Politics & Government News

11:09 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A Florida retiree has been convicted of cyber crimes and blocked from leaving Saudi Arabia until next year over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince

11:05 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Jon Husted planned to run for Ohio governor next year

10:45 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Jimmy Kimmel, nearly breaking down, says it was 'never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man'

10:08 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins special election to U.S. House in Arizona's 7th Congressional District

9:57 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year

9:06 PM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional

8:22 PM on Tuesday, September 23

South Korea has long banned tattooing by anyone without a medical license

8:20 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and officials involved in recent deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean

8:01 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A senior U.S. Justice Department official has sent a letter to a lawyer for relatives of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, asking pointed questions about a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

5:04 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A former Tennessee House speaker has received a three-year prison sentence over a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers after they left their top leadership roles due to scandals

4:49 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio

4:06 PM on Tuesday, September 23

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the Stargate AI data center in Texas will be joined by five more across the U.S. This expansion is part of a $500 billion infrastructure investment promoted by President Donald Trump

3:51 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Costa Rica's President Rodrigo Chaves has celebrated the failure of an effort to strip his immunity for alleged corruption

1:41 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Ryan Routh has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year

9:56 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Two former Philippine government engineers have told a televised inquiry that most flood control projects, road and other infrastructures they helped oversee in recent years in a province near the capital were substandard or overpriced to compensate for huge kickbacks given to congressmen and senators

4:50 AM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump says he believes Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia

11:13 PM on Monday, September 22

A GOP business owner has won a Georgia state Senate race over a Democrat who drew national attention for a better-than-expected showing in a special election last month

11:12 PM on Monday, September 22

Voters in southern Arizona have picked Adelita Grijalva to succeed her father, the late U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva

11:08 PM on Monday, September 22

World leaders from France to South Korea and South Africa to Suriname have given strong support to the U.N. chief’s call to work together to address challenges like war, poverty and climate chaos

11:02 PM on Monday, September 22

President Donald Trump has returned to the United Nations to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution