CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – The head of U.S. military operations in Latin America met with Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, and members of her cabinet during an hourslong visit Wednesday to the South American country’s capital.
NEW YORK (AP) - The worst day for Nvidia's stock since last spring dragged the U.S. market lower, even though most stocks rose. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 17 points, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.2%. Nvidia delivered another stellar profit report and gave a forecast for revenue that again topped analysts' expectations.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday is set to resume debating a measure outlining the eligibility and exclusions for hundreds of people to be granted amnesty and be released after months or years of being in custody for political reasons.
WASHINGTON (AP) – As the U.S. and Iran head into their next round of nuclear talks in Geneva, a new AP-NORC poll finds that many U.S. adults continue to view Iran’s nuclear program as a threat – but they also don’t have high trust in President Donald Trump’s judgment on the use of military force abroad.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Argentina’s largest labor unions called a one-day nationwide strike on Thursday to protest President Javier Milei’s flagship overhaul of the country’s labor law, intensifying a standoff between the libertarian leader and long-powerful unions as the bill faces an uncertain passage through Congress.
LONDON (AP) – Residents of a northwest England district are voting Thursday in a special parliamentary election that could help determine the future of beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The by-election is a three-way race between Starmer’s center-left Labour Party, the environmentalist Green Party and the hard-right Reform UK.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Bolivia’s long-serving socialist former leader, Evo Morales, reappeared Thursday in his political stronghold of the tropics after almost seven weeks of unexplained absence, endorsing candidates for upcoming regional elections and quieting rumors he had fled the country in the wake of the U.S. seizure of his ally, Venezuela’s ex-President Nicolás Maduro.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) – Peru’s Congress on Wednesday will choose the country’s eight president in a decade to replace the newly ousted former leader José Jerí, with four lawmakers largely unknown by the public in the running.
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