In a call with The New York Times, President Trump called the U.S. operation in Venezuela “brilliant" but did not address whether he had consulted Congress.
An official said the sparklers were attached to bottles of champagne held too close to the ceiling. Forty people died and more than 100 were injured. Many of the victims were teenagers.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts. The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
Russia requested this week that the United States end its pursuit of the vessel, which was intercepted in the Caribbean on its way to pick up oil in Venezuela.
A fast-moving fire at a bar in a popular ski resort killed 40 people and injured 119, officials said. Sparklers atop champagne bottles probably caused the fire.
The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday that it halted its hourslong search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America Line cruise ship near Cuba.
A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.
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Identifying the victims of a New Year’s fire in Crans-Montana that killed more than 40 people could take days or weeks because of the severity of the burns.
Jenny Gross, Elisabetta Povoledo and Nick Cumming-Bruce