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Houston Astros star Jose Altuve has had surgery on his broken right thumb.

Water has long been a luxury in the sprawling low-income neighborhoods that surround Venezuela’s capital

The United States and Japan will do battle in the World Baseball Classic final on Tuesday night. It is a matchup of titans in the sport.

Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve seems headed for a lengthy stint on the injured list after being hit on the hand with a pitch while playing for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic.

Houston Astros star Jose Altuve has a broken right thumb and needs surgery after getting hurt in Venezuela’s 9-7 quarterfinal loss to the United States at the World Baseball Classic. The Astros said Sunday they will announce a prognosis for the second baseman after the operation. The ight-time All-Star and the 2017 American League MVP fell after he was struck by a 95.9 mph sinker from Colorado reliever Daniel Bard in the fifth inning Saturday night.

The United States was on the brink of elimination, but on an 0-2 pitch, Trea Turner launched a grand slam that proved to be the game-winner over Venezuela.

Jose Altuve left Venezuela’s 9-7 quarterfinal loss to the United States with a possible broken right thumb after getting hit by a pitch.

Cuba advanced to the World Baseball Classic semifinals for the first time since 2006 with a 4-3 win over Australia as Alfredo Despaigne hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly and Yoelkis Guibert followed with a two-run single in three-run fifth inning.

Eugenio Suárez and Anthony Santander had two hits each as Venezuela beat Nicaragua 4-1 and improved to 3-0 in the World Baseball Classic.

The president of the U.N. General Assembly has announced that Lebanon, Gabon and South Sudan made sufficient payments to restore their voting rights in the 193-member world body

Alaska Republican Gov. Michael Dunleavy said Friday that "the Biden administration won’t stop until it destroys the resource development that underpins revenue for our state."

Colombia’s government and its largest remaining rebel group have met in Mexico City to resume peace talks.

In 2019, Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself the true leader of Venezuela. The fresh-faced opposition leader met world leaders at Davos, received a standing ovation at a US State of the Union Address by President Donald Trump and led giant protests in Caracas. A stalemate developed, as Guaidó was unable to oust President Nicolás Maduro and Maduro wasn’t able to douse public support for Guaidó. Four years of limbo ended with Guaidó pushed out as the head of the opposition and Maduro winning back the r

In 2019, Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself the true leader of Venezuela. The fresh-faced opposition leader met world leaders at Davos, received a standing ovation at a US State of the Union Address by President Donald Trump and led giant protests in Caracas. A stalemate developed, as Guaidó was unable to oust President Nicolás Maduro and Maduro wasn’t able to douse public support for Guaidó. Four years of limbo ended with Guaidó pushed out as the head of the opposition and Maduro winning back the r

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday in Miami-Dade County that the new program for refugees and asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua is already working.

The measures announced by President Biden earlier this month have led to a sharp drop in unlawful entries along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The number of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants attempting to cross the southwest border unlawfully has decreased drastically after announcement of an expanded parole program.

The Biden administration says U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela since Mexico began accepting those expelled under a public health order.

While the Venezuelan diaspora in South Florida agrees that Nicolás Maduro needs to be removed from power, they don’t all have hope for the future of the opposition and the 2024 presidential elections.

The U.N. chief says Venezuela, Lebanon and South Sudan are in arrears on paying dues to the United Nations’ operating budget and are among six nations that have lost their voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly

Lightfoot had asked for $54 million for emergency housing and aid for migrants, many bused to Chicago by Texas authorities after crossing the border.

People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than governments, nonprofits and the media in an increasingly divided world.

Despite Chicago's welcoming stance, newly arrived migrants are finding themselves spending days in train stations, police districts and churches waiting for help.

As President Joe Biden announced the recent expansion of an immigration policy for migrants coming from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, sponsors in South Florida are stepping up to help people who might not even know about the program.

After President Joe Biden announced nearly one week ago that he is expanding a program to accept up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, many South Floridians are already benefitting.

Venezuela’s socialist government has ordered the arrest of three exiled former lawmakers at the forefront of renewed efforts to unseat President Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan migrants continue to remain in limbo after the Supreme Court voted that Title 42 would remain in effect.

Two families escaped Venezuela under two different immigration policies. A new Biden program allowed one family get travel approval in a matter of weeks. Another Trump-era program barred another family from seeking asylum in the U.S., deporting her.

