A New York-bound JetBlue flight had to halt its ascent Friday to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker supporting the American military buildup near Venezuela, with the airline pilot ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --U.S. officials unsealed the warrant issued for the seizure of the shadow fleet oil tanker The Skipper, which the U.S. military seized in international waters earlier this week. A ...

The Trump administration is relying on a sharply different legal justification for seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker than striking alleged narco-traffickers, even if both moves are intended to ramp up ...

The U.S. Coast Guard conducted the seizure, officials said. The U.S. has seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions between the ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the U.S. plans to take control of the oil currently on a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that was seized by U.S. forces Wednesday. Trump "talks a ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to hold the oil tanker it seized in waters near Venezuela at an American port in Texas but release the crew once the vessel docks, according to two U.S.

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President Trump confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in the latest escalation of tension with the Latin American country and its President Nicolas Maduro.

The Trump administration intends to transport an oil tanker seized off the coast of Venezuela to a U.S. port and take legal steps to claim the oil as it intensifies a pressure campaign on Venezuelan ...

Caracas has called the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela's coast "act of international piracy," arguing the move was part of a long-running strategy to take control of its natural resources.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, in a move likely to ramp up tensions with the government of President Nicolas Maduro. “We’ve just ...