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3:20 PM 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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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: NPR, MS NOW, CNBC and Boston.com
Paul Krugman:
The Real Donroe Doctrine  —  Seeking cash and an ego boost, not regime change  —  For Americans of a certain age, the snatch and grab abduction of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's president, brings back memories of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in some ways with good reason.
Discussion: MS NOW
David French / New York Times:
Trump Is Unleashing Forces Beyond His Control
Discussion: Raw Story
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump's ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
Discussion: NextDraft, Reuters and Daily Mail
Politico:
Maduro's capture seeps into the midterms
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Danger and Foolishness of Trump's Foreign Policy
Discussion: 19FortyFive
Andrea Rodríguez / Associated Press:
Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Did Trump really invade Venezuela for oil?
Discussion: New York Times, MS NOW, New Republic and CNN
Quico Toro / Persuasion:
Venezuela's New President Is No Moderate
Discussion: New York Times
Associated Press:
Maduro is taken to a US courthouse for his first appearance on drug trafficking charges
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?
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Only 33% of Americans approve of US strike on Venezuela, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country's president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too involved in the South American country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Pentagon to cut Sen. Mark Kelly's military retirement pay over ‘seditious’ video: Hegseth … The Pentagon will cut the military retirement pay of Sen. Mark Kelly for what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the Arizona Democrat's “seditious” statements on a video telling service members …
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Pentagon to demote Sen. Kelly from retired Navy rank as captain, but stops short of threatened trial
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Daily News
Fox News:
Hegseth moves to censure Sen Mark Kelly, review his retirement rank and pay over ‘seditious video’
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Hegseth moves to demote Sen. Mark Kelly and cut pension over video on illegal orders
New York Times:
Tim Walz Drops Re-election Bid, and Amy Klobuchar May Run Instead  —  Mr. Walz said a growing scandal over fraud in social services programs led him to abandon his run for a third term as governor of Minnesota.  —  Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said on Monday that he was abandoning his bid …
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Associated Press:
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor
Axios:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar seriously considers run for Minnesota governor
Associated Press:
US drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child  —  The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children  —  Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations.  —  Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions …
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Denmark tells Donald Trump to stop threatening to seize Greenland  —  Danish prime minister says US has no right to annex Arctic island  —  Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called on US President Donald Trump and his allies to stop threatening to seize Greenland as tensions flared between …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Greenland prime minister on Trump takeover threats: ‘No more fantasies’
Yan Zhuang / New York Times:
Trump Says ‘We Need Greenland’ and Threatens U.S. Action in Colombia and Mexico
Politico:
92-year-old judge handling Maduro case 'doesn't give a s—t what anyone thinks about him' … “He's just old and old-school and does things his own way and doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks about him,” said another former federal prosecutor, who — like most lawyers interviewed for this story …
Discussion: El País
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 …
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.
Discussion: NBER
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 …
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.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service  —  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was dissolved Monday by its board of directors, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations.  —  The board of CPB …
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
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe  —  The Trump administration has begun a massive deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to the Minneapolis region as it escalates its federal crackdown in a Democrat-led area plagued …
Steven Beschloss / America, America:
This Is What Happens When America Goes Mad  —  Vote in Donald Trump, surround him with sycophants, expect an insane circus.  The lawlessness and chaos was so knowable, alas.  —  Most days it takes serious effort to confront what our eyes and ears are telling us—What the hell is happening?
Discussion: BBC and HuffPost
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Too Fun to Check: Khamenei About to Take the Money and Run?  —  In both comedy and dictatorship collapses, timing is everything.  Bashar al-Assad had just enough sense of timing to escape with his life to a Moscow dacha, and one presumes, a significant portion of Syria's national wealth.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
MAGA media link Trump's overthrow of Maduro to 2020 election conspiracy theories  —  MAGA influencers are suggesting that the United States overthrew Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in retaliation for Venezuela, via election technology companies, purportedly rigging the 2020 U.S. election …
David Strom / HotAir:
Hilton Hotels' Hampton Inn Refusing to Accept Homeland Security Reservations  —  Well, this is awkward.  —  Hilton Hotels is refusing service to the Department of Homeland Security agents who are engaged in immigration enforcement activities in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul region.
 
 
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Discussion: Bloomberg
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