Politics & Government News

2:07 AM on Thursday, March 5

Iranian state television airs message from an ayatollah calling for the ‘shedding’ of blood from Israelis and Trump

1:04 AM on Thursday, March 5

Iran's foreign minister says America 'will come to bitterly regret' the precedent it has set after sub sank frigate

10:02 PM on Wednesday, March 4

The House and Senate fight over war powers and Congress' role in Iran is just the latest wrangling in a constitutional tug of war

9:04 PM on Wednesday, March 4

A Pakistani man charged with plotting a political assassination in the U.S. is testifying in his defense at his attempted terrorism trial

9:02 PM on Wednesday, March 4

U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens has announced that he will not seek reelection after a redistricting shakeup left Utah's four Republican representatives to vie for three U.S. House seats this fall

8:18 PM on Wednesday, March 4

China has set an economic growth target of 4.5% to 5% for this year, a slight decrease in the face of a prolonged property slump and other headwinds and global uncertainty

8:16 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Polls open in Nepal for first parliamentary election since 2025 protests that toppled the previous government

7:20 PM on Wednesday, March 4

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether the one-time architect of President Donald Trump’s large-scale immigration crackdown made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith while criticizing the U.S. attorney for Minnesota

5:53 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Colorado’s Democratic governor is signaling his openness to granting clemency to a former county clerk who was convicted in a scheme attempting to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election

5:07 PM on Wednesday, March 4

The Virginia Supreme Court has again ruled that voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats in this year’s midterm elections

12:00 PM on Wednesday, March 4

A joke from Hilary Knight on “Saturday Night Live” and a couple of fist-bumps with Jack and Quinn Hughes on “The Tonight Show” capped a whirlwind victory lap celebrating the twin Olympic golds won by the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams

11:58 AM on Wednesday, March 4

An Arkansas man awaiting trial for murder has won the Republican nomination in a sheriff’s race in central Arkansas

11:42 AM on Wednesday, March 4

The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa

10:53 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas has acknowledged for the first time having an affair with an aide who later died after setting herself on fire

8:41 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Texas Democrats have picked James Talarico as their Senate nominee, and the state lawmaker now becomes a national voice against President Donald Trump

8:40 AM on Wednesday, March 4

President Donald Trump says he'll soon endorse a Republican candidate in the Texas Senate race

5:47 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana has dropped his bid for reelection to a third term

5:46 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he supports the strikes on Iran “with some regret” as they represent an extreme example of a rupturing world order

5:37 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Governments around the world are rushing to organize the return of their citizens from the Middle East on Wednesday and air traffic seems to be picking up slightly as travel across the region remains heavily disrupted by the widening Iran war

12:07 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Senate Republicans have voted down an effort to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran