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Supporters attend former opposition lawmaker Juan Requesens’ gubernatorial campaign kickoff, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans head to the polls as opposition calls for boycotts and the government tightens grip

Venezuelans are again finding themselves as pawns in their country’s political game. They have been summoned to a Sunday election for which opposition factions are discouraging participation and the ruling party using to tighten its grip on power — all while both sides appeal to the U.S. government
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This photo released by Venezuela's presidential press office shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, center, with Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump's special envoy, left, accompanied by National AssemblyPresident Jorge Rodriguez, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 31, 2025. (Venezuela's presidential press office, via AP File)

Venezuela frees US Air Force veteran considered wrongfully detained, his family says

May 20
President Donald Trump speaks during a Kennedy Center board dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House, Monday, May 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump vows to turn the Kennedy Center around as he seeks to remake arts and culture in America

May 20
In this photo released by the Miraflores press office, first lady Cilia Flores, second from left, and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, left, watch as 2-year-old Maikelys Espinoza is reunited with her mother Yorely Escarleth Bernal Inciarte at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The U.S. deported Bernal to Venezuela on April 25 and sent the child's father to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March. (Zurimar Campos/Miraflores press office via AP)

2-year-old girl reunites with her mother in Venezuela after US deportation

May 14
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a public address in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia’s President Vucic cuts short US visit and returns home after falling ill

May 3

Two state owned Venezuelan airliners back with 190 migrants deported from the US

Two Venezuelan state airliners arrived Monday with repatriated migrants deported from the U.S. The reception takes place more than a week after a senior U.S. official visited Caracas on behalf of President Donald Trump’s administration. (AP Video by Juan Arraez)
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Senior Trump official travels to Venezuela to discuss migration with Maduro

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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks during a television interview at the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mike Waltz to depart from Trump administration following Signal chat fallout

May 1
The Voice of America building, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

At the Voice of America, the Trump administration is moving swiftly to assert its vision

March 6
The Kennedy Center is seen Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

What’s going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump?

February 25
Mimoza Kusari-Lila, left, head of Vetevendosje! Parliamentary group, Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and Donika Gervalla-Schwarz, Kosovo's Foreign Minister, stand at Mother Teresa's square in Pristina, Kosovo, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

EU observers hail Kosovo’s peaceful election but criticize the polarization of political debate

February 11
Protesters congregate at the Iowa state capitol building in Des Moines on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, to rally against a bill that would protect pesticide companies from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller causes cancer. (AP Photo/Hannah Fingerhut)

Bayer backs broadened effort to shield popular weedkiller from claims it failed to warn of cancer

February 10
President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast at Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump promotes misleading claims about federal government’s media subscriptions

February 7
A "seized" sign is placed on a Venezuelan government airplane during a news conference where U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced its seizure at La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

US seizes Venezuelan president’s plane held in Dominican Republic during Rubio visit

February 6
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments

February 5
Henry Carmona, 48, right, who fled Venezuela after receiving death threats for refusing to participate in demonstrations in support of the government, stands with friends and a reporter following a press conference by Venezuelan community leaders to denounce changes to the protections that shielded hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, including Carmona, from deportation, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump administration ends temporary deportation protection for 350,000 Venezuelans

February 4
This photo released by Venezuela's presidential press office shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, shaking hands with Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump's special envoy, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Behind is Jorge Rodriguez, president of the National Assembly. (Venezuela's presidential press office, via AP)

Venezuela frees 6 Americans after meeting between President Maduro and Trump’s envoy

February 1
People hold a Serbian flag during a protest, day after the assault on students was carried out by thugs with baseball bats, in Novi Sad, Serbia, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Daily anti-corruption protests are rattling Serbia’s leader. What might come next?

