Other than frustration at surging migration, Latin America has not merited the same level of attention in Washington as the Middle East, Europe or Asia in recent history. That indifference has ended with the second Trump administration, but the nature of our renewed attention is not exactly what many of our neighbors might have hoped for.

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Almost two years ago, Ashleigh Merchant sat at a desk in the cluttered back room of her Marietta law office, her mind racing.

It was deadline day for pretrial motions in the Fulton County case accusing Donald Trump and 18 others of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Merchant’s paralegal was about to upload a document that ...Read more

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Senator Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, pledging to repair relations with Washington and curb spending to address the deepest economic crisis in four decades.

Paz led former president Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition by 54.5% to 45.5%, with 98% of ballots tallied in the preliminary ...Read more

Vote counting has started in Bolivia’s presidential runoff, which will determine which of two pro-business candidates will take office amid the deepest economic crisis in 40 years.

Senator Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition both pledge to curb government ...Read more

State Sen. Sharif Street has an early fundraising lead over his competitors in next year’s Democratic primary for a storied Philadelphia congressional seat, according to new campaign finance reports.

But the race is in its early stages, and candidates who entered the race after Street still have plenty of time to catch up before the May 2026 ...Read more

Bolivians are voting in a presidential runoff to decide which of two pro-business candidates they trust to lead them out of their deepest economic crisis in forty years.

Senator Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition both pledge to curb government spending, phase out...Read more

The Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity programs arrived last month for Atlanta’s airport, with a demand to cancel inclusion policies or lose federal funding. Mayor Andre Dickens refused — forfeiting tens of millions of dollars for the world’s busiest aviation hub.

But for Dickens, who’s led the city since 2022, it was worth...Read more

As the Justice Department presses charges against some of Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies amid his retribution push, the former prosecutor who built two criminal cases against the president is back on his radar.

Jack Smith, the one-time U.S. special counsel, recently reemerged in public to denounce the Trump administration’s ...Read more

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s presidential election Sunday will bring an end to two decades of rule by a socialist government that ran the economy into the ground. But the giddiness of voters and investors over the prospects of change will soon give way to the reality of a difficult turnaround.

The Andean nation’s sovereign bonds have ...Read more

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has terminated a consent order that prohibited Citibank from discriminating against its Armenian American customers.

The agency, led by President Trump's Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, ended the consent order on Thursday, three years earlier than when it was set to expire.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who is one of California’s fiercest critics of President Donald Trump, will run for the congressional seat held by former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

A longtime associate of Wiener’s told the Los Angeles Times that the state legislator recently told him he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to quickly lift a lower court order that blocked the deployment of federalized National Guard troops to assist immigration officials in the Chicago area.

The application argues the decision from Judge April Perry of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...Read more

The right wing‘s war on Netflix wages on.

The Pentagon issued a statement blasting the streamer’s programming and leadership Friday following an inquiry about the new series “Boots” from Entertainment Weekly. While the response from Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson did not directly address the gay coming-of-age military show, it...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration in court filings submitted Friday said that it was holding off firing thousands of federal workers in order to comply with a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in California.

The filings came ahead of a 6 p.m. Eastern time Friday hearing on the status of the TRO preventing the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.

His lawyers filed an emergency appeal urging the court to set aside rulings of judges in Chicago and hold that National Guard troops are needed to protect U.S. immigration agents from hostile protesters.

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Pop star Reneé Rapp took shots at President Donald Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with a blistering rant during her concert in Portland, Oregon this week.

The “Mean Girls” actress used her “Bite Me” tour stop at Rip City‘s Moda Center Monday to rip the MAGA leader about his controversial immigration policies.

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DENVER — Democrats again put big dollars behind candidates looking to unseat U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, new quarterly fundraising reports show, even as she now represents one of Colorado’s reddest districts.

The three Democrats vying to challenge Boebert in 2026 for the 4th Congressional District reported raising more than $3 million this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s been a year full of money grabs by an executive branch that puts less weight on Congress’ “power of the purse” than any since the Nixon administration.

But President Donald Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — has so openly flouted federal law as to make ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who has emerged as one of California’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, will run next year for the congressional seat held by former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

A formal announcement from Wiener is expected next week, the San Francisco Standard ...Read more

In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. appeared keen to cooperate with Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader. Special envoy Ric Grenell met Maduro, working with him to coordinate deportation flights to Caracas, a prisoner exchange deal and an agreement allowing Chevron to drill Venezuelan oil.

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