Politics & Government News

5:22 AM on Wednesday, October 29

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed Japan's commitment to accelerate its military buildup and defense spending

3:30 AM on Wednesday, October 29

12:14 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is running for reelection against three lesser-known candidates, arguing that the city has seen major improvements during his first term in office

12:13 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Detroit voters will choose a new mayor Tuesday in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years

12:07 AM on Wednesday, October 29

California voters head to the polls on Tuesday with just one yes-or-no question on the ballot

12:01 AM on Wednesday, October 29

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America is pulling the ship out of the Mediterranean Sea

11:00 PM on Tuesday, October 28

South Korea is hosting leaders from major Pacific Rim economies, including the U.S., China, and Japan, for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit

8:55 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal judge has ruled acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Southern California is serving in the role unlawfully

8:05 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that President Donald Trump attended

8:03 PM on Tuesday, October 28

White House urged firing live bombs, not dummies, for celebration for US Navy that Trump attended, AP sources say

6:16 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Opposition leaders in Cameroon Tuesday contested the results of the Oct. 12 presidential election after the country’s top court declared the world’s oldest leader Paul Biya winner

5:49 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats test GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy

5:29 PM on Tuesday, October 28

President Donald Trump has acknowledged that he cannot run for a third term, citing constitutional limits, despite his interest in staying in the White House

1:21 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A new lawsuit by Democratic state officials seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans keep buying food for their families after federal SNAP funding is expected run dry Saturday due to the U.S. government shutdown

8:28 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in the 174 years since records began

5:17 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The Dutch election for all 150 seats in the lower Second Chamber of parliament is forecast to be a close race between Geert Wilders' populist Party for Freedom and the center-left bloc of the Labor Party and Green Left

4:04 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Pakistan's information minister says peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have failed after four days of negotiations

12:20 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has hit southwestern Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, causing heavy flooding and wind damage

12:02 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown

10:36 PM on Monday, October 27

China has signed an expanded free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations