Politics & Government News

12:55 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Central African Republic’s former prime minister and major opposition figure, Anicet Georges Dologuélé, criticized the confiscation of his diplomatic passport as an abuse of power

12:09 PM on Wednesday, May 6

With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war

11:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, and it sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority

11:14 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The FBI has served a search warrant at the office of the Virginia Senate leader as part of a corruption investigation

11:01 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Millions of taxpayers penalized by the IRS during the coronavirus pandemic for late payments or filings may qualify for refunds or penalty terminations

11:00 AM on Wednesday, May 6

10:23 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Hungary has returned a shipment of Ukrainian cash and gold worth $82 million to Ukraine's state Oschadbank

9:19 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Sweden's coast guard has detained a tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.”

9:05 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Three cruise ship passengers with suspected hantavirus infections are being flown to the Netherlands for treatment

9:03 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The French armed forces say that France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential future mission as part of a French-British plan for the Strait of Hormuz

7:47 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The primary election results in Indiana show how President Donald Trump can punish Republican lawmakers who defy him

7:29 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A U.S. fighter jet on Wednesday fired on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the U.S. military said

7:05 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is appearing before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

6:53 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States tallied by the Anti-Defamation League declined by 33% in 2025 — the first drop in five years — due in large part to what the ADL said was a dramatic decrease of incidents on college campuses

6:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Punk group Pussy Riot and Ukraine's FEMEN feminist organization have swarmed the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, protesting outside the venue and releasing colored smoke

4:39 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A new AP-NORC poll finds about 6 in 10 U.S. adults say the country is no longer a great place for immigrants, though they believe it used to be

2:20 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The U.S. military says it has fired on an Iranian oil tanker as President Donald Trump seeks to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war

12:45 AM on Wednesday, May 6

11:58 PM on Tuesday, May 5

British voters will cast ballots in elections that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term

11:02 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts