Politics & Government News

10:47 AM on Monday, February 23

Canada’s foreign minister says her country is working on an aid package for Cuba as it faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U.S. oil embargo

10:45 AM on Monday, February 23

Professional journalists sifting through the trove of documents released in the Epstein files have some help — a cadre of citizen journalists or sleuths who have become obsessed with the material

10:33 AM on Monday, February 23

Britain’s government says it is considering legal changes to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession

10:11 AM on Monday, February 23

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says pressure is building on President Donald Trump as courts and Congress push back on his tariff agenda

9:53 AM on Monday, February 23

Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group has declared a unilateral ceasefire ahead of next month's congressional elections

9:17 AM on Monday, February 23

9:05 AM on Monday, February 23

The 21-year-old North Carolina man who drove onto President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a shotgun before he was shot and killed worked as a golf course groundskeeper and sold illustrations of golf courses

9:05 AM on Monday, February 23

Panama has ordered the occupation of two key ports at the ends of the Panama Canal

8:01 AM on Monday, February 23

Senate Democrats are unveiling a bill to have the government refund about $175 billion in Trump-era tariff money after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were illegal

7:51 AM on Monday, February 23

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change

7:37 AM on Monday, February 23

A federal judge has permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate

6:31 AM on Monday, February 23

Supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye have held a prayer service in a Catholic cathedral to press for his release

6:30 AM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports

6:00 AM on Monday, February 23

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration’s interests in the Western Hemisphere

2:22 AM on Monday, February 23

Hungary has blocked the European Union’s latest sanctions plan against Russia, and said it will hold up a big new loan for Ukraine

2:21 AM on Monday, February 23

Rob Jetten has become the Netherlands’ youngest-ever and first openly gay prime minister as his new minority coalition takes office

10:45 PM on Sunday, February 22

The European Union’s top diplomats met with the director of the Board of Peace in Brussels following a shaky and controversial embrace of U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure and rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip

10:05 PM on Sunday, February 22

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro may be the nation’s most prominent Jewish politician as antisemitism surges across America

10:03 PM on Sunday, February 22

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address is likely to be a test run of the message that Republicans will give to voters in November’s elections for control of the House and the Senate

10:01 PM on Sunday, February 22

Twenty-five members of the Mexican National Guard were left dead in six separate attacks after special forces killed the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel