Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.An oil tanker called the Skipper in the southern Caribbean Sea. It was seized by the United States.
An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.María Corina Machado spent the last year hiding from President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela’s regime.
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution
On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the late
Thursday demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.The White House was served a legal rebuke this week when federal grand jurors in Alexandria, Va., rejected the Justice Department’s push to indict Letiti
Four Canadian provinces are selling off the American liquor they pulled from shelves in protest over President Trump’s tariffs. Some bourbon drinkers are thrilled.American alcohol products were removed from store shelves in much of Canada when U.S. tariffs against the country went into effect in Mar
The images, released without context by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, revealed little new about the deceased sex offender’s ties to prominent men in politics, entertainment and finance.Jeffrey Epstein, center, in court in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2008. Wealthy and famous men once in h
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.
The Trump administration gave New York 30 days to pause issuing all non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, among other demands, or risk losing $73 million in highway funds.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said New York’s commercial driver’s license standards represented “a systematically gro
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it c
The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center.President Trump said Thursday night that he may soon start negotiating with Democrats to lowe
The hearing was the first concrete step toward repealing some of the state’s vaccine requirements. Rolling back others would require legislative action.Larry Downs Jr. speaks against childhood vaccine mandates at a public hearing held by Florida’s Department of Health on Friday in Panama City Beach,
The legislation, expected to come to a vote next week, would make changes that could eventually affect health care costs but are unlikely to immediately curb rising premiums.Speaker Mike Johnson speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Thursday.
Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.Matt Dinniman signing books at New York Comic Con this fall.
The center at the university’s public health school was also a focus of the Trump administration after having been examined in a Harvard antisemitism report earlier this year.The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s public health school will have new leadership. An
Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades wiped out their hamlet in a landslide.Villagers carrying bodies for burial at a cemetery in Kandy in Sri Lanka.
Gov. Bob Ferguson and other state officials cautioned that more rainfall was expected after rivers hit record flood levels across the region, while residents worried about the long-term future.Floodwaters overtook Skykomish River Park and some nearby apartments in Monroe, Wash., on Thursday night.
More than 100,000 residents were told to leave their homes across Washington State this week as rivers overflowed.Rescue crews from Spokane combed through floodwaters near SR-20 in Burlington, Wash., on Friday.
The British monarch said that his treatment would be reduced in the new year, in a recorded message emphasizing the value of cancer screening.King Charles III appearing in a prerecorded video released on Friday as part of a cancer awareness program.
As more people tune in for the “theater” of high-end auctions, Bonnie Brennan is trying to convert them into clients.Bonnie Brennan joined Christie’s in 2012, after a 15-year stint at its rival auction house Sotheby’s, and became its chief executive in February.
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Also, T.S.A. is giving passenger data to immigration agents. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.Rescue crews in Burlington, Wash., on Friday.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who suffered a head wound in the shooting near the White House last month, has moved from acute care to rehabilitation.A memorial in honor of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in Washington.
A study of more than 45,000 women found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.A breast cancer awareness event in Seville, Spain, in October.
