Politics & Government News

5:00 AM on Monday, September 15

5:00 AM on Monday, September 15

4:02 AM on Monday, September 15

Nepal's prime minister has selected three new ministers to join her interim administration, which is tasked with holding fresh elections in March

3:55 AM on Monday, September 15

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party has finished first in municipal polls in Germany's most populous state

12:44 AM on Monday, September 15

11:47 PM on Sunday, September 14

The Philippine president has encouraged the public to express their outrage over massive corruption that has plagued flood-control projects in one of Asia’s most typhoon-prone countries but says street protests should be peaceful

11:06 PM on Sunday, September 14

Australia and Papua New Guinea are set to integrate their defense forces under a new security pact, aiming to curb China's security influence in the region

9:45 PM on Sunday, September 14

9:17 PM on Sunday, September 14

The United States, South Korea and Japan have begun an air and naval exercise off a South Korean island in their latest joint drill condemned by North Korea as a “reckless show of strength.”

8:04 PM on Sunday, September 14

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has urged New Yorkers to vote Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, giving the Democratic nominee one of his most significant endorsements to date in the contest to lead the nation’s biggest city

5:04 PM on Sunday, September 14

Family members say former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar has died at 79

3:22 PM on Sunday, September 14

The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze the new U.S. poet laureate

2:20 PM on Sunday, September 14

President Donald Trump's administration has renewed its request to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors

12:59 PM on Sunday, September 14

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas is worried that Russia's escalation of its invasion of Ukraine could lead to World War III

12:31 PM on Sunday, September 14

Some conservatives are targeting people and organizations they believe disparaged Charlie Kirk after his death

12:22 PM on Sunday, September 14

President Lula da Silva has called a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports to the U_S_ “political” and “illogical.”

9:51 AM on Sunday, September 14

Qatar's prime minister has denounced Israel as Arab and Muslim foreign ministers are meeting to discuss a unified response to Israel's attack on Doha

9:33 AM on Sunday, September 14

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says investigators are not yet ready to discuss a motive in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk but that the 22-year-old who was arrested leaned to the left

6:58 AM on Sunday, September 14

From the moment conservative icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassin’s bullet, partisans have fought over who’s to blame for his death

4:39 AM on Sunday, September 14

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Israel as it intensifies attacks on northern Gaza