Politics & Government News

1:42 AM on Monday, February 2

Iran says it has had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group

1:39 AM on Monday, February 2

Iran says it summoned all EU ambassadors in country to protest bloc listing Revolutionary Guard as a terror group

11:51 PM on Sunday, February 1

Ethiopia’s Oromia is the country’s biggest state, with 35% of the population and home to the capital, Addis Ababa

11:25 PM on Sunday, February 1

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power

11:08 PM on Sunday, February 1

Thirty days after the U.S. captured then-President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela remains in turmoil

11:01 PM on Sunday, February 1

House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to pass a federal funding package and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown

9:44 PM on Sunday, February 1

Preliminary and partial results put the Costa Rican president’s handpicked successor well ahead in a crowded field after Sunday’s election

8:26 PM on Sunday, February 1

Hosting the Grammy Awards for the sixth and final time, Trevor Noah went easy on politics at first but drew the presiden's ire with a joke later in the show

5:47 PM on Sunday, February 1

President Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction

5:41 PM on Sunday, February 1

The Kennedy Center will close for 2 years for renovations starting in July, Trump says, after a backlash from performers

4:30 PM on Sunday, February 1

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum says she plans to send humanitarian aid to Cuba this week, including food and other supplies

4:29 PM on Sunday, February 1

Artists this awards season are having to decide whether and how to join the growing cultural revolt against the Trump administration's immigration crackdowns

4:07 PM on Sunday, February 1

The Republican National Committee vastly outpaced Democrats in 2025, according to year-end filings to the Federal Election Commission

2:45 PM on Sunday, February 1

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched tear gas at demonstrators — including young children — outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest

2:30 PM on Sunday, February 1

A top Justice Department official is playing down the possibility of additional criminal charges arising from the Jeffrey Epstein files

11:24 AM on Sunday, February 1

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it'll be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote in the House

10:20 AM on Sunday, February 1

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have returned to Minnesota after being released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

11:10 PM on Saturday, January 31

Despite proclaiming last February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by what critics say are attacks on Black history in the United States

11:09 PM on Saturday, January 31

Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024

6:04 PM on Saturday, January 31

Prominent political and business leaders are named in the documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein