Politics & Government News

4:15 PM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump’s recent statements of intent about his administration’s plans for Iran have raised questions about international law

4:07 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has toured North Carolina areas devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024

3:18 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded a migrant in central California while trying to arrest him

3:16 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Turkish lawmakers have kicked off a debate on a draft law package that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15

3:10 PM on Tuesday, April 7

The Justice Department’s new leader says “nobody” except President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week

2:50 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Pope Leo XIV says that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is “truly unacceptable” and that any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law

2:28 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Tehran residents are rushing to stock up on bottled water and charge cellphones, flashlights and portable power banks as the hours tick down to Trump’s latest ultimatum for a deal in the war with Iran

1:57 PM on Tuesday, April 7

1:54 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island

1:30 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Donald Trump Jr. has lashed out at the European Union

12:36 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is teaming up with online streamer Hasan Piker for campus events that are already sparking backlash

11:41 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Environmental groups have asked a federal appellate court panel to lift its temporary halt on closing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades

11:23 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman could lose his job Tuesday

9:46 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz

9:40 AM on Tuesday, April 7

French President Emmanuel Macron says Iran has allowed two French former detainees, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, to leave the country

2:24 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he is in Hungary to support Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection bid

12:55 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” but said Iran still has time to capitulate ahead of a deadline he set for 8 p.m. Tuesday in Washington

12:20 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his latest deadline to strike a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller faces Democrat Shawn Harris in a special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed back deadlines for Iran to cut a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz