Politics & Government News

1:57 PM on Thursday, April 2

The Belarus parliament has passed a bill to introduce punishments for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, in an echo of similar laws that have been set up in neighboring ally Russia

1:27 PM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general

1:18 PM on Thursday, April 2

The president of the 25-campus Universities of Wisconsin has said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that he’s been told to resign or he will be fired

12:42 PM on Thursday, April 2

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order blocking the federal government from taking punitive measures against artificial intelligence company Anthropic after a dispute with the Pentagon over military use of AI

12:37 PM on Thursday, April 2

Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill that could imprison people for up to 10 years for distributing abortion-inducing medication

12:33 PM on Thursday, April 2

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student fighting deportation, have asked Judge Emil Bove to step aside from an appellate panel that could weigh in on his case because of Bove’s previous role as a top Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters

12:25 PM on Thursday, April 2

Police in South Florida say they're investigating the death of Coral Springs' vice mayor as a domestic violence incident and her husband is in custody

12:07 PM on Thursday, April 2

According to documents viewed by The Associated Press, a three-judge panel says the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court can potentially resume his duties following a sexual misconduct investigation

11:38 AM on Thursday, April 2

FBI agents have arrived in Cuba to investigate the fatal shooting of five men aboard a U.S.-flagged speedboat in February that the Cuban government said was trying to infiltrate the island

11:30 AM on Thursday, April 2

Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, according to Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov

11:27 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general

11:08 AM on Thursday, April 2

A Colorado appeals court has ruled that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that attempted to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced

10:50 AM on Thursday, April 2

Twelve people deported from the U.S. have arrived in Uganda, according to the Uganda Law Society

7:09 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom is expected to get final approval from a key commission

6:26 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump has used his first major address since launching his war in Iran to assure Americans all his military objectives will be completed “shortly” and urge a skeptical electorate to give him more time

6:25 AM on Thursday, April 2

Pakistan confirms it is holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China

3:44 AM on Thursday, April 2

Iran has fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to attack

12:14 AM on Thursday, April 2

Britain has accused Iran of holding the global economy hostage as diplomats from over 40 countries discuss ways to press Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

12:09 AM on Thursday, April 2

U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. will keep hitting Iran “extremely hard” even though he says all his military objectives have been met or exceeded

12:06 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump says he'll soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during the partial government shutdown that has reached 48 days