Politics & Government News

4:59 AM on Thursday, March 5

Families of Kenyan recruits duped with promises of work in Russia who ended up on the front lines of the fighting in Ukraine are petitioning the country’s parliament to ban the recruitment of Kenyans for Moscow’s war

3:23 AM on Thursday, March 5

Former President Barack Obama is promoting a Democratic effort to redraw congressional lines in Virginia, the latest front in a nationwide redistricting battle ahead of this year’s midterm elections

2:35 AM on Thursday, March 5

China has set an economic growth target at the slowest since 1991 at the opening of its annual national congress, in what some economists interpreted as a reflection of pragmatism as a weak domestic economy bites

7:02 PM on Wednesday, March 4

The House and Senate fight over war powers and Congress' role in Iran is just the latest wrangling in a constitutional tug of war

6:04 PM on Wednesday, March 4

A Pakistani man charged with plotting a political assassination in the U.S. is testifying in his defense at his attempted terrorism trial

6:02 PM on Wednesday, March 4

U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens has announced that he will not seek reelection after a redistricting shakeup left Utah's four Republican representatives to vie for three U.S. House seats this fall

5:23 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Nepal held its first nationwide election since a youth-led uprising forces the last government from power

5:18 PM on Wednesday, March 4

China has set an economic growth target of 4.5% to 5% for this year, a slight decrease in the face of a prolonged property slump and other headwinds and global uncertainty

4:20 PM on Wednesday, March 4

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether the one-time architect of President Donald Trump’s large-scale immigration crackdown made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith while criticizing the U.S. attorney for Minnesota

2:53 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Colorado’s Democratic governor is signaling his openness to granting clemency to a former county clerk who was convicted in a scheme attempting to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election

2:07 PM on Wednesday, March 4

The Virginia Supreme Court has again ruled that voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats in this year’s midterm elections

9:00 AM on Wednesday, March 4

A joke from Hilary Knight on “Saturday Night Live” and a couple of fist-bumps with Jack and Quinn Hughes on “The Tonight Show” capped a whirlwind victory lap celebrating the twin Olympic golds won by the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams

8:58 AM on Wednesday, March 4

An Arkansas man awaiting trial for murder has won the Republican nomination in a sheriff’s race in central Arkansas

8:42 AM on Wednesday, March 4

The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa

7:53 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas has acknowledged for the first time having an affair with an aide who later died after setting herself on fire

5:41 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Texas Democrats have picked James Talarico as their Senate nominee, and the state lawmaker now becomes a national voice against President Donald Trump

5:40 AM on Wednesday, March 4

President Donald Trump says he'll soon endorse a Republican candidate in the Texas Senate race

2:47 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana has dropped his bid for reelection to a third term

2:37 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Governments around the world are rushing to organize the return of their citizens from the Middle East on Wednesday and air traffic seems to be picking up slightly as travel across the region remains heavily disrupted by the widening Iran war

9:07 PM on Tuesday, March 3

Senate Republicans have voted down an effort to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran