Politics & Government News

12:13 AM on Tuesday, March 10

Human Rights Watch says drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others

9:04 PM on Monday, March 9

Cuban officials are preparing to withdraw a medical brigade from Guyana after it moved to provide full salaries to the doctors and nurses instead of mostly paying the Cuban government

9:01 PM on Monday, March 9

President Donald Trump says he won’t sign any other legislation into law until Congress passes a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that he says also must end Americans’ ability to vote by mail

8:52 PM on Monday, March 9

Venezuela’s lawmakers debate a new mining bill that aims to attract foreign investment and rebuild trust after past expropriations

8:47 PM on Monday, March 9

8:44 PM on Monday, March 9

President Donald Trump says JD Vance started out less enthusiastic about striking Iran, but he says they still agree

8:26 PM on Monday, March 9

Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh sparred over the many emergency orders the court has issued allowing President Donald Trump to move ahead with key parts of his agenda

7:55 PM on Monday, March 9

Rep. Kevin Kiley of California says he’s dropping his Republican Party affiliation to serve as an independent

7:34 PM on Monday, March 9

The hourslong security lines at a handful of U.S. airports this week highlight the potential problems when a government shutdown coincides with the busy spring break travel season

7:04 PM on Monday, March 9

An impromptu sit-in protest at the steps of Havana University on Monday drew a small group of students concerned about their education amid an energy crisis worsened by a U.S. oil blockade of the island, which has reduced classes and is paralyzing the country

6:15 PM on Monday, March 9

The Republican leader of Arizona’s state Senate says he has complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records related to the 2020 presidential election

4:51 PM on Monday, March 9

A judge on has disqualified a trio of prosecutors the Trump administration tapped to oversee federal prosecutions in New Jersey after his former personal attorney was also barred from the role

4:25 PM on Monday, March 9

President Gustavo Petro’s political party has emerged victorious in Colombia’s congressional election, but will have to build coalitions with other parties to advance its agenda

3:32 PM on Monday, March 9

Two teen brothers in a nationally recognized mariachi band in South Texas have been released from immigration custody after bipartisan criticism that the Trump administration’s campaign for mass deportation overreached

11:27 AM on Monday, March 9

Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the artificial intelligence company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology

8:55 AM on Monday, March 9

The Justice Department says it's reached a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, California-based Live Nation Entertainment that will benefit consumers by letting competitors play a role in ticket sales and force Live Nation to give up control of 13 amphitheaters

5:47 AM on Monday, March 9

The investigative group Bellingcat says newly released video “appears to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed over 165 people

1:36 AM on Monday, March 9

U.S. President Donald Trump says the war against Iran could be short-lived

1:27 AM on Monday, March 9

U.S. President Donald Trump says that the war with Iran began because that country was starting work on a new site for developing material for nuclear weapons

1:13 AM on Monday, March 9

French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Cyprus to show support, days after a drone strike hit a British base on the island