Politics & Government News

6:07 AM on Sunday, March 1

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base

5:39 AM on Sunday, March 1

Regime change might seem straightforward at first

12:02 AM on Sunday, March 1

New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money

9:49 PM on Saturday, February 28

In Iran the supreme leader is the heart of a complex power-sharing theocracy and has final say over all matters of state

8:51 PM on Saturday, February 28

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes

7:20 PM on Saturday, February 28

Saturday’s military operation against Iran shows the dramatic evolution in risk tolerance that President Donald Trump has made in a matter of months

5:57 PM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian state media say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead

5:41 PM on Saturday, February 28

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran pulls him toward the kind of overseas conflict he once attacked

4:29 PM on Saturday, February 28

A high-stakes dispute over how the U.S. military uses artificial intelligence has led the Pentagon to cancel its contract with rising AI star Anthropic

4:27 PM on Saturday, February 28

The United States and Israel have clashed with Iran at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, where the U.N. chief and many countries urged a halt to their attacks and a return to negotiations

4:05 PM on Saturday, February 28

Mexican prosecutors say they have returned the body of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, to his family

2:53 PM on Saturday, February 28

After Saturday's major attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel, U.S. President Donald Trump has called on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” and rise up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979

1:57 PM on Saturday, February 28

Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran

1:33 PM on Saturday, February 28

A local member of parliament was among six people who died in a helicopter crash in Kenya

11:55 AM on Saturday, February 28

A former finance minister of South Sudan is the latest former government official arrested in a wave of detentions that analysts say shows cracks in the government of President Salva Kiir, who also faces an armed rebellion

11:40 AM on Saturday, February 28

10:04 AM on Saturday, February 28

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed

2:33 AM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability

1:19 AM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian state media have confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a major attack by Israel and the United States

7:02 PM on Friday, February 27

President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it’s 1999