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Today — 17 December 2025Main stream

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World

17 December 2025 at 01:10
During 11 interviews with Vanity Fair over President Trump’s first year back in office, Ms. Wiles, his chief of staff, opened up about the president, the people around him and their internal fights.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, typically shuns publicity. She called a recent article in Vanity Fair, based on 11 interviews she gave over the past year, “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”
Yesterday — 16 December 2025Main stream

U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8

16 December 2025 at 12:52
The attacks brought the number killed since the Trump administration began the strikes on suspected drug smugglers to at least 95.

© U.S. Southern Command

An image taken from video released on Monday by the U.S. Southern Command.
Before yesterdayMain stream

U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows

15 December 2025 at 08:04
The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.

© Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters

A U.S. Air Force air-to-air refueling tanker took off from an airport in St. Croix in late November. A similar type of aircraft nearly collided with a JetBlue flight on Friday over the Caribbean, according to air traffic control radio communications.

Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba

Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.

© Vantor, via Associated Press

An oil tanker called the Skipper in the southern Caribbean Sea. It was seized by the United States.

For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela

President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution prevailed in 1959.

To Get to Oslo, Machado Skirted Military Checkpoints and Survived Rough Seas

An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.

© Leonhard Foeger/Reuters

María Corina Machado spent the last year hiding from President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela’s regime.

Alvin Holsey, Admiral Who Oversaw Boat Strikes Off Venezuela’s Coast, Retires

13 December 2025 at 03:38
The admiral had abruptly announced that he would step down as the head of the U.S. Southern Command. His departure leaves several issues about the strikes unanswered.

© Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press

Adm. Alvin Holsey, right, became the latest in a line of at least two dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women, who have left their jobs this year.

Pete Hegseth Is Ordering Executions at Sea

Did Pete Hegseth break the law after authorizing Venezuelan boat strikes? The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that there are multiple reasons the strikes were legally dubious.
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