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

5:18 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

5:07 PM on Wednesday, March 4

More than 150 Cuban medical staff have departed Honduras after the Central American country's new government abruptly cancelled the agreement

5:06 PM on Wednesday, March 4

President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is too big and should be scaled back

4:39 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Voters who cast ballots during extended polling place hours in Dallas and Williamson counties are waiting to see if their votes will count

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

4:05 PM on Wednesday, March 4

A man protesting the war in Iran has been arrested after a struggle in a U.S. Senate building

4:00 PM on Wednesday, March 4

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of an executive order issued last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that designates two Muslim groups as foreign terrorist organizations

3:22 PM on Wednesday, March 4

American Airlines received approval Wednesday to become the first U.S. airline to resume flights to Venezuela

3:19 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrapped up two days of scrutiny in Congress, appearing for the first time in front of lawmakers since the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement officers

3:14 PM on Wednesday, March 4

3:12 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Brazil’s Senate unanimously ratified on Wednesday the free-trade deal between trade bloc Mercosur and the European Union, following same move by the country’s lower house and bringing the deal one step closer to implementation

3:03 PM on Wednesday, March 4

Florida’s attorney general says Florida has reopened a criminal investigation into former Cuban leader Raul Castro’s role in the 1996 shootdown of exile planes

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

2:49 PM on Wednesday, March 4

The first primaries of the year weren’t short on drama