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In this Aug. 4, 2018, photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech during a ceremony to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the National Guard in Caracas.

Trump administration met with, but rebuffed, Venezuelan officers who said they were plotting a coup, officials say

August 22, 2019 at 9:09 a.m.

The Trump administration met several times last year and early this year with Venezuelan military officers purporting to be dissidents plotting a coup against President Nicolás Maduro, but ultimately rebuffed...

President Trump walks with national security adviser H.R. McMaster on the South Lawn of the White House in June.

As Trump’s patience wanes, McMaster navigates divide over U.S. Afghan strategy

August 22, 2019 at 12:23 a.m.

In meeting after meeting with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, this spring and summer, President Donald Trump angrily hammered home two questions: He wanted to know why the U.S....

A Syrian rebel fighter fires a weapon in Ain Tarma, in the eastern Ghouta area, a rebel stronghold east of the capital Damascus, on July 17, 2017.

Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad Syrian rebels, a move sought by Russia

August 22, 2019 at 12:11 a.m.

President Donald Trump has decided to end the CIA's covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia,...

President Barack Obama is greeted by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, second from left, and U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, left, as he walks off Air Force One at Miami International Airport on June 3, 2016.

Obama warns against violence at Trump rallies, backs Wasserman Schultz

August 21, 2019 at 6:37 p.m.

President Barack Obama urged Democrats to avoid violent confrontations with supporters of likely Republican nominee Donald Trump on Friday after Trump backers were attacked in San Jose, California."It is very...

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.

President diagnoses anger as a danger to the nation

May 14, 2019 at 10:11 a.m.

President Obama focused Tuesday on the pessimism coursing through an electorate now preparing to replace him, recasting the campaign-trail anger as a simple fear of change and a growing danger...

President Barack Obama bows his head in prayer during the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 3, 2015.

The quiet impact of Obama’s Christian faith

June 24, 2019 at 11:00 a.m.

President Barack Obama was flying over Los Angeles in June as he listened to the first accounts from a courtroom in Charleston, South Carolina, where family members of nine dead...

Obama: We’re hitting Islamic State ‘harder than ever’

March 29, 2019 at 2:36 p.m.

President Barack Obama launched a robust defense of his strategy to defeat the Islamic State with a detailed account on Monday of territory taken from the enemy, bombs dropped and...

Kanye West in 2020? Obama has some advice for the presidential aspirant

June 16, 2018 at 2:21 p.m.

President Barack Obama came here to raise money for Democrats, but he also had a little unsolicited advice for a high-profile presidential aspirant who was also in attendance. "You may...

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