Politics & Government News

3:08 PM on Saturday, March 28

The Republic of Congo’s top court confirms President Denis Sassou-N’Guesso’s election win and gives him a fifth term

9:02 AM on Saturday, March 28

A bipartisan group of senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea

8:40 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump is hosting a UFC fight on White House grounds to celebrate his 80th birthday and the nation’s 250th anniversary

8:39 AM on Saturday, March 28

Sectarian violence has hit a Christian town in central Syria after an argument spilled into a wider attack

7:58 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump describes the war with Iran as a success, even as his message about the conflict keeps shifting

12:02 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump has laid out five objectives for the U.S. in its war with Iran that he said the U.S. is close to achieving as he considers “winding down” the operation

10:43 PM on Friday, March 27

Police in Nepal have arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli over the deaths of dozens of people during violent protests in September that toppled the government and resulted in new elections

8:32 PM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge says Minnesota public universities can keep offering in-state tuition and some scholarships to certain students without legal status

7:14 PM on Friday, March 27

Transportation Security Administration agents could start getting their paychecks as early as Monday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to pay them immediately

6:54 PM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge has ruled that the immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” must provide people detained there with better access to their attorneys

6:54 PM on Friday, March 27

Georgia Republicans have passed a bill stripping party labels from most local election races in metro Atlanta’s biggest counties

3:28 PM on Friday, March 27

Mexico’s government says it has identified signs of life for as many as a third of the country’s 130,000 registered missing people

12:28 PM on Friday, March 27

President Donald Trump says the American air travel system has reached a "breaking point."

11:56 AM on Friday, March 27

A pro-Iranian hacking group is claiming to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents

11:37 AM on Friday, March 27

More than 7 million student loan borrowers who've been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt

8:25 AM on Friday, March 27

12:26 AM on Friday, March 27

President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action to pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress

12:12 AM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge is weighing a demand by Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return 2020 election ballots and records that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse

12:05 AM on Friday, March 27

Deep divisions were apparent over the Iran war as top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries have met in France

11:34 AM on Monday, March 9