Politics & Government News

4:34 PM on Friday, March 6

The U.S. is imposing visa restrictions on “several senior Rwandan officials for fueling instability” in eastern Congo, the State Department said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the East African country after sanctions announced earlier this week

3:54 PM on Friday, March 6

National Symphony Orchestra director Jean Davidson has left the Kennedy Center to lead the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, as turmoil grows under President Donald Trump’s control

3:48 PM on Friday, March 6

Cuba is shutting down its embassy in Ecuador after Ecuador and ordered its diplomats out

3:47 PM on Friday, March 6

Georgia’s races for governor and U.S. Senate are taking shape as candidates qualify and begin their sprint to the May 19 party primaries

3:34 PM on Friday, March 6

Cuba says a fifth detainee has died after a shootout with people on a Florida-flagged speedboat off its north coast

2:47 PM on Friday, March 6

Tunisian authorities have detained pro‑Palestinian activists as an international group prepares a new flotilla aimed at bringing aid to Gaza

2:43 PM on Friday, March 6

Politicians, including President Trump, say corporate investors block families from buying homes

2:40 PM on Friday, March 6

Assisted by a glittering, pink soccer ball, Lionel Messi crossed yet another frontier with his visit to the White House

2:17 PM on Friday, March 6

The New York Times is urging a federal judge to block a Pentagon policy that has limited access to the building for journalists from many mainstream news outlets

1:49 PM on Friday, March 6

California’s ski resorts face a deadly season, but the state still lacks a clear count of injuries and deaths

1:41 PM on Friday, March 6

The U.S. has issued a license that allows business to be done with Venezuela’s state gold mining company, Minerven

1:31 PM on Friday, March 6

Battery company SK laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant in northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid changing consumer demand for EVs

12:44 PM on Friday, March 6

Hungary’s foreign minister is accusing Ukraine of trying to sway Hungary’s election, as a dispute over Russian oil drives tensions higher

11:19 AM on Friday, March 6

Officials with one of the armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq say they are not planning an imminent cross-border attack on Iran but would join a ground invasion if the U.S. were to launch one

11:00 AM on Friday, March 6

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 18 more prisoners as part of his recent effort at a rapprochement with the United States

9:08 AM on Friday, March 6

Iceland’s government says the country will hold a referendum in August on whether to restart European Union membership talks

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Muslims across the United States are observing Ramadan under rising fears tied to immigration raids, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and war in the Middle East

4:16 AM on Friday, March 6

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani said after dissolving Parliament that a snap election should be held as soon as possible to avoid another prolonged political crisis in the Balkan country at a time of global turmoil