Politics & Government News

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Voters will be heading to the polls to vote for a president in the Republic of Congo on Sunday but the outcome seems to be a foregone conclusion as the country's longtime leader Dennis Sassou N'Guesso faces little opposition in the political arena

5:24 AM on Wednesday, March 11

3:03 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Former Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe is running for Congress in a newly drawn district that favors Democrats

9:01 PM on Tuesday, March 10

President Donald Trump insisted he had the answer for Republicans anxious about losing their congressional majority this year

8:38 PM on Tuesday, March 10

The defection of another opposition lawmaker is all but assuring Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will have a majority government soon

3:14 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Majority Leader John Thune says that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections

2:08 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Paraguay’s lawmakers have approved an agreement that lets U.S. military and civilian personnel operate in the country under special legal rules

1:51 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery

1:45 PM on Tuesday, March 10

12:20 PM on Tuesday, March 10

The office that enforces the ethics code for attorneys in the nation’s capital has accused Justice Department official Ed Martin of professional misconduct for a threatening letter that he sent to Georgetown Law School’s dean last year

11:08 AM on Tuesday, March 10

Prosecutors say greed, arrogance and power were the driving forces behind four men charged in U.S. federal court for the 2021 assassination of Haiti's last elected president, Jovenel Moïse

10:52 AM on Tuesday, March 10

The State Department has authorized the use of up to $40 million in emergency funds to pay for evacuation charter flights for Americans to leave the Middle East due to disruptions in transportation caused by the Iran war

10:48 AM on Tuesday, March 10

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A monitoring watchdog says press freedom across the Americas dropped sharply in 2025, with more killings, arrests and intimidation of media workers

9:32 AM on Tuesday, March 10

Voting technology firm Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss a criminal money laundering indictment saying the case is political retaliation tied to President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 election

8:19 AM on Tuesday, March 10

A judge has rejected a request for a new trial for a Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley

6:05 AM on Tuesday, March 10

A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure

9:03 PM on Monday, March 9

Longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson has won the Democratic nomination for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District

9:01 PM on Monday, March 9

Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris are advancing to an April 7 runoff for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia