RUNNING MAN: Two days after the precision military snatch and grab that brought Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to the US on charges of terrorism and narco-trafficking, there’s little coherent word on what comes next for Venezuela.   Maduro is being held …

MADURO TOPPLED: US forces swept into Venezuela overnight, captured its President Nicolás Maduro, and flew him out of the country, President Trump announced. Maduro’s wife also was captured.   Video shows helicopters in the night sky and explosions on the ground in Caracas. …

NEW YEAR’S FIRE: About 40 people are believed to be dead and 115 injured after a rapidly spreading fire at a crowded bar in the popular Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana overnight on New Year’s Eve. Burn victims were flown …

MINNESOTA FREEZEOUT: The Trump administration announced that it is cutting off $185 million in childcare payments to Minnesota in the midst of a burgeoning corruption scandal rooted in the Somali immigrant community of that state. This comes just days after a …

THE WAR ROOM: The Russians say they are going to get tougher with Ukraine after an attempted drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences, which the Ukrainians deny. Ukraine accused Russia of inventing a pretext to avoid reaching a peace …

THE WAR ROOM: President Trump came away from a meeting in Florida yesterday with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky reporting progress on a peace deal for the Ukraine war but admitting that “thorny issues” remain. He even said he would be willing to …

CHRISTMAS GIFTS: We are back:    President Trump went to war in Nigeria on Christmas day, sending US forces to bomb Islamic state targets to defend Christians he claims have been getting slaughtered by the Islamic militants. Trump posted on his Truth …

MERRY CHRISTMAS: It’s Christmas week and we’re off celebrating at least until Friday. Here’s a brief review for this morning. THE NEWSROOM: Some of the staff at CBS News’ “60 Minutes” is in an uproar after the networks new editorial boss yesterday …

THE EPSTEIN FILES: The Justice Department released 13,000 sometimes heavily-redacted pages of documents from the investigation into the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, some completely black to hide their contents. Some pages, for instance, appeared to list names of “masseuses,” entirely …

THE LAUGHTER DIES: Beloved Hollywood actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found yesterday afternoon stabbed to death in their Brentwood, California home. He was 78, she was 68.   No suspect has been named but the Los Angeles Times reports …