Venezuela’s government says it has deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro to face judicial proceedings in the U.S. less than three years after the business owner was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap.

President Donald Trump says U.S. and Nigerian forces carried out a mission to kill a leader of the Islamic State group.

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in making Venezuela the 51st U.S. state.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez tells journalists that her country has no plans to become the 51st U.S. state after President Donald Trump said he was “seriously considering” the move.

Officials say the U_S_ isn't looking at imminent military action against Havana despite President Donald Trump’s threats that “Cuba is next.”.

The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, and it sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority.

A former Miami congressman and close friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been convicted in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela’s socialist government during the first Trump administration.

The Senate has approved a bipartisan resolution to prevent its members from using prediction markets.

The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela has arrived in the Venezuelan capital Caracas.

The USS Gerald R.

A soldier betting on an operation to oust Venezuela’s leader.

A U.S. soldier involved with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been granted bond, a day after being charged with using classified information about the operation to win more than $400,000 in an online prediction market.

Venezuelan women have spent the year protesting to demand the release of hundreds of political prisoners.

President Donald Trump has turned to naval blockades to pressure the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and now Iran to meet his demands.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is visiting Venezuela for key talks on border security and trade with the country's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez.

President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention in Cuba is raising hopes of regime change among Cuban Americans.

The Navy is reviewing the design and costs of its Ford-class aircraft carrier, one of its most high-tech and expensive warships.

Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado has drawn several thousand supporters to a rally in Madrid.

A controversy has erupted over prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.

U.S. military forces have struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R.

Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the U.S. has no valid reason to attack the island or to try to depose him.

With a fragile ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran holding for now, China is considering its role in helping find a durable endgame to the war in the Middle East.

Venezuelan lawmakers have approved a bill to regulate mining as the country seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups with ties to the government.

Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from basketball games to elections.

Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket.

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for those users.

The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts has turned to the language of annihilation as he struggles to find a resolution to his war in Iran.

Two U.S. lawmakers are calling for a permanent solution to Cuba’s crises after witnessing the effects of a U.S. energy blockade during an official visit to the island.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused China of “bullying” by detaining or holding up dozens of Panama-flagged ships.

The criminal trial of a former congressman is offering a glimpse into the prehistory of the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. has lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.

Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a deal is not reached soon.

The United States has formally reopened its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, after the restoration of full diplomatic relations with the South American country.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has returned to a New York courtroom as he seeks to have his drug trafficking indictment thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees.

Iran and the United States appear to be at an impasse.

A U.S. judge has pressed the Trump administration about its basis for barring Venezuela’s government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro’s legal fees in his drug trafficking case.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hosted a monthly Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon, the first since the Iran war began.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez is selling investors on a newly opened oil industry and looser U.S. sanctions.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has testified for nearly three hours over his interactions with former Florida congressman David Rivera.

Iran's parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has emerged as a possible U.S. contact for talks even as the Iranian leadership remains under fire during the war.

Former congressman David Rivera goes on trial Monday over allegations he secretly lobbied for Venezuela’s government during the first Trump administration.

Cuba has begun restarting its power grid after another nationwide blackout left millions without electricity.

The martial arts grandmaster and action star Chuck Norris has died.

Cuba is preparing to receive its first shipment of Russian oil this year, just days after the government announced it was operating on natural gas, solar power and thermoelectric plants as severe power outages continue to hit an island whose power grid is crumbling.

President Donald Trump this week said he believes he’ll have “the honor of taking Cuba” soon.

President Donald Trump faces the most daunting question of the Iran war: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground to secure the enriched uranium Tehran could use for nuclear weapons.

Venezuelans pour into the streets in a rare, loud release of joy after their team wins the World Baseball Classic.

Cuba’s president has lashed out after the latest threat from the Trump administration after President Donald Trump said he can do “whatever he wants” with the island.

The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are calling for new people in charge of Cuba as the socialist island experiences its third nationwide blackout in four months.

The American flag has been raised over the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for the first time since 2019.

