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10:25 AM ET, January 5, 2026

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Washington Post:
U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion  —  In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.  —  The Trump administration's bold operation to capture strongman Nicolás Maduro from his home …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire  —  The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.  —  In a Saturday morning military raid ordered by President Trump, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Discussion: Reuters
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump's Venezuela coup sends America down a dark path  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Early Saturday morning, US forces illegally invaded Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Discussion: CNBC, MS NOW, New York Times and NewsMax.com
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
January 4, 2026  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration's message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows this morning.  It did not go well.  —  Asked by George Stephanopoulos of ABC's This Week under what legal authority the U.S. is going to run Venezuela …
Discussion: New York Times and NOTUS
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Was Skeptical of Ousting Maduro—Until He Wasn't
Discussion: Reason and Axios
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Frenzied Trump, 79, Posts Almost 100 Times in an Hour in Late-Night Rampage
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Did Trump really invade Venezuela for oil?
Steven Beschloss / America, America:
This Is What Happens When America Goes Mad
Discussion: BBC and HuffPost
Paul Krugman:
The Real Donroe Doctrine
Discussion: MS NOW
New York Times:
Live Updates: As Venezuela Projects Defiance, Rubio Says U.S. Will Use ‘Leverage’ to Advance Its Interests
Nesrine Malik / The Guardian:   Trump's coup in Venezuela didn't just break the rules - it showed there aren't any. We'll all regret that
Luke Garrett / NPR:
Rubio says there's ‘not a war against Venezuela’ despite U.S. capture of Maduro
Manuel Quiñones / Politico:   To Get to Maduro, Trump Went Through Puerto Rico
Bloomberg:
Trump Says US Needs ‘Total Access’ to Post-Maduro Venezuela
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Man Taken Into Custody for Allegedly Damaging JD Vance's Ohio Home  —  Vice president and his family weren't in Ohio when damage took place, Secret Service says  —  A man was taken into custody after allegedly damaging the Ohio home of Vice President JD Vance, the U.S. Secret Service said.
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NBC News:
Man arrested after allegedly breaking windows at Vance's Cincinnati home  —  Vice President JD Vance and his family were in Washington, D.C., during the incident, his spokesperson said.  — Add NBC News to Google  —  A man was taken into custody overnight after allegedly damaging Vice …
Mary LeBus / WXIX-TV:
Police investigating incident at JD Vance's Cincinnati home  —  CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A suspect is in custody following an incident that occurred at Vice President JD Vance's home Monday morning.  —  It happened at Vance's East Walnut Hills house, located on William Howard Taft Drive.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Old headaches will plague Mike Johnson in the new year … But Johnson will find it hard to escape internally divisive clashes as the GOP feels pressure to address the rising cost of living and otherwise firm up its standing ahead of the November midterms.  —  He will immediately confront …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and MS NOW
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Congress returns to Venezuela clash, a shutdown deadline and a health care fight
Discussion: CT Mirror
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer, Democrats face pressure to wage new shutdown fight
Discussion: CBS News and Washington Examiner
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
The Key Senate Races to Watch in 2026
Discussion: The Downballot, CBS News and ABC News
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
PMs of Greenland, Denmark tell Trump to stop U.S. takeover threats … - “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Trump told The Atlantic. … The US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish kingdom."  — Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Facebook …
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Sophia Cai / Politico:
Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
After Maduro, who's next? Trump spurs speculation about his plans for Greenland, Cuba and Colombia
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump revives an old vision of American power, with global implications
Discussion: The Atlantic
Associated Press:
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term as governor less than four months after launching a reelection campaign.
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Torey Van Oot / Axios:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz drops reelection bid … - But sagging approval ratings and intensified scrutiny into fraud in state programs in recent months has fueled nerves among Democrats and calls for Walz to step aside. … - But Walz's perceived vulnerabilities had attracted a large field …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say  —  A new study found that the court's Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.  —  Supreme Court justices take two oaths.
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Slain Minnesota lawmaker's children call on Trump to remove social media video amplifying false claims about her death  —  Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in June.  —  The children of slain Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman are urging President Donald Trump …
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Ségolène Le Stradic / New York Times:
10 Are Convicted of Cyberbullying France's First Lady  —  The defendants made false claims about Brigitte Macron, the wife of President Emmanuel Macron of France.  —  Ten people who falsely claimed that Brigitte Macron, France's first lady, was born male were found guilty on Monday of online harassment.
Christian Paz / Vox:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's requiem for MAGA  —  Key takeaways  — The polemical politician is leaving Congress on January 5 after her disagreements with Donald Trump and congressional Republicans escalated over the Epstein files last year.  — But before then, Greene voiced a lot …
Discussion: New Republic, Reason and USA Today
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Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Big Breakup
Discussion: Daily Mail
Washington Post:
We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela Here's what they said.  —  What do Americans think about the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro?  What role should the U.S. have in deciding how the country is governed?
New York Times:
27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing  —  The authors commute to the Times office inside the congestion zone by foot, bus, bike, subway, ferry, tram, Amtrak and occasionally car.  —  One year after the start of congestion pricing, traffic jams are less severe …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Hundreds of judges reject Trump's mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight … Others have become so familiar with the cases that they've begun issuing terse, carbon-copy rulings to dispense with the deluge.  Immigrant advocates say the administration's win-loss record is beside the point …
David French / New York Times:
Gunboat Diplomacy Is Back.  What Could Go Wrong?  —  “War,” the Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “is a mere continuation of policy by other means.”  If there is one line that virtually every Army officer learns from Clausewitz's posthumously published 1832 book, “On War …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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