Politics & Government News

5:38 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The head of Peru’s national election agency has resigned over logistical problems that affected the nation’s bitterly disputed presidential election, a contest for which officials still have not named the winners

4:55 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Ohio State University says its recently resigned president violated school policy by attempting to help a woman with whom he had a close personal relationship get a job at the school, help with her podcast and other access to school resources

4:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A new AP-NORC poll finds that President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher

3:59 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A federal judge in Massachusetts has struck down some of the Trump administration’s orders slowing down the development of clean energy

3:30 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A former Missouri lawmaker who was censured over sexual misconduct allegations has won a court case to recoup thousands of dollars seized from his salary as a penalty

3:01 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Florida's attorney general has opened an investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT

2:59 PM on Tuesday, April 21

2:19 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Trump administration is requiring all 50 states to explain their plans to revalidate some Medicaid providers

2:06 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Senate voted on Tuesday to launch a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government shutdown in history

1:45 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Ukraine has completed repairs on a damaged oil pipeline and is preparing to resume flows

1:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The former leader of Britain's Foreign Office has revealed details about the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K.'s ambassador to Washington despite failing security checks

12:22 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Two female opposition lawmakers in Mauritania have been charged with insulting the president

11:46 AM on Tuesday, April 21

French Ambassador to South Africa David Martinon says South African officials should be allowed to attend meetings of the Group of 20 in the United States this year after they were barred by U.S. President Donald Trump

9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 21

After U.S.-Israeli bombardment eliminated Iran’s supreme leader and much of its top echelons, the Islamic Republic’s leadership didn’t fall apart

9:00 AM on Tuesday, April 21

NATO has intercepted Russian bombers and fighter jets over the Baltic Sea

8:24 AM on Tuesday, April 21

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia

8:17 AM on Tuesday, April 21

8:00 AM on Tuesday, April 21

French President Emmanuel Macron and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have urged for negotiations to support a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon following talks in Paris

6:18 AM on Tuesday, April 21

The Human Rights Campaign is launching a $15 million investment targeting Republicans in battleground districts ahead of the fall's midterm elections

8:34 AM on Monday, April 20

Virginia voters are considering a ballot measure Tuesday that would give the Democratic-majority legislature temporary power to redraw the state’s congressional districts