Follow the latest news and analysis from Washington as the suspension of federal funding heads toward the 35-day record.

Donald Trump does not intend to take his foot off the accelerator in the pressure on Venezuela. The US leader predicted, in a tense interview with CBS News' '60 Minutes', that the ...

DONALD Trump has warned that dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “days are numbered” as he continues to send mixed signals about US attacks on Venezuela. America’s military is now on ...

The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched ...

Maduro has built a system in which the only people who can truly tear down the dictatorship are the ones with the most to ...

In 2016, Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, declared an economic emergency to confront the country's spiraling financial crisis. What was billed as a temporary measure quickly expanded – and never ...

I get it. When times are tough, people naturally look for answers. When the cost of living rises faster than wages or when housing prices climb out of reach, families naturally begin searching for ...

President Donald Trump calls upcoming Supreme Court tariffs case "most important decision" in U.S. history, linking trade ...

US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial ...

A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.