Voters will choose candidates across full slate of federal, state and local offices over next two days Sign up for US Breaking News emails The Trump administration is seeking greater US access to Venezuela’s minerals, including gold, as it expands its push to gain control and influence over the South American country’s vast natural resources beyond oil, according to three sources familiar with the discussions. The effort could open the Venezuelan mining sector to US investment and give U.S. companies access to not only oil, but supplies of minerals crucial for national security, the sources said on condition of anonymity. Continue reading...