Politics & Government News

5:00 AM on Monday, March 23

9:10 PM on Sunday, March 22

A statue of Christopher Columbus been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House

9:01 PM on Sunday, March 22

A new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe President Donald Trump has done more harm than good on the issue of immigration and border security in his second term so far

8:59 PM on Sunday, March 22

Rahm Emanuel is proposing a far-reaching measure to crack down on betting in predictive markets in Washington as part of an effort to call attention to what he sees as a culture of corruption gripping the nation’s politics

3:11 PM on Sunday, March 22

Poland’s prime minister says Poland “had our suspicions” in response to a Washington Post report that Hungary’s government has for years provided Russia with detailed information from EU Council meetings

2:43 PM on Sunday, March 22

Thousands of people march across Chile to mark World Water Day and protest President José Antonio Kast’s rollback of environmental rules

2:05 PM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump is cycling through what seems to be an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz

12:29 PM on Sunday, March 22

A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy

10:19 AM on Sunday, March 22

Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus

9:47 AM on Sunday, March 22

Cuba has begun restarting its power grid after another nationwide blackout left millions without electricity

7:20 AM on Sunday, March 22

Democrats are starting to treat Vice President JD Vance, not Donald Trump, as their number one focus among Republican leaders

6:41 AM on Sunday, March 22

Voting rights advocates in Alaska are worried that a case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court could end a long-standing practice of the state accepting ballots after Election Day

2:20 AM on Sunday, March 22

Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo as the French capital’s mayor

1:04 AM on Sunday, March 22

Italy’s conservative premier, Giorgia Meloni, faces a pivotal political test in a two-day referendum on judicial reform

11:24 PM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets

11:08 PM on Saturday, March 21

Early results of Slovenia’s highly contested parliamentary election show governing liberals and opposition right-wing populists neck and neck, heralding a period of political uncertainty in the small European Union country

8:45 PM on Saturday, March 21

Japan says one of two detained Japanese nationals in Iran has returned home in good health after being released

11:59 AM on Saturday, March 21

A major protest in Prague has targeted Prime Minister Andrej Babiš who the protesters say threatens democracy in the Czech Republic

8:23 AM on Saturday, March 21

Iran has launched missiles toward Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island that hosts a major U.K.-U.S. military base

7:20 AM on Saturday, March 21

Tom Kean Jr.'s bid for a third term representing New Jersey's 7th Congressional District offers a window into the larger battle for control of the narrowly divided House