
The Guardian - 20 hours 24 min ago
The US president used largely fictitious charges to seize control, but can't know how Venezuelans will react. He may also overstep now as regards Iran During his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pledged to end "forever wars", abandon "nation-building" interventions and focus instead on reviving a US economy that, in his telling, had been deindustrialised by a floodtide of imports. Though Trump's electoral victories cannot be attributed to any one thing, his "America...

ABC News - 20 hours 46 min ago
President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing that country's president in a military raid isn't likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices...

The Independent - 20 hours 51 min ago
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...

Sky News - 20 hours 57 min ago
Donald Trump has been unambiguous that Venezuela's huge oil reserves, and the commercial opportunity they represent for American oil companies, were a primary motivation for the removal of President Nicolas Maduro.

The Guardian - 21 hours 28 min ago
Experts say lifting production to former levels could take decades and huge investment will be needed The Venezuelan oil industry has been "a total bust" for a long time, according to Donald Trump. After attacking Caracas and taking the country's leader captive , Trump promised to take control of Venezuela's oil industry with the help of America's biggest oil companies. Venezuela's beleaguered oil industry could "make a lot of money" with the might of the US behind...

The Guardian - 21 hours 35 min ago
Danish ambassador posts friendly reminder' about defence ties after provocative Maga post over territory Venezuelan president jailed in New York live updates The US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicol s Maduro , have renewed fears of an American takeover of Greenland , as members of Donald Trump's Maga movement gleefully set their sights on the Danish territory after the attack in South America. Just hours after the US military operation in Venezuela , the rightwing...

The Guardian - 22 hours 24 min ago
The disdain as to why information on the Maduro raid was withheld even from senior lawmakers is unmistakable Nothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump's second presidency than the brazenly audacious arrest of Venezuela's leader, Nicol s Maduro and his wife, Cilia. Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress's right to know keeping senior members in the dark until the operation to seize the strongman was under way. Continue...

The Guardian - 23 hours 24 min ago
Other firms are taking advantage of Tesla's sales slump, while technological advances mean that glitches are being left in the rear-view mirror In another era, before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X to mark the spot of its descent into barbarism, honed Grok , a generator of far-right propaganda, swung behind Donald Trump and made what appeared to be a Nazi salute , I already knew he was a wrong 'un. The year was 2019, and I was test-driving a Tesla; while I was ambling off...

NBC News - 23 hours 24 min ago
President Donald Trump ran for office vowing to avoid military quagmires abroad, but he has ordered military strikes in multiple countries and says the U.S. will temporarily "run" Venezuela after ousting Nicolas Maduro from power...

Sky News - 23 hours 26 min ago
Donald Trump said shortly after his action in Venezuela that it was "not going to be a problem" in terms of his relations with China because it would get more oil as a result.