Amy Held

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has arrived in the Caribbean.

4,000 sailors on board join thousands of service members already there.

The Trump administration says it is fighting narco-terrorism.

Military exercises are planned.

It is not clear whether the military will be used against Venezuela.

But pressure on Venezuela's leader, Nicolas Maduro, is growing.

He put his message to music at a Caracas rally this weekend, calling for peace with John Lennon's Imagine.

The U.S.

has long pushed for regime change, offering a $50 million reward for Maduro's arrest.

It's day two of a federal surge in Charlotte, North Carolina, that defies the wishes of state and local leaders.

Saturday saw immigration agents arrest 81 people, a Border Patrol official says.

People were detained outside church, supermarkets, and places of work.

Charlotte's Democratic mayor says the operation is causing unnecessary fear.

President Trump has issued two new pardons for people connected to the January 6th insurrection.

NPR's Ava Pukach reports.

Several Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state.

NPR's Kat Lonsdorff reports from Tel Aviv.

In tennis, in his home country, Italy's Yannick Sinner defeated Spanish world number one Carlos Alcaraz in the ATP finals.

Sinner won the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, and the 24-year-old maintained an unbeaten run in this tournament, earning record prize money topping $5 million.

Todd Snyder, a singer whose freewheeling tunes and cosmic stoner songwriting made him a beloved figure in American Roots music, has died.