Politics & Government News

3:03 AM on Friday, June 5

Peruvians are set to choose their ninth president in 10 years in a runoff election Sunday

10:31 PM on Thursday, June 4

Democrats competing over a coveted congressional district in Manhattan have slugged it out during a heated debate

8:52 PM on Thursday, June 4

An ex-girlfriend alleges U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner repeatedly grabbed her hard enough to leave marks, pulled her from a cab by the wrist, and, in one incident, twisted her arm behind her back and held her in a room when they dated more than a decade ago

7:20 PM on Thursday, June 4

The Justice Department says an American journalist has pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government

6:54 PM on Thursday, June 4

Casey Wasserman says he hasn't considered resigning as chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics despite Mayor Karen Bass urging him to quit

6:02 PM on Thursday, June 4

President Donald Trump is planning to attend an NBA Finals game in New York next week to root for his hometown Knicks

5:51 PM on Thursday, June 4

Outraged Minnesota residents with loved ones who died at the hands of police are demanding accountability over the state's Republican Party holding a public prayer for the former police officer in prison for murdering George Floyd

5:03 PM on Thursday, June 4

The United States has imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife and three other individuals

4:03 PM on Thursday, June 4

Days after the state’s primary, California voters are in a familiar position -- waiting to find out which candidates will go on to the general election in their most high-profile races, for governor and Los Angeles mayor

1:34 PM on Thursday, June 4

The House has passed a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy

12:49 PM on Thursday, June 4

President Donald Trump has announced that water has begun refilling the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

11:52 AM on Thursday, June 4

President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry

10:46 AM on Thursday, June 4

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time

10:38 AM on Thursday, June 4

The U.N. nuclear watchdog has been unable to inspect nuclear facilities in Iran affected by the war last June, according to a confidential report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog

10:12 AM on Thursday, June 4

Senate Republicans are working toward passage of legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies

8:07 AM on Thursday, June 4

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is back on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on the department’s priorities, one day after he refused to say whether President Donald Trump and his family would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund that would have benefited the president’s allies

2:57 AM on Thursday, June 4

Somalia's opposition supporters and security forces have clashed in Mogadishu for a second day ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration

1:45 AM on Thursday, June 4

Chinese authorities are intensifying efforts to erase the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

12:05 AM on Thursday, June 4

An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been reseparated, despite a judge's order to reunite them

12:02 AM on Thursday, June 4

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will strengthen its air defenses to counter recent Ukrainian drone attacks