Politics & Government News

6:50 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Dozens of Serbian journalists have blocked traffic outside the offices of populist President Aleksandar Vucic to protest what they say are mounting attacks and pressure on the media in the Balkan country

6:37 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Experts have slashed their 2026 and 2027 growth forecasts for the German economy, Europe’s biggest, while governments across the continent are introducing measures to help soften the price impact of the Iran war

6:05 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. and Iraqi officials say U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was warned of threats before she was kidnapped in Baghdad

5:22 AM on Wednesday, April 1

South Korea and Indonesia are expanding their cooperation on defense projects, technology, and supply chains as their leaders upgrade their strategic partnership

4:17 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Chile’s new president is a devout Catholic in a country that has grown increasingly secular but retains conservative traits in various areas

3:56 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Should the United States decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, experts and former U.S. government officials say it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers

3:48 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Turkish officials say a migrant boat has capsized in the Aegean Sea after a coast guard chase and 18 people died

1:01 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Amsterdam is marking 25 years since the world's first gay marriages were celebrated in the Netherlands

12:21 AM on Wednesday, April 1

A U.S. resident of 27 years who was deported to Mexico by the Trump administration has returned home to Sacramento

12:19 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Democrats have run California for years

12:10 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance are both seen as the Republican Party’s strongest potential candidates in the next presidential election, but the Iran war could prove to be a political millstone for them

12:07 AM on Wednesday, April 1

TMZ is turning its celebrity lens on Congress, tracking lawmakers on recess as a nearly six-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown drags on

12:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

11:18 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees struggling to survive in Bangladesh’s overcrowded camps will see their food assistance slashed

10:13 PM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a Supreme Court hearing in which judges will hear arguments on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship

9:53 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem

2:58 PM on Tuesday, March 31

The European Union's energy commissioner says skyrocketing oil and gas prices in Europe as a result of the ongoing Iran war won’t return to normal levels any time soon, even if peace is declared tomorrow

1:44 AM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump lashed out at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran

12:05 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Bruce Springsteen was in a defiant but upbeat mood in Minneapolis as he launched his latest U.S. tour

12:07 PM on Monday, March 16