U.S. seizes oil tanker off Venezuelan coast
Tensions continue to rise in the Caribbean after the U.S. seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker not long after it left port. Jarred Hill reports.
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Tensions continue to rise in the Caribbean after the U.S. seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker not long after it left port. Jarred Hill reports.
The mission included members of the Coast Guard and the Marines, who launched from the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.
It comes during mounting tensions with Nicolás Maduro's government.
The Republican-led House and Senate Armed Services committees are looking into a strike on an alleged drug boat near Venezuela back in September.
As President Trump declared Venezuelan airspace closed, some lawmakers are voicing support of congressional reviews of the Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats. Bradley Blackburn reports.
Administration representatives are preparing to meet with Ukrainian officials Sunday in Florida to discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Cristian Benavides reports.
The Venezuelan Chinese fried rice from chef Yony Hung is a hit all over New York City.
The United States' most advanced aircraft carrier strike group has arrived in the Caribbean, raising new questions about the trump administration's plans in the region.
It comes after President Trump was presented with "military options" for Venezuela in the coming days, including possible strikes inside the country. Venezuela's president urged Americans to say "no" to war.
The United Nations human rights chief says the Trump administration "must halt" strikes on alleged drug boats to prevent "extrajudicial killing."
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy in her country.
The humanitarian program allowed over 500,000 migrants from four countries, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela, to temporarily live and work in the U.S. for two years.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that they arrested two Venezuelan nationals with ties to the Tres de Aragua gang in connection with a Southwest Side mass shooting in December. Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
"Without Temporary Protected Status, if somebody never applied for asylum, they are in fact eligible for deportation, and they're at risk for deportation," said Erendira Rendon, vice president for immigrant justice at the Resurrection Project.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling means hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants are about to lose their Temporary Protected Status and will no longer be able to work legally in the U.S. Sabrina Franza reports.
A 2-year-old girl separated from her parents by deportation arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to be reunited with her mother.
A west suburban man has been temporarily released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to donate his kidney to his brother.
A west suburban man has been temporarily released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to donate his kidney to his brother.
Trump administration officials told CBS News nearly 200 migrants including alleged members of the Tren De Aragua gang were on board a Sunday deportation flight to Venezuela.
A high-ranking Venezuelan street gang member who was wanted for a triple shooting in Chicago in January that killed two women and injured another has been arrested in Georgia, federal agents said Friday. Another member of the same gang also was arrested in North Carolina in connection to the shooting.
CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelans the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.
"I suspect that we will get a quick decision from the United States Supreme Court on this one," CBS News Chicago legal analyst Irv Miller said.
Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an "invasion or predatory incursion" of the U.S.
Trump wants to speed up the deportation of undocumented immigrants linked to a violent Venezuelan gang. To do that he plans on using a more-than 200-year-old law.
Indiana State Police said Ramos-Riva's death was a homicide, and two people have been arrested in Seattle.
