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US President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that American forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following air strikes on Caracas and other cities, marking a dramatic escalation in a months-long confrontation between Washington and the Caracas government. In a rapidly unfolding sequence of events, residents of the Venezuelan capital were jolted awake by explosions and the sound of attack helicopters at about 2:00 am local time (0600 GMT). AFP journalists reported that the str

US President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing National Guard troops from several US cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, after a Supreme Court ruling last week undermined his authority to use troops for policing.  "We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again," Trump wrote on Truth Social on New Year's Eve. Earlier on Tuesday, the Trump administration withdrew its legal attempts to keep control of troops deployed in LA. Last wee

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet US President Donald Trump in Florida on Monday, an Israeli official said, in what is seen as a crucial visit for the next steps of the fragile Gaza truce plan. It will be Netanyahu’s fifth visit to see key ally Trump in the United States this year. His trip comes as the Trump administration and regional mediators push to proceed to the second stage of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli official on Satur

Vince Zampella, the co-creator of video game series Call of Duty, has died at age 55. Zampella passed away on Sunday following a severe single-vehicle crash on a Los Angeles highway in California. According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), for reasons still under investigation, the Ferrari he was in veered off the roadway, struck a concrete barrier, and became fully engulfed in flames. A viral video from the scene showed the fiery aftermath of the collision. The CHP reported that two o

TikTok has reached an agreement that would give it a new set of owners in the US as part of a joint-venture agreement. Larry Ellison's Oracle, Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake are all coming on as managing investors in the US spin-off. But how much influence will these investors have over the money-making side of the business? Not much, according to an internal memo TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent to employees on Thursday, viewed by Business Insider. The new investo

A Delaware appeals court cleared the way Friday for Elon Musk to receive a long-contested $56 billion Tesla pay package, reversing an earlier judgment in the protracted case. The decision by the Delaware Supreme Court rejects a pair of judgments by Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the state’s Court of Chancery and sets the stage for the world’s richest person to get another windfall. In a pair of 2024 rulings, McCormick invalidated the 2018 package, which once loomed as historically large but