A ship believed to be carrying Russian fuels is on its way to Cuba, putting President Donald Trump’s sanctions to the test amid the island’s deepening energy crisis.
The apprehension of the Motor Vessel Sagitta is the seventh sanctioned tanker seized by U.S. forces as part of the effort by Trump’s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela’s oil products.
President Donald Trump suggested that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital.
Venezuela’s acting president plans to send an envoy to Washington to meet with senior U.S. officials on the same day that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be in town for her own talks in the wake of Nicolas Maduro’s ouster.
U.S. Southern Command announced it conducted strikes against three alleged drug boats traveling as a convoy in international waters. Three were killed on one boat, while those aboard the other two boats jumped off.
The president on Monday declined to answer questions about whether other U.S. strikes had occurred inside Venezuela or if further attacks could be expected.
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes and social media influencer Livvy Dunne spent time with more than 1,300 sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Mahan, both currently deployed in the Caribbean.