Ricardo Jose Calderon was arrested at Miami International Airport after a 1987 warrant linked him to the killing of Flavio Castellanos.

The Biden administration has been conspicuously silent about how migrants who plan to claim asylum should enter the United States when Trump-era limits end, fueling rumors, confusion and doubts about its readiness.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has declared a state of emergency to help the city deal with an unanticipated influx of migrants from the southern border.

The former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been found guilty of money laundering in connection to bribes paid by a billionaire media mogul to green light lucrative currency transactions when she served as the country's national treasurer.

The Colombian government and the nation’s largest remaining rebel group said on Tuesday that they will continue to stage peace talks in Mexico, following three weeks of negotiations in Venezuela that have only yielded modest results

President Biden eased sanctions on Venezuela. That's a bad energy policy for America. Bad foreign policy. And bad environmental policy.

Under the new policy, profits from the sale of energy would be directed to paying down debt owed to Chevron.

The U.S. Treasury Department is allowing Chevron to resume "limited" energy production in Venezuela after years of sanctions have curbed oil and gas profits flowing to President Maduro's government.

The Biden administration is easing some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opposition.

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A powerful drug lord from the Dominican Republic known as “The Abuser” has pled guilty to drug trafficking charges in U.S. federal court.

Four illegal immigrants from Venezuela were found and an alleged smuggler was arrested in Texas during a traffic stop

A Border Patrol agent was allegedly pushed, dragged and punched by two Venezuelan nationals caught crossing the border illegally who are now charged with assault on a federal officer.

For two years, Venezuela’s socialist government has been fighting to extricate from the U.S. justice system an insider businessman it claims was on an ultra-secret mission to Iran when he was arrested on a U.S. warrant during a routine fuel stop in Africa.

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have met and say they will improve trade and security cooperation, as both countries seek to normalize relations following the election of Colombia’s first leftist leader

National Hurricane Center forecasters are watching for the potential formation of a tropical system near the eastern Caribbean this weekend.

National Hurricane Center forecasters are watching for the potential emergence of a system near the eastern Caribbean this weekend.

Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has collected his recorded interviews with former President Donald Trump – eight hours' worth – into an audiobook release, "The Trump Tapes." He talks with CBS News' John Dickerson about Trump's view of the presidency as a trophy and his unsettling communications with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un; and about the question Woodward most regrets not asking.

Beyond the new reality that the migrants face and the story of their desperate need to run away from their home country to undergo a month’s journey north where most are now homeless, they all once had a home, a profession, and the hope to never migrate north.

In a shelter on Mexico City’s east side, Venezuelan mechanic José Cuicas is waiting anxiously for an American friend to answer his request to sponsor him for one of the 24,000 visas the Biden administration says it will give to Venezuelans

Venezuelans and other migrants are struggling to come to terms with a new U.S. policy discouraging border crossings.

Venezuelans leave their homeland in droves - even though many struggle to feed themselves abroad.

Venezuelan Gilbert Fernández still plans to cross the dangerous Darién jungle into Panama headed over land toward the U.S. despite Washington’s announcement that it will grant conditional humanitarian permits only to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants arriving by air

Venezuelan Gilbert Fernández still plans to cross the dangerous Darién jungle into Panama headed over land toward the U.S. despite Washington's announcement that it will grant conditional humanitarian permits only to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants arriving by air.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that they are releasing new directives for a major change in Venezuelan immigration policy to the U.S.

A day after burying his mother, Rafael Negrín has carried the coffin of his aunt who also died in floods and landslides in central Venezuela that killed at least 43 people and left dozens missing.

The Biden administration sees the program as a way to slow the rising numbers of migrants crossing the border without authorization.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury will investigate whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis misused pandemic relief funds to fly a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September, a U.S. Senator said.

Rescue workers in Venezuela are clearing rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city that was hit by a massive landslide three days earlier

Rescue workers in Venezuela are clearing rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city that was hit by a massive landslide three days earlier.

Rescuers were carrying out search operations with trained dogs and drones as dozens of people remained missing after the landslide.

A landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead, authorities said Sunday.

Dozens remain missing after the landslide tore through Las Tejerías.

Authorities say a landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain has swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods

Authorities say a landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain has swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade laid out what the Biden administration should do to tackle rising gas prices and make America energy-independent in his monologue on "One Nation."

A tropical depression is expected to form within the next 48 hours from a tropical wave approaching Caribbean and South America. Tropical Depression Twelve, in the central Atlantic Ocean, is expected to become a remnant low.

