Politics & Government News

8:10 AM on Friday, January 9

A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others

7:20 AM on Friday, January 9

Lebanon's government has signed a deal with an international consortium for gas exploration in an offshore area bordering Israel

6:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide

4:31 AM on Friday, January 9

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland

4:18 AM on Friday, January 9

Iran leader: Protesters 'ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy,' referring to Trump

11:41 PM on Thursday, January 8

A reporter covering crime in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz has been killed in Poza Rica

10:34 PM on Thursday, January 8

A Honduran lawmaker from the National Party has been injured after a homemade explosive was thrown into Congress

10:21 PM on Thursday, January 8

Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs

9:00 PM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty

7:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon

3:58 PM on Thursday, January 8

Colorado’s attorney general is accusing the Trump administration of waging a “revenge campaign” against the state

12:31 PM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges

8:46 AM on Thursday, January 8

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House has passed legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act

6:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza

4:56 AM on Thursday, January 8

Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls

4:44 AM on Thursday, January 8

Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify

2:13 AM on Thursday, January 8

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has delivered his final State of the State address to lawmakers in Sacramento

2:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

12:24 AM on Thursday, January 8

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was a U.S. citizen and mother of a 6-year-old

10:28 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Protesters have confronted federal officers in Minneapolis the day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer