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The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company, with some limits. The Trump administration is looking for ways to to ease oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.

U.S. crude stocks rose last week, with flows from Venezuela and Mexico hitting their highest levels ‌since 2024, while gasoline and distillate inventories fell, the Energy Information Administration ...

Venezuela's gold reserves plummeted over the past years, now standing at barely 53 despite continued mining in the country's ...

Spring training is full of optimism, and these 30 players have their teams especially giddy as we inch toward the regular season.

The federal trial for a former Florida congressman, who was indicted in 2024 for lobbying on behalf of a sanctioned ...

The U.S. government said the military veteran, Jordan G. Goudreau, had been missing for months, and that an ankle monitor assigned to him had been found hidden in a piece of furniture.

Jordan Goudreau, the former green beret accused of being behind a failed plot to oust former authoritarian President Nicolas ...

Voting technology firm Smartmatic is seeking to dismiss a criminal indictment on money laundering, blaming President Donald Trump and his allies for seeking its prosecution as part of a "campaign of ...

David Rivera, a longtime close friend of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is facing federal charges for allegedly acting as a foreign agent for. The trial and its revelations about foreign influence ...

The IAPA said press freedom in the Americas hit its lowest level since 2020, warning of murders, arrests, exile, and impunity ...