Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.An oil tanker called the Skipper in the southern Caribbean Sea. It was seized by the United States.
An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.María Corina Machado spent the last year hiding from President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela’s regime.
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution
This week demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.The White House was served a legal rebuke this week when federal grand jurors in Alexandria, Va., rejected the Justice Department’s push to indict Letit
Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him.A judge’s order suggested that sloppiness by the Justice Department had helped to sabotage President Tru
On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the late
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, middle, during her sentencing for her election interference case at t
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has only just begun to raise money for a presidential library, starting with an event for poten
Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him.Mayor Eric Adams said that his ability to lead New York City was compromised well before his federal indictment.
Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.
Donald Trump is confronting a backlash of the reasonable.
The antidote to our increasingly disembodied lives may lie in letting go of our inhibitions and dancing like kids do.
Much of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port was without power, heat and water on Saturday after strikes from Russia, which has shown little appetite for a deal to end the war.Firefighters on Saturday at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine.
Injuries were reported in an assault near the ancient city of Palmyra, the Syrian government’s news agency said.American Bradley fighting vehicles during a joint exercise in 2021 with Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.
The next steps for the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here’s what to know.Displaced Palestinians shelter in tents surrounded by destroyed buildings near Gaza City, last month.
In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.
