World Dec 10 U.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, escalating tensions with Maduro The United States on Wednesday seized a tanker ship off the coast of Venezuela. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post that a warrant was executed for the crude oil tanker that was once used to transport…
World Dec 08 European leaders rally around Ukraine after U.S. shifts strategy to the Western Hemisphere The U.S. has been pursuing a solution to the war in Ukraine and recently highlighted those efforts as part of its new national security strategy. Heather Conley, former deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs during the George W.
World Dec 04 Pentagon leaders brief lawmakers on U.S. boat strikes, fueling debate over legality A new bipartisan divide has broken open after senior U.S. military officers showed Congress video of multiple strikes on a boat in the Caribbean in early September. Republicans backed the decision by a Special Operations commander to target survivors of…
Politics Dec 03 Hegseth’s Signal chat put U.S. personnel at risk, Pentagon watchdog finds A Pentagon watchdog report has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. service members at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to discuss a military strike in Yemen earlier this year. His use of Signal came to…
World Dec 02 Trump and Hegseth distance themselves from follow-on strike on suspected drug boat The first attack in the Trump administration’s campaign in the Caribbean has become the most contentious. A U.S. official tells PBS News the military struck an alleged drug boat four times on September 2. President Trump and Pete Hegseth defended…
World Dec 02 Witkoff and Kushner meet with Putin for latest talks to end Russia’s war with Ukraine U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. They were there for the latest round of negotiations on a plan to end Russia's war with Ukraine. Nick Schifrin reports.
World Dec 01 White House says U.S. fired twice at alleged drug boat, raising bipartisan legal concerns The White House confirmed that the military fired twice at a suspected drug boat during its campaign of airstrikes in the Caribbean. A source familiar with what happened tells PBS News that a second strike in early September came despite…
World Nov 26 War rages in Ukraine as push for peace complicated by leaked call from U.S. negotiator U.S. officials said they are making progress toward a document designed to end the nearly four-year, grinding war in Ukraine. But the push for peace is complicated by a leaked call from the chief White House negotiator. Nick Schifrin reports.
World Nov 25 China ‘cannot peacefully coexist with democracies,’ says Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister President Trump spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week, and the Chinese government said Xi outlined what it called China’s "principled" position on Taiwan. The self-governing democracy of 23 million has never been part of Communist China, but Beijing…
Arts Nov 25 ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ follows Ukrainians forced into combat in Russia’s invasion The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is just a few months short of the four-year mark. PBS's Frontline, working with the Associated Press, will air "2000 Meters to Andriivka," a relentless portrait of life and death on the frontlines. Nick…