Politics & Government News

6:34 AM on Saturday, March 14

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari says that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has “crossed a red line” by attempting drone attacks that injured several people a day earlier

5:56 AM on Saturday, March 14

Dutch authorities are searching for a person who set off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam

3:38 AM on Saturday, March 14

A turf war over a football team is developing between two Midwestern states with a long rivalry

12:01 AM on Saturday, March 14

Anti-Muslim rhetoric is on the rise among some Republican lawmakers

10:43 PM on Friday, March 13

An offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid

7:23 PM on Friday, March 13

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening before visitors access the grounds

5:40 PM on Friday, March 13

The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028

5:18 PM on Friday, March 13

Three acts of ideologically inspired violence in the past week in the United States have laid bare the heightened terrorism threat unfolding against the backdrop of the war with Iran

5:12 PM on Friday, March 13

More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday after negotiations this week failed to result in many states joining a tentative settlement reached by the Justice Department

5:04 PM on Friday, March 13

As the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran continues to upend energy markets and supply chains worldwide, the Trump administration says it might suspend maritime shipping requirements under a more than century-old law known as the Jones Act

4:50 PM on Friday, March 13

Georgia lawmakers pressed former special prosecutor Nathan Wade about contact his team had with federal investigators while pursuing an election interference case against President Donald Trump

4:28 PM on Friday, March 13

Richard Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after leading changes that drive artists away

4:03 PM on Friday, March 13

The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship

4:02 PM on Friday, March 13

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment

3:31 PM on Friday, March 13

A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill

1:47 PM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. is temporarily easing part of its sanctions measures on Russian oil, a reflection of global worries about sharply higher oil prices due to the Iran war

7:47 AM on Friday, March 13

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government has held recent talks with the U.S. His comments on Friday mark the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed speculation about active communication with the Trump administration which has been openly hostile toward the communist government

1:21 AM on Friday, March 13

President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network

6:12 PM on Thursday, March 12

The Trump administration is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month

12:44 AM on Saturday, February 28