A senior Cuban official said the country is preparing for a possible military assault as President Donald Trump increases economic pressure on the government in Havana and suggests it could be the next U.S. target after Venezuela and Iran.

“Our military is always prepared,” Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said in an ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider upending key election deadlines in as many as 29 states with a case that draws the justices into President Donald Trump’s campaign against mail-in ballots.

The justices hear arguments Monday in a Mississippi clash over laws that allow ballots to be counted even if they don’t arrive until shortly after ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents assigned to help ease long lines at airport security during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown will only conduct “nonsignificant” tasks such as guarding exits, border czar Tom Homan said.

“We’re simply there to help TSA do their job in areas that don’t need their specialized ...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has once again distanced himself from Donald Trump’s political base, while indicating he plans to continue engaging with the U.S. president.

“The MAGA movement is not our movement,” he said at an election event in Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate last night. “And the way they treat culture and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon intends to accelerate AI-enabled decision-making and put it at the heart of its ambition to link up sensors and shooters for combat operations, according to a policy memo seen by Bloomberg.

Establishing Palantir Technologies Inc.’s Maven Smart System as a so-called program of record “will provide the stable ...Read more

Friedrich Merz will have another chance to secure a regional election victory on Sunday after the German chancellor’s conservative party suffered a bruising defeat in a wealthy southwestern state two weeks ago.

Failure to take power in the wine-growing region of Rhineland-Palatine would be a heavy blow for Merz’s Christian Democratic Union...Read more

Donald Trump’s decision to wage war on Iran was partly motivated by pressure from outside allies while his own White House team stayed more muted — underscoring how in his second term, guardrails have been traded for a green light.

Those privately pressing Trump to strike Iran included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media mogul ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s ready to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to U.S. airports as soon as Monday if congressional Democrats don’t agree to a plan for funding parts of the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump said Saturday in a social media post that the ICE agents would not only assist the Transportation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s decision to curtail the activities of reporters at the Pentagon, which led to the departure of most news organizations from the building, was blocked on Friday by a federal judge in Washington.

The court ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by The New York Times, which accused the administration of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday proposed its framework for a national artificial intelligence policy, pushing for broad preemption of state AI laws and against “open-ended liability” for AI firms.

The proposal urges Congress to take some steps to protect kids, energy costs and copyright holders, while also requesting streamlined ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted to impeach a Fayette County judge after a committee issued articles of impeachment against her earlier this week.

In a 73-to-14 vote Friday, the House approved the articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, sending the matter to the Senate ...Read more

U.S. officials said the White House is sending more than 2,000 additional Marines to the Middle East as it weighs a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, a ground operation that would carry huge risks for President Donald Trump.

At the same time, Trump floated the idea late Friday that the war could end quickly — even as he had ...Read more

The Chicago Transit Authority filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday, alleging the feds violated the U.S. Constitution when they froze about $2 billion in federal grant money for the agency’s long-awaited Red Line Extension project.

The CTA says that unless federal Judge Thomas M. Durkin steps in by March 27, it will have to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A tidal wave of presidential words does not policy make.

That was the lesson this past week at the White House, the Capitol and on board Air Force Once, where President Donald Trump got out 35,615 words publicly between Sunday and Thursday, according to CQ Roll Call’s Factba.se. His remarks generated dramatic headlines, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over what the phrase “Election Day” means and whether states can accept ballots in federal elections that arrive after that date.

Republicans challenged a Mississippi state law, passed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that allows officials to count ballots that arrive up to five ...Read more

U.S. officials said the White House is sending more than 2,000 additional Marines to the Middle East as it weighs a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, a ground operation that would carry huge risks for President Donald Trump.

“I don’t want to do a ceasefire,” Trump said Friday at the White House.

Any effort to seize and ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has the highest net favorability among national Democrats in a new national Emerson poll, but that’s partly because more voters don’t have an opinion about him compared to most of his potential 2028 rivals.

Shapiro has been on a publicity tour for his new book, "Where We Keep the Light," and building his donor...Read more

President Donald Trump is pushing for the passage of a law that would require voter ID and make a suite of other changes to the nation’s voting systems that advocates have warned would disenfranchise millions of Americans.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America Act, passed the U.S. House in February in an effort to require ...Read more

DENVER — For the second time in a month, President Donald Trump is changing horses in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

In a social media post Friday, Trump announced that he was re-endorsing U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd to hold the Western Slope seat he won two years ago. Trump also said he was going to hire Hurd’s conservative primary ...Read more

Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds − when leaders misread what they and their adversaries can do, when their confidence substitutes for comprehension, and when the last war is mistaken for the next one.

The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is not an anomaly. It is the ...Read more