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In a fact sheet issued Aug. 31, the White House set out the terms of the Venezuela oil arrangement Trump announced three days earlier. Venezuelan interim authorities have granted North American Blue Energy Partners, or...
President Trump announced in an Aug. 28, 2026 evening social media post that the United States had entered an agreement with Venezuela covering 17 oil fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels, calling it "THE...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Aug. 25 for previously unannounced meetings, sources told CBS News, which first reported the trip. A U.S. Air Force C-17 was spotted flying into a Moscow airport that...
The administration formally transmitted its civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia to Congress on Monday, Aug. 24, an administration official and two other sources told ABC News. The agreement, struck...
The United States removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, ending a designation in place since 1979. The removal, posted on the Treasury Department's website, took effect after the 45-day...
The administration has told Congress it intends to pay $725 million toward the United Nations regular budget, according to an Aug. 4 State Department notification letter to lawmakers seen by Reuters and first reported...
President Trump announced on Truth Social on Sunday, Aug. 16 that he had instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to substantially reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, hours before the annual Ulchi Freedom...
At an event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in Garden City, New York, on Friday, Aug. 14, President Trump said he intends to declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. "After we...
The administration has been looking for a current or former Cuban official who could be persuaded to take over the government in Havana, current and former U.S. officials told The New York Times on Aug. 7. Multiple...
The New York Times reported on Aug. 5, 2026, that the CIA has established a new classified task force focused on Cuba, part of a broader administration effort to pressure the Cuban government. According to the report...