Politics & Government News

5:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The Treasury Department will take over the management of student loans whose borrowers are in default, according to a new agreement announced Thursday

4:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development

4:40 PM on Friday, March 20

California disclosures show state lawmakers accept lots of free travel and gifts from groups with business at the Capitol

4:07 PM on Friday, March 20

Brazil’s finance minister Fernando Haddad has resigned to launch a bid for São Paulo governor

3:14 PM on Friday, March 20

A former professional wrestler accused of misspending millions of welfare dollars in part of Mississippi’s largest public corruption scandal has been found not guilty by a jury

2:58 PM on Friday, March 20

The first of five high school protesters detained for days in Pennsylvania after a scuffle with a man who turned out to be the police chief entered a probationary program designed to spare him a criminal record

2:41 PM on Friday, March 20

Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces has gifted troubadour Silvio Rodríguez a combat AKM rifle and a replica of one after he recently said he would take up arms for the island

2:14 PM on Friday, March 20

1:19 PM on Friday, March 20

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is planning a visit to Hungary as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fights a close election and courts support from Washington

12:56 PM on Friday, March 20

12:47 PM on Friday, March 20

Georgia has become the first state in the U.S. to suspend fuel taxes after the war in the Middle East sent pump prices soaring

11:20 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military says it attacked an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

10:32 AM on Friday, March 20

France says it’s taking “appropriate measures” after a naval officer’s use of the Strava sports app inadvertently enabled journalists to geolocate the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

9:37 AM on Friday, March 20

Does California’s race for governor finally have a leader

6:29 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day

6:12 AM on Friday, March 20

Umberto Bossi, the founder of Italy’s populist Northern League and one of the most influential — and polarizing — figures of Italian politics, has died, his party said

12:22 AM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people

12:18 AM on Friday, March 20

The United States and Australia’s political tug of war against Iran over the fates of seven members of the Iranian women’s soccer squad who were torn in between appears to have ended

6:01 PM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees

8:32 AM on Friday, March 13