The family of a Colombian man has filed a formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on alleged affiliates of the Tren de Aragua gang.

The Pentagon press secretary has held her first briefing since most nonpartisan news outlets were replaced by friendly media representatives willing to accept new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

U.S.-operated flights returning deported migrants to Venezuela will continue despite President Donald Trump’s assertion to consider the country’s airspace closed.

The White House says a Navy admiral ordered a second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and insists the September attack that has come under bipartisan scrutiny was lawful.

Lawmakers from both parties say they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was once critical of English.

Poll workers have begun tallying Hondurans’ votes as the country moves to elect a new president only days after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in a close race with an endorsement of one candidate and announced he would pardon a former president.

The Venezuelan government is accusing President Donald Trump of making a ”colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty.

Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister is backtracking comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the twin-island nation.

The president of the Dominican Republic says he has authorized the U.S. government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight against drug trafficking.

Top U.S. military officials are meeting leaders of Caribbean nations this week as the Trump administration has escalated its firepower in the region as part of what it calls a campaign against drug trafficking.

The United States' top military officer is visiting American troops in Puerto Rico and on a Navy warship in the region.

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

President Donald Trump’s administration has increased pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by designating the Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization.

International airlines are canceling flights to Venezuela after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots about security risks and increased military activity.

The Federal Aviation Administration has warned all pilots to “exercise caution” when flying in the airspace over Venezuela “due to the worsening security situation and heightened military activity.”.

Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff between hard-right José Antonio Kast and communist Jeannette Jara.

President Donald Trump isn't ruling out military action against Venezuela despite bringing up potential diplomatic talks with its leader, Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump is indicating that he plans to meet with New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and says they’ll “work something out."

President Donald Trump says the U.S. “may be having some discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

A Pentagon official says the U.S. military's 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea.

The United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier is expected to reach the waters off Venezuela in days.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. Senate is drawing closer to ending the U.S. government shutdown.

Regina Garcia Cano was the reporter behind The Associated Press story that provided the first comprehensive account and identifies of some of the men killed in recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats.

One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced another deadly U.S. strike on a boat he said was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.

Senate Republicans have rejected legislation that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to launch an attack against Venezuela.

Top Trump administration officials have briefed lawmakers on the growing U.S. campaign to destroy alleged drug-smuggling boats in the waters off South America.

It wasn’t so long ago that President Donald Trump spoke of building a legacy as a peacemaker.

A federal judge in Tampa has ordered the arrest of former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau after he failed to appear at a court hearing over whether he should be jailed for violating the terms of his release.

A briefing held only for Republicans in Congress on U.S. military strikes is drawing a fierce rebuke from a key Democrat.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the U.S. military has killed four people in a strike against a boat that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year.

Venezuela's vice president has called for canceling energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago.

A U.S. warship has docked in Trinidad and Tobago's capital as the Trump administration increases military pressure on Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Israel, the U.S. and the other mediators of the Gaza ceasefire deal are sharing information to disrupt any threats and that allowed them to identify a possible impending attack last weekend.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro says the U.S. is forging a war against him as the world’s biggest warship approaches the South American country, while moving to revoke the citizenship of an opponent who he accuses of egging on an invasion.

The U.S. military has flown a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela.

The Trump administration has built up a fleet of warships near Venezuela as American forces keep blowing up small boats accused of smuggling narcotics for drug cartels.

President Donald Trump talks plainly, bluntly, often even coarsely.

Legal experts say U.S. strikes against alleged members of Latin American drug cartels are pushing the bounds of international law.

Venezuelan government officials floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave office, a bid aimed at easing mounting U.S. pressure on the government in Caracas.

President Donald Trump has confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.

Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has proposed that Qatar could mediate to end the U.S. military presence in international waters near Venezuela.

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela.

Venezuela has warned of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives.

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.

Cuba's top diplomat says recent U.S. escalations in the Caribbean are a result of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “personal” agenda against the region.

President Donald Trump has sent American warships to the waters off Venezuela and has boasted about strikes on alleged drug boats.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and officials involved in recent deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

President Donald Trump has returned to the United Nations to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution.

