NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, about the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America.

We reported on all sorts of products and practices promising to make you healthy last year. Here are the ones that stood up to science, and those that were mostly hype.

Operation Absolute Resolve, that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro, echoes the 1990 U.S. invasion of Panama that brought down Manuel Noriega. But big differences abound.

President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate reasons that may not be easy. Here's what you need to know about oil in Venezuela.

NPR's Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

Venezuelans scrambled to understand who was in charge of their country after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro. President Trump offered an answer: The United States would take control of Venezuela.

The United States has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Opposition leader María Corina Machado has been one of his biggest critics.

President Trump said the U.S. would "run" Venezuela, following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday. But many questions remain about what's next.

On a day when most reporters are chasing facts, NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep has a few questions.

Just last month, President Trump freed former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been convicted in the U.S. of helping smuggle more than 400 tons of cocaine into the country.

Donald Trump says the US will "run" Venezuela until a "safe" transition after capturing its president and first lady.

An extraordinary mission dubbed "Operation Absolute Resolve" saw elite troops breach the Venezuelan president's fortified compound.

Celebrations have swept across Florida's Doral, even as questions linger over Venezuela's future.

The prime minister discusses the economy, Europe, Venezuela and his own future in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg.

The Met Office warns of disruption to travel as many people return to work and school after Christmas.

Among those killed by the blaze at Le Constellation is 16-year-old Swiss national Arthur Brodard, his mother confirms.

Mark Ratcliffe's family say he was "so cruelly taken trying to save others".

The former Little Mix star said her girls have been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition.

Anthony Joshua posts on social media for the first time since he was injured in a car crash that killed two of his close friends in Nigeria.

Two people are dead and a third is missing after getting into difficulty in the sea at Withernsea.

Lock 'em down

interview AI agents represent the new insider threat to companies in 2026, according to Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore, and this poses several challenges to executives tasked with securing the expected surge in autonomous agents.…

Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection

Naming a new programming language "Rue" sounds like an acknowledgment of doubt about the project's prospects, if you take "Rue" to mean "regret."…

Repeat after me: Chatbots are not sentient and have no agency

Grok, the AI chatbot owned and operated by Elon Musk's xAI, is facing a firestorm of outrage after users prompted it to create images of naked and scantily clad people from real photographs, some of whom are underage.…

But how about some smart glasses instead?

Apple’s pricey Vision Pro VR headset had a tough 2025.…

Exec argues we need a new metaphor focused on AI as a lever rather than a job killer

Microsoft CEO and head AI peddler Satya Nadella wants you to know that it's time for the next phase of AI acceptance, where we focus on how humans are empowered by tools and agents and how we deploy resources to support this growth.…

Netflix documentary part 2 in the works?

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges tied to the 2016 theft of about 120,000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange and was sentenced to five years in prison, has been released after roughly 14 months in the slammer.…

For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin

A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineering data about Tampa Electric Company, Duke Energy Florida, and American Electric Power. The price is 6.5 bitcoin, which amounts to about $585,000.…

EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed

Finnish police have arrested and are interviewing two crew members from a class A cargo ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage in the Baltic Sea.…

A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants

Old-time web users will fondly remember Lynx, a text-only browser that ran from the terminal. Now, there's a Sixel-compatible web browser that runs completely from the terminal, and has all the graphics and modern features you'd expect. …

The AI era needs more juice

The AI-fueled datacenter boom continues apace, with Google parent Alphabet moving to acquire energy and infrastructure biz Intersect, while Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly planning to expand beyond its already huge complex in Tennessee.…

Letting the unreliable Grok be its own "spokesperson" lets xAI off the hook.

"Welder's Anthrax" was first coined in 2022, when seven cases had been identified.

Voice has lagged in adoption behind screens. OpenAI wants to change that.

Rogue, free-floating planets appear to have two distinct origins.

"Biggest advantage of lower altitude is that beam diameter is smaller for a given antenna size."

Today is your last chance to add to this year's charity haul of nearly $38,000.

xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.

Deadly doors, a busted battery bet, and a toxic owner: What's not to like?

"NASA and Roscosmos continue to monitor and investigate the previously observed cracks."

"Acting is the sum of everything you've experienced. The joy. Sadness. Loss, Heartbreak."