Two Venezuelan planes have flown to the U.S. and returned home with its citizens deported from the country. Monday’s flights represent a possible improvement in relations between longtime diplomatic adversaries and a victory for President Donald Trump in his efforts to get more countries to take their migrants back. 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is sending strong assurances that the Trump administration is not shutting down the United Nations-authorized and heavily U.S.-financed multinational armed force trying to help neighboring Haiti root out deadly armed gangs.

U.S. Navy ships transiting the Panama Canal aren’t entitled to a free ride just yet despite the State Department’s announcement this week saying they would transit the waterway without paying fees, according to the canal’s governing authority.

Ten suspected Venezuelan gang members were among the first to arrive Tuesday at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay as about 300 U.S. troops worked to expand the center’s migrant capacity to hold thousands more deported migrants.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he has empowered the National Guard to make immigration arrests, the latest move by the Republican ally of President Donald Trump to help crack down on immigration and secure the border.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shook hands Monday with troops at Fort Bliss for a deployment on the U.S. border with Mexico as Marines unloaded at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to begin work on migrant detention facilities.

An adviser for US President Donald Trump is set to meet with officials from the government of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, part of an early effort at engaging with the sanctioned leader of the oil-rich nation.

The head of Haiti’s embattled presidential council says he believes that both a reform of the country’s constitution and general elections to put a legitimate government back in charge can take place before the end of the year.

U.S. government agencies and private contractors have used facilities at Guantánamo Bay to detain asylum seekers and refugees for several decades, rights groups say. In 1994 under President Bill Clinton, for instance, the facility’s migrant population totaled 45,000.

Danish lawmakers agreed in 2021 to design new navy ships for patrolling and environmental clean-up operations in the Baltic Sea. The project will now be shifted to focus on acquiring vessels equipped for tasks around Greenland because of “a significantly changed security situation,” Denmark’s defense minister said.