Government News
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India has ordered internet service providers in Indian-controlled Kashmir to block Facebook, Twitter and 20 other social media sites and online applications for one month
April 27, 2017 -
President Donald Trump has told the leaders of Mexico and Canada that he will not immediately bolt the North American Free Trade Agreement, just hours after administration officials said he was considering a draft executive order to withdraw
April 27, 2017 -
Japan's central bank has ended a policy meeting without changing its ultra-lax monetary stance
April 27, 2017 -
Authorities say a local fire company has opened its doors to serve as a temporary shelter for residents prevented from returning to their homes while police continue to try to negotiate with the suspect in the fatal shooting of a Delaware state trooper
April 27, 2017 -
An acute shortage of gasoline in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang has gone on for a week with no explanation
April 27, 2017 -
A Tennessee sheriff and the state government of Illinois are among the 2017 recipients of a Virginia free-speech group's satiric awards for what it considers the past year's most egregious offenses
April 27, 2017 -
Small business owners don't plan a hiring binge if the Trump administration's plan to lower tax rates becomes law
April 27, 2017 -
France's foreign minister says chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria shows that the nerve agent used "bears the signature" of President Bashar Assad's government and shows it was responsible
April 27, 2017 -
Syrian opposition activists and a monitor say a large explosion has rocked the Syrian capital, followed by a fire near Damascus airport
April 27, 2017 -
The White House and congressional Democrats on Wednesday defused a tense stand-off over payments for the working poor under the health care law, keeping a massive government spending bill on track just days ahead of a shutdown deadline
April 26, 2017 -
Republicans controlling the House have unveiled a stopgap bill to keep the government open past a shutdown deadline of midnight Friday.
April 26, 2017 -
Venezuela's government says it is going ahead with its threat to withdraw from the Organization of American States, the regional body whose leader has been one of the fiercest critics of embattled socialist President Nicolas Maduro
April 26, 2017 -
The North Carolina legislature seized the initiative in a monthslong effort to weaken Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, overriding his veto of a Republican bill that would reduce the number of judges on the state Court of Appeals
April 26, 2017 -
10 Things to Know for Thursday: Trump tax plan could be good news for many, bad for deficit; Trump team softens war talk, vows other pressure on North Korea; Trump says Mexico, Canada agree to renegotiate NAFTA
April 26, 2017 -
The White House is giving the Pentagon greater flexibility to determine the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, in another move by President Donald Trump to shift greater power to his military leaders
April 26, 2017