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• Maduro raid that began with small spy team grew to include planes, ships, top U.S. commandos

  04-01-2026 21:58 via washingtontimes.com
  The daring U.S. mission to capture Nicolas Maduro took root months ago with the insertion into Caracas of a team of CIA operatives and culminated in the early morning hours of Saturday with a surgical strike on the Venezuelan capital that involved hundreds of aircraft, ships and elite U.S. soldiers who stormed the dictator's heavily guarded safehouse to take him and his wife into custody.
  
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• 2 million Epstein documents still under government review

  06-01-2026 05:18 via washingtontimes.com
  The administration is still reviewing more than 2 million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to see whether they should be released, government lawyers told a judge late Monday.
  
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• After 'robust' classified briefing on Venezuela operation, Republicans say U.S. 'not at war'

  06-01-2026 05:05 via washingtontimes.com
  Republicans defend the administration's actions after an evening briefing to congressional leadership on Monday night over the recent operations in Venezuela.
  
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• At least 35 people have been killed and 1,200 detained in Iran's economic protests

  06-01-2026 01:38 via washingtontimes.com
  The death toll in violence surrounding protests in Iran has risen to at least 35 people, activists said Tuesday.
  
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• Trump transforms Jan. 6 from liability to rallying point ahead of 2026 midterms

  06-01-2026 01:24 via washingtontimes.com
  Five years after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, President Trump has successfully transformed the event from a potential political liability into a rallying point, pardoning over 1,000 people connected to the incident while commuting 14 sentences.
  
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• The Mexican cartels are next

  06-01-2026 01:14 via washingtontimes.com
  President Trump, fresh from nabbing cartel kingpin Nicolas Maduro, is now focusing on how to defeat the powerful Mexican cartels who push deadly drugs, and criminal migrants, into America.
  
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• After Maduro, Trump signals his next target: Mexico's drug cartels

  06-01-2026 01:14 via washingtontimes.com
  President Trump, fresh from nabbing cartel kingpin Nicolas Maduro, is now focusing on how to defeat the powerful Mexican cartels who push deadly drugs, and criminal migrants, into America.
  
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• Universities 'went wrong' with faculty activism in classroom, Harvard president says

  06-01-2026 01:10 via washingtontimes.com
  Harvard President Alan Garber may never be confused with Charlie Kirk, but it turns out the Ivy League leader has a problem with ideologically driven professors chilling open expression on campus.
  
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• Harvard president says universities 'went wrong' by allowing faculty activism in class

  06-01-2026 01:10 via washingtontimes.com
  Harvard President Alan Garber may never be confused with Charlie Kirk, but it turns out the Ivy League leader has a problem with ideologically driven professors chilling open expression on campus.
  
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• Military action in Venezuela emerges as an issue in a closely watched GOP primary in Kentucky

  06-01-2026 01:07 via washingtontimes.com
  President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president's backing.
  
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• Search ends for mountain lions after hiker fatally attacked on Colorado trail

  06-01-2026 00:38 via washingtontimes.com
  The search for mountain lions along a remote trail in Colorado where a solo hiker was fatally attacked ended Monday, after authorities killed two of the predators last week but could not find a third.
  
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• Hakeem Jeffries says Venezuela attack about oil, not drugs

  06-01-2026 00:37 via washingtontimes.com
  House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said it's not believable that the military action in Venezuela has anything to do with stopping the flow of drugs into the United States after President Trump pardoned a former Honduran president of his drug crimes.
  
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• Khanna takes over as head Democrat on House select committee on China

  05-01-2026 23:50 via washingtontimes.com
  Rep. Ro Khanna is set to take over as the top Democrat on the House select committee on China.
  
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• Former school bus aide pleads guilty to assaulting 3 autistic students in Colorado

  05-01-2026 23:45 via washingtontimes.com
  A former school bus aide pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting three nonverbal students with autism who were unable to report the abuse.
  
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• Oil gives the U.S. major leverage over Venezuela. How will the Trump administration use it?

  05-01-2026 23:26 via washingtontimes.com
  Venezuela's state-run oil company is cutting production as a U.S. military quarantine cuts deeply into the country's fuel storage capacity, underscoring the massive economic leverage that the Trump administration wields over new leaders in Caracas.
  
