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January 19, 2026

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Trump says the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela and sell its oil for now : NPR

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listen as President Trump addresses the media during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images President Trump said the U.S. will run Venezuela until a “proper transition can take place,” said he wasn’t “afraid of boots on the ground,” and defended Saturday’s military strikes that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. “We’re there now, but we’re going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place,”

January 19, 2026

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PWHL game in Washington ends in fight, has record women’s hockey crowd

Jan. 18, 2026, 9:58 p.m. ET “D.C, say hello to the PWHL!“ Tempers flared. Hands were thrown. The words of commentator Jamie Hirsch echoed over the broadcast in a way that was somehow both tongue-in-cheek and poignant at the same time. A record-breaking crowd of 17,228 cheered on the brawl between the New York Sirens and Montréal Victoire, with chants of “We want a team! We want a team!” raining down onto the ice in the final seconds of the Sirens’ 2-1 win in the latest stop on the PWHL Takeover Tour at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Trailing

January 19, 2026

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‘Unsustainable Strain’: New Navy Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford Is Being Pushed to the Breaking Point

USS Gerald R. Ford Has a Message for the Navy: No More Deployment Extensions Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle warned in recent days that extending the historic deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and its associated carrier strike group would impose unsustainable strain on both sailors and the strike group’s readiness. Ford-class Aircraft Carrier. Image Credit: US Navy. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) underway under her own power for the first time while leaving Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia (USA), on 8 April 2017. The first-of-class ship – the first

January 19, 2026

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Trump says U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela after it ousts Maduro, jails him in New York

Latest The United States says it captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Plane carrying the couple has now landed in New York City. The news of their capture follows a “large-scale strike” by the U.S. in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. U.S. officials say the pair has been indicted in New York. They’ve accused Maduro of running a “narco-state” and rigging Venezuela’s 2024 election. This is Washington’s most direct intervention in Latin America in decades. Venezuela’s government condemns “imperialist attack,” calls for Maduro’s release. Hundreds of flights cancelled throughout the region. The United States will run

January 19, 2026

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Piers Morgan hospitalized after fall, talk show host speaks out

Updated Jan. 18, 2026, 2:35 p.m. ET Piers Morgan is sharing an update from the hospital as he recovers from a recent injury. The British talk show host, 60, took to social media on Sunday, Jan. 18, to post a selfie showing himself lying in a hospital bed. Morgan told his followers that he “tripped on small step” in a hotel restaurant in London and wound up fracturing his femur “so badly I needed new hip.” The former “America’s Got Talent” judge shared that he is recovering in the hospital and will need to use crutches for six weeks. He

January 18, 2026

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Starmer won’t be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law

Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg Sir Keir Starmer has refused to be drawn on whether or not US President Donald Trump’s military action against Venezuela may have broken international law. In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme on Saturday morning, the prime minister did not condemn the US strikes. He said he was waiting to establish all the facts but would not “shy away from this”, adding he was a “lifelong advocate of international law”. Sir Keir earlier said the UK had not been involved in Saturday’s large-scale strikes on Venezuela and he had not

January 18, 2026

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Maduro arrives in New York after capture; Trump says U.S. to ‘run’ Venezuela temporarily

Asked whether he would support María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, as the nation’s next president, Trump told Fox News, “Well, we’re going to have to look at it right now.” “They have a vice president, as you know,” Trump added before casting doubt on whether Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was duly elected. “I mean, I don’t know what kind of an election that was. But, you know, the election of Maduro was a disgrace,” the U.S. president said. Trump then went on to compare Maduro’s election to his failed re-election

January 18, 2026

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Trump’s attack on Venezuela without alerting Congress tests limits of executive power | Donald Trump

Nothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious detention of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia. Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress’s right to know – keeping senior members in the dark until the operation to seize the strongman was under way. Only after the operation to seize Maduro had begun did the administration bother to tell members of the congressional “gang of eight”: the top Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives, plus the chairs and ranking

January 18, 2026

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A CIA team, steel doors and a fateful phone call

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump gave the Venezuelan leader one last chance to step down. In a private phone call a week ago, Trump told Nicolás Maduro that he had to go. By that point, an armada of U.S. warships was floating off Venezuela’s shores. A CIA team had crept into the country, tracking Maduro’s movements and habits: where he slept, what he ate, where he traveled. “You got to surrender,” Trump said, recalling the conversation at a news conference Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago home. Maduro took the gamble of his life. He “came close” to giving in,

January 18, 2026

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The US violated international law in Venezuela. These are the questions Australia must now ask | Donald Rothwell

No matter how the Trump administration seeks to justify its actions in seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in an audacious snatch and grab operation, this has been a gross violation of international law. The United Nations charter makes crystal clear that all UN members are to refrain from the “use of force” against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. The US violation of Venezuelan airspace, ensuing airstrikes in Caracas, the seizure of Maduro and his illegal removal from Venezuela are all egregious violations of this. Any suggestion it was justified as an act of