Politics & Government News

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After more than a decade living with chronic kidney failure, Mexican activist Samara Martínez has turned her personal struggle into a campaign to decriminalize euthanasia

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An engineer-turned-rapper who later became Kathmandu’s mayor is poised to lead Nepal as prime minister after his party won a landslide election

4:18 AM on Thursday, March 26

Hungary’s government is filing criminal charges against an investigative journalist, claiming he is spying for a foreign state

3:12 AM on Thursday, March 26

Nepal’s newly elected members of parliament have been sworn in, with nearly two-thirds of them from a political party that is less than four years old

2:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

9:02 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Louisiana officials warn that the state's $300 million crawfish industry faces dire economic consequences because of a shortage of temporary seasonal workers via the H-2B visa program

5:14 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says that former President Raúl Castro is involved in talks between the island and the United States

4:33 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport shows how the partial government shutdown is straining air travel as TSA workers miss shifts without pay

4:17 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Belarus recently revealed how he used vulgarity and vodka shots to help ingratiate himself with the country’s autocratic leader

3:19 PM on Wednesday, March 25

A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal judge to force the Kennedy Center to block and reverse efforts to attach President Donald Trump’s name to the performing arts venue

2:24 PM on Wednesday, March 25

FEMA is reopening applications for its major resilience grant program after a judge ordered the program restored

2:09 PM on Wednesday, March 25

The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying about phone conversations with a top Russian diplomat but was later pardoned

1:38 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Republicans face growing political trouble ahead of November's midterm elections as the war in Iran keeps gas prices high and voters worry about living costs

9:56 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Florida state Rep.-elect Emily Gregory is the latest face of Democrats' optimism after she won a special legislative election in President Donald Trump's home state House district

9:39 AM on Wednesday, March 25

The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration says it may have to shut down operations at some airports if the budget impasse drags on as travelers are experiencing record waiting times

1:58 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in North Korea’s capital on Wednesday, where he is to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

8:33 AM on Monday, March 9