Politics & Government News

12:10 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Two Libyan officials say that Ukrainian forces are operating in western Libya and that they used the region to strike a Russian tanker in the Mediterranean last month

11:41 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Environmental groups have asked a federal appellate court panel to lift its temporary halt on closing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades

10:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

The U.N. migration agency says that more than 80 migrants went missing after a boat that departed a Libyan coastal town capsized in the central Mediterranean

9:40 AM on Tuesday, April 7

French President Emmanuel Macron says Iran has allowed two French former detainees, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, to leave the country

9:22 AM on Tuesday, April 7

An Indiana politician says someone fired 13 shots at his front door and left behind a note reading “No Data Centers” on his doorstep

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Cameroon says Russia has confirmed the deaths of 16 Cameroonian soldiers in Ukraine

2:24 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he is in Hungary to support Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection bid

12:58 AM on Tuesday, April 7

A couple living in Iran's capital have grown used to the sound of daily airstrikes five weeks into the war

12:58 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Japan’s top government spokesperson says a Japanese national who had been detained in Iran since January has been released on bail

12:39 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Vietnam has unanimously elected Communist Party leader To Lam as president, consolidating his control over both party and state

9:25 PM on Monday, April 6

Authorities in British Columbia have urged people to stay away from a rock face above a highway in the Canadian province where a Volkswagen Beetle shell was suspended in an apparent prank by engineering students

4:00 PM on Monday, April 6

The Education Department says it has terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students

3:34 PM on Monday, April 6

The United States relied on dozens of aircraft, hundreds of personnel, secret CIA technology and a dose of subterfuge to rescue a two-man F-15E fighter jet crew downed deep inside Iran

1:19 AM on Monday, April 6

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he the destruction of Iran’s bridges and power plants if they don’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz

1:04 AM on Monday, April 6

President Donald Trump has expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges as his Tuesday ultimatum approaches