• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells reporters that the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “regime” is “illegitimate” and that the goals of US actions in the region are “stability and security”.
  • US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department faces a deadline to release documents from its investigations into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after Congress overwhelmingly approved a new law forcing their disclosure last month.
  • A US judge accused of helping an undocumented man evade federal immigration agents was found guilty of obstruction on Thursday and now faces possible jail time, US media reported.
  • The Trump administration announced on Thursday it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the US.