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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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Consumers will feel it in two ways: higher costs and fewer choices.

Households earning more than $150,000 now buy 43% of the new cars sold in the U.S., up from 30% in 2019.

The “Late Night” host made an example out of the president’s insistence that he was against foreign wars and regime changes.

The “Daily Show” host joked that Americans “can’t even be conspiracy theorists now” after Trump and friends shared the casus belli behind the strikes.

The upcoming meetings will be crucial to the administration’s hopes to boost crude oil production and exports from Venezuela.

The “Late Show” host teased how he would “go out on top” if he inhabited the president’s body.

The network’s data chief argued that interest in the U.S. military operation in Venezuela was fleeting.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller backed President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. will govern Venezuela in the wake of the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. “What the president said is true. The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that’s true,” Miller told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The…

“It’s all unknowable. I have no idea,” one GOP senator said of President Donald Trump’s plan for Venezuela after U.S. forces captured its president.

Two high-profile Republican senators on Monday warned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth against reducing Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) military rank or pension as punishment for filming a video with several other Democratic lawmakers urging service members not to follow unlawful orders. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has jurisdiction over the Pentagon’s budget as chair of…

President Trump’s decision to leave the door open to putting boots on the ground and regime change in Venezuela is getting a frosty reception from conservatives, who are warning that he is risking a key campaign pledge to end “forever wars” and keep out of foreign conflicts.  The president for years railed against Bush-era policies…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President Trump on Monday for this weekend’s U.S. attack on Venezuela, saying the raid was an “unprecedented” exercise lacking both a legal authorization and a practical justification. Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, Jeffries said the Jan. 2 incursion, which led to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás…

Most Americans say they worry the U.S. will become too involved in Venezuela, according to a survey conducted just after the operation that ousted President Nicolás Maduro from power. In the two-day Reuters/Ipsos survey that concluded Monday, 72 percent of Americans said they are concerned the U.S. might get too involved in Venezuela, while 25…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Cuba’s communist regime may be on the way out. “There’s no way that the communist dictatorship in Cuba survives after the takedown of Maduro. It is over, it’s just a matter of time,” Graham told host Trey Gowdy on Fox…

Cubans lowered flags before dawn Monday to mourn 32 officers who died in the weekend strike against the president of Venezuela.

“‘Veep’ was a documentary,” one social media user cracked of photos that were taken during the attack on Venezuela.

In the wake of U.S. forces capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, has taken over the South American country. Rodríguez, a longtime Maduro ally, led her first council of ministers meeting as acting president on Sunday. The 56-year-old said in an address to Venezuelans on Saturday — after Maduro…

Medical experts slammed the move, saying it could lead to reduced uptake of important vaccinations and increase disease.

President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One late Sunday the court case against captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is “infallible.” “We’re just going to go through a slog of a trial. A judge is very respected, [U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein] is a highly respected judge. We’ll see how we do. The case is,…

Top Democrats seen as potential 2028 contenders have ripped President Trump’s stunning military intervention in Venezuela and capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, labeling the move a dangerous distraction and calling for better leadership from administration officials. “Maduro is a thug and a criminal. But Donald Trump proposing to ‘run’ Venezuela without a coherent long-term…

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned on Monday that the longstanding NATO alliance would end if President Trump ordered an attack on Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. In an interview on the Danish broadcaster TV2, Frederiksen responded to Trump’s renewed threats to take over the resource-rich island. “I believe one should take the…

The president previously said he “never gets any credit” for his prediction.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) fired back at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his threat to demote the senator’s military rank on Monday following the Pentagon’s investigation, saying he “will fight this with everything I’ve got.” Kelly said that Hegseth wants to send a message to every U.S. service member that if they say something that…

The end of Nicolás Maduro’s reign is a defeat for socialism and drug traffickers, and a victory for free people in Venezuela, and around the world. Viva la libertad!