U.S. Gulf Coast refiners are snapping up higher volumes of Middle Eastern and South American crudes to offset the loss of Venezuelan and Mexican barrels, according to ship tracking data, a workaround solution that might be short-lived if the U.

U.S. District Judge Boasberg weighs new allegations in the Trump administration's immigration case after blocking the administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.

One of the 10 Americans released from Venezuela last week was convicted of killing three people in Spain and was serving a 30-year sentence before his release.

Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a former U.S. Marine convicted of a triple homicide in Spain, was among 10 Americans repatriated in exchange for 250 Venezuelans held in El Salvador.

Boasberg, a prominent Washington, D.C., judge who has drawn President Donald Trump's ire, said during a court hearing that a recent whistleblower complaint had strengthened the argument that Trump administration officials engaged in criminal contempt of court by failing to turn around deportation flights.

Dahud Hanid Ortíz, 54, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Venezuela for the 2016 killings at a law office in Spain.

Following a prisoner swap with the U.S., deportees returned to Venezuela after being kept in a notorious prison in El Salvador. National Immigrant Project Southeast Regional attorney Stephanie Alvarez-Jones,

Some of the Venezuelans detained in El Salvador's notorious Cecot prison have alleged physical assault, sexual abuse and torture.