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Trump accused Venezuela’s Maduro of massive drug dealing. The AP has receipts about the DEA’s probe of Delcy Rodriguez, too

By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others

Delcy

Venezuela’s new president steered $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration—in 2017

By Joshua Goodman and The Associated Press

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The legality of Maduro’s trial will all come down to an opinion written in 1989 by … Bill Barr

By Joshua Goodman, Eric Tucker, and others

Venezuelan Vice President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Maduro’s deputy demands his release after U.S. arrest as Venezuelans wonder who’s in charge

By Isabel Debre, Joshua Goodman, and others

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‘There are a lot of people concerned he’s not the same old Chuck Grassley’: Where has the oversight chief gone under Trump 2.0?

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Coast Guard has seized a record amount of cocaine — while Trump says interdiction has failed and is blowing up suspected drug boats

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, listens to Edwin F. Lopez, the attaché for DHS Homeland Security Investigations, second from left, next to the Venezuelan government airplane that Rubio announced is being seized by the U.S. during a news conference at La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Feb. 6, 2025.

‘Are you crazy?’ ‘A little…’ Inside one obsessed U.S. Agent’s $50 million secret plot to capture Nicolás Maduro by turning his pilot against him

By Joshua Goodman and The Associated Press

Gustavo Petro

Trump smacks Colombia with failing to cooperate in drug war for first time in nearly 30 years, stunning long-time ally

By Joshua Goodman, Astrid Suarez, and others

Signs at the side entrance to the FOX News Headquarters at NewsCorp Building in Midtown Manhattan.

From Los Angeles to Manila, prosecutors say $300 million voting machine helped fund Smartmatic’s foreign bribes

By Joshua Goodman, Jennifer Peltz, and others

FILE – Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child

By Byron Tau, Joshua Goodman, and others

Workers enter the Bureau of Reclamation office Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

DOGE’s frenetic rush to cancel government leases will hit dozens of federal offices by June and hundreds more over coming months: ‘It’s like a blitzkrieg’

By Ryan J. Foley, Joshua Goodman, and others

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump brings Susie Wiles to the podium at an election night watch party.

Trump’s incoming chief of staff—known as the ‘ice maiden’—faces a raft of special interests

By Brian Slodysko, Joshua Goodman, and others

FILE – Trump co-campaign manager Susie Wiles is seen at Nashville International Airport as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives, July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump’s chief of staff is a former lobbyist. Now she’ll play the other side, policing special interests who want access to the president

By Brian Slodysko, Joshua Goodman, and others

CIA director William Burns stands in a courtroom

A veteran CIA officer reached up a colleague’s skirt and forcibly kissed her in front of co-workers, prosecutors allege in sexual misconduct case

By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others

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Biden’s DEA to reclassify marijuana in historic shift that still doesn’t decriminalize it, sources say

By Zeke Miller, Joshua Goodman, and others