News for January 3, 2026

Photos and satellite images show damage at Venezuela’s Fuerte Tiuna base after a U.S. operation that President Donald Trump said led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was indicted in the U.S. on drug-trafficking and weapons charges, and federal prosecutors say he helped lead a long-running cocaine smuggling scheme.

Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores arrived in New York to face U.S. narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges.

Alaska’s court system spent more than a year building an AI chatbot for probate help, but the project ran into accuracy, trust, and oversight problems before launch.