Politics & Government News

10:45 AM on Sunday, February 8

At least three people have been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Tripoli, northern Lebanon

9:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has resigned over the controversy surrounding Peter Mandelson's appointment as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Morgan McSweeney said he advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson, despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

7:31 AM on Sunday, February 8

The White House is trying to show it's lowering the cost of living, but President Donald Trump has said he doesn't want to see the price of homes come down

6:25 AM on Sunday, February 8

Exit poll shows Japan Premier Takaichi's ruling bloc on path to win a majority in lower house vote

5:31 AM on Sunday, February 8

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine has killed one person and wounded two others

5:06 AM on Sunday, February 8

Polls have closed in Thailand's general election where 3 main parties are competing for power

4:38 AM on Sunday, February 8

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has reopened after a two-day closure

4:37 AM on Sunday, February 8

France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center

4:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

Buckingham Palace says Nigeria’s president will make a state visit to the U.K. in March

3:07 AM on Sunday, February 8

Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison

12:08 AM on Sunday, February 8

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesota

12:05 AM on Sunday, February 8

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro is heavily favored to defeat hard-right populist André Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff election

8:17 PM on Saturday, February 7

North Korean state media says the country's leadership will convene a major political conference later this month

8:04 PM on Saturday, February 7

Voting begins in Thailand's early general election with 3 main parties vying to form the next government

7:01 PM on Saturday, February 7

Vote counting is underway in Thailand's general election, seen as a three-way race among progressive, populist and patronage politics

5:07 PM on Saturday, February 7

Several dozen protesters were arrested outside a federal building in Minneapolis on the one-month anniversary of Renee Good's death

5:07 PM on Saturday, February 7

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a single-party majority in a key parliamentary election

3:28 PM on Saturday, February 7

Relatives and friends of Venezuelan opposition leaders and human rights defenders have protested outside a notorious prison in the capital

11:52 AM on Saturday, February 7

Haiti’s presidential council has stepped down after almost two years of tumultuous rule alongside a U.S.-backed prime minister who is expected to remain in power as the country prepares for the first general elections in a decade

11:51 AM on Saturday, February 7

President Donald Trump has endorsed Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna in an apparent reversal from his earlier criticism of the deal