The overnight attacks in Venezuela and the subsequent capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a U.S. military operation on Saturday triggered sharp international reactions, ranging from European Union calls for de-escalation to condemnations from some of Latin America’s most outspoken leaders, who described the use of force as “...Read more

U.S. negotiators will join European leaders in Paris on Tuesday in the latest effort to hash out postwar security guarantees for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

“The focus will be on security guarantees for Ukraine, and recovery. There will be also meetings with the team of President Trump,” Zelenskyy said, adding that the ...Read more

When Nicolás Maduro assumed Venezuela’s presidency in 2013, the country was already deeply unsettled after years of political polarization under Hugo Chávez, marked by shrinking freedoms and violent crackdowns on dissent.

But as it turned out, Venezuelans had seen nothing yet.

Following Chávez’s death, Venezuela entered one of the most ...Read more

Kyiv hosted national security advisers from its top allies for talks on security guarantees and economic support for Ukraine as part of the global effort to end Russia’s four-year invasion.

More than a dozen NSAs from European countries, Canada and offices of the European Council, European Commission and NATO held talks focused on three ...Read more

The fiery debate about a proposed ballot measure to tax California’s billionaires has sparked some soul-searching across the state.

While the idea of a one-time tax on more than 200 people has a long way to go before getting onto the ballot and would need to be passed by voters in November, the tempest around it captures the zeitgeist of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — News that robotaxi company Waymo is planning an expansion into Minneapolis was met with excitement in some corners, trepidation in others — and one big question:

How is that going to work in a Minnesota winter?

Minnesota drivers are accustomed to wintry roads. Less clear is how well driverless cars can handle ice and snow of ...Read more

The last time Mary Bullwinkel and her beloved little town were in the national media spotlight was not a happy period. Bullwinkel was the spokesperson for the logging giant Pacific Lumber in the late 1990s, when reporters flooded into this often forgotten corner of Humboldt County to cover the timber wars and visit a young woman who had staged a...Read more

Chaos erupted this week in a Connecticut courthouse, where a 21-year-old man was arraigned for the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend in East Haven.

Tyreek Black appeared in a New Haven courtroom on Wednesday after being arrested for the Tuesday morning murder of 21-year-old Destiny Rumley. The defendant had allegedly confessed to the killing in ...Read more

Under fire from an array of Jewish and pro-Israel groups, Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his decision to revoke an executive order issued by his predecessor under which New York City adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.

Eric Adams, whose term ended at midnight Wednesday, issued the ...Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rescinded all executive orders issued by his predecessor over the last 15 months as part of a flurry of actions as the city’s new leader took office Jan. 1.

The directive revoked all executive orders former mayor Eric Adams had issued since Sept. 26, 2024, the day he was indicted on federal corruption ...Read more

The Trump administration’s latest deadline for Minnesota to change its rule that allows transgender girls to participate in high school girls sports appears to expire Jan. 2, yet exactly what happens next — and when — has not yet been determined.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Sept. 30 declared ...Read more