Politics & Government News

2:24 PM on Monday, September 1

Trump says he's awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

11:49 AM on Monday, September 1

Former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis has been hospitalized after an attack at a rally ahead of next month's parliamentary elections

10:06 AM on Monday, September 1

Lebanon and Syria have agreed to form two committees to address the fate of the nearly 2,000 Syrian prisoners in Lebanese jails and to locate missing Lebanese nationals in Syria

7:37 AM on Monday, September 1

An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries

7:00 AM on Monday, September 1

Iraq's prime minister has presided over the reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in Mosul's Old City

6:00 AM on Monday, September 1

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed economist Minouche Shafik as his chief economic adviser

5:32 AM on Monday, September 1

Violent clashes that have swept across Indonesia and left at least seven people dead are being seen as a major test for President Prabowo Subianto

5:28 AM on Monday, September 1

An accident involving two armored vehicles in Haiti’s capital has left at least two people dead and eight police officers from Kenya injured

5:21 AM on Monday, September 1

Donald Trump has shifted his admiration from Andrew Jackson to William McKinley

4:27 AM on Monday, September 1

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation

4:21 AM on Monday, September 1

Russia is suspected of jamming the radar of EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, a European official says

4:02 AM on Monday, September 1

Australia has agreed to pay Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who cannot be held indefinitely in detention

3:16 AM on Monday, September 1

A decline in foreign visitors traveling to the United States has stretched well into the summer

2:59 AM on Monday, September 1

Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods

2:03 AM on Monday, September 1

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladmir Putin have met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China

12:03 AM on Monday, September 1

For decades, Europe has relied upon the U.S. for its security among the stars

9:11 PM on Sunday, August 31

As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force

1:55 PM on Sunday, August 31

A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a weekend car crash in New Hampshire

8:22 AM on Sunday, August 31

As Congress returns to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, it will have to find a way to work with Democrats or around them as a government shutdown looms

7:44 PM on Saturday, August 30

The leaders of Russia, China, India and seven other nations are meeting in northern China for the latest summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization The meeting Monday could be an emerging challenge to America’s global leadership