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January 2026

  • Trump Threatens Venezuela’s Acting President With Fate Worse Than Maduro’s

    (Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Sunday threatened that Venezuela’s new acting president, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, would have a fate worse than Nicolas Maduro’s if she doesn’t do the bidding of the US. “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” Trump told The…

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  • Will Smith Accused of Sexual Harassment in New Lawsuit 

    (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A professional violinist has accused actor-turned-podcast host Will Smith of sexual harassment in a Los Angeles lawsuit, according to court documents reported Thursday by Fox News.  The accuser, Brian King Joseph, said Smith “deliberately” groomed and primed him for “further sexual exploitation,” according to the suit. The lawsuit named Smith and his company, Treyball Studios…

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  • Minnesota Gov’t Spied on Fraud Whistleblowers

    (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Minnesota government reportedly retaliated against whistleblowers who exposed a massive state fraud scheme. The whistleblowers said they were denied vacations and promotions and that their official work was spied on, state Rep. Kristin Robbins told the New York Post.  Robbins, who chairs the state’s Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee and is…

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  • Maduro’s Case to Revive a Debate Over Immunity for Foreign Leaders Tested in Noriega Trial

    (Headline USA) When deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro makes his first appearance in a New York courtroom Monday to face U.S. drug charges, he will likely follow the path taken by another Latin American strongman toppled by U.S. forces: Panama’s Manuel Noriega. Maduro was captured Saturday, 36 years to the day after Noriega was removed by…

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  • Costly Refugee Funding on the Table as They Rake in Over a Dozen Taxpayer Benefits

    (Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) As American taxpayers are plagued with high housing costs, rising medical expenses and other costs, many refugees continue to qualify for over a dozen costly federal benefits, as Congress could decide to continue the quadrupled funding for the program. Hundreds of thousands of refugees were admitted into the U.S. during…

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  • Pro-Maduro Protestors in NYC Got $20 Million from Big-Tech Plutocrat

    (Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Between the Soviet-style “block party” during the inauguration of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Times Square protests opposing the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, it may seem to some as if the Big Apple is on the verge of a socialist revolution. But investigative journalists have revealed the…

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  • Ex-Sec. of State Reveals Details of Victor Davis Hanson’s ‘Major’ Illness

    (Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Conservative scholar Victor Davis Hanson revealed details about a major illness in an update Saturday that followed several days of speculation and concern. Hanson’s statement came to many via former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — currently the director of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where Hanson is a senior fellow. Please…

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  • Rubio: US Won’t Govern Venezuela But Will Press for Changes Via Oil Blockade

    (Headline USA) Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro. Rubio’s statements on TV talk shows…

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  • US Attack on Venezuela Killed at Least 40, Including Civilians

    (Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US attack on Venezuela early Saturday morning that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife killed at least 40 people, including military personnel and civilians, The New York Times has reported, citing an unnamed senior Venezuelan official. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez had said that the US…

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  • Foreign Flags Fly in Florida after Maduro’s Ouster

    (Headline USA) Foreign flags are flying in Florida—and Republicans are celebrating it. Revelers chanted “liberty” and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and remove him from the country — a stunning outcome they had longed for but left them wondering…

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