Government News
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A New Hampshire lawmaker accused of creating a misogynistic online forum is resisting calls for his resignation and says he will "stand strong for men's rights."
April 26, 2017 -
Turkey's main opposition party says it will challenge the outcome of the April 16 referendum on expanding the president's powers at the European Court of Human Rights
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump's pick to be the CIA's top lawyer says it would take a change in U.S. law to restart the program that allowed harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists in detention
April 26, 2017 -
A man has been wounded and a police chief injured after the suspect gained control of a police car as authorities investigated a report of possible counterfeit money in western Kentucky
April 26, 2017 -
Conservative House Freedom Caucus announces support for revised health care proposal; moderates still uncertain
April 26, 2017 -
Neven Ilic of Chile has been elected president of the Pan American Sports Organization
April 26, 2017 -
South Korean presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in has outraged members of the country's persecuted sexual minority groups by saying during a television debate that he opposes homosexuality
April 26, 2017 -
Israel says it has repelled a large cyberattack on government offices and private citizens
April 26, 2017 -
Egypt's government and its top Muslim religious institution, Al-Azhar, are in an angry fight over how to modernize the faith to counter radicals like the Islamic State group
April 26, 2017 -
An author on innovation in business has entered the Maryland governor's race
April 26, 2017 -
Florida's highest court will wait to hear all arguments before deciding if Florida's governor had the right to take away cases from a prosecutor who says her office won't seek the death penalty
April 26, 2017 -
One person has died and another was injured in hotly contested primary elections in the capital Nairobi, a Kenyan police official said Wednesday
April 26, 2017 -
Hungary's prime minister is dismissing concerns about a new higher education law after the EU launched legal action amid fears it is aimed at shutting down a George Soros-backed university
April 26, 2017 -
A former health minister of Azerbaijan who has been imprisoned since 2005 has been sentenced to seven more years behind bars
April 26, 2017 -
West Virginia's Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin says the Senate will back permanently extending health benefits for more than 22,000 retired miners and widows whose medical coverage is set to expire after April
April 26, 2017