Politics & Government News

12:04 AM on Wednesday, February 25

Residents in a Southern California city want local police to stop letting federal immigration agents train at a publicly owned firing range

11:12 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Facing tough odds in an upcoming election, Hungary’s pro-Russian prime minister is trying to convince voters that the greatest threat to the country is not economic stagnation, but neighboring Ukraine

11:08 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to land in Israel for a two-day trip expected to focus on strengthening security, economic and technological cooperation between the two countries

11:05 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, delivered on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, as transcribed by The Associated Press

10:00 PM on Tuesday, February 24

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is meeting Chinese leaders to press for fairer trade rules and more help in ending the war in Ukraine

9:11 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Secretary of State Marco Rubio flies into the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis for talks with regional leaders who are unsettled about Trump administration policies

9:10 PM on Tuesday, February 24

A helicopter pilot wounded in the raid that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has received the Congressional Medal of Honor during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address

8:33 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has presented the Purple Heart medal during his State of the Union Address and honored two National Guard members who were shot while patrolling in Washington last year

7:54 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Trump breaks record for longest State of the Union, speaking for more than 1 hour and 41 minutes

6:45 PM on Tuesday, February 24

6:41 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Andrei Lankov, a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea who teaches at a Seoul university, says he was expelled from Latvia after being detained during a lecture in the country’s capital

12:53 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Authorities say a man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state as sheriff's deputies were on their way to deliver him a domestic violence protection order

9:23 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union has given his State of the Union address

7:32 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy

6:43 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Many Iranians are worried as the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East and the next round of talks in Geneva get closer

5:07 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger offered a sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s depiction of the nation as being in a “golden age” during his State of the Union address

9:10 PM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump has spent the last year boasting of his accomplishments while mocking the record of his predecessor, Joe Biden

9:08 PM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump has made the case for his foreign policy efforts to Americans who are increasingly demonstrating uneasiness about his priorities

9:03 PM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump has used a record-length State of the Union to argue that the country is “winning” under his leadership, even as his approval ratings slide

11:24 AM on Monday, February 9