Politics & Government News

12:53 AM on Monday, January 5

Guinea’s Supreme Court has upheld the election victory of junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya

12:29 AM on Monday, January 5

The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America

10:01 PM on Sunday, January 4

Interim Venezuelan leader invites Trump to 'collaborate' and seeks 'respectful relations' in newly conciliatory message

9:20 PM on Sunday, January 4

Cuba has acknowledged the deaths of 32 Cubans in the American military operation that ousted Venezuela's leader over the weekend

8:30 PM on Sunday, January 4

President Donald Trump said that U.S. national security officials have determined that Ukraine did not target a residence belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack last week

8:18 PM on Sunday, January 4

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

6:37 PM on Sunday, January 4

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro who was captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation

6:10 PM on Sunday, January 4

A day after the ouster of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is renewing his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland and is threatening Colombia with military action over its drug trade

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

12:32 PM on Sunday, January 4

President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela is testing his ability to hold the Republican coalition together

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

11:22 AM on Sunday, January 4

10:05 AM on Sunday, January 4

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro

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

6:08 AM on Sunday, January 4

President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing that country's president in a military raid isn't likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices

1:26 AM on Sunday, January 4

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is suggesting the United States won’t govern Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country

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

1:29 PM on Saturday, January 3