Politics & Government News

4:15 PM on Thursday, February 26

Vermont towns are pushing lawmakers to change public records rules because several out-of-state companies have been flooding them with requests

3:30 PM on Thursday, February 26

Uruguay and Argentina have ratified a Mercosur trade deal with the European Union to create one of the world’s largest free trade zones

3:27 PM on Thursday, February 26

A federal judge said that the IRS broke the law by illegally sharing thousands of taxpayers’ addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:36 PM on Thursday, February 26

Iran's foreign minister calls indirect US talks 'one of our most intense and longest rounds of negotiations'

2:11 PM on Thursday, February 26

2:05 PM on Thursday, February 26

A California judge has tentatively stopped the state from canceling commercial licenses for more than 20,000 immigrant truck drivers

1:21 PM on Thursday, February 26

Cartel-linked violence in parts of Mexico may have some spring break travelers rethinking their plans

1:00 PM on Thursday, February 26

12:18 PM on Thursday, February 26

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Open its artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use by Friday, or risk losing its government contract

12:00 PM on Thursday, February 26

A ground-dwelling bird known for its elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected

10:51 AM on Thursday, February 26

Texas U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt’s rivals are increasing their attacks on the two-term Republican ahead of Tuesday’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate

10:45 AM on Thursday, February 26

South Africa's foreign minister says at least two South Africans have died fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine after being tricked into traveling there by a recruitment scheme

10:19 AM on Thursday, February 26

The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now

7:37 AM on Thursday, February 26

Syrian government forces and Druze fighters in the southern Sweida province have exchanged prisoners from last summer's clashes in a step toward a political deal

6:59 AM on Thursday, February 26

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the Scandinavian country will hold a parliamentary election on March 24

5:08 AM on Thursday, February 26

Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

3:00 AM on Thursday, February 26

Iran’s military capabilities were badly degraded by 12 days of Israeli and U.S. strikes last year

12:45 AM on Thursday, February 26

Iran and the United States held a third round of nuclear talks in Geneva as Washington sends airships and warships to the Middle East to underscore the U.S. demand that Iran stop enriching uranium

12:10 AM on Thursday, February 26

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to help salmon

11:13 PM on Wednesday, February 25

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the city's authorities under a national security law