Politics & Government News

4:53 PM on Saturday, March 28

A major oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico has spread more than 373 miles or 600 kilometers across the ocean and seeped into seven nature reserves

3:08 PM on Saturday, March 28

The Republic of Congo’s top court confirms President Denis Sassou-N’Guesso’s election win and gives him a fifth term

10:06 AM on Saturday, March 28

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has positioned himself as the grassroots favorite in the runoff election to determine the party's Senate nominee

9:02 AM on Saturday, March 28

A bipartisan group of senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea

8:54 AM on Saturday, March 28

Members of Congress have repeatedly introduced bills to ensure the federal employees who control air traffic and conduct airport security screenings get paid during government shutdowns

8:40 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump is hosting a UFC fight on White House grounds to celebrate his 80th birthday and the nation’s 250th anniversary

8:39 AM on Saturday, March 28

Sectarian violence has hit a Christian town in central Syria after an argument spilled into a wider attack

8:29 AM on Saturday, March 28

There seemed to be a deal

7:58 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump describes the war with Iran as a success, even as his message about the conflict keeps shifting

3:50 AM on Saturday, March 28

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered the monthlong war in the Middle East and claimed they launched missiles toward Israel

12:03 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump did not attend one of the biggest yearly meetings of conservatives for the first time in nearly a decade

12:02 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump has laid out five objectives for the U.S. in its war with Iran that he said the U.S. is close to achieving as he considers “winding down” the operation

12:01 AM on Saturday, March 28

Tens of thousands of people joined “No Kings” protests across the U.S. and in Europe against the war in Iran and President Donald Trump’s actions

10:43 PM on Friday, March 27

Police in Nepal have arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli over the deaths of dozens of people during violent protests in September that toppled the government and resulted in new elections

8:32 PM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge says Minnesota public universities can keep offering in-state tuition and some scholarships to certain students without legal status

7:14 PM on Friday, March 27

Transportation Security Administration agents could start getting their paychecks as early as Monday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to pay them immediately

11:37 AM on Friday, March 27

More than 7 million student loan borrowers who've been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt

12:26 AM on Friday, March 27

President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action to pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress

12:12 AM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge is weighing a demand by Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return 2020 election ballots and records that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse

11:34 AM on Monday, March 9