Politics & Government News

11:55 AM on Saturday, February 28

A former finance minister of South Sudan is the latest former government official arrested in a wave of detentions that analysts say shows cracks in the government of President Salva Kiir, who also faces an armed rebellion

10:36 AM on Saturday, February 28

Many Americans were alarmed when ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center

10:09 AM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian foreign minister tells NBC News that country's supreme leader and president are alive ‘as far as I know’

9:03 AM on Saturday, February 28

Democrats are banking on Tejano music star Bobby Pulido to help them win back Hispanic voters in a South Texas congressional district that favors Republicans

6:17 AM on Saturday, February 28

Russia's Foreign Ministry condemns US-Israel strikes on Iran as 'pre-planned and unprovoked act of armed aggression'

3:54 AM on Saturday, February 28

3:30 AM on Saturday, February 28

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says joint US campaign will let Iranians 'take their fate into their own hands'

2:31 AM on Saturday, February 28

Pakistan’s military has struck deeper into Afghanistan as border fighting intensifies and both sides claim to have inflicted heavy losses

1:25 AM on Saturday, February 28

Israel's defense minister says his country has attacked Iran and declares a state of emergency

12:02 AM on Saturday, February 28

Millions of Texas voters are casting ballots under redrawn U.S. House maps that were engineered to boost Republicans in the 2026 elections

12:02 AM on Saturday, February 28

The European Union border agency Frontex is focusing surveillance efforts on the Greek island of Crete

10:28 PM on Friday, February 27

Top officials with Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior have unveiled for the first time the items they said were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that opened fire against troops in waters off the island’s north coast this week, with soldiers responding and killing four suspects

9:53 PM on Friday, February 27

Former President Joe Biden returned to South Carolina on Friday for a warm homecoming from the Democrats who resurrected his 2020 presidential campaign

7:30 PM on Friday, February 27

A fatal shooting on a boat traveling to Cuba is bringing fresh attention to a deep-rooted movement in Florida against the island’s government

6:16 PM on Friday, February 27

A federal judge has extended his order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported

4:16 PM on Friday, February 27

Renee Good loved sparkles and laughter and any excuse for a celebration

10:38 AM on Friday, February 27

Argentine President Javier Milei has scored a crucial victory in congress with the approval of a sweeping labor reform aimed at radically altering labor relations in the South American country

8:45 AM on Friday, February 27

Former President Bill Clinton has finished his testimony before members of Congress for their investigation over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

4:28 AM on Friday, February 27

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety

11:33 AM on Tuesday, February 17