New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, have been key players, alongside the presidential adviser Stephen Miller, in
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.Cipriano Castro, who ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908. Known as the “Lion of the Andes,” he defied the great powers of the era.
President Trump has driven illegal crossings at the border to record lows, helped bring about an uneasy cease-fire in Gaza and upended the global trading system.
In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.President Trump announcing the Navy’s new “Trump Class” battleships.
Workers at facilities that stock shipped goods say customs officers who inspect merchandise are helping immigration agents arrest migrants.Immigration officials raided the Savino Del Bene warehouse in Avenel, N.J., which moves fashion and luxury goods.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault with hundreds of drones and missiles, lasting nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike on an apartment building on Saturday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.
The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some see them as the most pragmatic way to try to improve conditions.Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the Myanmar army’s commander in chief, voting at a polling station in Naypyitaw,
A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.Buddhist devotees visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday.
Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.Myanmar Plaza on Christmas Day in Yangon, the nation’s largest city.
When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.When Park adds humor to his films, “it sometimes skips a couple of steps, so it can go over people’s heads,” Lee said.
As the year drew to a close, we reached out to Opinion columnists and contributors for personal lists.
Many details of the Jeju Air disaster that killed 179 people remain unclear despite multiple investigations by officials and protests by the victims’ families.The wreckage of Jeju Air Flight 2216 late last year at the Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea.
A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try.Amy Howdyshell, 43, used a bankruptcy filing to get more than $78,000 in federal student debt dismissed.
To avoid the ripple effects of real-time adjustments to what was predicted to be up to nine inches of snow, the major airlines said they pre-emptively canceled flights.Kennedy International Airport on Saturday morning. The airport, along with LaGuardia and Newark International, dealt with hundreds o
Mr. Graffman was a onetime child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his left hand.Gary Graffman in 2018, when he turned 90. He was an acclaimed concert pianist before developing focal dystonia, the neurological disorder that restricted him to his le
