The Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential deportation in the coming months, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times. The move, President Trump’s first to remove such protections in his second term, signals that…
Richard Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, said on social media that he was flying home from Venezuela with six American detainees on Friday, after meeting with the country’s president. There were at least nine people with U.S. citizenship or residency detained in Venezuela, according to Venezuelan officials. The government had accused some of…
President Trump’s threat of tariffs on Canadian imports could leave the United States reliant on crude oil from Venezuela, with which the U.S. doesn’t want to work, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told the Financial Times. Joly is visiting this week Washington, D.C. for her first official meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
Washington — The Trump administration is reversing the Biden administration’s decision to extend the Temporary Protected Status program for Venezuelans in the U.S., casting a cloud of uncertainty over the hundreds of thousands of migrants enrolled in the policy, according to a Department of Homeland Security notice obtained by CBS News. Under the move, some…
President Trump moved on Monday to toss out a Biden-era program that allowed migrants fleeing four troubled nations to fly into the United States and remain in the country temporarily, part of a sweeping first-day crackdown on immigration. The program, known as humanitarian parole and introduced by the Biden administration in early 2023, allowed migrants…
At least 80 people are dead and more than 11,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela. The violence, in a northeast region called Catatumbo, is some of the worst the country has suffered through in recent years,…
Migrants used to gather by the hundreds in encampments in Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, waiting for a chance to cross into the United States. But as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to take office on Monday, few people could be found this past week on the once-teeming embankments. All…
Oil steadied after a decline, with traders looking ahead to an OPEC+ meeting on Thursday that’s expected to see the cartel again defer a move to revive output in an already well-supplied market. Brent crude traded above $72 a barrel after sliding by nearly 2% on Wednesday, with West Texas Intermediate below $69. The Organization…
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Non-governmental organizations in Venezuela on Saturday announced the release from prison of some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after the deadly anti-government protests that followed the July presidential election, whose results remain under dispute. Their release happened a day after the attorney general, who is loyal…
The US Justice Department on Monday proposed new rules to protect federal government data or Americans’ bulk personal data from getting into the hands of countries such as China, Iran and Russia by placing new limits on certain business transactions. The proposal, which was previewed in March, implements an executive order issued earlier this year…