Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba

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.

A Anatoly Kurmanaev, Nicholas Nehamas and Farnaz Fassihi

Behind the Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Daring Escape to Oslo

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.

K Karoun Demirjian and Simon Romero

For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela

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

M Michael Crowley and Edward Wong

In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss

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

G Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer

Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey

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

A Alan Feuer

Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks

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

J Jesse McKinley

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

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

D David A. Fahrenthold, Shane Goldmacher, Tyler Pager and Theodore Schleifer

Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out

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.

D Debra Kamin

Baby Steps

The antidote to our increasingly disembodied lives may lie in letting go of our inhibitions and dancing like kids do.

M Melissa Kirsch

Russia Bombs Ukraine Port of Odesa Amid Peace Talks

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.

K Kim Barker

U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria, State Media Says

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.

A Abdi Latif Dahir

Can Trump’s Grand Plans for Gaza Get Off the Drawing Board?

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.

A Adam Rasgon, Natan Odenheimer and Aaron Boxerman

A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

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.

E Eduardo Medina and Nick Madigan