Evana, an oil tanker, is docked at El Palito port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Trump warns Maduro against playing 'tough' as US escalates pressure campaign on Venezuela

Secretary of State Marco Rubio walks to a secure room in the basement of the Capitol to brief senators on military strikes near Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio hits 2 more International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over Israel prosecutions

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on farm subsidies in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Gunmen kill at least 16 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania greet guests in the Grand Foyer of the White House during the Congressional Ball, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Thai and Cambodian leaders agree to renew ceasefire after deadly clashes, Trump says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint news conference with Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

Putin says there are points he can't agree to in the US proposal to end Russia's war in Ukraine

Today in History: December 3, toxic gas leak kills thousands in Bhopal

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and the Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin gesture to each other as they take part in a joint press conference in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

The Latest: US envoy Witkoff meets Putin in Moscow

Today in History: November 30, WTO protesters and police clash in Seattle

Travelers wait in the main hall of the Simon Bolivar Maiquetia International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, after several international airlines canceled flights following a warning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration about a hazardous situation in Venezuelan airspace. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams 'colonial threat'

A fire can be seen at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

At least 75 dead as Hong Kong firefighters battle burning towers for a second day

Venezuelan President Nicolas speaks during a Student Day event at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

The Latest: US labels Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a terror organization

FILE - Vice President JD Vance, right, speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, as President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov, File)

In his words: Trump's rhetoric about Zelenskyy and Putin has evolved

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US senators slam Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace plan as rewarding aggression

FILE - President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gesture as they meet delegations at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Latest: Trump expected to give Saudi crown prince a warm embrace during White House visit

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches amid the ruins of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza death toll tops 69,000 as Israel and militants again exchange remains

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds. And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the United States' withdrawal from the effort, the report adds. The newest climate-fighting plans — mandated every five years by the 2015 Paris Agreement — shaves about three-tenths of a degree Celsius (nearly six-tenths o

Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says

Today in History: November 4, Obama wins presidency in historic election

Storm chasers buffeted by Hurricane Melissa

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, meets with President Donald Trump, not in photo, at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is at center right. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: China agrees to buy 25M metric tons of US soybeans each year, treasury secretary says

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