Politics & Government News

4:11 PM on Sunday, March 22

Poland’s prime minister says Poland “had our suspicions” in response to a Washington Post report that Hungary’s government has for years provided Russia with detailed information from EU Council meetings

3:43 PM on Sunday, March 22

Thousands of people march across Chile to mark World Water Day and protest President José Antonio Kast’s rollback of environmental rules

3:05 PM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump is cycling through what seems to be an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz

1:29 PM on Sunday, March 22

A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy

11:19 AM on Sunday, March 22

Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus

10:47 AM on Sunday, March 22

Cuba has begun restarting its power grid after another nationwide blackout left millions without electricity

8:20 AM on Sunday, March 22

Democrats are starting to treat Vice President JD Vance, not Donald Trump, as their number one focus among Republican leaders

7:41 AM on Sunday, March 22

Voting rights advocates in Alaska are worried that a case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court could end a long-standing practice of the state accepting ballots after Election Day

3:20 AM on Sunday, March 22

Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo as the French capital’s mayor

2:04 AM on Sunday, March 22

Italy’s conservative premier, Giorgia Meloni, faces a pivotal political test in a two-day referendum on judicial reform

12:13 AM on Sunday, March 22

Conservationists are warning that the Trump administration is working state by state to undo decades of progress in clearing skies over the country's beloved national parks

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 22

Early results of Slovenia’s highly contested parliamentary election show governing liberals and opposition right-wing populists neck and neck, heralding a period of political uncertainty in the small European Union country

6:46 PM on Saturday, March 21

Brazil’s President Lula has slammed what he calls a renewed colonial push against developing nations at a summit in Colombia

5:50 PM on Saturday, March 21

Nearly 600 immigrant children were held in a Texas family detention center in recent months beyond court-mandated limits and without enough food, medical care or mental health services, with dozens languishing inside for more than three months, according to court documents filed Friday

1:30 PM on Saturday, March 21

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12:59 PM on Saturday, March 21

A major protest in Prague has targeted Prime Minister Andrej Babiš who the protesters say threatens democracy in the Czech Republic

12:56 PM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump is sending mixed messages about the U.S. war with Iran, and that's raising even more questions about the direction of the conflict and his administration's strategy

9:23 AM on Saturday, March 21

Iran has launched missiles toward Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island that hosts a major U.K.-U.S. military base

8:20 AM on Saturday, March 21

Tom Kean Jr.'s bid for a third term representing New Jersey's 7th Congressional District offers a window into the larger battle for control of the narrowly divided House

12:08 AM on Saturday, March 21

Iran has struck two communities near Israel’s main nuclear research center, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured, hours after Tehran’s main nuclear enrichment site was hit as the war spun into a dangerous new direction