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• Violent crime fell in 2025 for a third straight year in New Orleans, where Guard troops now patrol

  05-01-2026 23:24 via washingtontimes.com
  Violent crime in New Orleans declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, police officials announced Monday as National Guard troops begin patrolling the city on President Donald Trump's orders.
  
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• 'Dances with Wolves' actor Nathan Chasing Horse disrupts court week before sex abuse trial

  05-01-2026 23:02 via washingtontimes.com
  Nathan Chasing Horse, the former "Dances with Wolves" actor accused of sexual abuse, was temporarily thrown out of court Monday after he disrupted proceedings with demands he be allowed to fire his defense attorney a week before trial.
  
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• Lawmakers reach deal on three-bill spending package, House to vote this week

  05-01-2026 22:44 via washingtontimes.com
  The House will vote this week on a bipartisan three-bill spending package negotiated by top appropriators in both chambers.
  
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• FAA picks 2 firms to replace 612 outdated radar systems that air traffic controllers rely on

  05-01-2026 22:05 via washingtontimes.com
  The federal government has picked two companies to replace 612 radar systems nationwide that date back to the 1980s as part of a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system.
  
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• Michael J. Schumacher, author who chronicled lives of Allen Ginsberg and Eric Clapton, dies at 75

  05-01-2026 22:04 via washingtontimes.com
  Michael J. Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works ranging from biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died. He was 75.
  
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• Judge spares Tennessee lawmaker prison time in corruption case where Trump pardoned ex-speaker, aide

  05-01-2026 21:54 via washingtontimes.com
  A federal judge on Monday reduced a prison sentence to probation for a former Tennessee lawmaker whose testimony helped convict the former state House speaker and his onetime aide of public corruption.
  
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• Democrats wanted Maduro gone -- until Trump took him out

  05-01-2026 21:51 via washingtontimes.com
  Democrats ripped into President Trump for taking out Venezuelan dictator and accused narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro, but many of them have long called for removing the South American dictator and bashed Mr. Trump during his first term for failing to "get rid" of him.
  
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• This cafe takes orders in sign language. It's cherished by the Deaf community

  05-01-2026 21:38 via washingtontimes.com
  An Oregon cafe that takes orders in sign language has become a cherished space for the Deaf community, providing a unique gathering place as well as employment for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
  
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• Mark Kelly vows to fight back after his retired military rank, pay cut because of 'seditious' video

  05-01-2026 21:38 via washingtontimes.com
  Sen. Mark Kelly on Monday vowed to fight efforts to cut his rank and pay as a retired U.S. Navy officer after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused him of making "seditious statements" in a video to military personnel.
  
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• Cuba faces uncertain future without Maduro

  05-01-2026 21:32 via washingtontimes.com
  Cuban officials on Monday lowered flags before dawn to mourn 32 security officers they say were killed in the U.S. weekend strike in Venezuela, the island nation's closest ally, as residents here wonder what the capture of President Nicolas Maduro means for their future.
  
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• 4 injured in suburban Philadelphia nursing home explosion file negligence lawsuit

  05-01-2026 21:15 via washingtontimes.com
  Four people hurt when an explosion ripped through a Pennsylvania nursing home two weeks ago sued the facility and a natural gas utility on Monday, claiming their negligence was to blame.
  
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• HHS targets Biden-era rule that funds child care centers before verifying attendance

  05-01-2026 20:57 via washingtontimes.com
  The Trump administration took aim Monday at a Biden-era regulation requiring states to pay child-care providers before verifying attendance or delivering services, citing allegations of massive fraud in Minnesota day care centers.
  
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• Ex-Uvalde cop goes to trial over police fiasco during 2022 mass shooting

  05-01-2026 20:47 via washingtontimes.com
  Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a former school police officer from Uvalde, Texas, who is accused of failing to protect the elementary school students and staff in the 2022 mass shooting that left 21 dead.
  
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• Trump administration scales back childhood vaccine recommendations

  05-01-2026 20:43 via washingtontimes.com
  The Department of Health and Human Services is dramatically reducing the number of vaccines recommended for American children to 11 shots from 17.
  
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• U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Michael Waltz to Security Council: U.S. is not at war with Venezuela

  05-01-2026 20:38 via washingtontimes.com
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz asserted Monday that the U.S. is not at war with Venezuela and the weekend military operation to remove Nicolas Maduro from power was legitimate.
  
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