Venezuela's U.N. Ambassador Moncada accused the U.S. of violating the U.N. Charter, which prohibits members from using "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."

A dozen high-risk nations identified by the White House are Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, and their citizens are fully restricted from traveling to the United States.

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AG Pam Bondi said that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, "will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts" on a slew of charges in New York, including "narco-terrorism conspiracy" and "cocaine importation conspiracy" as well as weapons charges.

Democratic Senator Gallego of Arizona posted on X, calling the action illegal. “This war is illegal,” he wrote. The US Marine Corps veteran, who previously served in Iraq, described it as the “Second unjustified war" he had witnessed. Maduro and wife were captured and flown out of the country.

Flu activity is also spiking nationwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there have been at least ​7.5 million illnesses, ​81,000 hospitalizations and ​3,100 deaths from flu so far this season.

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At least one more Heritage Foundation board member has resigned amid the ongoing unrest within the organization over President Kevin Roberts’s defense of Tucker Carlson, reported The Dispatch’s senior editor Mike Warren on Friday.

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A cause of death is unknown, though NBC Bay Area said that foul play is not suspected.

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The U.S. has carried out strikes on at least 35 alleged drug boats since September, killing more than 100 people. The majority of the strikes have occurred in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. President Donald Trump in recent months has ramped up U.S. military presence in the region.

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"What should have been a moment of joy turned into a tragedy in Crans-Montana last night, a tragedy that affects all of Switzerland and the world," Guy Parmelin, the minister who assumed the rotating Swiss presidency on Thursday, said in German on social media.

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps.

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Trump has coveted the Nobel Peace Prize for years, going so far as to lie about solving nonexistent international conflicts and phoning Norwegian officials this past summer in lame efforts to snag the title. (Norway’s government has no influence on decisions made by the committee.)

Whitlock Jr. also appeared in the TV shows Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order, Your Honor and The Residence, as well as Spike Lee's films 25th Hour, She Hate Me, BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods.Whitlock Jr.'s voice will be heard in the upcoming animated movie, Hoppers.

Colorado's 2 senators, both Democrats, blasted Trump on social media. Sen. Bennet called Trump’s veto a “revenge tour,” and Sen Hickenlooper accused him of “playing partisan games and punishing Colorado by making rural communities suffer without clean drinking water.”

As the Kennedys mourned the untimely death of Tatiana Schlossberg — the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy — Donald Trump took to social media to share posts mocking the famous family.

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Doug Varone and Dancers, a dance group based in New York, said in an Instagram post late Monday they would pull out of a performance slated for April, saying they “can no longer permit ourselves nor ask our audiences to step inside this once great institution.”

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She wrote in the essay, "During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me."

In their Monday filing, Cole's attorneys specifically pointed to statements made by D.C. U.S. Attorney Pirro in an exclusive interview with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas following their client's arrest in which they argue she improperly commented on the merits of the case.

South Sudan has been ravaged by conflict since winning independence from Sudan in 2011. Fighting has persisted in much of the country since the end in 2018 of a five-year civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people, and the US Department of State advises citizens not to travel there.