Politics

Delegations from the Venezuelan government and the opposition at the opening of the negotiating table in Caracas on August 6, 2026.

Venezuela's government and part of the opposition open a third round of talks in Caracas, focused on electoral guarantees

Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado at the presidential handover ceremony, on 8 May 2026.

Costa Rica opens its largest prison on Wednesday: 5,100 places, with Bukele's Cecot as the model

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella during the handover-of-power ceremonies in Cali, on 7 August 2026.

Colombia opens its embassy in Jerusalem, reversing Petro's 2024 break with Israel

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., photographed at dusk in 2011.

The Supreme Court will decide whether DOGE has to answer public records requests

A Brazilian UE2020 electronic voting machine, in an image released by the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in 2021.

Brazil's 2026 election

Twelve days from Brazil's run-off, two polls give Flávio Bolsonaro very different leads: 4 points and 10

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan, seat of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, photographed in 2012.

A judge froze the $20 million government ad campaign starring Trump — the spending had already passed $21 million

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, in December 2025.

Brazil's 2026 election

Brazil's electoral court found none of the disputed posts on the pro-Lula WhatsApp channel — but it only reviewed October

The Senate building on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, in 2022.

Mexico's Congress clears the reform requiring single nationality for presidents and governors

The chamber of Bolivia's Cámara de Diputados, inside the Plurinational Legislative Assembly building in La Paz, in 2026.

Bolivia's legislature meets Friday to settle who runs the prosecution service after the attorney general's arrest

Governor Gavin Newsom at a 2025 press conference on California's artificial intelligence workforce agreements with technology companies.

Artificial intelligence

California bans the "robo boss": an algorithm alone may no longer fire a worker

Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, in 2024.

Grynspan widens her lead in the Security Council's fourth straw poll and moves closer to leading the UN

The North Portico of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2023. The accord on frontier-model safety was signed at a meeting there on September 29, 2026.

Trump renames AI "Super Intelligence" by executive order, and six firms sign a safety accord with no legal force

The headquarters of El Salvador's Tribunal Supremo Electoral, in September 2026.

El Salvador formally calls the general elections of 28 February 2027

Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, leading a union march in Paris in March 2024.

French public workers strike over a pay freeze as 440 are detained in school blockades

The United Nations Security Council chamber at the organisation's New York headquarters, in a 2006 photograph.

UN extends Haiti's anti-gang force for six months, with fewer than a third of its authorised troops on the ground

The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court lets third-country deportations resume and will hear the case in December

The seat of Morocco's parliament in Rabat, in 2019. The Chamber of Representatives, elected on 23 September, has 395 seats.

Morocco names its first woman head of government as the king asks El Mansouri to form a cabinet

The fifth-generation THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle, built by Estonia's Milrem Robotics.

Estonia blames Russia for the arson attack on the military robotics firm that supplies Ukraine

The West Wing of the White House, in Washington, in 2007.

Government services

Trump orders federal services onto a single site, and America.gov's AI answer box goes live

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Midterm elections

Supreme Court blocks Missouri's new congressional map for the third time in three weeks