PM’s supermajority opens foreign policy options — including talks with Russia Budget-threatening political crisis in Taipei adds to unease amid Trump turbulence The politics of rebuilding in a city of memories. CBC Radio’s The House takes you behind the scenes of Canadian politics.<\/p>\n
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Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections at the LDP headquarters Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 in Tokyo. Check this page for latest political news today including live updates and breaking headlines from Australia and around the world. February 8, 2026 \u2022 Vote counting was underway in Thailand’s early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics. The Department of Homeland Security has faced criticism over law enforcement tactics targeting undocumented immigrants and the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. February 10, 2026 \u2022 The hearing underscored how deeply divided Republicans and Democrats remain on top-level changes to immigration enforcement in the wake of the shootings of two U.S. citizens. February 10, 2026 \u2022 An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.<\/p>\n
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Canada’s premier daily political show, 5 to 7 p.m. Personalise the news and French president has urged the bloc to learn lessons from \u2018the Greenland moment\u2019 and undertake urgent reforms. The lawmakers said redactions wrongly concealed some names and information. The previous cases were tossed due to a U.S. attorney’s unlawful appointment.<\/p>\n
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I cover justice and the rule of law, including the Justice Department, U.S. attorneys and the courts. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona has detained a person of interest connected with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, according to two law enforcement sources. With the search for Nancy Guthrie in its tenth day, law enforcement sources told CBS News that the Pima County Sheriff’s Office detained a person for questioning. The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy \u2014 and that’s a significant undercount. Est\u00e9e Lauder lawsuit alleges Walmart sells fake versions of products from brands including Aveda, Clinique and Tom Ford. A 14-year-old girl said she was \u00ab\u00a0crying\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0struggling to breathe\u00a0\u00bb when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.<\/p>\n