Politics & Government News

6:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump is willing to “crush” Russia's economy with sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

5:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has been projecting himself as a global peacemaker since returning to the White house in January, claiming to have ended seven wars during the first months of his second term

5:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Syrian state media say that Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris

3:53 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Minnesota has joined a wave of states suing TikTok, claiming the app uses addictive algorithms that harm young people's mental health

3:52 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 officials, alleging they weaponized intelligence, AP sources say

3:13 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Major cuts in humanitarian aid have left victims of sexual violence in conflicts around the world without lifesaving help as clinics and shelters close

3:04 PM on Tuesday, August 19

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D

2:46 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Trump's Justice Department is investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data, AP source says

2:18 PM on Tuesday, August 19

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2:16 PM on Tuesday, August 19

The Justice Department official tapped by President Donald Trump’s administration to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter urging the Democrat to resign from office “as an act of good faith” four days into his probe

2:05 PM on Tuesday, August 19

1:28 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Georgia Republicans are pushing to eliminate the state income tax as the 2026 election approaches

11:35 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The remote Amazon island of Santa Rosa is at the center of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia

10:57 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon are urging South American presidents to turn promises to the protect the region's rainforest into action at a summit in Bogota

7:57 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Pakistan has restored 70% of electricity and reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest after flash floods killed more than 300 people

7:43 AM on Tuesday, August 19

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed part of a lawsuit that claimed detainees were denied access to the legal system at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

1:15 AM on Tuesday, August 19

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday confirmed the U.S. government is vying for a 10% stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in an unusual deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers and punctuate a dramatic about-face from the president’s recent push to oust the company’s CEO

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas

12:01 AM on Tuesday, August 19

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday

7:27 PM on Monday, August 18

Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”