Long-range radar system will track drug boats in Caribbean, Tobago officials say, but it could also be used against Venezuela

Venezuela halts deportation flights as Trump escalates military pressure on Maduro government, ending key cooperation between Washington and Caracas.

The strikes, authorised by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, have raised fresh legality questions - but the White House says laws have been followed.

Norway and Sweden have become the latest countries to warn against travel to Venezuela. The Nordic countries have joined a growing list of nations advising their citizens against going to the South American country due to crime, instability, and shortages.

The White House will hold a meeting on Venezuela as President Donald Trump confirmed speaking with President Nicolás Maduro amid escalating tensions.

WASHINGTON - Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi is among congressional Republicans who expressed concern about U.S. military actions off Venezuela's coast and joined Democrats in pledging to look into multiple strikes on one boat, although there was no word on Monday of any briefings or hearings.

Venezuela’s government said it “forcefully rejects” Trump’s claim about closing the airspace and that it was a “colonial threat” intended to undermine the country’s “territorial integrity, aeronautical security and full sovereignty.”

The looming threat of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela is once again exposing the rift between the Republican Party’s foreign policy hawks and its anti-interventionist wing. But the fault lines are unfamiliar — a vivid illustration of the fluid nature of foreign policy alliances inside the Trump coalition.