U.S. Customs and Border Protection members load illegal aliens on a C-17 Globemaster III at the Tucson International Airport, Ariz., Jan. 23, 2025. Under the direction of U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Transportation Command is supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal flights by providing military airlift. (Dept. of Defense photo by TSgt Kimberly Nagle)

White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff showdown

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday ordered an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation to a similar order announced hours earlier by President Donald Trump.

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit deploys a helicopter crew to conduct overflights of Canadian vessel Manitoulin trapped in a frozen Lake Erie on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025 in Buffalo, N.Y. (U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit via AP)

Freighter on the move after it was freed from ice on frozen Lake Erie

A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

U.S. Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, load concertina wire onto a 7-ton truck at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 22, 2025, in preparation to deploy to the southern border. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security with the emplacement of temporary physical barriers to add additional security that will curtail illegal border crossings. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Diego Berumen)

Plans for Trump’s border mission include combat vehicles, infantry

U.S. officials are preparing to send thousands of additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, including, potentially, soldiers equipped with 20-ton Stryker combat vehicles, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the planning.

Soldiers patrol a road in Tibu in Colombia's northeastern Catatumbo region, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, where dozens have been killed amid clashes between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia president decrees emergency powers to restore order in coca region wracked by rebel combat

Colombia’s president has issued a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups. President Gustavo Petro’s decree is the first of its kind in more than a decade.

Military police, engineer units from Army, Marines deploy to the US-Mexico border

In total, 1,500 active-duty troops will join about 2,500 National Guard members and helicopter crews already working at the southwest border in support of Customs and Border Protection. The forces will install physical barriers along the border and conduct detection and monitoring missions.

FILE - Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, in Tocorón, Venezuela, Sept. 20, 2023. The Tren de Aragua gang originated at the prison. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela wanted a dissident dead and hired Tren de Aragua gang to kill him, Chile says

Exiled Venezuelan army Lt. Ronald Ojeda was killed soon after he was kidnapped and tortured in Santiago in February 2024. According to the police report revealed this wee, the order to kidnap him was issued and paid for by Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.

People work on the installation of a large, temporary shelter.

Mexican border states prepare migrant shelters as Trump begins deportation campaign

Mexico raised sprawling tents on the U.S. border Wednesday as it braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to carry out mass deportations.

Troops watch from the river bank as people cross a river with a helicopter overhead.

Military deploys 1,500 troops to US-Mexico border; mission includes conducting deportation flights

As many as 1,500 troops along with other resources and assets began moving to the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday for a deployment that includes the use of military aircraft to conduct deportation flights and support for construction efforts to extend the wall that separates the two countries.

Several troops work on wire barriers along a river bank.

Trump orders military to devise a security plan for US-Mexico border that could include more troops

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered defense officials to come up with a security plan that could include deploying more troops and drones and building up more barriers, such as the border wall.