Politics & Government News

5:00 AM on Friday, May 29

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is running for reelection after a tough first term

2:03 AM on Friday, May 29

President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict

1:34 AM on Friday, May 29

The Philippines' top diplomat says Southeast Asian leaders will hold a commemorative summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia in June

8:43 PM on Thursday, May 28

A federal judge has ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to carry out executions does not violate the U.S. Constitution

6:35 PM on Thursday, May 28

A court investigation found that a federal judge had an affair with a police officer, including having sex in chambers overheard by staff, but remains on the bench with a “private reprimand.”

6:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

5:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade

5:36 PM on Thursday, May 28

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3:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo denies an agreement with the U.S. for anti-drug trafficking operations in Guatemala

3:11 PM on Thursday, May 28

Protesters have clashed with armed federal immigration officers in front of a New Jersey detention center where advocates have asserted detainees are staging a hunger strike

3:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots

1:20 PM on Thursday, May 28

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a new partnership with the United States

12:39 PM on Thursday, May 28

Martina McBride, Morris Day, the Commodores and Young MC have all announced they will not perform at “The Great American State Fair” on Washington's National Mall

12:00 PM on Thursday, May 28

Other southern states are advocating for South Carolina to remain the first to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries

10:25 AM on Thursday, May 28

Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has backtracked on an earlier comment about running for president in 2028, saying she has “nothing to announce.”

9:07 AM on Thursday, May 28

Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups

9:02 AM on Thursday, May 28

The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denies that his office has opened an investigation into E

1:10 AM on Thursday, May 28

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

12:12 AM on Thursday, May 28

Colombia is set to elect a new president and vice president in a vote Sunday seen as a referendum on President Gustavo Petro’s policies

5:10 PM on Tuesday, May 26

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has moved from suburban Maryland to downtown Washington, and not all spellers and their families appreciate the change