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Another Way to Squeeze Cuba: Through Its Doctors

Cuba has for decades sent medical workers abroad, and kept most of their salaries

(Newser) - Guatemala has become the latest country to pull the plug on a decades-old program that brought hundreds of Cuban doctors into the country—with all but a "small fraction" of their salaries going straight to Cuba. The New York Times reports Guatemala's Health Ministry said Tuesday it will...

Rubio Slams 'Unjust, Tragic' Jimmy Lai Sentence

Rubio urges humanitarian parole after Hong Kong sentences pro-democracy publisher to 20 years

(Newser) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Hong Kong just sent a blunt message about dissent—and the world should pay attention. In a statement Monday, Rubio blasted a Hong Kong court's 20-year sentence for media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, calling it an "unjust and tragic conclusion"...

In Senate Hearing, Rubio Defends Trump on Venezuela

He also discussed Iran, Taiwan, Greenland

(Newser) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a full-throated defense Wednesday of President Trump's military operation to seize then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, while explaining to US lawmakers the administration's approach to Greenland, NATO, Iran, and China. As Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee offered...

Young Trump Voters Cool on JD Vance for 2028

Gen Z conservatives cite electability worries, desire for fresher faces

(Newser) - JD Vance may be the Trump White House's connection to Gen Z , but a small group of young male Trump voters doesn't sound terribly eager to promote him to the top of the ticket for 2028. In a focus group of nine men ages 18 to 24 who...

'Fundamental Disagreement' Remains After Greenland Talks

Denmark's foreign minister says talks with Vance, Rubio were 'frank, but also constructive'

(Newser) - Talks on Greenland's future were "frank, but also constructive," Denmark's foreign minister said after a White House meeting Wednesday with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Lars Loekke Rasmussen acknowledged a "fundamental disagreement" with the US over President Trump's push...

Trump Says He'll Accept a Second-Hand Peace Prize

He says he'll meet Venezuela's Machado soon and it would be a 'great honor' if she gives him her prize

(Newser) - President Trump says he's expecting a high-profile visitor from Venezuela—and possibly a Nobel medal. In a Fox News interview that aired Thursday night, Trump told Sean Hannity that opposition figure María Corina Machado is "coming in next week sometime" to the US and that he looks...

Gabbard Is Squeezed Out of Venezuela Operation

CIA director has a seat at the Trump's table, but not the national intelligence chief'

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard holds the nation's top intelligence title, but she was kept out of the loop on one of the Trump administration's biggest covert actions: the operation targeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. According to multiple people familiar with the matter, White House officials began excluding the director of...

Rubio to Meet Danish Officials to Talk Greenland
Rubio Agrees to
Denmark's Ask
Jan 7, 2026 4:11 PM CST

Rubio Agrees to Denmark's Ask

He'll meet with Danish officials next week

(Newser) - Marco Rubio says he will sit down with Danish officials next week following the Trump administration's assertion that it was looking to acquire Greenland . The US secretary of state confirmed the upcoming meeting in Washington but sidestepped questions about whether the Trump administration might use force to gain control...

White House: Trump Looking at 'Options' to Acquire Greenland

NATO allies rebuke aggressive US stance

(Newser) - The White House is refusing to rule out a military invasion of Greenland. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told key lawmakers Monday that Trump wants to purchase the vast Arctic territory from Denmark, not invade it, officials tell the New York Time s reports. But on the same day, Trump...

Machado Courts Trump— by Offering Him Her Nobel

Venezuelan opposition leader says her movement ought to be in power

(Newser) - Venezuela's most prominent opposition figure used a friendly US TV forum to court the one man now standing between her movement and power: President Trump. In a 10-minute interview on Fox News , María Corina Machado repeatedly praised the president, appealed for his backing, and even offered to hand...

Trump Administration Has Rare Reaction to Media on Venezuela

It's a 'thank you' from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reporters for keeping plans of raid quiet

(Newser) - In the wake of last weekend's US military action in Venezuela, the news media got something it seldom hears from the Trump administration: a thank you. Secretary of State Marco Rubio credited news organizations that had learned in advance about last Saturday's strike leading to the capture of...

US Move on Venezuela's Oil Faces Obstacles, Analysts Say

Low prices, political instability, and legal disputes deter foreign investment

(Newser) - President Trump is pitching regime change in Venezuela as an energy opportunity, but the path from military operation to meaningful oil production is anything but straightforward, the Wall Street Journal reports. At a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump said the ouster of Nicolás Maduro would clear the way for "...

Trump Issues Stark Warning to Venezuela's New Leader

Delcy Rodríguez 'is going to pay a very big price' if she fails to cooperate, says president

(Newser) - President Trump is warning Venezuela's new leader that she could face consequences harsher than those imposed on Nicolás Maduro, the country's ousted leader now being held in a New York jail after a US military raid on Caracas. In a phone interview from his golf club in...

Cuba Lost 32 Officers in US Strike on Venezuela

Military was on an undisclosed mission in Caracas when US attacked

(Newser) - The American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday. The Cuban military and police officers were on a mission its military was carrying out at the request of Venezuela's government, according to a statement read on Cuban state TV. What...

Rubio Backs Off Claim US Is Running Venezuela

Secretary of state backs away from Trump's assertion while not committing on what's ahead

(Newser) - Although he was vague about what's next for Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed away from President Trump's claim that the US is running the country after removing President Nicolas Maduro. "What we are running is the direction that this is going to move moving forward,...

How US Aid Cuts Endanger Pregnant Refugees in Kenya

Women face malnutrition, dangerous births after US aid freeze

(Newser) - A maternity ward in one of the world's biggest refugee camps is where US foreign aid cuts are showing up most clearly on the scale. Reporting from Kakuma, a camp in northwest Kenya that houses close to 310,000 people, ProPublica describes how the Trump administration's decision to...

Rubio Bars 5 Europeans From US Over Tech Censorship

He claims they're part of 'global censorship-industrial complex'

(Newser) - The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure US tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as "radical" activists and "weaponized" nongovernmental organizations, fell afoul of a new visa...

US Recalls Dozens of Career Diplomats in 'America First' Move

Returning envoys will have 90 days to find new posts

(Newser) - The Trump administration is ordering more than two dozen ambassadors and other senior envoys to leave their posts within weeks. Ambassadors in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe began receiving calls last week from Washington telling them to depart by mid-January, the Washington Post reports. The move has alarmed many...

We May Have Arrived at the 'Marco Rubio Moment'
We May Have Arrived
at the 'Marco Rubio Moment'
OPINION
Dec 21, 2025 8:06 AM CST

We May Have Arrived at the 'Marco Rubio Moment'

Columnist Russ Douthat makes his case

(Newser) - New York Times columnist Russ Douthat pronounces Marco Rubio "the most interesting figure in the administration right now." The secretary of state is not generating the splashiest or most controversial headlines, and that's part of the point. Rubio seems to be exerting genuine influence on a...

Trump Defines Illicit Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Executive order targets traffickers' assets and aims to boost federal fentanyl prosecutions

(Newser) - Fentanyl just got bumped into the same legal category as chemical weapons. President Trump on Monday signed an executive order labeling illicit fentanyl and its main precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction, saying in the Oval Office that "no bomb does what this is doing." The move,...

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