A Russian missile and drone strike has hit the Kyiv region in Ukraine and killed at least four people.

Venezuela and Colombia cancel a high-profile presidential border meeting, even as both sides say they still want closer ties.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are dropping an investigation into whether U.S. sanctions against Venezuela qualified as crimes against humanity.

Far-right leader José Antonio Kast has been sworn in as Chile’s president in the nation’s most pronounced rightward shift since the return of democracy in 1990.

President Donald Trump used a swing through Ohio and Kentucky to push an economic message and attack fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie — even as the conflict in Iran threatened to overshadow all else.

Voting technology firm Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss a criminal money laundering indictment saying the case is political retaliation tied to President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 election.

North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and China are watching warily as war spreads across the Middle East.

Venezuela’s lawmakers debate a new mining bill that aims to attract foreign investment and rebuild trust after past expropriations.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, long has been considered a contender to the post of the country’s next paramount ruler — even before his father's death though he’s never being elected nor appointed to a government position.

As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation — but no action to support its ally.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere.

The top Justice Department prosecutor in Miami is considering criminal investigations of Cuban government officials.

The U.S. has issued a license that allows business to be done with Venezuela’s state gold mining company, Minerven.

The Trump administration in recent weeks has taken forceful steps in one Latin American country after another aimed at curbing the influence and economic dominance of China.

The State Department says the United States and Venezuela have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship.

Venezuela enters the World Baseball Classic in Miami with politics hanging over the tournament.

A MrBeast video editor has been fired after accusations of insider trading by Kalshi.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is urging Latin American countries to take a more aggressive approach against drug cartels.

American Airlines received approval Wednesday to become the first U.S. airline to resume flights to Venezuela.

Florida’s attorney general says Florida has reopened a criminal investigation into former Cuban leader Raul Castro’s role in the 1996 shootdown of exile planes.

Aaron Judge will captain a loaded U.S. roster at the World Baseball Classic.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is meeting Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez as the Trump administration pushes to shape the country's oil and mineral sector.

Senate Republicans have voted down an effort to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.

President Donald Trump has taken the United States into war with Iran despite decades of self-professed aversion to foreign entanglements, particularly in the Middle East, and repeated pledges to focus primarily on the Western Hemisphere with an “America first” agenda.

Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. military’s attacks on Iran.

Regime change might seem straightforward at first.

Saturday’s military operation against Iran shows the dramatic evolution in risk tolerance that President Donald Trump has made in a matter of months.

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran pulls him toward the kind of overseas conflict he once attacked.

Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran.

A fatal shooting on a boat traveling to Cuba is bringing fresh attention to a deep-rooted movement in Florida against the island’s government.

President Donald Trump says the United States is talking with Cuba and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island without explaining what that means.

The Justice Department has filed a complaint to legally take ownership of a sanctioned tanker and nearly 2 million barrels of petroleum seized off the coast of Venezuela in December.

The lawyer for deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked a judge to toss out the indictment against his client on the grounds that the United States has violated his rights to defend himself by blocking funds to pay his legal costs.

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism.

The Pentagon is building up the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades.

The lawyer for deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says the United States is blocking funding for the cost of defending himself against drug trafficking charges.

Marco Rubio is visiting the Caribbean, where he's defending the Trump administration’s military operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.

A helicopter pilot wounded in the raid that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has received the Medal of Honor during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy.

The Pentagon says U.S. military forces have boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela.

President Donald Trump has made the case for his foreign policy efforts to Americans who are increasingly demonstrating uneasiness about his priorities.

President Donald Trump is threatening countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration’s interests in the Western Hemisphere.

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address is likely to be a test run of the message that Republicans will give to voters in November’s elections for control of the House and the Senate.

Venezuela has begun releasing hundreds of people detained for political reasons under a new amnesty law.

Cuban officials say a U.S. fuel blockade is pushing Cuba’s health system toward collapse and putting lives at risk.

The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to proceed with planning for a potential re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, which was shuttered in 2012 during the country’s civil war.