Politics & Government News

4:10 AM on Monday, March 23

Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has died at 88, after a career that left major social reforms

4:07 AM on Monday, March 23

Slovenia’s president is urging the country’s political parties to start talks on forming a new government as soon as possible after the country's two main parties were practically tied in a weekend election

4:04 AM on Monday, March 23

Democrats are pushing new tax-cut plans to ease voters’ affordability worries and blunt Republicans’ advantage on the issue

4:00 AM on Monday, March 23

3:00 AM on Monday, March 23

7:10 PM on Sunday, March 22

A statue of Christopher Columbus been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House

7:01 PM on Sunday, March 22

A new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe President Donald Trump has done more harm than good on the issue of immigration and border security in his second term so far

6:59 PM on Sunday, March 22

Rahm Emanuel is proposing a far-reaching measure to crack down on betting in predictive markets in Washington as part of an effort to call attention to what he sees as a culture of corruption gripping the nation’s politics

1:11 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

12:43 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

12:05 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

10:29 AM 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

9:19 AM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump’s decision to order federal immigration agents to U.S. airports to help with security is drawing concerns that their presence may escalate tensions among air travelers and screeners

7:47 AM on Sunday, March 22

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

12:20 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

11:04 PM on Saturday, March 21

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

9:24 PM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets

9:08 PM on Saturday, March 21

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

6:45 PM on Saturday, March 21

Japan says one of two detained Japanese nationals in Iran has returned home in good health after being released

5:20 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