Joshua Goodman

President Donald Trump meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel

February 7, 2025 at 8:29 a.m.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to Air Force One after arriving back at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze could prove to be a boon for the world’s authoritarian strongmen

February 4, 2025 at 8:32 a.m.

When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate waste and block what he derides as “woke” spending...

FILE – Then former President Donald Trump speaks next to Richard Grenell during a presidential election campaign event at a farm in Smithton, Pa., Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Senior Trump official travels to Venezuela for talks on migrants

January 31, 2025 at 12:41 p.m.

A senior Trump administration official has traveled to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro’s government to take back deported migrants who’ve committed crimes in the U.S. and release a handful...

Venezuelan founder of voting machine company targeted by Trump allies is indicted on bribery charges

August 9, 2024 at 11:33 a.m.

A federal grand jury in Miami has charged the Venezuelan co-founder of a voting machine company targeted by allies of former President Donald Trump with paying more than $1 million...

Residents try to block a street to protest the official results the day after the presidential election as National Guards work to remove them in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuela’s top prosecutor announces criminal probe against opposition leaders González, Machado

August 6, 2024 at 12:06 p.m.

Venezuela’s top prosecutor on Monday announced a criminal investigation against the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González and its leader Maria Corina Machado over their call on the armed forces to...

A Venezuelan national holds a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “Free Venezuela”, and “Out Maduro”, during a demonstration in support of opposition Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, in front of the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Masked assailants ransack Venezuela opposition leader’s headquarters as post-election tensions mount

August 2, 2024 at 10:22 a.m.

Masked assailants ransacked the headquarters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in an escalation of violence against President Nicolás Maduro’s opponents.

Residents block a street to protest the official results the day after the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela on July 29, 2024. (Fernando Vergara/AP)

Venezuelan opposition coalition says it has proof its candidate defeated President Maduro

July 29, 2024 at 6:20 p.m.

A few thousand Venezuelans are taking to the streets near Caracas’ largest poor neighborhood to protest President Nicolás Maduro’s claim that he won the country's election.

FILE – DEA Administrator Anne Milgram speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, April 14, 2023. The Biden administration’s push to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug is going forward without the support of the nation’s premier narcotics agency. Newly released government records show the Drug Enforcement Administration requested more information on supporting science to reclassify marijuana but the Justice Department decided to move ahead without the drug agency’s signoff — an unprecedented omission. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Top U.S. drug agency a notable holdout in Biden’s push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions

May 20, 2024 at 7:40 p.m.

The process to reclassify marijuana, normally steered by the DEA, has been taken over by the U.S. Justice Department.

In this March 22, 2019, file photo, a marijuana plant is visible at Compassionate Care Foundation’s medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana in historic shift, but it’ll remain controlled substance

April 30, 2024 at 5:57 p.m.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that...

Esta imagen facilitada por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos muestra una circular en la que se ofrece una recompensa de 10 millones de dólares por información que conduzca a la captura o condena del general retirado venezolano Cliver Alcalá Cordones, la cual fue difundida el jueves 26 de marzo de 2020. (Departamento de Justicia de EEUU vía AP).

General venezolano acusado con Maduro se entrega en Colombia

March 28, 2020 at 12:54 a.m.

MIAMI — Un general retirado del ejército venezolano acusado junto con Nicolás Maduro se ha entregado en Colombia, y agentes de la DEA ya lo trasladan a Nueva York para...

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