Politics & Government News

9:13 PM on Thursday, March 5

After James Talarico won the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas, Republicans are racing to paint him as too progressive

9:12 PM on Thursday, March 5

President Donald Trump has yet to endorse a candidate in Georgia's Republican primary

9:12 PM on Thursday, March 5

A late-hour attempt by California’s top Democratic official to thin out the party’s crowded field for governor flopped, leaving Democrats anxious over the possibility about a Republican upset in November

9:12 PM on Thursday, March 5

The Trump administration’s campaign to end “wokeness” in the military is reshaping its relationship with U.S. higher education

7:44 PM on Thursday, March 5

Japan's Foreign Ministry says a second Japanese national has been detained in Iran and demanded the early release of both people

6:45 PM on Thursday, March 5

The United Nations political chief says demand for critical minerals that power technology from smartphones to missiles could triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040

6:17 PM on Thursday, March 5

The Trump administration in recent weeks has taken forceful steps in one Latin American country after another aimed at curbing the influence and economic dominance of China

6:05 PM on Thursday, March 5

Jamaica’s foreign ministry says it is ending a decades-long agreement with Cuba involving its medical missions

6:05 PM on Thursday, March 5

Iraqi Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press that thousands of battle-hardened Kurds in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran with U.S. backing

3:43 PM on Thursday, March 5

The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude

3:41 PM on Thursday, March 5

The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review

3:40 PM on Thursday, March 5

Last year, President Donald Trump promoted unproven ties between Tylenol and autism and touted an old generic drug as a treatment for the developmental condition

3:09 PM on Thursday, March 5

The State Department says the United States and Venezuela have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship

2:51 PM on Thursday, March 5

A Wisconsin teenager who killed his parents and stole their money to fund his plan to kill President Donald Trump has been sentenced to life in prison

2:44 PM on Thursday, March 5

Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died

10:14 AM on Thursday, March 5

A Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to set fire to a Republican congressman’s office last year because he was angry that the lawmaker backed a bill requiring TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell off its U.S. operations has been sentenced to seven years in prison

8:34 AM on Thursday, March 5

A federal panel reviewing President Donald Trump's White House ballroom got an earful from members of the public

6:37 AM on Thursday, March 5

Swaths of Cuba remain without power nearly a day after a massive blackout hit the western part of the island in the latest outage blamed on a fragile electric grid and a lack of fuel

9:23 PM on Wednesday, March 4

U.S. President Donald Trump says he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader

9:01 PM on Wednesday, March 4

The House has narrowly rejected a resolution that would curb President Donald Trump’s powers in the Iran war