January 29
U.S. president Donald Trump is seen on a screen during his virtual speech at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Davos 2025: Trump leaves an impression with his video address to the World Economic Forum

January 23
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrives at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

NATO chief says Russian victory over Ukraine would have a costly impact on alliance’s credibility

January 23
Television producer Mark Burnett, left, looks on as President Donald Trump arrives for the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump taps ‘Apprentice’ producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

December 21, 2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue Richard Grenell speaks during a ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Trump appoints longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as special missions envoy

December 15, 2024
Men pray at the Islamic Center of Detroit in Detroit, Jan. 26, 2024. Facing a room of Arab American activists from across the country angry at President Joe Biden's response to the Israel-Gaza war, a well-known adviser to Donald Trump was asked this week what the former president would have done differently had he been in office. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Trump allies face skepticism as they try appealing to disaffected Arab Americans in Michigan

May 23, 2024
Republican candidate for governor Bob Stefanowski speaks after receiving his party's endorsement at the State Republican Convention, Friday, May 6, 2022, in Mashantucket, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

GOP picks Stefanowski for gov.; Dems OK Blumenthal in senate

May 7, 2022
FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2021 file photo, pedestrians walk near a poster asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, and that reads in Spanish "They haven't been able to bend him," in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela’s government quietly offered in 2020 to release imprisoned Americans, the so-called Citgo 6 along with two former Green Berets tied to a failed cross border raid, in exchange for the U.S. letting go Saab, a key financier of President Nicolás Maduro, who was extradited to Miami in Oct. 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela sought to swap Americans for Maduro ally

October 28, 2021
In this photo taken in November 2019, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks with his traveling national press secretary, Remi Yamamoto, on a flight to South Carolina. Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump's former ambassador to Germany and former acting director of national intelligence, tweeted this photo on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, alongside a photo of Biden standing outdoors while wearing a mask. The tweet, which claims that Biden wears a mask outside but doesn't wear one on his plane, creates the false impression that this photo of Biden without a mask was taken during the coronavirus pandemic. (Adam Schultz/Biden for President via AP)

Widely shared photo of Biden without mask was taken in 2019

November 2, 2020

US delegation pledges support to Serbia, Kosovo after deal

September 22, 2020
Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci signs the Order of Freedom awarded to U.S President Donald Trump, in capital Pristina, Kosovo on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Kosovo's president awarded U.S. President Donald Trump with one of the country's highest medals - Kosovo's Order of Freedom - for his government's efforts on peace and reconciliation in the former war-torn region. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo awards Trump with Order of Freedom for peace efforts

September 18, 2020

EU praises Serbia, Kosovo for resuming face-to-face talks

July 16, 2020

Kosovo PM cancels trip to US for talks with Serbia

June 25, 2020

EU, US display differences over Serbia-Kosovo negotiation

June 16, 2020
In this May 5, 2020, photo, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee during his nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top intelligence official, Ratcliffe, is adamant that if confirmed he will not allow politics to color information he takes to the president. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Senate speeds up confirmation vote for intelligence director

May 20, 2020
A declassified document with names of President Barack Obama administration officials who made requests for unmasking of Michael Flynn's name is photographed Wednesday, May 13, 2020. In 2016, Obama administration officials received intelligence reports that were concerning, but incomplete. Surveillance of Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. revealed he had interacted with an unnamed American who may have been undercutting efforts to pressure Vladimir Putin’s government. Using a common process known as “unmasking,” they asked intelligence agencies to reveal the American’s name. It was Flynn, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump. The document was declassified by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Q&A: What does ‘unmasking’ someone in an intel report mean?

May 14, 2020
In this photo released by the Venezuela’s Miraflores presidential press office, President Nicolas Maduro accuses opposition leader Juan Guaido of being behind a military raid designed to oust him, as he holds a copy of a written agreement that allegedly bears Guaido’s signature as evidence, during an online press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Miraflores Palace presidential press office via AP)

Democrats press Trump for answers on foiled Venezuela raid

May 7, 2020

Trump administration replaces counterterrorism chief

March 20, 2020
U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell meets with Isa Mustafa leader of LDK in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for talks between Balkan rivals Serbia and Kosovo on Thursday called on Pristina newly-expected government leaders to lift the 100% tariff on Serb goods and services in order to let the dialogue between the two countries to reach a final reconciliation agreement proceed. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Trump looks for permanent national intelligence director

February 21, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is greeted by U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as he arrives at Munich International Airport, in Munich, Germany on Thursday, February 13, 2020. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Trump taps loyalist Grenell as nation’s top intel official

February 19, 2020
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