What to Know
- President Donald Trump said last night that Venezuela would “turn over” 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., days after the country’s president was seized in an extraordinary military operation.
- Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were injured as U.S. special forces burst into the space where they were hiding during the audacious military raid to capture Maduro in Caracas, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter.
- France’s foreign minister said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told him the Trump administration had “ruled out” going after Greenland in the way it did Venezuela. The White House said yesterday that using the U.S. military to acquire the self-governing Danish territory is under consideration.
- The United States for the first time backed a pledge by a broad coalition of Ukraine’s allies to provide security guarantees to the country, include binding commitments to support it if Russia attacks again.
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