Venezuela attack: Trump says U.S. has captured leader Nicolás Maduro

In a stunning American military action, a sitting leader was plucked from office. The legal authority for the strike was not immediately clear.

The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president had been captured and flown out of the country after months of intense pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s government — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.