Politics & Government News

3:21 AM on Sunday, March 8

Malaysian authorities say a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has failed so far to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, twelve years after it disappeared

12:14 AM on Sunday, March 8

Bigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles

12:04 AM on Sunday, March 8

As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation — but no action to support its ally

10:24 PM on Saturday, March 7

The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration have agreed to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico after the military’s deployment of the lasers led the FAA to suddenly close airspace in Texas twice in the last month

10:13 PM on Saturday, March 7

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's actions to dismantle the Voice of America over the past year are illegal

7:37 PM on Saturday, March 7

President Donald Trump says it's inconsequential if Russia has provided Iran with information to help Tehran target U.S. military personnel and assets in the Middle East

7:14 PM on Saturday, March 7

Authorities say a counterprotester demonstrating against a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” event Saturday lit and threw a device at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest

5:20 PM on Saturday, March 7

A Palestinian man is killed in the occupied West Bank after an Israeli reservist soldier opens fire, as violence keeps rising in the territory

1:11 PM on Saturday, March 7

Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day

12:35 PM on Saturday, March 7

A federal appeals court this week sided with a lower judge’s ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., issued the 2-1 ruling on Friday

9:15 AM on Saturday, March 7

8:08 AM on Saturday, March 7

The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have raised concerns among Democrats and others about diminishing American stockpiles of certain weapons

7:50 AM on Saturday, March 7

President Donald Trump joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait

7:10 AM on Saturday, March 7

Pope Leo XIV named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States