A U.S. military buildup has been unfolding near the South American country, and Maduro has accused Washington of trying to topple him.

Naval Station Roosevelt Roads is now one of five locations where U.S. forces are operating in Puerto Rico, an American territory strategically positioned north of Venezuela.

Voters in Ecuador will decide today whether to allow foreign military bases to return to the country. The referendum comes as U.S. forces are carrying out strikes on alleged drug boats in the region.

While Russia and the U.S. are still abiding by some arms-controls limits, such as the New Start treaty that expires in February, China, unconstrained by any commitments, is quietly but rapidly leaping ahead. According to American estimates, Beijing will reach rough parity with the U.S. in deployed nuclear warheads by the mid-2030s.

U.S. forces struck a suspected narco boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this week, killing four people, USNI News has learned. The strike, which occurred Monday, killed all four people on board, leaving no survivors,

It is unclear how long the operation will last in North Carolina’s largest city, which has a growing immigrant population.

The 2026 cohort of Rhodes Scholars from the United States was announced Saturday. The 32 Rhodes Scholars will go to Oxford University next October for graduate studies.

Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

The U.S. went down 4-3 on spot-kicks in the last-32, with Cooper Sanchez and Maxi Carrizo missing from the spot.