Politics & Government News

7:10 PM on Saturday, February 7

Savannah Guthrie has told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return

7:01 PM on Saturday, February 7

Voters in Thailand are heading to the polls for an early general election

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

1:27 PM on Saturday, February 7

An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month

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

12:02 PM on Saturday, February 7

President Donald Trump plans to convene the first meeting of his Board of Peace this month in Washington to raise money for the reconstruction of Gaza

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

11:26 AM on Saturday, February 7

Syria and Saudi Arabia have signed multibillion-dollar investment agreements, including a major telecommunications project and a low-cost joint airline

10:55 AM on Saturday, February 7

The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus says the Trump administration has a chance to change after President Donald Trump posted a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as primates in the jungle

10:41 AM on Saturday, February 7

10:41 AM on Saturday, February 7

12:01 AM on Saturday, February 7

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked

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