Politics & Government News

9:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities

8:33 AM on Tuesday, August 11

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7:13 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead

5:22 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A Taiwanese court has sentenced a woman to seven years in prison for conspiring with Chinese officials to influence Taiwanese politics

4:58 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of defying U.S. presidents

4:03 AM on Tuesday, August 11

U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year that he had “no cards" in the fight against Russia

12:01 AM on Tuesday, August 11

The Democratic Party's internal battle is heating up in Minnesota

9:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he'll sue the Trump administration to get his security clearance restored

8:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Australians can for the first time reveal their sexual orientation and whether they identify as a gender that is not the one recorded at birth in the country's census on Tuesday

7:32 PM on Monday, August 10

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district

1:10 PM on Monday, August 10

A Pentagon official has urged Asian allies to invest more in their defense to deter regional aggression

12:50 PM on Monday, August 10

“The Dukes of Hazzard” star Ben Jones has died at 84

8:11 AM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits

6:48 AM on Monday, August 10

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war

4:52 AM on Monday, August 10

Turkey’s parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants

3:18 AM on Monday, August 10

Voters have gone to the polls in the final phase of elections for the legislative assembly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

12:04 AM on Monday, August 10

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election

12:03 AM on Monday, August 10

Count Binface, an intergalactic comedic candidate with a garbage can on his head, is at the center of the U.K.'s political universe

6:07 PM on Monday, July 27