WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump 's administration on Wednesday sought to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing a pair of sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the US can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration 's latest immigration crackdown on a major American city – a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the...
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands — More than 1,000 stranded passengers spent the night at Amsterdam 's international airport as snow and ice that is pummeling parts of Europe grounded hundreds of flights and choked highways and railroads Wednesday. In Paris, a skier slid along the snowy bank of the...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean, officials said Wednesday. U.S. European Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bella 1 for “violations of U.S. sanctions” in a...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Mukesh Awasti was all set leave for Australia to pursue a degree in civil engineering on a sunny day in September, but instead he joined a youth revolt against corruption in Nepal and lost his leg after being shot by security forces. Lying on a hospital bed at the National...
LOS ANGELES (AP) – On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the LA area, the scant home construction projects stand out among the still mostly flattened landscapes. Fewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt in Los Angeles County since Jan. 7, 2025, when the Palisades and...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran faces a new round of protests challenging the country 's theocracy, but it seems like the only thing people there want to talk about is half a world away: Venezuela. Since the US military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a longtime ally of...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power – a dream that was fulfilled when the US military whisked the authoritarian leader away. But while Maduro is in jail in New York on drug trafficking charges, the...
ALTADENA, California (AP) – “DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the unborn child. Causes damage to the central nervous system.” Block after block there are reminders that contaminants still linger. House cleaners, hazardous...
TOKYO (AP) – A massive 243-kilogram (535-pound) bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at Tokyo 's Toyosu fish market. The top bidder for the prized tuna at the predawn auction on Monday was Kiyomura Corp., whose owner Kiyoshi Kimura runs...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Saturday 's military operation that led to the ouster of Nicolás Maduro a major success as he offered a vague plan for his administration "to run" Venezuela until a transition of power can take place. While there are no visible signs of a...
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss investigators believe sparklers on Champagne bottles started a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left 40 people dead and more than 100 injured during a New Year 's celebration. Most injuries, many of them serious, occurred when the blaze...
