POLITICS

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons.

An 18-year-old college student has been elected to serve as mayor of a small east Arkansas city, becoming one of the youngest people to serve as a city’s top leader in the U.S.

French energy giant TotalEnergies says it will walk away from its stake in Russian natural gas producer Novatek and take a $3.7 billion loss.

A senior official at the federal Bureau of Prisons has been repeatedly promoted, most recently to one of the highest posts in the agency.

German authorities say judges have confirmed the arrest of 23 people suspected of planning to topple the government, while the extradition of two others detained abroad is being sought.

A representative of one of the organizations sharing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize says Russian President Vladimir Putin should face an international tribunal for the fighting in Ukraine.

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she has switched her registration to independent.

After disappointing results in this year's elections, Republicans are reevaluating their antipathy to mail voting.

Brittney Griner has returned to the United States, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm.

Britain is easing banking rules brought in after the 2008 global financial crisis in a bid to attract investment and secure London’s status as Europe’s leading finance center.

Social media users are reporting a rash of COVID-19 cases in schools and businesses across China after the ruling Communist Party loosened anti-virus rules as it tries to reverse a deepening economic slump.

Ukraine's finance minister says crucial Western financial aid is “not charity” but “self-preservation" as donor countries share the price of turning back Russian aggression.

For some children in low-income areas in England, a school lunch may be the only nutritious hot meal they get in a day.

A month into the nation’s largest strike involving higher education, the work stoppage by University of California academic workers at 10 campuses is causing stress for many undergraduate students.

Peru’s first female president is pushing to cement her hold on power, saying she expects to complete the term of her ousted predecessor and buck the trend of presidential failures blighting the Andean nation.

Passing legislation to protect same-sex marriages in the Senate was a monthslong effort, building on a decadeslong push.

The head of American military operations in space says the U.S. is closely monitoring Chinese activities that pose a potential risk to its assets in space.

Two reviews of the May escape of a Texas inmate that resulted in the deaths of five people found a multitude of security lapses such as inadequate strip searches and poorly applied restraints helped lead to his getaway.

Japan has announced it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the U.K. and Italy.

Officials say the U.S. is sending an additional $275 million in military aid to Ukraine, including large amounts of ammunition and high-tech systems that can be used to detect and counter drones in its ongoing war with Russia.

New Mexico officials are outlining new conditions for a proposed permit for the U.S. government to continue disposing of nuclear waste in the state's southeast corner.

The one-for-one swap involving Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout was not the one that U.S. officials had hoped to negotiate or were initially willing to accept.

A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military has passed the House.

Reflecting on her five years as New Zealand’s leader, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says China has undoubtedly become more assertive in the region over that time, but cautions that building relationships with small Pacific nations shouldn’t become a game of one-upmanship.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has criticized former President Donald Trump for dining with a white nationalist.

With the passage of the the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages, The Associated Press is republishing its 1967 story by reporter Karl R.

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry.

Imprisoned Belarusian human rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with rights groups in Russia and Ukraine, hasn’t been allowed by Belarus authorities to hand over his speech for the award ceremony.

Memphis has long suffered from disproportionately high homicide rates.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has been elected for another term as Democratic leader in the Senate.

Donald Trump arrived in Washington with a hodgepodge of ideas developed over decades in business and television that were far outside the Republican mainstream.

Ukrainian officials claim Russian forces have installed multiple rocket launchers at Ukraine’s shut-down Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Across the United States, many Jewish Americans are closely following the recent high-profile surge in antisemitic rhetoric and actions.

American basketball star Brittney Griner is heading home, freed from Russian prison in exchange for the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Federal regulators opened their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of a virtual-reality company in a San Jose, California, courtroom.

The European Union’s top court says Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has unveiled the first U.S. currency bearing her signature, marking the first time that U.S. currency will bear the name of a female treasury secretary.

Donald Trump’s attacks on fellow Republican David McCormick contributed to the former hedge fund manager’s loss in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary in May.

President Joe Biden's administration is providing nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan.

China has begun implementing a more relaxed version of its strict “zero COVID” policy amid steps to restore normal life, but also trepidation over a possible broader outbreak once controls are eased.

People across China are reacting with relief and caution to the dramatic government decision to loosen some of the world’s most severe COVID-19 restrictions.

In a move that caught many by surprise, China announced a potentially major easing of its rigid “zero-COVID" restrictions.

2022's most notable quotations include a tart retort by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a U.S. offer of help.

A Pennsylvania government panel is considering adding extensive definitions of sex, religious creed and race to nondiscrimination regulations.

Vice President Kamala Harris has outpaced all her predecessors for the number of tiebreaking votes cast in the Senate.

The House has given final approval to protections for same-sex marriages.

President Joe Biden is facing consistent but critical assessments of his leadership and the national economy as his second year in the White House comes to a close.

At his initial court appearance in Lima, Peru on Thursday, Pedro Castillo gave only yes or no answers, looking on downcast as his attorney argued that he had been arbitrarily detained.

South Korea’s government has expanded its back-to-work orders against thousands of cargo truck drivers who are staging a nationwide walkout over freight fare issues.

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid- to late-1900s.

Experts say why they think it appears increasingly difficult for prime ministers to remain in power.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen make bitter attacks on each other ahead of Sunday's election.

Chileans are voting for president Sunday with a mix of dread, optimism and above all uncertainty about what lies ahead after a wave of social and political unrest that includes the current effort to rewrite the constitution

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Christopher Hope is joined by Telegraph colleagues Camilla Tominey and Tony Diver in this week's Chopper's Politics podcast to discuss what can be learned from three very different recent by-elections. Our associate political editor, Camilla Tominey feels that going forward the same issue faces both the Tories and Labour: "They need to nail their colours to the mast. What kind of Labour party is Sir Keir Starmer going to lead, and equally now he's got Brexit done, what is Boris Johnson's ideolog

With baseball season's opening day around the corner, “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson takes a look back at presidential first pitches, a tradition more than 100 years in the making.

James Bennet of the Atlantic, Ben Domenech of the Federalist, Jeanne Cummings of the Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ David Rohde predict the changing political tides igniting the campaign trail in 2016.

Politics: The third rail of dating? CBS News explores whether political dating websites can help singles find their running mates

How politics could affect the fight against ISIS Ruth Marcus, David Sanger, Nancy Youssef, and John Harris discuss the intersection of U.S. politics and the fight against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria.

Ben Bradlee talks politics with Martin Luther King, Jr. The late executive editor of the Washington Post interviewed the civil rights crusader on "Face the Nation" in 1964.

Is big money taking over American politics? Tom Friedman, Amy Walter, Todd Purdum, and CBS News' John Dickerson discuss the growing power of high-dollar donors and how fundraising is changing politics in America.