Latest and Breaking Politics News and Top Stories - July 4
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The owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review spent millions during the 1990s trying to discredit President Bill Clinton
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Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones.
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As protesters block buses full of detainees from entering a border patrol station, many Murrieta residents say the federal government is the real root of the problem.
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Legislation relating to unpaid work schemes is ruled "incompatible" with the European Convention on Human Rights.
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There will always be politics in government appointments – but that doesn't mean the process can't be made more meritorious and more transparent.
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Sarah Ferguson believes you should always force yourself to do things that make you uncomfortable.
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Former NSW premier Barry O'Farrell intervened in the community consultation process for a wind farm in the Southern Tablelands after being lobbied by the federal Liberal Party's chief business adviser, Maurice Newman, who owns a multimil...
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Australia has secretly shipped asylum seekers back to a regime accused of systematic torture, rape and persecution.
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Edna Griggs keenly remembers the anger and outrage she felt during the 2012 general election when she watched as African-American senior citizens were forced to wait in long lines in the Houston heat as they cued up to vote at the Acres ...
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Talking immigration reform is good business for both Democrats and Republicans -- which is why nothing ever gets done.
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Jose Vargas, the director of "Documented," talks about his struggle to become a legal US citizen.
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Pablo Alvarado says all the children trying to cross the U.S. border shows immigration is a humanitarian crisis that can't be solved with soldiers and handcuffs.
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Sally Kohn says the intensity of the anti-immigrant rhetoric is stunning. It's time to stop using 'illegal' as an epithet
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To Jay DeLancy, North Carolina is fraught with voter fraud and the state is doing nothing about it.
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Museums in the rest of the UK are being starved of cash due to the funding grip held by London, says the director general of National Museum Wales.
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A row over an enforced all-women shortlist in the Labour seat being vacated by MP Ann Clwyd escalates as the local party decides to "go on strike".
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Runners and riders in race to be UK's next EU Commissioner
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President Barack Obama hopes to put a human face on the heated political debate over immigration on Friday when he oversees a naturalization ceremony for members of the military.
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He says there are people "we have no control over."
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Following reports of a specific terrorist threat to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, the U.S. Embassy in Kampala is urging travelers to review their travel plans in light of information that suggests terrorists may attack the air...
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(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called for better relations with the United States on Friday in a congratulatory message to President Barack Obama marking U.S. Independence Day.
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(Reuters) - Nearly 50 Indian nurses from the southern state of Kerala have been taken against their will from a hospital in the militant-controlled city of Tikrit in Iraq, India's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. At a briefing with rep...
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About 70 Indian citizens, including dozens of Indian nurses who were held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, are expected to return home Saturday, according to reports.
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SODERTALJE, Sweden -- What's most remarkable about this small Swedish city is how profoundly it's been shaped by distant civil wars. Because of Sweden’s embrace of political refugees, Sodertalje’s proximity to Stockholm and the tendency ...
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Iran has yielded a bit to demands to reduce its future nuclear program in talks with six world powers, but Western governments want it to compromise further, diplomats told Reuters Thursday.
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President Obama may request to change a Bush-era law to fast-track deportations of child migrants, whose numbers have been surging in recent months, a move that immigration reform advocates say could turn away many children who qualify f...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s current visit to South Korea has received almost as much attention for a country he's not going to: North Korea.
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Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and the de facto government in the Gaza strip, has reportedly agreed to an Egypt-mediated ceasefire with Israel, BBC reported Friday, citing a source. Egyptian officials have been successful...
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Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests on July 1 attracted tens of thousands of supporters who marched across the city, opposing the Chinese government’s efforts to exert more control on the special administrative region. In China, some loca...
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(Reuters) - The Iraqi army drove Sunni insurgents out of late dictator Saddam Hussein's home village, state media and police said, part of a campaign to retake wide areas of northern and western Iraq overrun by the rebels.
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(Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for improving U.S. ties during a meeting with Senator John McCain in New Delhi on Thursday, as the two countries seek to patch up their differences and boost their economic relationship. Th...
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The Taliban on Thursday fired two rockets at Kabul airport burning down Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s helicopter along with three other parked helicopters. The attack on the airport, which serves as a base for NATO forces and as a term...
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Stating that an independent nation is a “natural right” of the Kurdish people, Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, asked Iraq's parliament to prepare for a referendum on a sovereign Kurdistan, Al-Jazeera repor...
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday sent 30,000 troops to its border with Iraq, claiming that Iraq’s military deserted the area in the face of an onslaught from the Islamist State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
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The Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday that temporarily allows a Christian college to notify the federal government it will not provide contraception as part of its health plan via written note, not a federally issued form. The th...
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A veteran who needed an ambulance after collapsing in the cafeteria of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Veterans Affairs hospital, a short distance from the emergency room, died after waiting 30 minutes for EMS to arrive, VA officials said T...
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Wimbledon men's semi-final from Centre Court Send any thoughts to xan.brooks@theguardian.com Or get in touch over on the Twitter @XanBrooks All the latest Wimbledon news and comment 2.19pm BST Second set: Dimitrov 4-6, 5-3 Djokovic* (*de...
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Download the latest World Cup podcast here Check out the latest brick-by-brick videos Which World Cup player are you? Take our test Latest results, schedule and fixtures Golden Boot table 2.16pm BST Never let it be said the World Cup liv...
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Numbers of British civil servants working for the EU are falling with fears the UK is under-represented in Brussels.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin called for an improvement in ties between Russia and the United States on Friday in an Independence Day message to Barack Obama, urging Washington to treat Moscow as an equal partner.
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Maria Cardona explains why Republicans forced the president to act on immigration.
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Hamas offering 'truce' if Israel halts air raids Reports of teargas fired at mourners Khdeir's family says video shows abduction Israel strikes more targets in Gaza HRW accuses Israel of inflicting collective punishment How do the events...
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Case deals a blow to get-tough federal policy toward refugees from countries the government considers safe
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What did you ever do to become an American? Perhaps you went through the arduous task of convincing your parents to give birth to you on U.S. soil. If so, then bravo, your cosmic ability to influence fate should be applauded. You chose y...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to highlight a positive side of the immigration debate by presiding over an Independence Day citizenship ceremony for service members who signed up to defend the U.S. even though they weren'...
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Loyalist paramilitaries will take a "peaceful approach" over the restriction of a contentious parade, says DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican who lost a primary runoff election to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran says he plans to challenge the results in court "any day now." Chris McDaniel says he believes there were thousands of irregularities. I...
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In an interview with CNN Friday, McDaniel said what matters is that fraud be uncovered where it exists and many Mississippi residents are "very angry" because they think their votes in the June 24 primary were nullified by fraud. Mississ...
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Mirwaiz urged the Centre to shun traditional approach on Kashmir.
