Politics & Government News

1:32 AM on Tuesday, September 16

A United Nations commission says that billions of dollars in public funds in South Sudan have been stolen over the past decade in massive government corruption while the vast majority of the country suffers food insecurity

12:21 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Authorities say that social media platforms should not require age verification for all users when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in December in Australia

11:45 PM on Monday, September 15

Palestinian residents have reported heavy strikes across Gaza City and Israel's defense minister has said "Gaza is burning."

11:23 PM on Monday, September 15

President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists

10:32 PM on Monday, September 15

Voting is underway in Malawi’s elections, where the country will choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives

10:10 PM on Monday, September 15

As Congress nears sending the U.S. into a government shutdown, Michigan faces its own

10:08 PM on Monday, September 15

Tuesday's special legislative election in Minnesota will determine control of the state House

10:06 PM on Monday, September 15

Kash Patel will confront skeptical Senate Democrats at a congressional hearing likely to be dominated by questions about the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing as well as the recent firings of senior officials who have accused the FBI director of illegal political retribution

10:04 PM on Monday, September 15

A private school founded by a Hawaiian princess gives admissions preference to Native Hawaiian applicants

10:04 PM on Monday, September 15

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in the United Kingdom for a state visit

10:02 PM on Monday, September 15

A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district

10:02 PM on Monday, September 15

A swarm of Russian drones flew last week into Poland in what officials there regarded as a deliberate provocation

10:02 PM on Monday, September 15

Prosecutors are looking at filing a capital murder charge against the Utah man jailed in the killing of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk

8:27 PM on Monday, September 15

Australia has offered to gift Papua New Guinea an extension to its Parliament House as the South Pacific island nation celebrates its 50th independence anniversary

7:33 PM on Monday, September 15

The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades

5:12 PM on Monday, September 15

Security at Charlie Kirk's speaking events and college campus debates around the country varied greatly

4:04 PM on Monday, September 15

Vice President JD Vance is jumping onto the conservative movement demanding consequences for those who have cheered Charlie Kirk’s killing, calling on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally

2:14 PM on Monday, September 15

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel

11:41 AM on Monday, September 15

Vice President JD Vance says the national unity he's “desperate” for after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk cannot be had with people who condone political violence

6:34 AM on Monday, September 15

A framework deal has been reached between China and the U.S. for the ownership of TikTok