Politics & Government News

11:46 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Georgia lawmakers may require that every public school student be checked for weapons each day

11:35 AM on Tuesday, March 24

A Georgia judge has granted a bond of just $1 for a murder charge faced by a woman accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion

11:12 AM on Tuesday, March 24

French financial prosecutors say searches were carried out at several locations, including the Paris arm of Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild, as part of an investigation tied to revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files

10:31 AM on Tuesday, March 24

The first ship of an international flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba has arrived in Havana loaded with solar panels, bicycles, food and medicine as the island’s economic and energy crises deepen

9:42 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr_ has declared a state of national energy emergency to respond to the impact of the Middle East war, which his administration said poses “an imminent danger of a critically low energy supply.”

7:36 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025

7:28 AM on Tuesday, March 24

7:28 AM on Tuesday, March 24

5:00 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Award-winning journalist Bob Woodward has a new book that will explain how he came to write so many inside accounts from Washington

11:12 PM on Monday, March 23

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether mail ballots that arrive after Election Day should be counted

11:08 PM on Monday, March 23

A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic

11:01 PM on Monday, March 23

Lawmakers in states where abortion is already banned are focusing on measures intended to crack down on abortion pills

7:48 PM on Monday, March 23

The European Union and Australia have agreed on the final text of a free trade agreement some two years after negotiations broke down over Australian demands for more red meat market access and complaints about Australian products labeled with traditionally European names such as prosecco

7:11 PM on Monday, March 23

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state

6:45 PM on Monday, March 23

One of his doctors says former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been transferred to a regular hospital room in the capital of Brasilia as he continues to recover from pneumonia

6:31 PM on Monday, March 23

Mexican authorities found 229 migrants packed in the back of a truck traveling through the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz

6:15 PM on Monday, March 23

Air traffic controllers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport were juggling a runway emergency moments before an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck Sunday night

5:32 PM on Monday, March 23

The U.S. Defense Department says it will issue new press credentials but remove media offices from the Pentagon

4:15 PM on Monday, March 23

Kalshi and Polymarket are tightening their rules on insider trading as Congress appears to be moving closer to cracking down on prediction markets

2:42 PM on Monday, March 23

President Donald Trump started the fourth week of his war against Iran by offering the world some guarded optimism that the U.S. could soon be winding down its military operations