Politics & Government News

1:51 PM on Friday, September 5

Judge blocks Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians

12:22 PM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

11:13 AM on Friday, September 5

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, who has poured some of the South American country’s new oil wealth into popular social programs, is poised to serve a second term after this week's election, according to preliminary results Friday

10:38 AM on Friday, September 5

Belarus has detained a Polish monk on suspicion of espionage, the latest escalation in Minsk's long-running standoff with its NATO member neighbor

10:23 AM on Friday, September 5

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the state’s attorney general

9:19 AM on Friday, September 5

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services

8:51 AM on Friday, September 5

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles has toured a Japanese navy frigate of the same Japan-made model that Australia has chosen for its new fleet, as the two countries step up military ties to deter China’s growing influence

8:48 AM on Friday, September 5

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a requirement for automakers that sell in Canada to begin hitting minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year

8:16 AM on Friday, September 5

More than 100,000 people in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province have been evacuated from low-lying areas along the Indus river after neighboring India warned of cross-border flooding from dam releases, officials said

7:43 AM on Friday, September 5

Lebanon’s Cabinet has met to discuss a plan by the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah and consolidate weapons under state control

6:48 AM on Friday, September 5

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6:46 AM on Friday, September 5

Spain’s foreign minister says that he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after the team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protest that disrupted the event

5:15 AM on Friday, September 5

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has shaken up his Cabinet after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned over a tax error

5:05 AM on Friday, September 5

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric

1:30 AM on Friday, September 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, particularly while its invasion is still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow's forces

10:11 PM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. winemakers have something to celebrate: the corks they’re popping aren’t subject to tariffs

10:04 PM on Thursday, September 4

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing

7:12 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration is investigating Medicaid spending in at least six Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status

7:02 PM on Thursday, September 4

Veteran Thai politician Anutin Charnvirakul has been elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote