Politics & Government News

5:06 AM on Sunday, February 8

Polls have closed in Thailand's general election where 3 main parties are competing for power

4:37 AM on Sunday, February 8

France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center

4:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

Buckingham Palace says Nigeria’s president will make a state visit to the U.K. in March

3:07 AM on Sunday, February 8

Iran's top diplomat says Tehran's strength comes from its ability to “say no to the great powers.”

12:08 AM on Sunday, February 8

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesota

12:05 AM on Sunday, February 8

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro is heavily favored to defeat hard-right populist André Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff election

8:17 PM on Saturday, February 7

North Korean state media says the country's leadership will convene a major political conference later this month

8:04 PM on Saturday, February 7

Voting begins in Thailand's early general election with 3 main parties vying to form the next government

7:01 PM on Saturday, February 7

Vote counting is underway in Thailand's early general election, seen as a three-way race among progressive, populist, and patronage politics

5:53 PM on Saturday, February 7

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump's administration can continue detaining immigrants without bond

5:07 PM on Saturday, February 7

Several dozen protesters were arrested outside a federal building in Minneapolis on the one-month anniversary of Renee Good's death

5:07 PM on Saturday, February 7

Polls opened Sunday in Japanese parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling governing party a big enough win to be able to push forward an ambitious conservative political agenda

5:02 PM on Saturday, February 7

Polls open in Japan elections that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will allow her to push new conservative policies

3:28 PM on Saturday, February 7

Relatives and friends of Venezuelan opposition leaders and human rights defenders have protested outside a notorious prison in the capital

2:37 PM on Saturday, February 7

President Donald Trump is facing rare criticism from his Republican Party over a racist video

1:19 PM on Saturday, February 7

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about the U.S. talks with Iran

11:52 AM on Saturday, February 7

Haiti’s presidential council has stepped down after almost two years of tumultuous rule alongside a U.S.-backed prime minister who is expected to remain in power as the country prepares for the first general elections in a decade

11:51 AM on Saturday, February 7

President Donald Trump has endorsed Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna in an apparent reversal from his earlier criticism of the deal

Saturday, February 7

Democrats are focusing on health care in the November elections and making it a key issue

11:58 PM on Friday, February 6

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is heading into a challenging reelection bid as she continues to suffer fallout from last year’s devastating wildfire