Politics & Government News

12:13 PM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump says he'll order federal immigration officers to take a role soon in airport security unless Democrats agree on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security

11:23 AM on Saturday, March 21

The Senate has blocked a proposal that would ban transgender athletes from playing in women’s sports

10:11 AM on Saturday, March 21

Airline passengers are saying that Transportation Security Administration workers need to get paid

6:14 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump took the United States to war without a vote of support from Congress

5:05 AM on Saturday, March 21

There are races in 30 states this year for attorney general, and groups that support those candidates prepared for the elections by raising record amounts in 2025

4:50 AM on Saturday, March 21

High level officials usually shy away from public discussion of Japan’s 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor

1:53 AM on Saturday, March 21

Russia and Ukraine have traded deadly strikes as Ukraine pushes the U.S. to restart stalled peace talks

10:31 PM on Friday, March 20

Authorities in nearly a dozen regions across Russian have refused to authorize protests in recent weeks over internet censorship and the blocking of Telegram, a popular messaging app

10:19 PM on Friday, March 20

Accounts are emerging from people deported from the U.S. to the African petrostate of Equatorial Guinea in a multi-million-dollar, third-country deal with the Trump administration

9:01 PM on Friday, March 20

A judge this week ruled that Voice of America's employees — and the news organization itself — get back to work

5:56 PM on Friday, March 20

The Cuban government has refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana to allow it to import diesel for its generators while the Trump administration continues to impose a fuel blockade on the island, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter

4:06 PM on Friday, March 20

4:02 PM on Friday, March 20

Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations have started arriving in Cuba as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a severe energy crisis

4:00 PM on Friday, March 20

Costa Rican authorities say a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat off the country's coast has left at least two people dead and one critically injured

3:52 PM on Friday, March 20

The Chicago Transit Authority has filed a federal lawsuit seeking the restoration of $2 billion in commuter rail expansion funding that President Donald Trump’s administration stopped last fall

2:18 PM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters’ access to the Pentagon, ruling that key portions of the new rules are unlawful

2:01 PM on Friday, March 20

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security has failed to advance in the Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some of the country’s biggest airports

9:58 AM on Friday, March 20

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press

10:34 PM on Thursday, March 19

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East

9:33 PM on Thursday, March 19

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring