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President Donald Trump declared during a news conference Saturday that the United States is "going to run" Venezuela after the U.S. carried out an early morning military operation in Caracas, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flying them out of the country. "We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind," Trump said. "We're going to stay until such time as — we're going to run
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Since it reopened in March of 2025, the ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas, has held around 3,500 people — more than half of them children. The center was first opened during the Obama administration, shuttered by President Joe Biden in 2021, then reopened under President Donald Trump last year. As reports of contaminated food and the spread of measles have made national headlines, ProPublica went inside the facility, and through phone calls, letters and e-mails, spoke to two dozen det
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