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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.

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 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.

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.

The rise of Venezuela's deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, was slow, beginning in youth politics and shaped by the mentorship of Hugo Chávez. Maduro's fall, too, unfolded over years.

A personal essay about the silence after the Los Angeles fires and what it means to hear music again, by 18 year old Zacharie Sergenian for NPR member station KCRW.

Top Democrat calls operation 'a violation of the law' and promises Senate vote on President Trump's war powers.