Politics & Government News

11:54 AM on Friday, March 27

A new Texas report says child care scholarships have very low improper payments

11:43 AM on Friday, March 27

A judge has ruled that the government can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

10:31 AM on Friday, March 27

Mongolia’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition

8:37 AM on Friday, March 27

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community

7:06 AM on Friday, March 27

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot

6:15 AM on Friday, March 27

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency, it remains unclear what the agency saved

6:13 AM on Friday, March 27

China has opened two investigations into U.S. trade practices ahead of an upcoming visit by President Donald Trump in May

5:48 AM on Friday, March 27

Austria’s governing coalition has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14

2:17 AM on Friday, March 27

Hundreds of used sneakers arrive each week at a workshop east of Paris, where workers inspect them for resale, redistribution or rejection

1:28 AM on Friday, March 27

Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war

11:58 PM on Thursday, March 26

Nepal’s youngest prime minister has taken the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month

11:18 PM on Thursday, March 26

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents who were shot by federal officers

11:14 PM on Thursday, March 26

A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference

3:14 PM on Thursday, March 26

Posts circulating on social media claim driver’s licenses could not be used for voter registration in federal elections under the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering

3:08 PM on Thursday, March 26

A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s photo voter ID law, setting aside claims by civil rights groups that discrimination against Black and Latino voters warrants striking it down

1:05 PM on Thursday, March 26

Costa Rica said that it would accept 25 “third party” migrants deported from the United States per week

8:14 AM on Thursday, March 26

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

2:44 AM on Thursday, March 26

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks in North Korea’s capital on Thursday and signed a friendship and cooperation treaty as the key allies of Moscow draw closer amid their confrontations with the U.S.-led West

12:30 AM on Thursday, March 26

President Donald Trump says he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration workers

10:53 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6