The seizure comes as the United States builds up its forces in the Caribbean as part of a campaign against President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.President Trump announced the seizure at the White House on Wednesday, without giving details on the operation.
The decision by María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, to emerge from hiding and leave the country has electrified her movement but carries political risks.Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize cerem
The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps.U.S. troops in Veracruz, Mexico, in April 1914, as part of a blockade of the city’s port.
President Trump has framed the program as a way for the government to raise billions of dollars and prioritize the admission of successful entrepreneurs and investors.
Democratic lawmakers said in a report that shifting Defense Department funding to support the Trump administration’s immigration agenda has hurt military readiness.An Army soldier overlooking the border between the United States and Mexico near Santa Teresa, N.M., in April.
Several Democrats who fought to steer federal money to their states and districts have boasted about their success even after voting against the bill that provided the funds.
The central bank’s decision to lower interest rates for a third straight meeting was highly contentious, reflecting an internal divide that will likely limit how much borrowing costs will fall next year.
Midpriced steakhouses and fine-dining establishments are trying to figure out how to cover their rising costs without scaring away customers.Restaurants that specialize in steak, like Halls Chophouse in Charleston, S.C., are feeling the same sticker shock from beef prices as consumers in grocery sto
In the 1970s, she photographed Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry on wild nights at Studio 54. Now she’s chronicling a new generation.
Republicans redid their voting map so they could flip five seats to help keep control of the U.S. House. But achieving that goal is far from guaranteed.Downtown Seguin in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, part of the new voting map that state lawmakers adopted. The district is expected to be close
The school has been brought to heel by conservative critics of higher education. It is part of a broader transformation at the state’s universities.A Republican lawyer, not an academic, now runs the University of Texas at Austin. Other changes are also underway.
FEMA rejected requests for federal assistance, twice, after devastating floods in western Maryland, part of a larger pattern of making communities pay for their own disaster recovery.Spring flooding in Allegany County, Md., caused an estimated $33.7 million in damage.
Surro Connections held itself out as a reliable business. Now, clients have lost as much as tens of thousands of dollars meant to compensate women carrying their pregnancies.
Investigators said that a security camera recorded thieves preparing to burgle the Louvre. The museum’s director said previously that the camera was facing the wrong way.French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre, in October.
GPS collars on cattle are letting ranchers remove fences in the West. That’s good for wildlife and for the land.
Lea Michele’s star turn in “Chess.” Kara Young as an 8-year-old. A 12-minute monologue delivered from a cloud. These are our favorite scenes from this year.
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.The British author Madeleine Wickham in 2024. Under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, she wrote nine “Shopaholic” novels, which sold tens of millions of copies
Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” packs love, laughter and a harrowing real-life health ordeal into a 133-page novella.At an event in London in June, Sophie Kinsella said, “I’m so overwhelmed, yet again, by my lovely readers and by the lovely response that I get to what I
The high cost of health care in America is suppressing wages, driving job losses and fueling inequality.
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries.
Also, the Fed’s latest rate cut was contentious. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
The actor, 60, was struck by a vehicle in Midtown Manhattan late on Monday, her agent and the police said.
The Southern Transitional Council has seized control of parts of Yemen over the past week, with ambitions to create a “south Arabian state.”Soldiers loyal to the Southern Transitional Council, a separatist group, in Aden, Yemen, on Tuesday.
As the owners intentionally understaffed two New Jersey facilities and diverted Medicaid money for their own use, residents in the homes “suffered unnecessarily,” the state comptroller said.The owners of the Hammonton Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare and Deptford Center for Rehabilitation an
