Politics & Government News

12:53 AM on Sunday, January 11

Protests challenging Iran’s theocracy have reached the two-week mark, with demonstrators flooding the streets in Tehran and Mashhad

12:07 AM on Sunday, January 11

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making

12:02 AM on Sunday, January 11

Many of the 8 million Venezuelans scattered across the Americas received the news of their president's capture with caution

7:20 PM on Saturday, January 10

Myanmar has opened a second round of voting in the country’s first general election since a takeover that installed a military government five years ago

5:55 PM on Saturday, January 10

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe has died at 88

5:38 PM on Saturday, January 10

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months

5:00 PM on Saturday, January 10

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners

4:56 PM on Saturday, January 10

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

4:43 PM on Saturday, January 10

The organization that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing cold water on talk of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado giving her recent award to President Donald Trump

3:20 PM on Saturday, January 10

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order to protect Venezuelan oil revenue from judicial proceedings

12:38 PM on Saturday, January 10

A man who is known for grabbing Nancy Pelosi's podium during the U.S. Capitol riot is running for a county office in Florida

11:30 AM on Saturday, January 10

President Donald Trump says he wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates

8:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America

7:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

Kurdish fighters have been evacuated from a contested neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, after days of violent clashes with government forces

3:48 AM on Saturday, January 10

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy has reached at least 116 people killed

12:40 AM on Saturday, January 10

Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman

9:16 AM on Friday, January 9

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela

2:48 AM on Friday, January 9

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency

5:55 PM on Thursday, January 8

12:43 AM on Sunday, January 4

Protests in Iran are intensifying due to the country's struggling economy, putting pressure on its theocracy as it has shut down the internet and telephone networks