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More Venezuela-bound oil ships U-turn amid U.S. blockade

More oil tankers are turning away from Venezuela as the U.S. threatens to seize vessels transporting oil that helps fund the regime of President Nicolas Maduro. At least seven ships have reversed course or halted at sea, according to ship movements tracked Friday by Bloomberg. That adds to four others that turned away in the immediate aftermath of U.S. forces boarding the vessel Skipper in ...
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Charlotte-area teen charged with planning ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack

An 18-year-old from Mint Hill planned to use knives and hammers to kill people in a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack, U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson said Friday. FBI agents foiled Christian Sturdivant’s plans and charged him with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Ferguson said at a news conference after ...
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Evidence mounts of U.S. strike inside Venezuela amid rising tensions

Venezuelans awoke Friday to mounting reports that a narrow stretch of coastline near its border with Colombia may have been the target of a U.S. military strike — a move that would mark a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against the Nicolás Maduro regime. The suspected strike occurred in the western reaches of the Gulf of Venezuela, between Puerto López in Colombia’s La ...
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Postal workers waiting on heat protection more than 2 years after Dallas carrier’s death

WASHINGTON – More than two years after a Dallas postal worker died from heat exposure on the job, letter carriers say the United States Postal Service has yet to take steps required to fully protect them when the temperature and humidity soar. The 2023 death of Eugene Gates Jr. prompted a federal citation and $15,625 fine against the Postal Service, along with renewed calls from union leaders ...