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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil giant Chevron confirmed that it will expand its operations in Venezuela, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. Chevron, the only U.S.…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international soccer on Monday after two decades representing Argentina. “It was a decision that hurt — and still hurts deeply — but I understand that the time has come,” the 39-year-old Messi said on…

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright travelled to Caracas on Tuesday night to finalize the historic oil deal between the United States and Venezuela announced this weekend. “Just touched down in Venezuela,” Sec. Wright wrote on social media. “President Trump’s energy diplomacy is delivering results —…

Brazil Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice José Antonio Dias Toffoli on Tuesday reversed his suspension of the presidential campaign of outsider right-wing candidate Renan Santos a day after he ordered it. The reinstatement allows Santos to once again publish electoral propaganda, receive electoral federal funding,…

The government of Perú, under the recently inaugurated leadership of conservative President Keiko Fujimori, announced on Tuesday that it would sever diplomatic ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran, citing a variety of human rights and terrorism violations by the rogue regime. Peru reportedly communicated…

Brazil’s top election authority, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), suspended the presidential campaign of outsider right-wing candidate Renan Santos on Monday for allegedly using “unregistered” social media and other online resources in the campaign. Santos condemned the suspension as “absurd” and stated that he will…

A group of Venezuelan socialists and communists over the weekend protested in Caracas against the oil agreement signed by Venezuela’s socialist regime and the United States. The state-owned, Caracas-based newspaper CiudadCCS reported that Saturday’s march was organized by the “Anti-Imperialist Popular Front,” a coalition of…

Incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s electoral campaign filed a request over the weekend seeking to ban conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro from running for public office in Brazil for eight years. The request would effectively ban Flávio Bolsonaro from the October presidential election.…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) said that he has questions about the security logistics with the Venezuelan oil deal, he doesn’t want to see domestic energy producers undercut by the deal, “and I think we…