Politics & Government News

1:49 AM on Friday, March 20

Israel has killed several top Iranian officials since the United States and Israel began strikes against Iran

1:00 AM on Friday, March 20

9:05 PM on Thursday, March 19

Democrats running for governor across the country are making tariffs a central element of their political message this year

6:24 PM on Thursday, March 19

Nicholas Haysom has died at 73

5:21 PM on Thursday, March 19

A reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee who contends she was wrongly held in a detention center for more than two weeks has been released

3:29 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Senate debate over voting legislation is airing out differences on voter ID

3:10 PM on Thursday, March 19

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diverging language on Israel’s decision to attack a critical Iranian gas field marks the most notable difference of opinion between the two leaders since the start of the war against Iran

2:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

There's a small sign of progress in efforts to end the Homeland Security shutdown

2:43 PM on Thursday, March 19

A federal arts commission has approved the design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing President Donald Trump's image to celebrate America's 250th birthday

1:22 PM on Thursday, March 19

Cuba is preparing to receive its first shipment of Russian oil this year, just days after the government announced it was operating on natural gas, solar power and thermoelectric plants as severe power outages continue to hit an island whose power grid is crumbling

1:07 PM on Thursday, March 19

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal attorney testifies to a House committee that he was unaware of the late financier’s sexual abuse of underage girls at the time it was happening

1:02 PM on Thursday, March 19

The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department

1:00 PM on Thursday, March 19

Two agents fired from the FBI last year say in a federal lawsuit they were terminated “solely” because of their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election

11:52 AM on Thursday, March 19

The wait times at airport security checkpoints have become a guessing game during the shutdown of a single U.S. government department

10:57 AM on Thursday, March 19

Within hours of explosive sexual abuse allegations against labor leader César Chavez, officials at a California university took swift action and covered a statue of him

7:31 AM on Thursday, March 19

Macao’s lawmakers on Thursday unanimously passed a law that could allow closed-door court proceedings if the authorities deemed public hearings would harm national security

10:32 PM on Wednesday, March 18

European leaders have demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a moratorium on strikes on water and energy infrastructure in the Middle East as they met in Brussels to grapple with rising energy prices caused by the war

10:26 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year

9:07 PM on Wednesday, March 18

There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war

10:18 AM on Saturday, March 7