News for January 3, 2026

Venezuelan officials denounced Nicolás Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces as a kidnapping, while President Donald Trump said the U.S. would oversee Venezuela’s next steps.

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.

U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro in a surprise raid ordered by President Donald Trump after months of planning, according to Gen. Dan Caine.

Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of a bar in Crans-Montana after a New Year’s fire killed 40 people and injured more than 100.

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.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate an Arizona helicopter crash that killed four people after the aircraft appeared to hit a long recreational slackline strung across a mountain range.