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U.S. forces have seized two more oil tankers with links to Venezuela, days after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, making former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez the new leader of the country. “This is a decapitation without regime change,” says Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez. “The political system in Venezuela remains intact.” In Caracas, former Venezuelan diplomat Carlos Ron says Maduro is a “prisoner of war” and that Venezuelans “are angry and are upset about this incursion from the United States.” This comes as the Trump administration has announced plans to control sales of Venezuela’s oil “indefinitely.”

New dietary guidelines announced Wednesday by Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. crank up the dials on red meat and full-fat dairy. The now-inverted food pyramid prominently features a steak, an entire chicken, and whole milk up top, relegating carbs to the bottom point—minor real estate compared to the portion they occupied before. Untethered […]

Washington is also reportedly discussing plans to partially take over Venezuela’s state-owned oil company.

The White House said the groups were “wasteful, ineffective, or harmful.”

Nine House Republicans voted to advance Democrats’ three-year subsidy extension on Wednesday.

They plan to override recent vetoes of two GOP-backed bills for projects in Florida and Colorado.

The president wants to ban large institution investors from buying single-family homes.

Republicans told Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., they opposed the vote last time because they thought President Donald Trump was bluffing.

The long-term consequences of US actions in Venezuela demolish laws that hold together the United States and the international order.