Politics & Government News

9:03 AM on Thursday, March 26

The European Parliament has approved a trade deal between Washington and Brussels but with amendments added to protect European interests should the United States fail to hold up its end of the bargain

8:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

After more than a decade living with chronic kidney failure, Mexican activist Samara Martínez has turned her personal struggle into a campaign to decriminalize euthanasia

7:58 AM on Thursday, March 26

An engineer-turned-rapper who later became Kathmandu’s mayor is poised to lead Nepal as prime minister after his party won a landslide election

7:18 AM on Thursday, March 26

Hungary’s government is filing criminal charges against an investigative journalist, claiming he is spying for a foreign state

7:00 AM on Thursday, March 26

A new AP-NORC poll shows that while President Donald Trump maintains deep support among Republicans, he risks frustrating his supporters if the U.S. gets involved in a prolonged war

6:41 AM on Thursday, March 26

European lawmakers have approved a plan that makes it easier to send rejected asylum seekers to new detention centers outside the EU

6:12 AM on Thursday, March 26

Nepal’s newly elected members of parliament have been sworn in, with nearly two-thirds of them from a political party that is less than four years old

12:11 AM on Thursday, March 26

New population estimates show that U.S. growth in metro areas slowed sharply as immigration dropped and hurricanes pushed people out of some Gulf Coast counties

12:03 AM on Thursday, March 26

A growing faction of concerned citizens across America's suburbs are positioned on the front lines of the anti-Trump resistance

12:02 AM on Thursday, March 26

Louisiana officials warn that the state's $300 million crawfish industry faces dire economic consequences because of a shortage of temporary seasonal workers via the H-2B visa program

8:14 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says that former President Raúl Castro is involved in talks between the island and the United States

7:33 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport shows how the partial government shutdown is straining air travel as TSA workers miss shifts without pay

7:17 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Belarus recently revealed how he used vulgarity and vodka shots to help ingratiate himself with the country’s autocratic leader

6:19 PM on Wednesday, March 25

A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal judge to force the Kennedy Center to block and reverse efforts to attach President Donald Trump’s name to the performing arts venue

5:24 PM on Wednesday, March 25

FEMA is reopening applications for its major resilience grant program after a judge ordered the program restored

5:09 PM on Wednesday, March 25

The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying about phone conversations with a top Russian diplomat but was later pardoned

4:38 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Republicans face growing political trouble ahead of November's midterm elections as the war in Iran keeps gas prices high and voters worry about living costs

12:56 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Florida state Rep.-elect Emily Gregory is the latest face of Democrats' optimism after she won a special legislative election in President Donald Trump's home state House district

4:58 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in North Korea’s capital on Wednesday, where he is to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

4:22 PM on Tuesday, March 24

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with devastating attacks unless it accepts a 15-point peace plan, as indirect talks brokered by Pakistan continue