Politics & Government News

8:11 AM on Sunday, March 15

An AP investigation has found that an Israeli group whose founder strongly supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza is behind several flights that transferred hundreds of people out of the war-torn enclave

8:04 AM on Sunday, March 15

Gunmen ambushed and killed security personnel who were on patrol in communities in Nigeria’s Plateau state, according to the state government

8:02 AM on Sunday, March 15

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding, but the public data that tracks it is drying up

6:47 AM on Sunday, March 15

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready for the next trilateral peace talks with the U.S. and Russia, but the meeting depends on Washington and Moscow

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

10:10 PM on Saturday, March 14

Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. got the World Baseball Classic quarterfinal off to a pulsating start, combining for the first WBC game with two leadoff homers

5:16 PM on Saturday, March 14

Australia's government says another three members of Iran's women’s soccer team who accepted refugee visas to stay in Australia have decided to return to their homeland

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

10:16 AM on Saturday, March 14

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96

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

12:01 PM on Tuesday, March 3