Politics & Government News

1:26 PM on Saturday, March 14

Trinidad and Tobago’s government has received House of Representatives approval to extend the country’s state of emergency for three months

11:35 AM on Saturday, March 14

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on flag burning

10:32 AM on Saturday, March 14

A group of residents of a city in central Cuba have taken to the streets and partially destroyed the local headquarters of the ruling communist party

10:16 AM on Saturday, March 14

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96

9:23 AM on Saturday, March 14

Iranians are having to make hard choices about whether to flee for safer locales during the war

9:10 AM on Saturday, March 14

Prominent Belarus opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova has picked up a prize for contributions to European unity that she was unable to collect while in prison in her homeland four years ago

8:47 AM on Saturday, March 14

Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections

8:23 AM on Saturday, March 14

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he has fled the East African country to escape a military search for him in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election

8:15 AM on Saturday, March 14

Burt Jones is Georgia's lieutenant governor and he seemed to have a clear path to be the Republican nominee for governor this year with President Donald Trump's endorsement, But then health care tycoon Rick Jackson got into the race in February and he's already spent more than $30 million of his own money on television campaign ads

3:38 AM on Saturday, March 14

A turf war over a football team is developing between two Midwestern states with a long rivalry

12:01 AM on Saturday, March 14

Anti-Muslim rhetoric is on the rise among some Republican lawmakers

10:43 PM on Friday, March 13

An offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid

7:23 PM on Friday, March 13

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening before visitors access the grounds

7:19 PM on Friday, March 13

The Trump administration this week stepped up its ambitious effort to replace about $1.6 trillion in lost tariff revenue that was eliminated by the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a range of the president’s import taxes

5:40 PM on Friday, March 13

The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028

5:18 PM on Friday, March 13

Three acts of ideologically inspired violence in the past week in the United States have laid bare the heightened terrorism threat unfolding against the backdrop of the war with Iran

5:12 PM on Friday, March 13

More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday after negotiations this week failed to result in many states joining a tentative settlement reached by the Justice Department

3:31 PM on Friday, March 13

A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill

1:47 PM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. is temporarily easing part of its sanctions measures on Russian oil, a reflection of global worries about sharply higher oil prices due to the Iran war

1:21 AM on Friday, March 13

President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network