Politics & Government News

2:21 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Authorities say that social media platforms should not require age verification for all users when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in December in Australia

1:45 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Palestinian residents have reported heavy strikes across Gaza City and Israel's defense minister has said "Gaza is burning."

1:23 AM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists

12:32 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Voting is underway in Malawi’s elections, where the country will choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives

12:10 AM on Tuesday, September 16

As Congress nears sending the U.S. into a government shutdown, Michigan faces its own

12:08 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Tuesday's special legislative election in Minnesota will determine control of the state House

12:06 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Kash Patel will confront skeptical Senate Democrats at a congressional hearing likely to be dominated by questions about the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing as well as the recent firings of senior officials who have accused the FBI director of illegal political retribution

12:04 AM on Tuesday, September 16

A private school founded by a Hawaiian princess gives admissions preference to Native Hawaiian applicants

12:04 AM on Tuesday, September 16

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in the United Kingdom for a state visit

12:02 AM on Tuesday, September 16

A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district

12:02 AM on Tuesday, September 16

A swarm of Russian drones flew last week into Poland in what officials there regarded as a deliberate provocation

12:02 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Prosecutors are looking at filing a capital murder charge against the Utah man jailed in the killing of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk

10:27 PM on Monday, September 15

Australia has offered to gift Papua New Guinea an extension to its Parliament House as the South Pacific island nation celebrates its 50th independence anniversary

9:33 PM on Monday, September 15

The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades

9:30 PM on Monday, September 15

Trump administration adds Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time since 1990s

7:12 PM on Monday, September 15

Security at Charlie Kirk's speaking events and college campus debates around the country varied greatly

6:04 PM on Monday, September 15

Vice President JD Vance is jumping onto the conservative movement demanding consequences for those who have cheered Charlie Kirk’s killing, calling on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally

5:17 PM on Monday, September 15

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has requested $13.5 billion more from Congress for Hurricane Helene recovery aid

3:49 PM on Monday, September 15

Ghana has become the latest African country to accept third-country nationals deported by the U.S. This controversial practice has raised legal concerns

8:34 AM on Monday, September 15

A framework deal has been reached between China and the U.S. for the ownership of TikTok