Politics & Government News

5:39 AM on Thursday, March 19

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West

5:22 AM on Thursday, March 19

EU leaders are accusing Hungary’s Viktor Orbán of blocking major aid to Ukraine to score points at home ahead of elections next month

4:33 AM on Thursday, March 19

European Union leaders are meeting to tackle soaring oil and gas prices driven by the war in the Middle East

1:58 AM on Thursday, March 19

Joe Kent’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is fueling a Republican fight over the Iran war and talk about Israel that critics call antisemitic

1:41 AM on Thursday, March 19

Senegal is tightening its crackdown on gay people, and activists say fear is spreading

1:32 AM on Thursday, March 19

European Union leaders are holding a summit in Brussels to tackle growing fallout from the Iran war, rising energy prices and a stalled loan for Ukraine

12:21 AM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. President Donald Trump pledged the U.S. would “massively blow up the entirety” of the world’s largest gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again

12:11 AM on Thursday, March 19

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Homeland Security is signaling a gentler stance on FEMA and promising to roll back some recent restrictions

12:07 AM on Thursday, March 19

The meeting that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will have at the White House originally seemed like a prime opportunity to have President Donald Trump’s ear before he embarked on a trip to China

12:01 AM on Thursday, March 19

The widening war in Iran is exposing big gaps at the State Department, especially in the bureau that handles the Middle East

11:24 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Thailand’s incumbent Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will remain in office following a successful vote in the country's Parliament

10:43 PM on Wednesday, March 18

The FBI is investigating whether Joe Kent, who resigned his position as a top counterterrorism official this week in protest of the Iran war, improperly shared classified information

8:42 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A former senior counterterrorism official who resigned over the Iran war says he and other national security officials with concerns about U.S. strikes on Iran were not allowed to express those concerns to President Donald Trump

8:27 PM on Wednesday, March 18

The first oil and gas lease sale held in years in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska has been touted by officials as the strongest to date

6:50 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Allegations that César Chavez sexually abused women and girls are reshaping how many communities honor him

6:16 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Democratic lawmakers have stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and say they will push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case

2:28 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez, the long-admired Latino icon, while he led the United Farm Workers union

12:18 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Cuba’s president has lashed out after the latest threat from the Trump administration after President Donald Trump said he can do “whatever he wants” with the island

1:23 AM on Wednesday, March 18

Iran has broadened its strikes on major energy facilities in the Middle East, eliciting strong warnings from Gulf Arab states that called it a dangerous escalation that threatened to draw them into direct combat with Tehran

12:06 AM on Wednesday, March 18

The U_S_ government’s top intelligence official has told lawmakers that Iran’s government “appears to be intact but largely degraded.”