Politics & Government News

1:41 PM on Tuesday, March 24

A U.N. Security Council resolution calling for countries to use “all necessary means” to keep the Strait of Hormuz open is facing some opposition for raising the possibility of U.N.-backed military action against Iran

12:56 PM on Tuesday, March 24

The Trump administration’s $1 billion payout to a French energy company to walk away from U.S. offshore wind development is a novel tactic against the industry that supporters see as creative, but opponents see as foolish and extreme

12:46 PM on Tuesday, March 24

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a new Justice Department division focused on prosecuting fraud over critics’ concerns of potential political pressure to target White House opponents

12:31 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Moldova’s Parliament voted on Tuesday in favor of imposing a 60-day state of emergency in the country’s energy sector after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy grid disconnected a key power line linking Moldova to Romania

12:26 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Speculation is mounting about who, if anyone, might replace Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for change in Cuba’s leadership

11:07 AM on Tuesday, March 24

California has sued the Trump administration to block an emergency order aiming to force the restart of an offshore oil operation shut down more than a decade ago

10:29 AM on Tuesday, March 24

9:46 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Georgia lawmakers may require that every public school student be checked for weapons each day

9:35 AM on Tuesday, March 24

A Georgia judge has granted a bond of just $1 for a murder charge faced by a woman accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion

9:30 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Melania Trump is calling on nations to work together to improve access to education and technology for children

9:12 AM on Tuesday, March 24

French financial prosecutors say searches were carried out at several locations, including the Paris arm of Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild, as part of an investigation tied to revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files

8:31 AM on Tuesday, March 24

The first ship of an international flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba has arrived in Havana loaded with solar panels, bicycles, food and medicine as the island’s economic and energy crises deepen

8:01 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Cyprus has raised concerns that it was kept in the dark when a Shahed drone struck a hangar at a British air base on the island’s southern coastline minutes after midnight on March 2

7:42 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr_ has declared a state of national energy emergency to respond to the impact of the Middle East war, which his administration said poses “an imminent danger of a critically low energy supply.”

7:31 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America’s skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring

6:53 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Oklahoma’s governor has appointed energy executive Alan Armstrong to fill a newly vacant U.S. Senate seat through the end of the year

6:31 AM on Tuesday, March 24

U.S. senators are discussing a proposal to end the Homeland Security budget stalemate by funding much of the department, including Transportation Security Administration airport workers who are going without pay

5:36 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025

9:08 PM on Monday, March 23

A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic

9:01 PM on Monday, March 23

Lawmakers in states where abortion is already banned are focusing on measures intended to crack down on abortion pills