Politics & Government News

3:21 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order challenging a 1989 Supreme Court decision that protects flag burning as free speech

2:45 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Activists have raised concerns about the health of Belarusian journalist Aleh Suprunyuk, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison

2:38 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump, the NFL and scores of stars in the entertainment and sports worlds have reacted to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement

2:38 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump has sparked backlash from some members of his loyal base by saying his administration would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities

2:20 PM on Tuesday, August 26

A plan to restructure over $9 billion in debt for Puerto Rico's power company has hit a big snag

2:17 PM on Tuesday, August 26

A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:05 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Final election numbers show that Bolivian voters practically threw the long-governing party out of Congress in elections earlier this month

1:57 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's attempt to continue a legal battle involving an ex-aide's sexual harassment claim has been rejected by a judge

1:39 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run

1:18 PM on Tuesday, August 26

An Orthodox archbishop who exchanged friendly greetings and gifts with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska is apologizing to “those who have experienced pain, suffering, or confusion" because of his actions

1:04 PM on Tuesday, August 26

12:35 PM on Tuesday, August 26

The Democratic National Committee leadership has withdrawn a measure that would have clarified the party’s position on the Israel-Hamas war

12:01 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Uganda has agreed to receive immigrants deported from the United States

11:25 AM on Tuesday, August 26

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10:02 AM on Tuesday, August 26

U.S. President Donald Trump claims that the war in eastern Congo is among the ones he has stopped, after brokering a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda in June

10:01 AM on Tuesday, August 26

A federal appeals court says it's unconstitutional for Pennsylvania to throw out mail-in ballots simply because the voter didn’t write an accurate date on the return envelope

9:49 AM on Tuesday, August 26

Lisa Cook made headlines three years ago when she became the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world

9:39 AM on Tuesday, August 26

Court throws out a lawsuit by the Trump administration against all Maryland federal judges over immigration order

7:18 AM on Tuesday, August 26

The leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform party has pledged to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally