Politics & Government News

7:39 AM on Sunday, March 15

Presidents come and go from the White House every four year or eight years

6:47 AM on Sunday, March 15

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready for the next trilateral peace talks with the U.S. and Russia, but the meeting depends on Washington and Moscow

6:27 AM on Sunday, March 15

Hungary’s election fight is intensifying as Viktor Orbán and challenger Péter Magyar stage rival mass rallies in Budapest to show strength

5:55 AM on Sunday, March 15

China's official news agency Xinhua reports that representatives from Beijing and Washington have begun their economic and trade talks in Paris

3:29 AM on Sunday, March 15

French voters are heading to the polls to choose new municipal teams in an early test for political parties before next year’s presidential elections

3:20 AM on Sunday, March 15

Kazakhstanis are voting Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that analysts say could allow President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to extend his hold on power beyond his current term

3:19 AM on Sunday, March 15

The Republic of Congo is voting to elect a leader Sunday as incumbent President Denis Sassou N’Guesso runs for a fifth consecutive term and an extension to the 42 years he has so far been in office

12:59 AM on Sunday, March 15

Vietnam hold a nationwide vote to choose a new five-year National Assembly, just two months after the ruling Communist Party confirmed its leadership at its national congress and reelected To Lam as general secretary

12:01 AM on Sunday, March 15

Two weeks of war in Iran has President Donald Trump increasingly knocked back on his political heels

10:10 PM on Saturday, March 14

Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. got the World Baseball Classic quarterfinal off to a pulsating start, combining for the first WBC game with two leadoff homers

5:16 PM on Saturday, March 14

Australia's government says another three members of Iran's women’s soccer team who accepted refugee visas to stay in Australia have decided to return to their homeland

4:54 PM on Saturday, March 14

Rwanda's foreign minister says the country's government will withdraw its counterinsurgency troops from Mozambique if the mission’s foreign backers don't maintain sustainable funding

4:28 PM on Saturday, March 14

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has directed a Texas-based oil and gas company to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill, invoking the Defense Production Act

2:59 PM on Saturday, March 14

Turkey’s foreign minister says diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran is stalled, but he thinks quiet back-channel talks remain possible

2:36 PM on Saturday, March 14

Federal prosecutors in New York have accused a lobbyist of trying to extort a former client and the client’s son for $500,000

1:35 PM on Saturday, March 14

The American flag has been raised over the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for the first time since 2019

12:03 PM on Saturday, March 14

A federal judge says a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations

11:25 AM on Saturday, March 14

Kyrsten Sinema says in a legal document that she had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail, but her lawyer argues a lawsuit seeking damages against her should be dismissed

5:56 AM on Saturday, March 14

Dutch authorities are searching for two people who set off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam

12:01 PM on Tuesday, March 3