MEXICO CITY — Argentina's president called it "excellent news for the free world."

Iran condemned it as a "blatant violation of national sovereignty."

Canada said little, except that it was "monitoring developments closely."

The dramatic U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was cheered by world leaders allied with President...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — It was about 2 a.m. Saturday Caracas time when the detonations began, lighting up the sullen sky like a post-New Year’s fireworks display.

“¡Ya comenzó!” was the recurrent phrase in homes, telephone conversations and social media chats as the latest iteration of U.S. “shock and awe” rocked the Venezuelan ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Maria Eugenia Torres Ramirez was having dinner with her family in Los Angeles on Friday night when the flood of messages began. Word had begun to circulate that the U.S. was invading Venezuela and would seize its president, Nicolás Maduro.

Torres Ramirez, 38, fled her native country in 2021, settled in L.A. and has a pending ...Read more

President Donald Trump dismissed the idea of working with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado on a political transition for Venezuela, a setback for the opposition leader who won international acclaim in her fight for democracy in the country.

While Machado is a “nice woman,” she lacks support and respect inside Venezuela, Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump said U.S. oil companies will spend billions of dollars to rebuild Venezuela’s crumbling energy infrastructure after a military operation that led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro, the country’s former leader.

During a press conference Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump described an ambitious vision ...Read more

Following the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces on Saturday, President Donald Trump said the United States will effectively “run” Venezuela until a political transition takes place — an assertion that appears to rest on an understanding with figures inside the ruling socialist regime and that sidelines ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A member of Bryan Kohberger’s immediate family has spoken publicly for the first time since the man convicted last summer of the University of Idaho student murders was arrested and charged three years ago.

In an interview with The New York Times published Saturday, Mel Kohberger, one of the confessed killer’s two older ...Read more

BOSTON — Sanctuary cities are officially banned in New Hampshire as a set of laws signed by Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte in May took effect while the country celebrated the transition into 2026.

“New Hampshire has made it clear that we are not a sanctuary for criminals and we will not go the way of Massachusetts and their billion-dollar ...Read more

After announcing that the U.S. would “run“ Venezuela following the capture of the country’s strongman, Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump said Saturday his administration will likely discuss the situation in Cuba, the close Maduro ally that the president described as a “failing” nation.

“I think Cuba is going to be something we...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will work with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to transition to a democratically elected government after Nicolás Maduro’s capture early Saturday, but she and other regime leaders have thus far appeared uncooperative.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a lengthy conversation with Rodríguez and...Read more

U.S. commandos took less than three hours to bring an end to Nicolás Maduro’s rule after the Venezuelan strongman spent years holding out against rising pressure from the US.

More than 150 U.S. aircraft swept into the country after the U.S. neutralized Venezuela’s air defenses, with an Army Delta Force unit delivered to the military base ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An audacious overnight raid by elite U.S. forces that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from his bedroom in Caracas plunged the country into turmoil Saturday, prompting international concern about Venezuela’s future and President Donald Trump’s attempt to take control of the sovereign nation.

Trump justified the ...Read more

U.S. military operations in Venezuela are upending travel in the Caribbean just as many vacationers are trying to get home from their winter breaks.

Vacation hot spots such as Barbados, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago saw hundreds of flight cancellations Saturday after the U.S. restricted airspace in the region...Read more

U.S. negotiators will join European leaders in Paris on Tuesday in the latest effort to hash out postwar security guarantees for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

“The focus will be on security guarantees for Ukraine, and recovery. There will be also meetings with the team of President Trump,” Zelenskyy said, adding that the ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City is bracing for another massive federal trial as deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro made his way to the city Saturday to be booked, locked up and eventually arraigned on narcotic trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, earlier Saturday were on the U.S.S. Iwo Jima ...Read more

President Donald Trump's decision to send U.S. forces into Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and return them to the U.S. to face drug charges elicited condemnation from legal experts and other critics who argued that the operation — conducted without congressional or United Nations approval — clearly violated U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela until a leadership transition could be organized, hours after a U.S. operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power and delivering him to U.S. soil late Saturday.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Space Coast’s first launch of the year could come at midnight Sunday, the first of what could be four launches in the next 10 days, all from SpaceX.

A Falcon 9 is set to lift off on the Starlink 6-88 mission with 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a launch ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday accused Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro of playing a key role in a broad conspiracy over 25 years to traffic cocaine into the U.S. with the help of regional drug and terrorist groups.

The indictment was made public by the DOJ after Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were removed from Venezuela as ...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed fresh frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin, bristling at the Kremlin’s ongoing military operations even as the U.S. leader seeks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.

“I’m not thrilled with Putin, he’s killing too many people,” Trump said Saturday during a news conference at his Mar-a-...Read more