President Donald Trump hosts NATO secretary general Mark Rutte.

Senior European Union officials are in South Africa for a summit with President Cyril Ramaphosa that center on bolstering trade and diplomatic ties as both feel the impact of the Trump administration’s confrontational foreign policy.

Top diplomats from Group of 7 industrialized democracies have gathered in Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade and foreign policies have thrown the bloc's once solid unity into disarray.

Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs.

President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.

Ukrainian and Polish officials say U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed.

Caribbean leaders are pushing back against a new U.S. policy that aims to crack down on Cuban medical missions, saying that the work of hundreds of Cuban medical staff across the region is essential.

A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian and development work abroad.

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

The arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize campus protests of the war in Gaza has sparked questions about whether foreign students and green card holders are protected against being deported from the U.S. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested Saturday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on protests against the war in Gaza.

Two senior Ukrainian officials say a Kyiv delegation that will meet with America’s top diplomat in Saudi Arabia will propose a ceasefire with Russia covering the Black Sea and long-range missile strikes.

President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices and isn’t ruling out the possibility of a recession this year.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is signaling that the Trump administration has finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development.

Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast.

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and post-war reconciliation.

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Voters in Honduras will select candidates from the three main parties to compete in November’s general election for the presidency.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's campaign of disruption is engulfing the federal government.

Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to other private and public donors now that the Trump administration has suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts.

Officials from USAID say the the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. humanitarian agency have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups.

A judge has barred the Trump administration from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that supports investment in African countries.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when Trump said in his address to Congress the night before that his administration was “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.

A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its controlling stake in a subsidiary that operates ports near the Panama Canal to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., effectively putting the ports under American control after President Donald Trump alleged Chinese interference with the operations of the critical shipping lane.

The State Department has reinstated the “foreign terrorist organization” designation for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group, fulfilling an order announced by President Donald Trump.

For a second time, the Associated Press is asking a federal judge to immediately restore its access to presidential events.

The Trump administration has approved a major nearly $3 billion arms sale to Israel, bypassing a normal congressional review to provide the country with more of the 2,000-pound bombs that it has used in the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Key Republicans and Democrats have been stalwart supporters of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Major refugee aid groups say President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be trying to circumvent a federal court ruling this week that blocked his efforts to suspend the nation’s refugee admissions program.

Mexico has sent infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero to the United States along with 28 other prisoners requested by the U.S. government.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed a visit by a lobby group for the country’s white minority Afrikaner community to the White House this week.

Health groups and non-governmental organizations have expressed surprise and outrage and say many humanitarian programs will collapse after the Trump administration’s decision to cut 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts.

The military services have 30 days to figure out how they will seek out and identify transgender service members to remove them from the force.

Building lethality in the military may be the buzzword for the new Trump administration, but busywork and paperwork have become the reality at the Pentagon, as service members and civilian workers are facing a broad mandate to purge all of the department’s social media sites and untangle confusing personnel reduction moves.

A planned meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has abruptly canceled due to “scheduling issues.”.

Several nonprofit groups launched fundraising campaigns last week to help organizations who have lost funding because of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting.

As President Donald Trump moves to overhaul the federal government with astonishing speed, he has wreaked havoc on one agency long known for its nonpartisanship and revered for its mission: the National Archives and Records Administration.

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility.

French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Washington seeking to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to stand by Europe’s side in his talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal of three years of American policy toward Ukraine has raised concerns China might become emboldened to push its territorial claim on Taiwan, though experts say Beijing is most likely in a wait-and-see mode right now to see how the situation in Europe plays out.

A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada are in Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion and discuss support with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The U.S. has pressured Ukraine to withdraw its European-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine in favor of an American proposal that doesn't mention Moscow’s invasion.

Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or risk losing their job.

A senior Russian official says preparations have begun for a face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine approached the three-year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the country’s hoped-for path to a favorable and lasting peace has been upended in a matter of days by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The White House and Ukraine have made significant progress toward reaching an agreement that would provide the U.S. with access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals and tighten the long-term relationship between Kyiv and Washington.

