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President Trump said that Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, would help the United States run Venezuela. She quickly said the opposite.

The interim leader is known for hewing to left-wing ideals, facing sanctions by the U.S. and European Union and building bridges with Venezuela’s business community.

The Venezuelan leader is now in U.S. custody. Decades earlier, the United States deposed the strongman who led Panama.

The Federal Aviation Administration cited “safety-of-flight risks” in restricting the U.S.-controlled airspace as a result of the military operation in Venezuela.

The fire that killed at least 40 people in a Swiss bar on New Year’s Day was made more likely by apparent flaws in the site’s design and management, experts say.

The Venezuela president was first charged in 2020 with narco-terrorism and other crimes. The indictment unsealed Saturday says he worked with traffickers to send cocaine from Venezuela to the United States.

Mr. Maduro has “multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism,” the vice president said.

A U.S. pressure campaign has been building for years, through a series of indictments, sanctions and, recently, military actions.

The spy agency also used stealth drones to monitor the whereabouts of the Venezuelan leader.

While Kyiv has reported progress in negotiations, and is accelerating talks in the coming days, major questions remain unresolved about which countries will provide what kind of security for how long.

Democrats raised constitutional concerns and said the Trump administration had misrepresented its goals in Venezuela, while most Republicans cheered the action.

Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, next in the line of succession, and other top Venezuelan officials issued defiant pronouncements after Mr. Maduro’s capture.

In a call with The New York Times, President Trump called the U.S. operation in Venezuela “brilliant” but did not address whether he had consulted Congress.

The Venezuela president was first charged in 2020 with narcoterrorism and other crimes. That indictment said Maduro and others “prioritized using cocaine as a weapon against America.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in addition to that appointment, he planned to name a new defense minister as part of “a wave of personnel changes.”

President Trump announced that U.S. forces had captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, following a “large-scale attack.”

The Dionne quintuplets were a global sensation during the Great Depression. The last of the five sisters, Annette, died in December.

In a call with The New York Times, President Trump called the U.S. operation in Venezuela “brilliant" but did not address whether he had consulted Congress.