Hours after President Donald Trump stunned the world by saying the U.S. plans to “run” Venezuela, uncertainty over what that means and who is in charge loomed over the South American nation.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was an indicted prisoner on a flight bound for New York by the time his Vice President Delcy Rodríguez �...Read more

WASHINGTON — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife will face criminal charges in the United States after an extraordinary overnight military raid to secure his arrest, the culmination of a lengthy U.S. pressure campaign for regime change in Caracas.

The move to seize the head of a sovereign nation for the U.S. justice system ...Read more

WASHINGTON — What the United States does next in Venezuela and in the Western Hemisphere more broadly are questions that loom large as the 119th Congress returns to work this week for its second session.

On the heels of the U.S. military’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday morning and the administration’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed fresh frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin, bristling at the Kremlin’s ongoing military operations even as the U.S. leader seeks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.

“I’m not thrilled with Putin, he’s killing too many people,” Trump said Saturday during a news conference at his Mar-a-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife will face criminal charges in the United States after an extraordinary overnight military raid to secure his arrest, the culmination of a lengthy U.S. pressure campaign for regime change in Caracas.

The move to seize the head of a sovereign nation for the U.S. justice system ...Read more

It seems Idaho U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have finally broken with President Donald Trump — on one issue, at least.

But they seem to have picked about the worst one they could have.

As the Statesman’s Kevin Fixler reported, the two signed onto a letter in mid-December objecting to the Trump administration’s plans to move ...Read more

George Clooney is brushing off President Donald Trump’s mockery over his new status as a French citizen.

Trump took to his own platform, Truth Social, to bash Clooney and his wife, Amal, upon learning they have secured citizenship overseas, labeling them the “worst political prognosticators of all time.” He told his followers their move ...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. is ready to aid protesters in Iran if authorities crack down on the unrest, prompting a top Iranian official to threaten retaliation against U.S. forces in the region.

Trump’s comments in an early-morning Truth Social post — including a warning that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go�...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. is ready to aid protesters in Iran if authorities crack down on the unrest, prompting a top Iranian official to threaten retaliation against U.S. forces in the region.

Trump’s comments in an early-morning Truth Social post — including a warning that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go�...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. is ready to aid protesters in Iran if authorities crack down on the unrest, prompting a top Iranian official to threaten retaliation against U.S. forces in the region.

Trump’s comments in an early-morning Truth Social post — including a warning that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has spent months on a campaign to collect nonpublic voter data from nearly every state, facing pushback from states and concerns from privacy advocates.

President Donald Trump and Justice Department officials have cast the effort as a push to clamp down on alleged voting fraud, amid a broader Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump pledged that the U.S. will come to the rescue of Iranian protesters if they are attacked by Islamic Republic authorities.

“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump said in a Truth Social post early Friday. “We are ...Read more

The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Donald Trump's second term with a record of rulings that gave him much broader power to control the federal government.

In a series of fast-track decisions, the justices granted emergency appeals and set aside rulings from district judges who blocked ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trever Nehls stood in a hallway outside the House chamber on an early December evening, shaking hands, chatting with staffers and getting warm greetings from a number of GOP members.

A passerby paused in front of him: “Are you the real one or …”

“As long as you don’t say ‘impostor,’” he replied.

Trever is the ...Read more

If she makes it on the ballot, Karen Dalton will be U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s first primary opponent since 2012 – the year he first won the seat.

Dalton, a retired staff attorney for the Pennsylvania House Republicans, knows the odds are against her as she runs a solo campaign operation out of her living room. But she thinks she has a shot.

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Political allies of Donald Trump were willing to testify against him in cases brought by the U.S. Justice Department, according to former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Smith said that fellow Republicans were willing to cooperate with the investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a 255-page transcript ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.

Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much ...Read more

The Trump administration backed off its effort to block a court order returning control of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a brief filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers said they no longer oppose lifting a partial administrative stay and formally...Read more

The wife of former first lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband was found dead in the couple’s living room by police responding to a domestic dispute call, authorities in Delaware said Tuesday.

Police found Linda Stevenson, 64, “unresponsive in the living room” around 11:16 p.m. Sunday and “immediately administered life-saving measures,” the ...Read more