MIAMI (AP) – Venezuela’s government said Saturday it deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro to face judicial proceedings in the U.S. less than three years after the business owner was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap.
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market gave back more of its record-setting rally. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% Tuesday for its third straight loss since setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.8%. The declines followed mixed moves for stock markets abroad, while oil prices eased.
PARIS (AP) – France’s Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found that it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of new characteristics that would make it more transmissible or more dangerous.
There aren’t many lawmakers like Thomas Massie left in Congress. The renegade Republican who rose to prominence as an idiosyncratic and stubborn outlier in his party, popular in the Kentucky district that repeatedly sent him to the House, lost his primary bid for reelection Tuesday after a vicious and costly attack by President Donald Trump.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) – The U.S. announced Friday it is turning its attention toward Guyana’s abundant bauxite and other resources for business opportunities at a time when the Trump administration is increasingly eyeing Latin American energy and minerals.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out the possibility that people who carried out violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol will be considered for payouts from a new $1.776 billion fund to pay individuals who believe they were targeted politically.
LIMA, Peru (AP) – Peruvian voters will choose their next president between a political dynasty heiress and a former trade minister who has promised to reform Peru’s mining sector, after advancing on Friday to Peru’s June presidential runoff election.
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – The Trump administration has deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, sending them to an unfamiliar country thousands of miles from home – many despite U.S. court orders protecting them from deportation to their homelands.
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