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Vice President JD Vance broke a tied Senate vote to block advancement of a war powers resolution that would have stopped President Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization. Senate Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday night to halt debate on the Vietnam War-era statute …

The Senate on Thursday issued a rare bipartisan rebuke of President Donald Trump, voting to advance a resolution that would bar him from using U.S. military force “within or against Venezuela” without prior approval from Congress. The 52–47 vote came over objections from Republican leaders and amid escalating rhetoric from …

The United States has seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic following a dramatic weeks-long pursuit across international waters, sharply escalating tensions with Moscow as the Trump administration intensifies its global blockade of Venezuelan oil. U.S. officials confirmed early Wednesday that American forces boarded and seized the tanker …

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking and weapons charges, days after they were captured by U.S. military forces and brought to New York in a dramatic overnight operation. Maduro and Flores appeared before U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein …

One day after a U.S. military operation led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a blunt warning to Cuba, signaling that the Trump administration may widen its pressure campaign in Latin America. “I don’t think it’s any mystery that …

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was indicted by a federal grand jury on sweeping narcotics and weapons charges, accused by U.S. prosecutors of leading a decades-long scheme to flood the United States with cocaine while enriching himself, his family and senior members of Venezuela’s government. The indictment was unsealed Saturday after …

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States will effectively govern Venezuela following a U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, marking a dramatic escalation in Washington’s confrontation with the South American nation. “We’re going to run the country until such time …

The U.S. military said Monday it carried out another lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that it claims was involved in drug trafficking, killing two people — the latest escalation in a monthslong campaign ordered by President Donald Trump that has drawn growing legal and political …

U.S. senators left a closed-door meeting Tuesday with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio split over the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug-running vessels near Venezuela, particularly an early September follow-up strike that killed two survivors clinging to boat wreckage. Hegseth and Rubio delivered the …

The Biden administration’s seizure of an oil tanker tied to sanctioned Iranian and Venezuelan networks drew swift condemnation from Caracas on Thursday, even as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the operation as a necessary step to disrupt illicit oil shipments supporting foreign militant groups. Noem said the Coast Guard–led …

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-carrying submersible in the Caribbean will be returned to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, for detention and prosecution. The announcement came two days after the military destroyed the vessel — the sixth …

The U.S. military carried out a strike Thursday on a boat in international waters in the Caribbean suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan drug cartel, according to a U.S. official — marking the fifth such operation under President Donald Trump and the first to leave survivors. Previous strikes targeting suspected …

In a dramatic and politically sensitive move, the U.S. secured the release of 10 American citizens from Venezuela on Friday through a three-way prisoner swap that also involved El Salvador. Among those freed was former Navy SEAL Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, who had been detained in Venezuela last year during what …

A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) — a rarely invoked 18th-century wartime law — to deport undocumented Venezuelan citizens who are proven members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which the administration labeled a foreign terrorist organization. …

A federal judge raised serious questions Wednesday about the Trump administration’s claim that it is not responsible for the men it deported to El Salvador, citing President Donald Trump’s own public statements suggesting otherwise. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sharply questioned the government’s assertion that the 238 deported men …