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FILE - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro places his hand over his heart while talking to high-ranking officers during a military ceremony on his inauguration day for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Maduro’s case will revive a legal debate over immunity for foreign leaders tested in Noriega trial

1:42 PM on Sunday, January 4

When Nicolás Maduro appears in a New York courtroom to face U.S. drug charges, he'll be following a path taken by Panama's Manuel Noriega, another strongman who was toppled by American forces

President Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla., as Secretary of State Marco Rubio watches. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US intervention in Venezuela could test Trump's ability to hold GOP together in an election year

11:32 AM on Sunday, January 4

President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela is testing his ability to hold the Republican coalition together

US won’t govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade, Rubio says, after Trump claims of running country

11:28 AM on Sunday, January 4

US won’t govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade, Rubio says, after Trump claims of running country

President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How the Monroe Doctrine factors into US arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro

10:01 AM on Sunday, January 4

It was America's fifth president who formulated a foreign policy approach that has shaped American strategy for two centuries

Residents look at a damaged apartment complex that neighbors say was hit during U.S. strikes to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The Latest: Rubio suggests US won't run Venezuela day-to-day

9:05 AM on Sunday, January 4

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro

A Venezuelan immigrant critical of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro celebrates while wearing the country's flag outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

After capture and removal, Venezuela's Maduro is being held at notorious Brooklyn jail

8:36 AM on Sunday, January 4

The New York jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs

Residents look at a damaged apartment complex that neighbors say was hit during U.S. strikes to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

'Still shaken': Trepidation in Venezuela after US captures Maduro

8:10 AM on Sunday, January 4

Venezuelans remain in shock after President Nicolás Maduro was deposed and captured in a U.S. military operation

Saudi-backed forces regain control of Yemen's Hadramout after days of airstrikes

8:01 AM on Sunday, January 4

Saudi-backed forces have retaken Yemen's port city of Mukalla from southern separatists

FILE - U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell wipes his eye as he watches a video being displayed during a House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 27, 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)

Officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 say their struggles linger, 5 years after the riot

6:32 AM on Sunday, January 4

Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they're still struggling with what happened

A person walks past presidential election campaign billboards for candidates Andre Ventura of the populist Chega party, Luis Marques Mendes from the center-right Social Democratic Party and Antonio Jose Seguro of the center-left Socialist Party, in Lisbon, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portugal’s presidential election draws 11 candidates, making a later runoff vote likely

3:10 AM on Sunday, January 4

A record 11 candidates have launched campaigns for Portugal's upcoming presidential election

Marjorie Taylor Greene made waves. Her constituents don't agree on whether it was worth it

11:11 PM on Saturday, January 3

Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Capitol Hill after five years as one of the most well-known members of Congress

Members of the media gather outside the Metropolitan Detention Center where captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is being held, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

How cocaine and corruption led to the indictment of Maduro

11:10 PM on Saturday, January 3

A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine

A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

International aid groups grapple with what Israel's ban will mean for their work in Gaza

11:01 PM on Saturday, January 3

Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his wife Kim Hea Kyung are greeted before leaving for China at the Seoul airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korean president visits China following Beijing's rising tensions with Japan over Taiwan

6:35 PM on Saturday, January 3

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has begun his visit to China as Beijing aims to strengthen ties amid heightened tensions with Japan over Taiwan

A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stands on a median strip waving a national flag in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans wonder who's in charge as Trump claims contact with Maduro's deputy

3:09 PM on Saturday, January 3

Venezuelans are trying to understand who is in charge after the United States announced the capture of President Nicolás Maduro

People celebrate after President Donald Trump announced Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country, in Doral, Fla., Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Maduro's ouster sparks celebrations among Venezuelans in South Florida

12:14 PM on Saturday, January 3

Revelers chanted “liberty” and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the U.S. military operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro and remove him from the country

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran's leader says rioters 'must be put in their place' as protest death toll reaches at least 15

1:59 AM on Saturday, January 3

Iran’s supreme leader has addressed the ongoing protests, insisting that “rioters must be put in their place.”

Government supporters rip an American flag in half during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had captured President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

US plans to 'run' Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says, after operation to oust Maduro

12:33 AM on Saturday, January 3

President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily after an audacious military operation plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country

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