The United States has proposed a draft resolution for the U.N. General Assembly that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow’s forces from Ukraine.

A federal judge has cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job.

Refugees had been arriving in the United States at levels unseen in nearly three decades, aided by nonprofits and ordinary people across the political spectrum.

A top White House official says President Donald Trump's increasingly tough criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy reflects the administration’s growing frustration with what they see as the Ukrainian leader creating roadblocks to finding an endgame to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

As the Trump administration works on pledges to crack down on illegal immigration, the flurry of activity has stretched across the federal government.

A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries have climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica’s capital, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it organized the return back to their countries.

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy says he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia’s top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa.

President Donald Trump marked Black History Month at the White House on Thursday by making an appearance at a celebratory reception with a surprise guest, golf legend Tiger Woods, while calling out other athletes in attendance and marveling at the size of the crowd.

The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful responses to a disease.

Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s administration.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, wrapping up an overseas trip that saw the highest-level outreach between the United States and Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump are deteriorating rapidly.

Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries.

Catholic bishops are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s largest private resettlement program.

Top U.S. and Russian officials have had their most extensive high-level engagement since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine almost three years ago.

Russia and the U.S. have agreed to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis named his former chief of staff, James Uthmeier, as the state’s attorney general.

Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump’s proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over.

U.S. President Donald Trump has quickly plunged into Mideast diplomacy since returning to office last month.

The Kremlin says senior American and Russian officials will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.

Israelis have marked 500 days of war in Gaza with protests demanding further progress on a ceasefire so all remaining hostages can be returned.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Russia's war.

President Donald Trump’s approach to ending Russia’s war against Ukraine has left European allies and Ukrainian officials worried they're being largely sidelined by the new U.S. administration as Washington and Moscow plan direct negotiations.

A U.S. official says Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for direct talks with Russian officials in the coming days to seek an end to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

European leaders are taking steps to answer assertive U.S. efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he's moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals because the document was too focused on U.S. interests.

Israel and Hamas have completed the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners with just over two weeks remaining in the initial phase of their fragile Gaza ceasefire.

The Associated Press' U.S. immigration news editor, Elliot Spagat, was joined by Rebecca Santana, who covers the Department of Homeland Security, and Christopher Sherman, who is the news director for Mexico and Central America, to talk about their coverage during an Ask-Me-Anything conversation on Reddit.

Federal workers all over the country have responded with anger and confusion Friday toward President Donald Trump's aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a funding freeze shutting down U.S. humanitarian aid and development worldwide.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country wants “security guarantees” before any talks to end the Ukraine-Russia war.

An Air Force plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, to Germany for the Munich Security Conference was forced to return to Washington late Thursday after developing a mechanical issue.

Panama's president has said his country has received the first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations as the Trump administration takes Panama up on its offer to act as a stopover for expelled migrants.

U_S_ Vice President JD Vance has visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial in Germany and says “seeing it up close in person really drives home what unspeakable evil was committed.”.

U.S. officials say Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who’d been detained for more than three years.

While Democrats have been speaking out against President Donald Trump's federal cuts, Republicans are just beginning to stir.

The White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday.

Russian forces have targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” missile attack, while Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its war against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next scheduled release of hostages this weekend.

President Donald Trump has hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House and has renewed his insistence that Gaza could somehow be emptied of all residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area.

President Donald Trump’s senior advisers are expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss the path toward ending Russia’s nearly three-year war in Ukraine.

Two Venezuelan planes have returned home with about 190 Venezuelans deported from the United States.

A growing number of people and groups in the international development ecosystem have stepped forward to track the widespread impacts of the freeze on U.S. foreign aid.

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz says that top administration officials are traveling to Europe this week.

Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase, politicians have extolled the “special relationship” between the United States and Britain.

President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while his ally and adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce.

A federal judge has dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ordering a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere.

More Senate hearings are coming up for President Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free.

India’s Parliament was disrupted as opposition lawmakers protested alleged mistreatment of 104 Indian citizens deported by the United States.