Politics & Government News

7:40 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Analysts say China is unlikely to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and it is probably welcoming a delay in President Donald Trump’s Beijing trip

4:07 PM on Tuesday, March 17

An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday

3:56 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Arizona has become the first state to file criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the prediction market platform of operating an illegal gambling business within its borders

3:40 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Iranian authorities have confirmed the death of Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official who was thought to be running the country since the beginning of the war

3:39 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Court documents show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration wants to stop representing Eric Adams in a lawsuit that alleges the former mayor sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades ago

3:17 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Paraguay has ratified the Mercosur and European Union free trade deal to complete South America’s approval of a huge new trade zone

3:09 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Trump administration is expanding its growing Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida

3:01 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Peru’s prime minister has resigned from her post

2:38 PM on Tuesday, March 17

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and his party pushed through a constitutional reform that will permit life sentences in a country that has imprisoned more than 1% of its population in its war on gangs

1:12 PM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump says he plans to endorse a candidate in the Texas Republican Senate runoff to end the painful primary

12:33 PM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump says NATO and other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz

12:22 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”

10:11 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Democratic U.S. Senate hopefuls Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner are sparring over an advertisement released by the Mills campaign criticizing Platner’s past online comments

10:02 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The Trump counterterrorism official who resigned Tuesday had been a staunch supporter of the president through his 2020 election defeat, the Jan. 6 riots and years of conservative media advocacy and failed congressional bids

5:56 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Scotland’s Parliament rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first in the U.K. to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives

4:32 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Russia and Iran “brothers in hatred.”

10:40 PM on Monday, March 16

Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the country’s leadership

9:28 PM on Monday, March 16

The widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is choking the Strait of Hormuz and sending energy and security shocks around the world

9:00 PM on Monday, March 16

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate

12:19 AM on Sunday, March 15

Provisional results announced by authorities in the Republic of Congo show that President Denis Sassou N’Guesso has been reelected for a fifth consecutive term