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The discharge petition is a way to force votes by sidestepping the speaker. For decades it was mostly forgotten, but has been brought back for bills on the Epstein files and to extend ACA subsidies.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, about what Congress may do in response to the Trump administration's actions in Venezuela.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the troubled New York City jail that has housed high-profile defendants like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell and Honduras' former president.

Over the weekend, President Trump announced the U.S. had captured Maduro, and is now holding him at a jail in Brooklyn, New York. In Maduro’s absence, his vice president and political ally, Delcy Rodríguez, was sworn in as interim president.

What's next for the U.S. engagement in Venezuela? President Trump says the U.S. will run the country for now, but there are no American troops or diplomats in the country.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, about the Trump administration's military operation in Venezuela.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center about the Zaporizhzhia power plant and its importance in the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kevin Whitaker, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia and former U.S. deputy chief of mission in Venezuela, about the U.S. raid on Caracas and engagement in Venezuela.

A former Uvalde, Texas, police officer goes on trial Monday, accused of failing to respond properly to a deadly 2022 school shooting. He faces 29 charges of child endangerment.

The U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro marks the beginning of a long court process amid questions about the legality of the extraction itself.