Politics & Government News

11:12 AM on Friday, March 13

Texas is pushing a massive power-line buildout to keep the Permian Basin’s oil boom running, but a new route fight is slowing it

11:01 AM on Friday, March 13

Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation that would make UFO reports available for research

10:18 AM on Friday, March 13

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is terminating the contractor running its largest detention facility and putting in charge another firm tasked with improving medical care and other services

10:09 AM on Friday, March 13

Ethiopia has declared three days of mourning as the death toll following landslides climbs to 80

7:52 AM on Friday, March 13

France has returned a looted sacred talking drum to Ivory Coast, marking the first official restitution of precious artifacts from France to the west African nation after they were looted during the colonial era

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6:50 AM on Friday, March 13

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. 30-day waiver on Russian oil sanctions amid the Iran war is “not the right decision” and won’t help bring a stop to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine

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China has sharply reduced its warplane flights near Taiwan and analysts aren't sure why

4:25 AM on Friday, March 13

Poland’s government is scrambling to keep access to major European Union defense loans after the president blocked a law allowing the country to access the funds

4:04 AM on Friday, March 13

One grew up in rural Haiti amid the poverty and violence

1:42 AM on Friday, March 13

South African soldiers deployed in the country’s high-crime areas have dismantled illegal mining operations Johannesburg

9:01 PM on Thursday, March 12

Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval

4:35 PM on Thursday, March 12

The Trump administration is denouncing CNN for airing a portion of the new Iranian supreme leader's first public statement since he got the job

3:50 PM on Thursday, March 12

A record 280 political parties and counting have registered to participate in Haiti’s first general election in a decade

12:09 PM on Thursday, March 12

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Paris for trade talks that set the stage for President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing

7:53 AM on Thursday, March 12

Long-serving South Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn says he's running for an 18th term in Congress

12:21 AM on Thursday, March 12

China is signaling it will stay focused on technology and economic growth, even as U.S. tensions with Iran rise

10:44 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Iran’s secretive new leader has issued his first public statements, resolving to keep fighting