With US warships deployed off Venezuela’s coast, President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday a plan to defend against what he ...

Even with U.S. warships offshore, the strongman has prevailed in efforts to unseat him—purging, spying and paying off ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa shake hands at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sep. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool) QUITO, ...

The attack on a ship off the Venezuelan coast is the first time the US has carried out a deadly military operation on its own in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. A still from the ...

The secretary of state is shaping what could be the most consequential military actions of President Trump’s second term. The secretary of state is shaping what could be the most consequential ...

To help justify a sweeping deportation campaign, an extraordinary U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and unprecedented strikes on boats allegedly trafficking drugs, President Trump has repeated a ...

One of President Trump’s first executive orders since returning to the presidency in January was the designation of certain drug cartels as “terrorist” organizations. In doing this, Trump signaled a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In his second term as president, Donald Trump has deployed U.S. military forces in rarely used roles in domestic law enforcement. As a political scientist who studies civil-military ...

Rubio defended the action and offered no justification other than to say the boat posed an “immediate threat” to the U.S. and that Trump opted to “blow it up” rather than follow what had been standard ...

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