Politics & Government News

8:00 AM on Monday, March 30

7:27 AM on Monday, March 30

Democrats are drumming up enthusiasm for their long-shot candidate in Republican former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's old Georgia district while their party is building nationwide momentum

6:25 AM on Monday, March 30

Russia has expelled a British diplomat it accuses of spying

5:50 AM on Monday, March 30

China says it is sanctioning a conservative Japanese lawmaker close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

5:38 AM on Monday, March 30

Myanmar’s Parliament has begun choosing a new president to lead an elective government, though the military retains power and influence

2:02 AM on Monday, March 30

In a tribal battle fought over a century ago, according to oral history, a prophet in South Sudan raised his stick and summoned a thunderbolt that killed a crowd of fighters from a rival tribe

1:19 AM on Monday, March 30

Kosovo is one of the Europe's poorest countries and struggles with a steep rise in fuel prices caused by the Iran war

1:08 AM on Monday, March 30

Two weeks before pivotal elections, Hungary’s young voters are rallying behind Péter Magyar’s Tisza party and posing the strongest challenge to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in years

12:52 AM on Monday, March 30

China’s flag carrier has resumed direct flights between Beijing and North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang not long after the restoration of passenger train services between the capitals

9:34 PM on Sunday, March 29

President Donald Trump says he has “no problem” with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the island, which has been brought to its knees by a U.S. oil blockade

3:59 PM on Sunday, March 29

Authorities in Los Angeles deployed tear gas near a federal detention center and made dozens of arrests following a “No Kings” rally this weekend

2:39 PM on Sunday, March 29

Egypt is imposing early closing times for shops, cafes and restaurants to cut oil use as energy prices surge during the war

2:19 PM on Sunday, March 29

Afghanistan’s government has accused Pakistan’s military of shelling the outskirts of an eastern Afghan city

2:10 PM on Sunday, March 29

Long security lines at airports are driving people crazy as Congress and President Donald Trump try to work out a budget stalemate

10:55 AM on Sunday, March 29

Israeli police have blocked top Catholic leaders from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Palm Sunday Mass

5:07 AM on Sunday, March 29

Mongolia’s ruling party has chosen a new prime minister candidate after the former prime minister resigned

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 29

Regional powers met in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East after about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 29

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran

11:41 AM on Saturday, March 28

Heading into the weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay the tens of thousands of TSA officers who have been working without pay for over a month during a partial government shutdown

12:05 PM on Monday, March 16