lanka’s capital to demand that the government fulfill pledges to ease taxes and restore order, in the first major protest against President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s administration as it marks one year in office Opposition parties accuse Dissanayake’s government of failing to deliver on his promises during last year’s election campaign, and say that it has instead politicized law enforcement agencies to stifle the opposition

8:46 AM on Friday, November 21

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will publish a book about his recent time behind bars, titled “Diary of a Prisoner,” on Dec. 10, his publisher Fayard announced Friday

8:13 AM on Friday, November 21

A Turkish parliamentary committee has agreed to meet with Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan at his prison island

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Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who served as a House manager in President Donald Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial, has launched his bid for California governor

7:10 AM on Friday, November 21

A hard-right British politician has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for accepting bribes to make favorable statements about Russia in the European Parliament

6:57 AM on Friday, November 21

Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic have reached record levels last year amid the conflict in Gaza

6:37 AM on Friday, November 21

France's government is taking action against Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, after it generated posts questioning the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

6:04 AM on Friday, November 21

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fending off criticism from his own base as some of the environmental and anti-vaccine activists who propelled him into politics have said they want stronger action against vaccines and pharmaceutical companies

5:51 AM on Friday, November 21

World leaders are arriving for a historic first Group of 20 summit in Africa that aims to put the problems of poor countries at the top of the global agenda

5:25 AM on Friday, November 21

The Supreme Court is meeting in private with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

5:07 AM on Friday, November 21

Ofelia Herrera and Rafael Hernandez have refused to alter their routines as street food vendors during an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago that has caused many without legal status to stay home since it began in early September

4:51 AM on Friday, November 21

Radio Free Europe's Hungarian service, Szabad Európa, has ceased operations after the Trump administration decided to cut its funding

4:01 AM on Friday, November 21

Iran’s state media has reported that the foreign ministry called a resolution by the U.N. atomic watchdog’s board of governors “anti-Iranian” and threatened unspecified retaliatory actions

3:42 AM on Friday, November 21

South Carolina State faces the Charleston Southern Buccaneers after Shaunice Reed scored 21 points in South Carolina State's 76-65 loss to the Queens (NC) Royals