Politics & Government News

1:31 AM on Saturday, March 21

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

1:19 AM on Saturday, March 21

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

1:18 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump says he is considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East

12:08 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump says his administration is considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East even as the United States announces it is sending more warships and Marines to the region and Iran threatens to attack tourist sites worldwide

12:01 AM on Saturday, March 21

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

9:17 PM on Friday, March 20

Ron Eller wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District

8:56 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

8:48 PM on Friday, March 20

Cuba rejects US request to import diesel for Havana embassy operations while Trump continues oil blockade of island

7:06 PM on Friday, March 20

7:02 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

7:00 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

6:52 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

6:22 PM on Friday, March 20

A Georgia appeals court says Fulton County doesn't have to seat two Republican picks to its election board

5:18 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

5:01 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

12:58 PM 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

10:47 AM on Friday, March 20

The Justice Department has filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of failing to address antisemitism on campus

9:04 AM on Friday, March 20

The White House is laying out a new framework that it wants Congress to use to shape national rules for artificial intelligence without curbing growth in the sector

1:34 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:33 AM on Friday, March 20

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