Politics & Government News

6:42 PM on Wednesday, February 18

The top U.S. military commander for Latin America has met with Venezuela’s acting president in Caracas as both sides discuss security and policy goals

5:55 PM on Wednesday, February 18

The U.S. military says a red, white and blue color scheme championed by President Donald Trump will become the new look for Air Force One

5:05 PM on Wednesday, February 18

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4:37 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Argentina’s President Javier Milei deepens ties with U.S. President Donald Trump while trying to avoid a break with China, Argentina’s top trading partner

4:01 PM on Wednesday, February 18

President Donald Trump’s top economist on Wednesday urged that Federal Reserve economists be punished for research last week that showed American companies and consumers paying for nearly all the new tariffs imposed by the White House last year

3:22 PM on Wednesday, February 18

President Donald Trump has hosted a White House reception for Black History Month, less than two weeks after he sparked a bipartisan outcry by posting a racist video on social media that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle

3:13 PM on Wednesday, February 18

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has resumed the practice of clearing out homeless encampments, saying he has retooled the process

2:51 PM on Wednesday, February 18

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official

2:14 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Ghana and Kenya have launched investigations into the activities of a man believed to be a Russian national who is accused of secretly recording sexual encounters with several women and publishing them online without their consent

2:03 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Leila Shahid, the first female Palestinian diplomat, who held prominent posts in Europe during some of the most tumultuous years of the Mideast conflict, has died in France at the age of 76

1:24 PM on Wednesday, February 18

A delegation of U.S. senators is returning from a trip to Ukraine

12:37 PM on Wednesday, February 18

11:52 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s two presidential runs and his life of activism inspired leaders across generations

10:42 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals

9:23 AM on Wednesday, February 18

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is discussing potential arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that has raised concerns

9:21 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order to restore a Philadelphia exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall

7:27 AM on Wednesday, February 18

A new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory

5:48 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The Cuban foreign minister is visiting Moscow as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U

2:47 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Somalia’s government says U.S.-backed airstrikes and expanded ground operations have shifted momentum in its long-running war against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group

12:36 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Australia’s government has banned an Australian with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group from returning from a detention camp in Syria