Sixty-six international organizations named as "contrary to the interests of the United States"

The US seized an empty Russian-flagged, Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean yesterday as part of President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to dictate oil flows in the Americas and force Venezuela’s socialist government to become an ally.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright yesterday said that Washington will control sales of Venezuelan oil “indefinitely,” a day after President Donald Trump announced Venezuela’s interim leaders had agreed to US-managed marketing of 30-50 million barrels of crude.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Nicolas Maduro of imitating his dancing, among other crimes, as he celebrated the capture of the Venezuelan leader in a freewheeling speech to Republican lawmakers

Said at a retreat for House Republican lawmakers in Washington

President Trump suggested on Sunday that the United States could take action against other countries after its attack on Venezuela. He threatened Colombia and its president, described Cuba as “ready to fall” and reasserted his desire to take control of Greenland.

Vance said he wasn't home

President Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on his claim that Greenland should become part of the United States, despite calls by Denmark's prime minister to stop "threatening" the territory

The US president's announcement followed a lightning pre-dawn attack in which commandos grabbed Maduro and his wife while air strikes pounded sites in and around Caracas

Maduro and his wife were flown by helicopter to New York City, where they face drug-trafficking and weapons charges

Military intervention could bring risks in November midterm elections

Here are the highlights of the press conference, in Trump's own words

President Donald Trump yesterday said that the United States will “run” Venezuela and tap its huge oil reserves after snatching leftist leader Nicolas Maduro out of the country during a bombing raid on Caracas.

On June 27, 1954, Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, president of Guatemala, was driven from power by mercenaries trained and financed by Washington, after a land reform that threatened the interests of the powerful US company United Fruit Corporation. In 2003, the US officially acknowledged the CIA’s role in this coup, in the name of fighting communism.

Donald Trump returned to office vowing to be the peace president. Nearly a year later, he is embracing war on multiple fronts.

The Venezuelan leader had on what appeared to be noise-canceling ear muffs and grey Nike-branded sweatpants and jacket

US companies to invest heavily in Venezuela’s oil sector, Trump says

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In a brief phone interview with The New York Times, Trump hailed the 'brilliant' operation

The dozen orders Adams issued since his indictment included a directive to allow federal agents, including immigration officers, to use an office on Rikers Island, the city's main jail. That order was later struck down by a court.