Politics & Government News

4:32 PM on Friday, January 9

Opening statements began Friday in the trial of five current and former Stanford students who overtook a university building during 2024 pro-Palestine protests

4:09 PM on Friday, January 9

The wife of the woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis says the couple had stopped their car to support their neighbors and they had whistles, while the masked agents had guns

4:05 PM on Friday, January 9

3:37 PM on Friday, January 9

The Trump administration has approved Nevada's plan to use $170 million to expand broadband access

2:56 PM on Friday, January 9

Cyprus says it has fallen victim to a malicious disinformation attack painting the country’s leadership as corrupt that’s similar to previous Russian hybrid campaigns aiming to discredit other countries including France, Germany and the U_S_ According to an initial Cyprus Security Services analysis obtained by The Associated Press Friday, the 8 ½ -minute video exhibits “the characteristics of organized Russian disinformation campaigns.”

2:27 PM on Friday, January 9

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his agency is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia

2:10 PM on Friday, January 9

A judge who ruled a Trump administration prosecutor was serving unlawfully also rejected his bid to obtain tax return information in a criminal investigation

1:59 PM on Friday, January 9

Trump to meet with Colombia president next month; calls on Petro to make quick progress on stemming cocaine flow into US

1:13 PM on Friday, January 9

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration says Friday the state is facing a $2.9 billion budget deficit

1:01 PM on Friday, January 9

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that Argentina has repaid the funds it drew from a $20 billion credit line with the Trump administration

12:38 PM on Friday, January 9

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges

12:10 PM on Friday, January 9

The town of Marana, Arizona, has approved rezoning for a new data center, putting it in direct competition with Project Blue to become Southern Arizona's first large-scale data center

11:07 AM on Friday, January 9

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis

8:48 AM on Friday, January 9

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country

8:27 AM on Friday, January 9

Italy has provided crucial support to plans by the European Union to seal a huge free trade deal with five South American nations

3:16 AM on Friday, January 9

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements

2:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire

1:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas

5:11 PM on Thursday, January 8

Misrepresented and fabricated images spread widely on social media in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday

1:13 PM on Wednesday, January 7