Politics & Government News

9:54 AM on Sunday, January 11

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan

9:15 AM on Sunday, January 11

Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests

9:10 AM on Sunday, January 11

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

7:54 AM on Sunday, January 11

The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted

7:28 AM on Sunday, January 11

Becky Pepper-Jackson is a 15-year-old in West Virginia who knows the upcoming sports season could be her last

6:29 AM on Sunday, January 11

Iran’s president says officials will listen to protesters, but rioters are trying to ‘destroy the entire society’

5:22 AM on Sunday, January 11

Supporters of Nepal’s deposed royal family have rallied in the capital to demand the monarchy's restoration ahead of March elections

12:53 AM on Sunday, January 11

Iran’s parliament speaker warns the U.S. military and Israel could be “legitimate targets” if the U.S. strikes Iran over ongoing protests

12:07 AM on Sunday, January 11

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making

12:02 AM on Sunday, January 11

Many of the 8 million Venezuelans scattered across the Americas received the news of their president's capture with caution

7:20 PM on Saturday, January 10

Myanmar has begun a second round of voting in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago

5:55 PM on Saturday, January 10

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe has died at 88

5:38 PM on Saturday, January 10

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months

5:00 PM on Saturday, January 10

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners

7:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

Kurdish fighters have been evacuated from a contested neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, after days of violent clashes with government forces

3:48 AM on Saturday, January 10

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy has reached at least 116 people killed

12:40 AM on Saturday, January 10

Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman

2:48 AM on Friday, January 9

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency

12:43 AM on Sunday, January 4

Protests in Iran are intensifying due to the country's struggling economy, putting pressure on its theocracy as it has shut down the internet and telephone networks

5:06 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025