Politics & Government News

8:18 PM on Sunday, January 4

Trump rebuts Putin's claim that Ukraine carried out a drone strike on Russian president's residence

2:42 PM on Sunday, January 4

When Nicolás Maduro appears in a New York courtroom to face U.S. drug charges, he'll be following a path taken by Panama's Manuel Noriega, another strongman who was toppled by American forces

12:28 PM on Sunday, January 4

US won’t govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade, Rubio says, after Trump claims of running country

11:01 AM on Sunday, January 4

It was America's fifth president who formulated a foreign policy approach that has shaped American strategy for two centuries

9:36 AM on Sunday, January 4

The New York jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs

9:10 AM on Sunday, January 4

Venezuelans remain in shock after President Nicolás Maduro was deposed and captured in a U.S. military operation

9:01 AM on Sunday, January 4

Saudi-backed forces have retaken Yemen's port city of Mukalla from southern separatists

7:32 AM on Sunday, January 4

Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they're still struggling with what happened

4:10 AM on Sunday, January 4

A record 11 candidates have launched campaigns for Portugal's upcoming presidential election

12:11 AM on Sunday, January 4

Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Capitol Hill after five years as one of the most well-known members of Congress

12:10 AM on Sunday, January 4

A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine

12:01 AM on Sunday, January 4

Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza

7:35 PM on Saturday, January 3

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has begun his visit to China as Beijing aims to strengthen ties amid heightened tensions with Japan over Taiwan

6:52 PM on Saturday, January 3

South Korea says North Korea has launched ballistic missiles toward the sea

4:09 PM on Saturday, January 3

Venezuelans are trying to understand who is in charge after the United States announced the capture of President Nicolás Maduro

1:14 PM on Saturday, January 3

Revelers chanted “liberty” and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the U.S. military operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro and remove him from the country

10:25 AM on Saturday, January 3

President Donald Trump declared Saturday’s military operation that led to the ouster of Nicolás Maduro a major success

5:24 AM on Saturday, January 3

President Donald Trump insists that the U.S. government would run Venezuela after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country

2:59 AM on Saturday, January 3

Iran’s supreme leader has addressed the ongoing protests, insisting that “rioters must be put in their place.”

1:33 AM on Saturday, January 3

President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily after an audacious military operation plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country