Costa Ricans elected ruling-party candidate Laura Fernández in a first-round landslide, as her promise of a draconian crackdown on crime resonated with voters in a nation roiled by soaring drug violence.

Texas politics was rocked by an upset when Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss by 14 percentage points in a special election in the Fort Worth suburbs.

President Donald Trump has sued the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department for $10 billion over the disclosure of his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020.

Democrats, seeking to capitalize on widespread public discontent following the deadly shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis this month, said they would not support a short-term funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security that lasts more than two weeks.

On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump ordered a military offensive in Venezuela, captured Nicolás Maduro, and declared that his administration was “in charge” of the South American country.

The top federal judge in Minneapolis backed off a plan to haul the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into court but delivered a scathing condemnation of the agency for repeatedly defying judges’ orders in cases stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has warned that a United States attack on Iran would be “wrong,” calling on Washington and Tehran to resolve their issues diplomatically and gradually.

Former CNN host Don Lemon has been arrested after entering a Minnesota church and filming anti-immigration enforcement protesters as they disrupted a service.

Voters have expressed both adulation and anger toward Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as she delivered her first stump speech in Tokyo, officially kicking off campaigning for a Feb. 8 general election.

The Pentagon has released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy (NDS) that calls on US allies to take greater control of their own security and reasserts the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte has told Europe it should “keep on dreaming” if it believes it can defend itself without the support of the United States.

The odds of a US government shutdown surged from roughly 10% to the high 70s on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.

Many of Donald Trump’s international critics have long accused the American president of setting tariff rates for petty and personal reasons that have nothing to do with trade policy.

Years of economic and social crisis, political repression, insecurity and collapsing institutions forced millions of Venezuelans to leave their country and rebuild their lives abroad during Nicolás Maduro’s rule.

China's Communist Party has decided to open an investigation into senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.

Former US President Donald Trump said a secret weapon — which he referred to as “The Discombobulator” — was used during the seizure of Nicolás Maduro, claiming it caused enemy equipment to fail.

Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that she has had “enough” of Washington’s orders as she works to unite the country following the US seizure of former leader Nicolás Maduro.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a US security guarantees document for Ukraine is “100% ready” after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the United States, and Russia.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if the country strikes a trade deal with China.

China has dismissed concerns raised by UN experts over alleged forced labor affecting minority groups, calling the claims “fundamentally groundless.”

At least one Republican senator is calling for a full investigation into the incident that led to the death of an ICU nurse by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration agents.

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul as hundreds of businesses closed their doors to demand an end to a weeks-long federal immigration crackdown.

Scientists have identified a hidden geological weakness beneath Greenland’s ice sheet that could accelerate its collapse and complicate US ambitions in the Arctic.

As celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence culminate on July 4, a well-financed, privately funded initiative will kick off in an effort to connect hundreds of millions of Americans with efforts to solve local problems.