Politics & Government News

2:41 PM on Friday, February 27

Hawaiʻi lawmakers still have a broad set of bills in play that aim to protect immigrants and limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement

2:38 PM on Friday, February 27

Venezuelan politician Enrique Márquez is calling on his country's opposition and ruling party to work together after former President Nicolás Maduro’s ouster

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Ecuador’s president has labeled Colombia its “worst trade partner” and defended ramping up a tariff fight over border security and cocaine flows

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Former presidents are just like us

1:08 PM on Friday, February 27

Indiana lawmakers have passed a bill that requires people to show ID to use the state’s needle exchange programs

12:44 PM on Friday, February 27

A media rights group says a court in Belarus has convicted two independent journalists on charges of high treason and given them long prison sentences, the latest move in the government’s crackdown on dissent and free speech

11:44 AM on Friday, February 27

Two ports run for years by a Hong Kong-based company at either end of the Panama Canal have thrust Panama into a geopolitical tug-of-war between the United States and China

11:36 AM on Friday, February 27

Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi is clashing with Kurdish Iranian dissident groups, exposing splits in the Iranian opposition

11:28 AM on Friday, February 27

Democrats are growing more confident of winning a majority in the House in the November elections

11:09 AM on Friday, February 27

Residents of Uvira in eastern Congo are expressing concerns that decomposing bodies might spread disease after authorities said 171 bodies were found in mass graves

10:51 AM on Friday, February 27

At least 55 Ghanaians have died fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said

10:03 AM on Friday, February 27

The first primaries of the 2026 election season will offer an early read on voter mood in President Donald Trump’s second term and on how both parties are adapting

7:18 AM on Friday, February 27

Cambodia has welcomed home 74 ancient artifacts that officials say looters stole during decades of war and unrest

4:13 AM on Friday, February 27

The Swedish military says that a Russian drone carried out an unauthorized flight off southern Sweden earlier this week while a French aircraft carrier was docked in the port of Malmö

4:06 AM on Friday, February 27

A new Gallup poll shows that American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis

1:05 AM on Friday, February 27

President Emmanuel Macron is updating France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine as Europe worries about Russia and doubts U.S. protection under Donald Trump

12:01 AM on Friday, February 27

Georgia’s child welfare agency spiraled into crisis amid an $85.7 million shortfall and although lawmakers voted to fill it, the impacts will last

1:29 PM on Thursday, February 26

Police in New York state are investigating how a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar died after U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a doughnut shop in Buffalo