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

MIAMI — In Miami, the U.S. military’s seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is being trumpeted as not only a good day for the future of Venezuelan democracy, but potentially a prelude to a change in Cuba, too.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., posted on social media shortly after 5:30 a.m. that he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco ...Read more

When U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro early Saturday morning, he wasn’t snatched alone: His wife, Cilia Flores, was taken as well, and put on an American warship ultimately bound for New York.

The reason: Flores as well as her husband faces drug-trafficking charges in the United States, along her son and other ...Read more

The overnight attacks in Venezuela and the subsequent capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a U.S. military operation on Saturday triggered sharp international reactions, ranging from European Union calls for de-escalation to condemnations from some of Latin America’s most outspoken leaders, who described the use of force as “...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

When Nicolás Maduro assumed Venezuela’s presidency in 2013, the country was already deeply unsettled after years of political polarization under Hugo Chávez, marked by shrinking freedoms and violent crackdowns on dissent.

But as it turned out, Venezuelans had seen nothing yet.

Following Chávez’s death, Venezuela entered one of the most ...Read more