Karen Deyoung

In this Aug. 4, 2018, photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech during a ceremony to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the National Guard in Caracas.

Trump administration met with, but rebuffed, Venezuelan officers who said they were plotting a coup, officials say

August 22, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

The Trump administration met several times last year and early this year with Venezuelan military officers purporting to be dissidents plotting a coup against President Nicolás Maduro, but ultimately rebuffed...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Tillerson. On Tuesday, Tillerson sent a letter to acting DHS secretary Elaine Duke to inform her that conditions in Central America and Haiti no longer required that migrants be given Temporary Protected Status.

Central Americans and Haitians no longer need protected status, State Department says

August 22, 2019 at 6:31 a.m.

More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told...

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, watches as the committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., questions Hillary Rodham Clinton during the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 22, 2015. Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, according to Democrats on a select House panel who absolved the former secretary of state and the U.S. military of wrongdoing in the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attacks.

Dems’ Benghazi report: Clinton ‘engaged’ during attack, panel ‘squandered millions of taxpayer dollars’

June 12, 2018 at 2:48 a.m.

Evidence collected by the House Select Committee on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya confirms that Defense Department actions could not have saved the lives of four Americans killed, that...

Obama arrives in Cuba for historic visit

June 20, 2019 at 1:25 a.m.

President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday afternoon, a journey of only 90 miles from U.S. shores that took more than half a century to complete. "This is a...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is seen at the State Department in Washington on Jan. 19, 2011.

Clinton gets unlikely email ally: Colin Powell

May 14, 2019 at 10:51 a.m.

Hillary Clinton gained an apparent ally Thursday in her fight to limit the political damage from her growing email controversy, as former Republican secretary of state Colin L. Powell said...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signs a series of documents in Vienna, Austria. U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry confirms Iran in compliance with nuclear deal and lifts US nuclear-related sanctions.

International sanctions against Iran lifted

March 30, 2019 at 8:16 a.m.

Iran reentered the global economy on Saturday, as years of crippling international sanctions were lifted in exchange for the verified disabling of much of its nuclear infrastructure. For Iran, implementation...

President Barack Obama addresses the country from the Oval Office on December 6, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Despite the critics, the White House insists it has a plan to fight Islamic State

June 21, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

To its critics, President Barack Obama's strategy to combat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is weak and incoherent. Even some of the staunchest U.S. allies and partners in...

France launches ‘massive’ airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria

August 21, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.

French warplanes launched a ferocious retaliatory assault late Sunday on targets in Raqqa, Syria - the Islamic State's de facto capital - after coordination with U.S. defense officials who helped...

President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shake hands at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, April 11, 2015.

Castro, Obama hold historic meeting, agree to foster ‘a new relationship’

May 17, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro symbolically ended more than a half-century of official estrangement between the United States and Cuba here on Saturday in a historic-face-to-face meeting that...

American journalist Luke Somers killed by al Qaeda during rescue attempt

May 17, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

U.S. Navy SEALs stormed a walled compound in a remote Yemeni village early on Saturday in an attempt to free Western hostages held by an al Qaeda unit, but an...

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