Politics

Congress has voted to temporarily extend a sweeping tool that has helped federal agents crack down on drugs chemically similar to fentanyl.

Jill Biden held a virtual reception Wednesday for guests who ordinarily would have joined the first lady in her box to watch President Joe Biden's primetime address to Congress.

Guatemalan civil society leaders say they will implore the United States to sanction more people linked to corruption and to promote the independence of the judicial system when they meet with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday.

A man charged with threatening to kill members of Congress testified on Tuesday that his disturbing social media rants were the work of a stoned and wasted provocateur not someone actually out for blood.

Several people including BJP candidate for the Kashipur-Belgachia assembly constituency, Sibaji Sinha Roy, were injured after a clash broke out between activists of the saffron party and a group of people in Kolkata on Friday evening, police said....

President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperateforhelp and the avidformoney for a global summit Thursday aimed at rallying the world's worst polluters to move faster against climate change.

Senate Democrats are spotlighting Georgia as they build their case for a broad overhaul of U.S. election law, arguing the new voting rules in the state are emblematic of Republican measures across the country that threaten access to the polls.

Nawab Malik said former BJP MLA from north Maharashtra Shirish Chaudhari illegally distributed to people Remdesivir vials which had not been exported due to a ban on it.

A total of 22 candidates are in the fray, but the main contest is between Rahul Lodhi of the BJP and Ajay Tandon of the Congress.

Early morning reports suggested that a massive number of voters turned up to cast their ballot, violating Covid-19 norms.

Brazils Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a Senate investigation of President Jair Bolsonaros handling of the pandemic to go forward, one of two cases it tackled that could affect the leaders bid for reelection next year.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday signed a measure that starts the process of honoring the late Billy Frank Jr. a Nisqually tribal member who championed treaty rights and protecting the environment with a statue at the U.S. Capitol.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said it is time to end America's longest war in Afghanistan, a responsibility which he does not want to pass on to his successor. Biden is the fourth US president to preside over the war in Afghanistan, which began in...

Sengar was the Zila Panchayat Chairperson of Unnao from 2016 to 2021, and was given a ticket from Fatehpur Chaurasi Tritaya seat.

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said Thursday that he believes he had COVID19 late last year, developing coronavirus symptoms and prompting him to wait at least three months to get vaccinated.

A Rajasthan BJP delegation met National Commission for Women chief Rekha Sharma here on Wednesday and handed over to her a memorandum highlighting the alleged rise in incidents of atrocities against women in the state. State BJP unit chief Satish Poonia...