Joshua Goodman

FILE – Raul Castro waves a Cuban national flag during a May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana on May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

US announces charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro in 1996 aircraft shootdown

May 20, 2026 at 3:17 p.m.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles as the Trump administration escalated pressure on...

FILE – Former Cuban President Raul Castro looks at the Cuban flag during his speech at the event celebrating the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the revolution in Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, File)

Trump administration prepares to seek Raúl Castro indictment as it pressures Cuba

May 15, 2026 at 5:55 p.m.

The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday, as President Donald...

President Donald Trump speaks at the Shield of the Americas Summit, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

President Trump encourages Latin American leaders to use military action to help US fight cartels

March 7, 2026 at 1:20 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain President Donald Trump’s policy toward Venezuela following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolas Maduro, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends Trump on Venezuela while trying to allay fears about Greenland and NATO

January 28, 2026 at 12:09 p.m.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a full-throated defense Wednesday of President Donald Trump’s military operation to oust and arrest then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, while also using his wide-ranging congressional...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks at the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, a day after meeting with President Donald Trump and members of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Venezuelan opposition leader is confident about return of democracy but says little of her plans

January 16, 2026 at 6:06 p.m.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Friday she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro.

A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stands on a median strip waving a national flag in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans wonder who’s in charge as Donald Trump claims contact with Nicolás Maduro’s deputy

January 3, 2026 at 3:25 p.m.

Venezuelans on Saturday were scrambling to understand who is in charge of their country after a U.S. military operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro.

FILE – President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

President Donald Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn’t work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures.

November 15, 2025 at 12:33 p.m.

In justifying American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs, President Donald Trump has asserted that the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels at sea has been a...

Federal agents take a person into custody after an immigration court hearing outside an immigration court, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

ICE agents wait in hallways of immigration court as President Donald Trump seeks to deliver on mass arrest pledge

May 22, 2025 at 8:24 a.m.

Across the United States in immigration courts from New York to Seattle this week, Homeland Security officials are ramping up enforcement actions in what appears to be a coordinated dragnet...

A chain link fence protects a satellite station and other equipment behind the Bureau of Reclamation office Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers

March 14, 2025 at 2:31 p.m.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk ’s Department of...

Venezuelan migrant Naomi Diaz sits on a boat departing from Panama’s Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by President Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘ black hole’ for migrants and deportees from US, observers warn

February 28, 2025 at 8:31 a.m.

Costa Rica and Panama have received hundreds of deportees from various nations sent by the United States.

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