Politics & Government News

2:15 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace

2:08 PM on Tuesday, July 21

Moldova's pro-Western parliament has elected investor Vasile Tofan as prime minister

2:07 PM on Tuesday, July 21

1:41 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya

11:46 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms

11:14 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is pushing back against a White House report labeling the institution's leadership as radical activists

11:04 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Prosecutors in Hungary have raided offices housing data servers used by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party

10:42 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The United Nations refugee agency says it is “extremely saddened” after nearly 150 people died or went missing off Mauritania last week

10:40 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Prosecutors say the man charged with killing former British politician Ann Widdecombe struck her 21 times in the head with a hammer

8:40 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The deposed leader of Turkey's main opposition has announced plans to form a new political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

8:27 AM on Tuesday, July 21

8:12 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Joe Biden disagrees with an appeals court's rejection of his effort to block the release of audio recordings of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter

6:01 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Southeast Asia’s top diplomats have opened three days of talks in the Philippine capital with an agenda topped by their most daunting security problems

4:51 AM on Tuesday, July 21

A descendant of an executed opponent of the Nazis tried to remove a wreath from the far-right Alternative for Germany party at an event in Berlin marking the 82nd anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler

4:41 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Supporters of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement demanding educational reforms and government accountability say they will continue their protest in New Delhi

2:40 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Japanese officials have expressed concern after a Chinese navy destroyer conducted live-fire drills off one of Japan’s remote islands

12:01 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The U.S. and Iran are back to bombing every day in a bid to control the Strait of Hormuz

5:17 PM on Monday, July 20

The U.S. government says it has suspended funding for the U.S. Virgin Islands’ housing authority after an investigation found widespread corruption

2:02 PM on Monday, July 20

A court document says President Donald Trump's administration sought New York Times journalists’ phone records and even those of some of their relatives in an attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet

1:12 AM on Sunday, July 19

Andy Burnham faces major challenges ahead as the latest British prime minister to take up residence in 10 Downing Street