Trump Administration

Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region that has already seen an unusually large U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela.

From Sucre to South Florida, Venezuelans have mixed feelings about whether a threatened U.S. military incursion against drug traffickers will affect their desperate situation — and their brutal dictatorship.

The annual Fulbright fellows gathering will be held for the first time in Miami this week — hoping to help reverse the U.S.'s pullback from influential international exchange programs.

A Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press. appears to represent an extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers, with Trump effectively declaring that trafficking of drugs into the United States amounts to armed conflict requiring the use of military force.

Four sources — two U.S. officials familiar with the planning and two others familiar with the discussions — told NBC News that the Trump administration is considering options that primarily focus on drone strikes targeting the members and leadership of drug trafficking groups, as well as drug labs.

Petro said the boat passengers were not gang members as claimed by the Trump administration. He argued they were poor young people from Latin America. The U.S. military justified the strikes as necessary to stop drug trafficking.

Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, as the Trump administration carries out a controversial anti narcotics mission in the southern Caribbean.

Military officials, diplomats and analysts say a main purpose of the force is to ratchet up pressure on Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, as top figures in the Trump administration call him an illegitimate leader and accuse him of directing the actions of criminal gangs and drug cartels.

Sunday's protest, now in its eighth week, comes amid new reports of alleged medical neglect, violations of attorney-client privilege, and a large number of detainees who have all but disappeared from official federal records.

“I have just spoken with the Office of the Attorney General & can confirm that the National Guard will NOT be deployed to Miami,” the Miami congressman posted on X. “Miami is not Chicago or San Francisco — and never will be.”

A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country.

On Tuesday, Petro accused the U.S. of interfering in Colombian politics as the country prepares for elections next year. The Trump administration's decision marks the first time in three decades that Colombia has received this designation.