{"id":389424,"date":"2026-01-03T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389424\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:47:12","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-nicolas-maduro-wants-to-have-serious-talks-with-trump-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389424\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro wants to have \u2018serious talks\u2019 with Trump | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Venezuelan leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, has urged Donald Trump to abandon his \u201cillegal warmongering\u201d and begin \u201cserious talks\u201d with his administration as mystery continued to surround a purported pre-Christmas CIA airstrike on the South American country.<\/p>\n

Speaking during an hour-long TV interview, Maduro declined to confirm reports of the apparent US attack, which would be the first on Venezuelan soil since Trump began his five-month campaign of military pressure in August.<\/p>\n

Maduro\u2019s pre-recorded interview came after Trump said on Monday that the US had hit a docking facility that served Venezuelan drug-trafficking boats last month. US media reports have claimed the CIA was behind the drone strike.<\/p>\n

If confirmed, the first strike on land would mark a new phase in a campaign<\/a> that has involved the deployment of a huge US naval fleet, airstrikes on alleged drug traffickers<\/a> and a \u201ctotal blockade\u201d of sanctioned oil tankers<\/a>, the seizure of two vessels<\/a> and the pursuit of a third.<\/p>\n

Maduro urges Trump to abandon \u2018illegal warmongering\u2019<\/p>\n

Maduro rejected US claims justifying Trump\u2019s campaign that he is the head of a \u201cnarco-terrorist\u201d crime organisation flooding the US with drugs. He said he believed Washington\u2019s true objective was to seize control of Venezuelan resources including oil, gold and rare-earth metals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince they can\u2019t accuse me or accuse Venezuela of having weapons of mass destruction \u2026 since they can\u2019t accuse us of having nuclear missiles \u2026 or chemical weapons \u2026 they have invented a claim that the US knows is as false as the claim about weapons of mass destruction that led them into a forever war,\u201d Maduro said. \u201cI believe that we need to set all this aside and start serious talks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran officials warn Trump of red line after his threat to \u2018rescue\u2019 protesters<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has threatened to intervene in Iran if its government kills demonstrators, prompting warnings from senior Iranian officials that any American interference would cross a \u201cred line\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a social media post on Friday, Trump said that if Iran<\/a> were to shoot and kill protesters, the US would \u201ccome to their rescue\u201d. He added: \u201cWe are locked and loaded, and ready to go\u201d, without explaining what that might mean in practice.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist\u2019s work without consent<\/p>\n

The US Department of Homeland Security is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using his work without permission to promote deportations.<\/p>\n

In a post on X on New Year\u2019s Eve, DHS posted a photo featuring a pristine and empty beach with palm trees and a vintage car. Written across the photo was \u201cAmerica after 100 million deportations\u201d, along with a separate caption that said: \u201cThe peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

What else happened today:<\/p>\n

With astronauts set to fly around the moon for the first time<\/a> in more than half a century<\/a> when Artemis 2 makes its long-awaited ascent some time this spring, 2026 was already destined to become a standout year in space. It is also likely to be one of the most pivotal, with new leadership at Nasa<\/a> in billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, and the tycoon-led private space industry assuming more than a mere supporting role to help win for the US its race with China<\/a> back to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

A new generation of young political leaders is gaining power in the US by using their personal experience with gun violence to push for reforms<\/a> they say the US is ready for.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s foreign ministry has accused the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of pouring \u201cantisemitic gasoline on an open fire\u201d<\/a> after he reversed a recent order by the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams.<\/p>\n

The FBI said on Friday that it thwarted an alleged plot<\/a> to carry out a New Year\u2019s Eve terrorist attack on a grocery store and restaurant in North Carolina<\/a> in support of the Islamic State<\/a> (IS).<\/p>\n

Elon Musk\u2019s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate \u201cimages depicting minors in minimal clothing\u201d<\/a> on social media platform X. The chatbot<\/a>, a product of Musk\u2019s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.<\/p>\n

A Kentucky woman is facing multiple criminal charges after she allegedly induced her own abortion using medication<\/a>. Kentucky state police arrested the woman, Melinda S Spencer, 35, on charges of fetal homicide in the first degree, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence, according to a local Kentucky news outlet.<\/p>\n

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican headquarters<\/a> the night before the 6 January Capitol attack<\/a> must remain in custody while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 1 January 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Venezuelan leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, has urged Donald Trump to abandon his \u201cillegal warmongering\u201d and begin \u201cserious talks\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-389424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}