government and politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Groups hoping to squeeze partisan politics out of how states shape congressional districts are hailing a Supreme Court decision that...

LIVINGSTON, N.J. (AP) — A tough-talking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie launched his 2016 campaign for president Tuesday with a promise to tell voters ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian security official says a bomb blast near a police station killed three people, a day after the assassination of the country's...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece's financial woes as it faces a big repayment to the International Monetary Fund and its bailout progra...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The governor of California has signed a contentious bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the count...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is failing to hire and promote sufficient numbers of minorities despite years of vowing to do so, Director John Brennan said...

VIENNA (AP) — Pushing past a deadline, world powers and Iran extended negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear agreement by a week on Tuesday as the U...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police antagonized crowds gathered to protest in Ferguson, violated free-speech rights and made it difficult to hold officers acc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to allow Texas to enforce restrictions that would force 10 abortion clinics to close. The justic...

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC said Monday that it is ending its business relationship with mogul and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump because of comments...

NEW YORK (AP) — A petition asking NBC to fire Donald Trump has collected more than 200,000 signatures. Posted on the Change.org website, the petition ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The funeral for the victim whose husband offered forgiveness to the suspect in the deadly shootings at a South Carolina church...

CAIRO (AP) — A car bomb killed Egypt's top prosecutor on Monday, ripping through his convoy in a Cairo neighborhood, in the first assassination of a t...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who's spent the year testing his scrappy political style and pragmatic policy positions around the countr...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Saudi man who blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque in Kuwait managed to slip out of his home country without ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions Monday, even as two dissenting ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor warned that Puerto Rico can't pay its $72 billion public debt as international economists released a critica...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie enters the race for president this week, he'll do so as an underdog. The launch of the Republ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is making it easier for some Indian tribes to obtain federal recognition, addressing a longstanding grievan...

MALONE, N.Y. (AP) — Two convicted murderers who escaped from prison and eluded a massive manhunt for three weeks had initially planned to drive to Mex...