In a press conference Saturday detailing the operation to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and U.S. plans to “run” the country and rebuild its oil industry, there was one word President Donald Trump never used: Democracy.

Trump’s comments, detailing negotiations with a hardcore regime figure, Delcy Rodríguez, and dismissing ...Read more

Two days after Venezuelan’s strongman Nicolás Maduro was captured by the United States and brought to New York on drug-trafficking charges, Venezuelans in South Florida and around the U.S. are still struggling to process what the moment means.

Is Venezuela free? Will the nearly eight million Venezuelans living abroad feel safe enough to ...Read more

During a national television appearance on Sunday morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S. who lost deportation protections under the Trump administration have the opportunity to apply for refugee status.

“We need to make sure that our programs ...Read more

Denmark’s prime minister urged Donald Trump to stop threatening to take control of Greenland as the U.S. president’s move to run Venezuela set alarm bells ringing in the Nordic nation about America’s military ambitions.

Mette Frederiksen’s comments came in response to Trump’s renewed assertion on Sunday that the U.S. needs Greenland, ...Read more

Hours after the U.S. military whisked Nicolás Maduro away from Caracas, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his people should be prepared to “give their blood, even their lives” to defend Venezuela and the Cuban revolution. But even that might not be enough.

With Maduro now awaiting trial in New York, Cuba is left without its ...Read more

Rep. Jamie Raskin waited longer than some of his fellow Maryland Democrats to weigh in on America’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, but some points he made in a lengthy statement Sunday seemed to prompt a response from Vice President JD Vance.

The United States conducted a surprise military operation in Venezuela’s capital ...Read more

Top officials in the Trump administration clarified their position on "running" Venezuela after seizing its president, Nicolás Maduro, over the weekend, pressuring the regime that remains in power there Sunday to acquiesce to U.S. demands on oil access and drug enforcement, or else face further military action.

Their goal appears to be the ...Read more

On the day after Venezuelans woke up to the news of strongman Nicolás Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces, Venezuelan exiles in Doral gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe to pray for their country and what would come next.

Just before the 10 a.m. Mass, around 1,200 people were already sitting in pews, talking to each other about the weekend’s ...Read more

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will make his first appearance in a federal courtroom Monday in Manhattan, two days after the Trump administration seized him and his wife in a military operation critics have called a violation of international and U.S. law.

After their capture, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by the ...Read more

Venezuela’s military accused U.S. forces of killing members of President Nicolás Maduro’s security detail “in cold blood” before seizing the embattled leader and his wife in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas on Saturday.

In a nationally televised address, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said the abduction of Maduro and his wife, ...Read more

DETROIT — Anti-war activists held signs that said "No War" and yelled "Viva Venezuela" as a response to Saturday's arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The Detroit Anti-War Committee and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization as well as several other organizations held their second protest within 24 hours Sunday to condemn actions...Read more

Adriana Figueira felt a wide range of emotions Saturday at the news that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was no longer in power because he and his wife had been captured in a surprise attack by the U.S. military.

“I was very joyful,” about Maduro’s ouster, said Figueira, an asylum-seeker who came to America in 2023 and was among ...Read more

For years, asking for shelter in the city of San Diego has often been a first-come, first-serve process.

Everyone deserves a safe place to sleep, the thinking goes, so anyone living outside should have a shot.

But as the region’s overwhelmed shelter system continues to reject staggering numbers of requests, some leaders are considering ...Read more

Beyond the state of the economy and the cost of housing, it’s unclear the degree to which a notable uptick in statewide housing evictions can be linked to a drop in state funding for social service providers amid sweeping allegations of Medicaid-backed financial fraud.

Some housing coordinators and assistance programs backed by state dollars ...Read more

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had yet to weigh in on the U.S. operation to remove Nicolás Maduro from power in Caracas as of Saturday night, more than 24 hours since President Trump approved the audacious mission that captured the Venezuelan leader.

Her silence on the operation surprised some in the U.S. intelligence ...Read more

Minnesota political leaders from both parties condemned a social media post Saturday by President Donald Trump that amplified a baseless conspiracy theory suggesting Gov. Tim Walz was involved in the killing of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman.

Trump reposted a video on Truth Social asserting, without evidence, that Walz had Hortman ...Read more

The U.S. plans to control Venezuela through an oil “quarantine” and a coordinated pressure campaign — but could still send in ground troops if President Trump decides to, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday.

“What you’re seeing right now is an oil quarantine that allows us to exert tremendous leverage over what happens next,”...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will use leverage over oil to force further change in Venezuela as he seizes a long-awaited chance to try to shape Latin America in Washington’s favor.

Rubio, 54, emerged Sunday as the administration’s chief public voice on Venezuela, laying out hints of strategy after the U.S. swooped into ...Read more

President Donald Trump won broad approval for his strike on Venezuela from hawkish Republicans who have sparred with the White House over Ukraine and other foreign policies throughout Trump’s first year back in office.

Saturday’s attack and the arrest of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, rallied the party around the president, a far...Read more