Roberto Aram Ferdman

Senior Video Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal || Formerly VICE News, The Washington Post

[Roberto Aram Ferdman @robferdman]

Great profile of De La Espriella by @WSJForero https://t.co/9Ks7VK0LJW

[Roberto Aram Ferdman @robferdman]

“An innocent boy saw a way to have fun”
The far-right front runner to become Colombia’s next president on how he used to blow up cats as a kid

[Roberto Aram Ferdman @robferdman]

@jaycaspiankang Maybe the real question is what us the hater line. 2.5?

[Liz Essley Whyte @l_e_whyte]

Over a lunch of cheeseburgers at his Jupiter, Fla. golf course, Trump listened as the tobacco executives complained about the FDA not approving flavored vapes. Trump said he had heard significant complaints from others about FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.

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[Liz Essley Whyte @l_e_whyte]

NEW - Trump has signed off on a plan to fire his FDA Commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary.

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[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

NEW: In an unusual attempt to get Trump’s ear—and go around Marco Rubio—the grandson of Cuban leader Raúl Castro tapped a wealthy Havana entrepreneur to try to personally deliver a letter to Trump outside of regular diplomatic channels

With @Jose_deCordoba https://t.co/6nhk1sJ0fM

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

President Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office.

“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs, according to people with knowledge of the comments, @jdawsey1 reports https://t.co/NbyrjHRBXY

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

“its next Conquest”

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

Even for a president who has long relied on maximalist threats, today’s 85-word post was jarring.

It ricocheted from the Oval Office to foreign embassies and corporate suites, setting off a countdown to Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline and a frantic global guessing game over what the world’s most powerful man was prepared to do. 

Great team effort across the @WSJ

[Shelby Holliday @shelbyholliday]

The incredible story of a combat search and rescue mission for the books; https://t.co/vlAbSZbh0V

with ⁦@alexbward⁩ ⁦@VeraMBergen⁩ @mgordonwsj
https://t.co/1jsBGBZPGz

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

For nearly two days, injured and alone, a U.S. aviator hid in a remote mountain crevice as Iranian forces closed in on him with helicopters and drones.

“God is good,” he radioed once he reached an elevated ridge, a message that was met with suspicion back in Washington as a possible Iranian trap as officials scrambled to verify he was still alive.

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[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

One of Pam Bondi’s last acts before being ousted as Trump’s AG was to quietly authorize a U.S. attorney in North Carolina to pursue probes related to 2020 election fraud across the country—pursuing one of Trump’s biggest fixations into her final days on the job

https://t.co/Az17g3rbpz

[Jose de Cordoba @Jose_deCordoba]

President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway https://t.co/3jpci6Gi4E via @WSJ

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

The Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin has arrived in Cuba carrying a full load of crude oil, providing a critical energy supply to the island amid a U.S. oil blockade. This video by a local TV Yumurí journalist shows the vessel docking at the port of Matanzas this morning.

[Jose de Cordoba @Jose_deCordoba]

President Trump’s decision to allow a one-time shipment of crude oil to Cuba effectively breaks a two-month blockade that has led to fuel shortages and increased power outages on the island https://t.co/wUat0qYCP1 via @WSJ

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

Two months after signing an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba, Trump now says he has “no problem” with countries doing that.

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

Mexico's navy says it has activated a search-and-rescue operation in the ​Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba ‌after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled

https://t.co/WtlDbt0Eym

[Jose de Cordoba @Jose_deCordoba]

Violent crime in Caracas and other major Venezuelan cities is falling to the lowest levels seen in decades, giving the country a boost as it prepares to welcome more potential foreign investment https://t.co/FzEI1LHwkW via @WSJ

[Lara Seligman @laraseligman]

The Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East, even as President Trump insists he won’t put American boots on the ground in Iran, according to U.S. officials. https://t.co/7iXeIuvYlO