Politics & Government News

8:36 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Turkish authorities have detained nine people in connection with an attack on police outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

7:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is expected to meet with President Donald Trump to try to smooth over the president’s anger with the military alliance over the Iran war

7:05 AM on Wednesday, April 8

China’s government has said that Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting between the two countries that has left hundreds of people killed

7:01 AM on Wednesday, April 8

12:48 AM on Wednesday, April 8

California Rep. Eric Swalwell is vowing to aggressively push back on federal immigration officers if elected governor

12:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

President Donald Trump over the course of a day went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that the battered Islamic Republic’s leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

8:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea

8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin is in Iowa to support Democratic congressional candidates and gather insights on how Democrats could win over President Donald Trump's supporters

3:10 PM on Tuesday, April 7

The Justice Department’s new leader says “nobody” except President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week

1:54 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island

12:36 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is teaming up with online streamer Hasan Piker for campus events that are already sparking backlash

10:02 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been released

9:46 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz

12:55 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

12:20 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate

12:08 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia

12:02 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun has arrived in China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, in what she's calling a “journey for peace” as Beijing pushes for the self-governed island to come under its control

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump is suspending his threatened attack against Iran less than two hours before the deadline the president set for Tehran

12:11 PM on Monday, March 23