By DAVID E. SANGER, TYLER PAGER, HELENE COOPER, ERIC SCHMITT and DEVLIN BARRETT The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units that protect President Nicolás Maduro and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials. President Donald Trump has yet to make a decision about how or even whether to proceed. Officials said he was reluctant to approve op

A shipping container blocked a road after it was swept away by the floods brought by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Mandaue City, Cebu province on Wednesday. By JASON GUTIÉRREZ, AIE BALAGTAS SEE and JIAWEI WANG At least 85 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others forced to flee their homes in the central Philippines, authorities said, after Typhoon Kalmaegi brought destructive winds and devastating flooding to a region still reeling from a deadly earthquake. Many of the vi

Cleanup in Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Nov. 1, 2025. Ninety percent of the homes in Black River, Jamaica, were destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, reflecting the broader devastation and rebuilding facing many Jamaican communities. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES The courthouse, the library, schools, the downtown shopping district and most everybody’s roof — all gone, wiped out by the most powerful hurricane to ever hit Jamaica.

An avocado packing plant in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, Sept. 4, 2025. Drug cartels extort avocado growers in the state, in addition to fighting over drug trafficking routes. (César Rodríguez/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA Carlos Manzo, a mayor in western Mexico, gained national fame this year with a simple but aggressive demand: that Mexican authorities should summarily kill the armed cartel members who terrorize the country. That militant stan

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in Caracas, Sept. 15, 2025. Trump administration officials seeking to remove Maduro as the leader of Venezuela have been citing a federal indictment returned half a decade ago in Manhattan as one justification. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS President Donald Trump said he doubted the United States would go to war with Venezuela in an interview aired Sunday, even as he warned that the days were number

Khalil Ur Rahman Babakhil, left, clears rubble in the village of Shamraz in Kunar Province, Afghanistan on Sept. 2, 2025. Another powerful earthquake struck northern Afghanistan just before 1 a.m. local time Monday, killing at least 20 people, injuring more than 520 others and damaging countless buildings, according to Afghan authorities. (Safiullah Padshah/The New York Times) By SAFIULLAH PADSHAH, YAQOOB AKBARY, ELIAN PELTIER and MIKE IVES Ghulam Mahmoodi was sleeping with h

President Vladimir Putin of Russia gestures that he can’t hear reporters as President Donald Trump looks on after both leaders left their aircraft to meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. By touting new weapons tests, Moscow is signaling to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate — like it or not. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By PAUL SONNE First came President Donald Trump’s scrapping of a pro

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth participates in a roundtable talk regarding the Trump administration’s efforts to thwart drug cartels and human trafficking, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct, 23, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CAROL ROSENBERG The U.S. military killed at least three people in another strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday, in the latest attack on vessels that the Trump administration has clai