Politics & Government News

4:49 AM on Friday, March 20

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

4:00 AM on Friday, March 20

3:30 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran's supreme leader says enemies' 'security must be taken away' after intelligence minister's killing

1:16 AM on Friday, March 20

Voters in Denmark will decide who runs the Scandinavian country for the next four years in a general election next week

12:18 AM on Friday, March 20

The United States and Australia’s political tug of war against Iran over the fates of seven members of the Iranian women’s soccer squad who were torn in between appears to have ended with the depleted team returning home minus the two players who defected last week

12:05 AM on Friday, March 20

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

9:24 PM on Thursday, March 19

Nicholas Haysom has died at 73

8:21 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

6:29 PM on Thursday, March 19

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

6:01 PM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees

5:43 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

4:22 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

4:07 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

4:02 PM on Thursday, March 19

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

2:52 PM 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

1:57 PM 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

10:31 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

1:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

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

12:07 AM on Thursday, March 19

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

12:06 PM on Tuesday, March 3