Politics & Government News

2:41 PM on Friday, March 20

Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces has gifted troubadour Silvio Rodríguez a combat AKM rifle and a replica of one after he recently said he would take up arms for the island

2:14 PM on Friday, March 20

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance is planning a visit to Hungary as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fights a close election and courts support from Washington

12:56 PM on Friday, March 20

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Georgia has become the first state in the U.S. to suspend fuel taxes after the war in the Middle East sent pump prices soaring

10:32 AM on Friday, March 20

France says it’s taking “appropriate measures” after a naval officer’s use of the Strava sports app inadvertently enabled journalists to geolocate the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán is threatening to use EU vetoes and energy leverage to pressure Ukraine to restart Russian oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia

7:08 AM on Friday, March 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran

7:05 AM on Friday, March 20

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right

6:29 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day

6:12 AM on Friday, March 20

Umberto Bossi, the founder of Italy’s populist Northern League and one of the most influential — and polarizing — figures of Italian politics, has died, his party said

4:49 AM on Friday, March 20

Israel has killed several top Iranian officials since the United States and Israel began strikes against Iran

4:00 AM on Friday, March 20

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Voters in Denmark will decide who runs the Scandinavian country for the next four years in a general election next week

12:22 AM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people

12:18 AM on Friday, March 20

The United States and Australia’s political tug of war against Iran over the fates of seven members of the Iranian women’s soccer squad who were torn in between appears to have ended

1:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year

8:32 AM on Friday, March 13