Politics & Government News

2:46 AM on Wednesday, August 5

A provincial government in Nepal has legalized farming and use of marijuana for medical purposes

9:07 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Brazil's government reduces its diplomatic presence in Argentina after renewed attacks by Argentine President Javier Milei against Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

8:49 PM on Tuesday, August 4

7:47 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed

7:11 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Authorities say they have arrested a man who was walking the grounds and appeared to be monitoring security planning at President Donald Trump’s California golf course ahead of the president’s visit

6:24 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature

5:07 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Missouri’s top election official has rejected a petition for a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump

4:27 PM on Tuesday, August 4

The Trump administration has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to the United States in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of October elections

2:54 PM on Tuesday, August 4

An oil spill from a grounded sanctioned tanker off Oman is expanding dramatically, reaching shorelines and spreading far out to sea

2:46 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Springdale is a small town near Pittsburgh that is facing tensions over immigration enforcement and a new data center

2:04 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Princess Eugenie has given birth to her third child and first daughter

1:48 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Maryland voters will decide in November whether to clear the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s U.S. House districts

1:09 PM on Tuesday, August 4

The House Ethics Committee says it has opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations made against Republican Rep. Max Miller

12:03 PM on Tuesday, August 4

The Democratic Senate race between Rep. Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is one of the clearest tests yet of the party’s future

8:45 AM on Tuesday, August 4

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has cleared a critical hurdle in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote

7:18 AM on Tuesday, August 4

President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy and other issues

6:34 AM on Tuesday, August 4

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has cleared a critical hurdle in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 4

U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell has won a rematch in a Missouri Democratic primary against former Rep. Cori Bush, an outspoken activist who had been part of a progressive group of House members known as the Squad

12:01 AM on Tuesday, August 4

Federal officials say a man from El Salvador has died at a New Jersey immigration jail

12:01 AM on Tuesday, August 4

Virginia Democrats picked establishment candidates to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November