The Trump administration says it is seeking to expand its lethal campaign of bombing boats off Latin America’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts onto land.
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships.
In a story published Aug. 13, 2026, about aircraft carriers in the Middle East, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the USS Abraham Lincoln has spent more than 260 days of uninterrupted time at sea.
The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence worldwide.
The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya.
Democrats hoping to replace Graham Platner on the Maine ballot for U.S. Senate are scrambling to woo his supporters.
President Donald Trump is making a primetime address to the nation that's expected to include discussion of election issues.
The world has largely viewed the U.S. more favorably than China for years, but those opinions now have flipped in Beijing’s favor.
Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Izaguirre is part of a massive grassroots effort to help Venezuela after devastating earthquakes.
Victims of last month's powerful earthquakes in Venezuela are flooding relief services.
After four years in exile, the prediction market platform Polymarket has begun a well-funded campaign to sell a new version of itself to the American public.
The fallout from Venezuela’s powerful twin quakes has evolved into a major test for acting President Delcy Rodríguez, sending her scrambling to prevent the humanitarian disaster from becoming a political one in the face of fierce public criticism and efforts by the Venezuelan opposition leader to return from exile.
Many Venezuelan earthquake survivors across northern La Guaira state, in Caracas and surrounding regions are asking the same question.
Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira.
People in Venezuela and abroad are desperately searching for loved ones after two powerful earthquakes struck Wednesday evening.
Venezuelans took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands in the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes.
President Donald Trump believes that winning a second term in 2024 instead of 2020 has allowed him to return to the White House even more emboldened.
Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife and three other individuals.
A prediction market reported former U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance.
Pro-Trump lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella has taken the lead in Colombia’s presidential race after the first round of elections over the weekend.
Former Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González is calling for presidential elections as the five-month mark of interim President Delcy Rodríguez’s administration approaches, following a U.S. military intervention that ousted Nicolás Maduro in January.
The top U.S. commander in Latin America has met with Cuban military leaders in a “brief exchange on operational security matters” near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay.
U.S. prosecutors slapped insider trading charges against a Google employee this week, alleging the software engineer used confidential company information to pocket more than $1.2 million on prediction market platform Polymarket.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U_S_ presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”.
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro has been charged in a U.S. indictment with murder and other crimes for his alleged role in the downing of two civilian aircraft operated by Miami-based exiles in 1996 off the coast of the Caribbean island.
The U.S. indictment of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro is pushing U.S. relations with the communist-run island to the foreground.
Federal prosecutors have announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles.
President Donald Trump considers himself an effective dealmaker but appears to have hit a wall with Iran.
Alex Saab, a close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been charged in Miami with bribing officials for government contracts.
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.
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.
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.
Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado has drawn several thousand supporters to a rally in Madrid.
U.S. military forces have struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.
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 turned to the language of annihilation as he struggled 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.
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.
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.
The trial has begun for former congressman David Rivera over allegations he secretly lobbied for Venezuela’s government during the first Trump administration.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.