Politics & Government News

12:43 PM on Friday, March 27

A judge has ruled that the government can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

11:31 AM on Friday, March 27

Mongolia’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition

11:03 AM on Friday, March 27

9:37 AM on Friday, March 27

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community

8:06 AM on Friday, March 27

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot

7:15 AM on Friday, March 27

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency, it remains unclear what the agency saved

7:13 AM on Friday, March 27

China has opened two investigations into U.S. trade practices ahead of an upcoming visit by President Donald Trump in May

6:48 AM on Friday, March 27

Austria’s governing coalition has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14

3:17 AM on Friday, March 27

Hundreds of used sneakers arrive each week at a workshop east of Paris, where workers inspect them for resale, redistribution or rejection

2:28 AM on Friday, March 27

Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war

12:58 AM on Friday, March 27

Nepal’s youngest prime minister has taken the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month

12:18 AM on Friday, March 27

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents who were shot by federal officers

12:14 AM on Friday, March 27

A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference

5:49 PM on Thursday, March 26

The Treasury Department plans to print President Donald Trump’s signature on every new U.S. paper bill

4:08 PM on Thursday, March 26

A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s photo voter ID law, setting aside claims by civil rights groups that discrimination against Black and Latino voters warrants striking it down

2:05 PM on Thursday, March 26

Costa Rica said that it would accept 25 “third party” migrants deported from the United States per week

9:14 AM on Thursday, March 26

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

3:44 AM on Thursday, March 26

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks in North Korea’s capital on Thursday and signed a friendship and cooperation treaty as the key allies of Moscow draw closer amid their confrontations with the U.S.-led West

1:30 AM on Thursday, March 26

President Donald Trump says he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration workers

11:53 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6