Politics & Government News

4:23 PM on Friday, October 24

The Houthi rebels have detained two additional United Nations staff members and raided the homes of several others in Yemen over the last 48 hours

3:11 PM on Friday, October 24

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is impeding the defendant’s right to legal representation

3:02 PM on Friday, October 24

US imposes sanctions on Colombia’s president and family over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade

2:45 PM on Friday, October 24

Brazilian authorities say they have made progress in solving the housing shortage for attendees of the upcoming U.N. climate conference, while also defending a recent decision to allow exploratory drilling in the Amazon

2:45 PM on Friday, October 24

California is giving Planned Parenthood $140 million to help keep 109 clinics open after Congress cut funding for the health system in July

2:43 PM on Friday, October 24

Ontario Premier Ford will pull ad that prompted US President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada

2:14 PM on Friday, October 24

A federal judge is pausing his disqualification of Sigal Chattah as Nevada’s acting U.S. attorney while the Department of Justice appeals the decision

1:47 PM on Friday, October 24

Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan say delegations are going to Turkey for a second round of crisis talks

1:03 PM on Friday, October 24

A social media post from the official Alamo account recognizing Indigenous people has revived an enduring dispute over how the history of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution should be told

12:57 PM on Friday, October 24

12:45 PM on Friday, October 24

Nigeria’s president has replaced top security officials as his government grapples with unabated violence in the conflict-hit north and struggles with myriad security challenges

9:35 AM on Friday, October 24

A rubber dinghy carrying 18 migrants has sunk in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s southwestern coast, leaving at least 14 dead

9:11 AM on Friday, October 24

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America in the latest escalation of military firepower to a region

8:57 AM on Friday, October 24

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured a U.S.-led coordination center in southern Israel

7:52 AM on Friday, October 24

7:00 AM on Friday, October 24

A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election

1:47 AM on Friday, October 24

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending, and an early upgrading of the country's security strategy to allow more offensive roles and arms exports as tensions rise with China, North Korea and Russia

12:02 AM on Friday, October 24

Authorities say a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant that killed 16 people began in an area where workers used kettles to produce a mixture of explosives, and it set off other explosives stored nearby

Friday, October 24

New York Attorney General Letitia James is scheduled for trial in January after pleading not guilty to federal charges accusing her of lying on mortgage papers to secure favorable loan terms in a case pushed by President Donald Trump

5:18 PM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Homeland Security officials say a 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally