Politics & Government News

5:59 PM on Friday, July 24

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous territories along their border

4:37 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump keeps finding ways to maintain a wall of tariffs around the American economy

3:55 PM on Friday, July 24

Virginia officials have released a scientific study on the state's groundwater supply and the possible impact of data centers after months of delays and mounting criticism

2:56 PM on Friday, July 24

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has received $242,000 to help county teams review child deaths, a state mandate that many struggle to maintain

2:25 PM on Friday, July 24

Texas courts are scrutinizing the state's child welfare agency more closely, especially when it comes to removing children from their families

2:21 PM on Friday, July 24

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk won a second term Friday despite opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel to keep him in one of the most controversial United Nations posts for four more years

1:31 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices

12:40 PM on Friday, July 24

The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military

12:19 PM on Friday, July 24

Eleven people have been charged with causing the deaths of seven migrants by trapping them inside a cargo container in sweltering Texas heat

12:12 PM on Friday, July 24

Federal health officials have linked four more states to an outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite

10:36 AM on Friday, July 24

Maine Democrats who have been scrambling to tap a new nominee for a pivotal U.S. Senate race against Republican Susan Collins are expected to nominate Troy Jackson at a last-minute convention this weekend

10:32 AM on Friday, July 24

A new lawsuit argues that voters in swing state Wisconsin whose absentee ballots haven't arrived by Election Day should be allowed to cast provisional ballots at the polls to ensure their vote is counted

9:57 AM on Friday, July 24

Poland's main opposition party, Law and Justice, faces a split in a disagreement over its future direction

3:13 AM on Friday, July 24

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reshuffled top posts as he tries to boost his unpopular government

3:03 AM on Friday, July 24

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest set of tariffs has provoked heated objections from America’s trading partners

12:04 AM on Friday, July 24

Canadian officials are celebrating a new U.S.-Canada bridge over the Detroit River

12:02 AM on Friday, July 24

Democrats have selected South Carolina to hold the first presidential nominating contest in 2028

9:00 PM on Thursday, July 23

Chinese pastor Ezra Jin Mingri recounts how his fears turned to uncertainty and then joy after he was unexpectedly released from detention in China

7:06 PM on Thursday, July 23

Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries

4:33 PM on Thursday, July 23

Two descendants of Black people once enslaved by a Native American tribe are asking a federal court in Oklahoma to force tribal leaders to issue them citizenship cards as ordered a year ago by a tribal court