Politics & Government News

11:38 PM on Tuesday, March 10

The defection of another opposition lawmaker is all but assuring Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will have a majority government soon

6:14 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Majority Leader John Thune says that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections

4:51 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery

4:45 PM on Tuesday, March 10

3:20 PM on Tuesday, March 10

The office that enforces the ethics code for attorneys in the nation’s capital has accused Justice Department official Ed Martin of professional misconduct for a threatening letter that he sent to Georgetown Law School’s dean last year

2:08 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Prosecutors say greed, arrogance and power were the driving forces behind four men charged in U.S. federal court for the 2021 assassination of Haiti's last elected president, Jovenel Moïse

1:52 PM on Tuesday, March 10

The State Department has authorized the use of up to $40 million in emergency funds to pay for evacuation charter flights for Americans to leave the Middle East due to disruptions in transportation caused by the Iran war

1:48 PM on Tuesday, March 10

1:30 PM on Tuesday, March 10

A monitoring watchdog says press freedom across the Americas dropped sharply in 2025, with more killings, arrests and intimidation of media workers

12:49 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark says a new federal bill is the best way to fix college sports money problems

12:35 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Poland’s president has refused to sign a law that opens the door to a huge EU-backed defense loan, and it has sparked a new clash in Warsaw

12:32 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Voting technology firm Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss a criminal money laundering indictment saying the case is political retaliation tied to President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 election

12:27 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Federal judges in Milwaukee are refusing to extend interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel's appointment

11:19 AM on Tuesday, March 10

A judge has rejected a request for a new trial for a Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley

10:12 AM on Tuesday, March 10

9:05 AM on Tuesday, March 10

A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure

5:03 AM on Tuesday, March 10

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan says it will not comply with a government order to shut down its base in Akobo, an opposition stronghold near the Ethiopian border where tens of thousands of refugees have fled

12:03 AM on Tuesday, March 10

Longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson has won the Democratic nomination for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District

12:01 AM on Tuesday, March 10

It seems that a country divided on many fronts is finding common ground at the gas pumps

2:22 PM on Monday, March 9

The White House says it fired an NTSB board member for serious misconduct, and he says the claims are false