People are asking "why" after President Donald Trump seized a Venezuelan oil tanker on Dec. 10, 2025. The president announced that U.S. forces seized the oil tanker off Venezuela's coast, according to ...

President Donald Trump threatened to fire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—not over interest rates, as he did in November, but over something even less under Bessent’s control: putting people in jail.

Nicolas Maduro and his wife are expected to face federal charges related to drug trafficking and working with gangs ...

In a normal administration, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been bounced out of the Pentagon back in March. That’s when Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, revealed that he had ...

The order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a win for Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, who has vigorously ...

The conflict appeared to have continued unabated on Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said a cease-fire was supposed to have resumed. By Sui-Lee Wee and Sun Narin Sui-Lee Wee reported from ...

Maduro and his wife were taken into custody by Justice Department officials "assisted by incredible U.S. military" forces ...

With a ‘good luck and a godspeed’ from Donald Trump, the US forces launched one of the country’s most complex operations in ...

Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz has announced he is dropping his re-election bid and will not seek a third term this coming ...

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Venezuela's government declared a state of emergency and denounced what it called "extremely serious military aggression" by ...

The Trump administration has not released a formal legal justification for either the capture itself or the broader claim of ...