Tropical Depression Twelve formed yesterday some 3,400 miles east of Miami and is expected to quickly unravel thanks to hostile upper-level winds.

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018.

The mysterious woman who allegedly lured dozens of migrants on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ flights to Martha’s Vineyard from San Antonio has been identified by several media outlets as Perla H. Huerta, a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent living in Tampa.

In August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped more than 25,000 people from Venezuela at the southern border — a 43% monthly increase.

The government of Venezuela has rejected a report by an independent experts working with the United Nations’ top human rights body who allege that President Nicolas Maduro personally ordered the detention of government opponents.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the recent influx is due to "failing communist regimes."

Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump are making a dubious cost-benefit analysis.

The disturbance we’re tracking along the northern coast of Venezuela in the eastern Caribbean Thursday – coined Invest 98L – is expected to organize into a strengthening storm by next week and pose a potential threat to the U.S. while powerful Hurricane Fiona will bring hurricane conditions to Bermuda Thursday night into Friday before morphing into an extreme, historic, and potentially record-shattering hurricane-like storm for Nova Scotia and the Canadian Maritimes this weekend.

A vicious beat down that took place on a South Florida school campus was caught on camera.

Leonard Francis was boarding a flight to Cuba when he was taken into custody, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to CBS News.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard continues to attract criticism from political opponents, as well as a criminal investigation and lawsuit, but the governor has remained steadfast defending the move.

A Venezuelan migrant family is sharing their journey to South Florida in an exclusive interview with Local 10 News.

One Venezuelan mother traveling with her husband and their 11-year-old child said she "felt helpless, defrauded, and desperate" after arriving in Martha's Vineyard.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending his decision to send a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard amid a criminal investigation and, now, a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the migrants filed Tuesday.

One million of border encounters in fiscal year 2022 have resulted in migrants being expelled from the U.S. under Title 42, a coronavirus-era policy.

A Texas sheriff has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to fly a group of migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, his agency tweeted Monday evening.

When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless shelter. “I have nothing,” Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.” Two months later, Alejos is making between $600 to $700 a week, saving up to b

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed fingers at President Joe Biden Friday amid questions over his decision to fly a group of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, as others criticize the move.

Their wayward journeys to Chicago are not unlike the experiences of thousands of migrants being sent across the country from Republican governors for political purposes.

“They felt they were finally going to be able to live the American Dream,” said one Venezuelan-American from Sunrise. “Little did they know they were being sent to an island of millionaires."

Leaders in South Florida’s Venezuelan-American community gathered in Doral Thursday to denounce Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send two planes filled with undocumented immigrants to Massachusetts.

An appeals court has overturned a Florida federal judge’s order seizing the U.S. fortune of a sanctioned Venezuelan billionaire with alleged cartel ties to satisfy a $318 million judgment for the American victims of a Colombian terrorist kidnapping.

New filings in a civil suit allege that a former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government not only did no apparent work, but also channeled a large chunk of the money to a yacht company on behalf of a fugitive billionaire.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm.

Official cross-border trade between Venezuela and Colombia has been nearly shut off since 2015, when Venezuela’s socialist president closed crossings after years of deteriorating relations with Colombia’s conservative administrations.

The Colombian government claims the leader of a remaining Marxist guerrilla group is on his deathbed in Venezuela. The guerrilla group claims he was injured but he is recovering.

At least three Venezuelan ride-sharing apps launched during the pandemic. They’ve taken advantage of a de facto switch of currencies from the Venezuelan bolivar to the U.S. dollar.

Federal prosecutors charged two financial asset managers Tuesday, accusing them of taking part in a $1.2 billion international scheme to launder funds corruptly obtained from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company over a span of more than three years.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America is expected to hit Central America as a tropical storm over the weekend and eventually develop into a hurricane over the Pacific.

President Joe Biden plans to meet on July 12 at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

A one-time ally of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has pleaded guilty for taking $3.8 million in bribes to help steer lucrative oil contracts to companies tied to officials in Venezuela’s socialist government and military.

The leader of the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela has been physically attacked during a visit to a rural community.

Several thousand migrants have started walking through southern Mexico, covering ground before the heat of the day — and while authorities show no signs yet of trying to stop them.

The Biden administration has renewed a license partially exempting Chevron from sanctions on Venezuela so it can keep operating in the oil-rich, socialist-run nation.