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President Trump said the U.S.will be “running” Venezuela with the support of top officials aiding in a regime transition after the capture of leader Nicolás Maduro. Maduro and his wife were captured on Saturday in an overnight military operation,leaving Venezuelans uncertain about the state of politics in the Latin American nation. Former Vice President Delcy…
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John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Trump, said he doesn’t think the president grasps the specifics of the situation in Venezuela in the wake of the U.S. capturing its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Outlining the next steps for the South American country and arguing that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and her…

President Trump warned House Republicans on Tuesday that he will be impeached if the party does not win the midterms, highlighting the stakes of November’s elections. “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms…they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Trump told the Republican conference at its retreat at the Kennedy…

An intelligence report from the CIA concluded that the best replacements for Venezuelan regime leader Nicolás Maduro are individuals who previously served within his administration, NewsNation has learned.  President Trump was briefed on the report in recent weeks, which highlighted now-acting president Delcy Rodríguez as a viable successor for Maduro.  The information comes as opposition…

“So if I believe he deserved it on October, imagine now,” María Corina Machado said on Fox News.

Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) has been hospitalized after a car accident, his office said Tuesday. “Congressman Baird is in the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, and he is extraordinarily grateful for everyone’s prayers during this time,” Baird’s office said in a statement. “Congressman Baird looks forward to continuing his work on…

Jon Stewart says President Trump helped orchestrate a “reverse ICE” operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. “He was actually imported to a jail in Brooklyn,” Stewart quipped of Maduro. Stewart focused his Monday monologue on Maduro while hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” days after Trump announced that the U.S. had captured Venezuela’s president…
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Jan. 6 defendants, including those pardoned by President Trump last year, are holding a march Tuesday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted on seditious conspiracy and other charges before being pardoned by Trump, is among the organizers of Tuesday’s march. He said the…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that the Trump administration “has no real plan” for the future of Venezuela after the capture and indictment of its leader Nicolás Maduro. “But there’s no real plan that we’ve heard from the Trump administration as to how to ensure that the Venezuelan people will actually get…

The president reminded House Republicans he said “peacefully and patriotically” in his pre-coup rally and blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller doubled down on President Trump’s renewed threats to make Greenland a U.S. territory, but he dismissed the prospect that a military confrontation would be necessary to achieve that goal. In an interview on CNN’s “The Lead,” the top White House adviser reaffirmed the “formal position of the…

From “no new wars” to running a country? President Trump sure has flip-glopped on foreign military intervention.

European leaders backed Greenland’s sovereignty Tuesday amid President Trump’s continued interest in acquiring the island. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a joint statement that…

A group of senior Trump administration officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will brief all senators Wednesday morning on the situation in Venezuela and President Trump’s plans for managing the power vacuum after the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro. Rubio and Hegseth will join Attorney General Pam Bondi,…

The White House deputy chief of staff grew visibly frustrated Monday amid warranted questions about the future of Venezuela and the ousting of its leader.

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump’s musings about taking over Greenland pose a threat to the strength of the NATO alliance. “As for Greenland, every time he mentions this, Trump endangers the NATO alliance,” Bolton said in an interview on CNN’s “The Source,” when asked about the president’s threats to…

President Trump on Tuesday morning will meet with House Republicans at the Kennedy Center as part of the GOP retreat. His remarks come just days after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who have been indicted on narco-terrorism charges. Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday during his first court appearance in…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe, the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado…

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Monday criticized White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller for musing about seizing Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. “This is really dumb. Greenland and Denmark are our allies. There is no up side to demeaning our friends. But, it is causing wounds that will take time to heal,”…

The Trump administration’s military action in Venezuela on Saturday continues to roil the government, and as Congress rolls back into town, the operation is drawing support, opposition and opinions in between. Some Republicans have expressed wariness over the Trump administration’s nation-building, and MAGA is on edge. A classified briefing on Monday night did little to…

President Trump on Monday dismissed comparisons between past U.S. involvement in Iraq and the recent military operation in Venezuela, saying the difference is that the Trump administration plans to keep the seized oil. “The difference between Iraq and this is that [former President George W. Bush] didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who’s been in hiding for more than 16 months, said Monday that she plans to return home “as soon as possible.” In an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner told host Sean Hannity that she plans to continue serving her cause of fighting for…

He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last.

President Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is giving him an opportunity to redefine “America First” as pro-intervention — but risks fracturing the MAGA coalition. There was some predictable pushback to the strikes from some of the biggest isolationist voices in the Republican Party who have turned into Trump antagonists. Now-former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene…
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