Politics & Government News

12:59 AM on Sunday, March 15

Vietnam hold a nationwide vote to choose a new five-year National Assembly, just two months after the ruling Communist Party confirmed its leadership at its national congress and reelected To Lam as general secretary

4:54 PM on Saturday, March 14

Rwanda's foreign minister says the country's government will withdraw its counterinsurgency troops from Mozambique if the mission’s foreign backers don't maintain sustainable funding

4:28 PM on Saturday, March 14

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has directed a Texas-based oil and gas company to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill, invoking the Defense Production Act

2:59 PM on Saturday, March 14

Turkey’s foreign minister says diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran is stalled, but he thinks quiet back-channel talks remain possible

2:36 PM on Saturday, March 14

Federal prosecutors in New York have accused a lobbyist of trying to extort a former client and the client’s son for $500,000

1:35 PM on Saturday, March 14

The American flag has been raised over the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for the first time since 2019

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

12:03 PM on Saturday, March 14

A federal judge says a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations

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

11:25 AM on Saturday, March 14

Kyrsten Sinema says in a legal document that she had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail, but her lawyer argues a lawsuit seeking damages against her should be dismissed

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

5:56 AM on Saturday, March 14

Dutch authorities are searching for two people who set off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam

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

5:18 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