Venezuelan migrants are attempting a "reverse migration" back to South America after facing challenges in the U.S. Thousands have returned since immigration policies tightened under President Donald Trump.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's YouTube account is offline.

A U.S. military strike on a boat off Venezuela's northeastern Caribbean coast has disrupted a flow of money that helps impoverished communities.

Venezuela's foreign minister says a U.S. warship illegally boarded a Venezuelan fishing boat in Venezuelan waters.

The U.S. government employs a sizable staff of 150 Venezuelans and spends upward of $6.7 million annually for upkeep of the shuttered American embassy and other diplomatic properties in Caracas, despite having broken relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in 2019.

As Donald Trump prepared to return to the White House, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham encouraged him to send a message to drug cartels.

The United States has long relied on the Coast Guard and allies to interdict drug vessels through arrests and prosecutions at sea.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have arrived in Puerto Rico as the U.S. steps up its military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean.

The Trump administration is set to allow a West African leader accused of flagrant corruption to travel to the United States for this month’s U.N. General Assembly and cities outside New York that he has previously been barred from visiting.

Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers are appealing to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children.

The deadly strike on a boat U.S. officials say was carrying drugs from Venezuela may have marked a stunning shift, but escalating pressure on the South American country has defined much of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s quarter-century in politics.

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang.

President Donald Trump is justifying the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American cartels.

Mexico and the United States have agreed to continue collaborating on cross-border security issues like fighting the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says his country is at "maximum preparedness" to respond if attacked by U.S. forces in the Caribbean.

The United States is boosting its maritime force near Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.

Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Bolivia’s presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by leftism.

The voting technology company suing Fox News for defamation is now entangled in a widening bribery investigation.

The United States is deploying three guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.

Yosbelin Pérez is starting over with nothing in her name after trying to escape Venezuela's political, social and economic crisis.

The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and accusing him of working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

Venezuela has released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

A former Venezuelan spymaster who was close to the country’s late President Hugo Chávez has pleaded guilty to narco-terrorist charges.

A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and charged with scheming to extort major cocaine traffickers facing extradition from Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history.

President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the United States by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries is now in effect.

Venezuelans still reeling from the outcome of last year’s presidential election did not respond to government calls to get out and vote for lawmakers, governors and other officials.

Venezuelans are again finding themselves as pawns in their country’s political game.

The Panamanian Civil Aviation Authority says that Panama and Venezuela will resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when they broke off diplomatic relations.

A 2-year-old girl has arrived in Venezuela to reunite with her mother after she was separated from her parents when they were deported from the U.S. The South American country had denounced the move as a kidnapping.

A federal judge has found the Trump administration can’t deport migrants to Libya unless they have a meaningful chance to challenge their removal in court.

A newly declassified U.S. intelligence assessment finds no evidence of coordination between the Tren de Aragua gang and senior Venezuelan officials.

U.S. officials say a new intelligence assessment finds no coordination between the Tren de Aragua gang and the Venezuelan government.

President Donald Trump has invoked a rarely used 1798 law that gives a president immense powers to arrest and deport noncitizens in a time of war.

President Donald Trump has invoked a rarely used 1798 law that gives a president immense powers to arrest and deport noncitizens in a time of war.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has vowed that the United States will respond forcefully if Venezuela attacks Guyana amid an ongoing territorial dispute that involves massive oil and gas reserves.

A Venezuelan official says Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals, after reaching an agreement.

Weekend flights by U.S. immigration authorities set off a frantic scramble among terrified families after hundreds of immigrants disappeared from the government's online locator for detainees.

Jhoan Bastidas is just starting to make sense of it all.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members, ending the temporary halt on deportations ordered by a federal district judge.

Vice President JD Vance has visited the U.S.-Mexico border to showcase how arrests for illegal crossings have fallen sharply under President Donald Trump.

Guyana’s president has denounced an incursion by an armed Venezuelan naval vessel in disputed waters and home to a mammoth offshore oil deposit being developed by ExxonMobil.

A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp. to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week.

Three immigrants who won a restraining order against the U.S. government to avoid transfer to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have been deported on direct flights to Venezuela.