Politics & Government News

3:18 PM on Sunday, March 8

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board says he has been fired without explanation by the Trump administration

2:28 PM on Sunday, March 8

Guinea’s main opposition leader says the government is crushing political competition after it dissolved dozens of parties including the biggest ones

2:15 PM on Sunday, March 8

Marches across Brazil for International Women’s Day are serving as a rallying cry against rising violence against women after the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old in Rio de Janeiro

12:45 PM on Sunday, March 8

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called special elections for three districts that, if his party wins, would give the Liberals a majority government

9:24 AM on Sunday, March 8

Women across the world called for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations Sunday marking International Women’s Day

6:43 AM on Sunday, March 8

North Carolina Democrats have had success in winning elections for governor

5:23 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iranians are using a border crossing into Turkey as one of the only ways out during the war in Iran, with the country's airspace closed

1:21 AM on Sunday, March 8

Malaysian authorities say a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has failed so far to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, twelve years after it disappeared

11:14 PM on Saturday, March 7

Bigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles

11:11 PM on Saturday, March 7

China says it hopes this year will be a “landmark year” in relations with the United States, as the two sides prepare for an expected leaders’ summit later this month

11:04 PM on Saturday, March 7

As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation — but no action to support its ally

9:24 PM on Saturday, March 7

The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration have agreed to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico after the military’s deployment of the lasers led the FAA to suddenly close airspace in Texas twice in the last month

9:13 PM on Saturday, March 7

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's actions to dismantle the Voice of America over the past year are illegal

6:37 PM on Saturday, March 7

President Donald Trump says it's inconsequential if Russia has provided Iran with information to help Tehran target U.S. military personnel and assets in the Middle East

6:14 PM on Saturday, March 7

Authorities say a counterprotester demonstrating against a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” event Saturday lit and threw a device at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest

4:20 PM on Saturday, March 7

A Palestinian man is killed in the occupied West Bank after an Israeli reservist soldier opens fire, as violence keeps rising in the territory

12:11 PM on Saturday, March 7

Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day

11:35 AM on Saturday, March 7

A federal appeals court this week sided with a lower judge’s ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., issued the 2-1 ruling on Friday