Politics & Government News

12:13 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Millions of Nepalis are preparing to vote in a high-stakes parliamentary election shaped by last year’s youth-led uprising

7:52 PM on Tuesday, March 3

States across the country are pushing to cut property taxes as homeowners complain about rising bills

7:27 PM on Tuesday, March 3

California's top Democrat has a message for his party's candidates who are lagging in the race for governor: If you can't win, get out of the race

6:54 PM on Tuesday, March 3

A lawmaker says a large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak

5:23 PM on Tuesday, March 3

Questions are mounting at the U.S. Capitol over the Trump administration’s shifting rationale for going to war with Iran

4:36 PM on Tuesday, March 3

President Donald Trump says “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed

4:25 PM on Tuesday, March 3

A criminal trial in New York is airing claims that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was entangled in a foiled 2024 assassination plot that eyed then-candidate Donald Trump as a possible target

3:48 PM on Tuesday, March 3

The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines says his government did not give the U.S. authorization for a recent strike on an alleged drug boat in local waters

3:08 PM on Tuesday, March 3

Anthropic’s moral stand on U.S. military use of artificial intelligence is reshaping the competition between leading AI companies but also exposing a growing awareness that maybe chatbots just aren’t capable enough for acts of war

2:40 PM on Tuesday, March 3

The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into claims that Rep. Nancy Mace overcharged a congressional reimbursement program for housing and living costs

2:39 PM on Tuesday, March 3

Washington lawmakers have failed to create a statewide system to oversee local jails, even as deaths and injuries keep mounting

2:34 PM on Tuesday, March 3

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to halt New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion fee on drivers entering Manhattan

2:30 PM on Tuesday, March 3

President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off trade with Spain

2:07 PM on Tuesday, March 3

After abandoning its efforts to enforce executive orders targeting some of the world’s top law firms, President Donald Trump's administration has abruptly reversed course and said it'll proceed with the court fight

1:57 PM on Tuesday, March 3

Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse L

1:56 PM on Tuesday, March 3

1:44 PM on Tuesday, March 3

A federal judge has clashed with Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor during an unusual contempt hearing that highlighted growing confrontations between increasingly frustrated judges and Department of Justice officials

1:42 PM on Tuesday, March 3

New York Attorney General Letitia James is ordering NYU Langone to resume providing gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 19

1:13 PM on Tuesday, March 3

7:13 AM on Tuesday, March 3

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended her agency in testimony and under questioning at a Senate hearing