Under international law, Venezuela has control over its own oil — but its efforts to nationalize its oil industry in 2007 did ...

The government of the oil-rich nation took control of its petroleum industry in 1976, nationalizing hundreds of private ...

U.S. forces stopped a vessel off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Trump continues to ramp up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Closely tied to Washington during much of the Cold War, Venezuela has gone through political upheavals over the years that ...

Venezuela’s debt crisis is one of the largest unresolved sovereign defaults in the world, the legacy of years of economic ...

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For weeks, the Trump administration has been escalating pressure on Venezuela and the government of Nicolás Maduro. Wednesday ...

Trump announced a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers. Plus, the president's chief of staff ...

President Donald Trump has escalated threats against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, and reports now say ...

At one point the high school resistance team of Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and others rescues the downed pilot of a U.S.

MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy split more than 5,000 children from their families at ...

President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, ...