On today's episode:

• Maduro is set to make his first appearance in a US courtroom on drug trafficking charges.
• A Paris court finds 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron.
• Gunmen kill at least 30 villagers and abduct others during raid in northern Nigeria.
• North Korea says latest missile tests involve hypersonic weapons system.
• Maduro’s case will revive a legal debate over immunity for foreign leaders tested in Noriega trial.
• China lashes out at US action on Venezuela.
• Venezuelans remain shell-shocked a day after US captured Maduro.
• A tense calm holds in Venezuela a day after Maduro was deposed by US.
• After capture and removal, Venezuela's Maduro is being held at notorious Brooklyn jail.
• Maduro arrives in US after stunning capture in operation that Trump says will let US 'run' Venezuela.
• How the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
• Ouster of Maduro government sparks celebrations among Venezuelans in South Florida.
• Maduro's capture disrupts Caribbean holiday travel, hundreds of flights canceled.
• FBI says it disrupted a New Year's Eve attack plan inspired by Islamic State group.
• Trial to begin for police officer charged in delayed response to Uvalde school shooting.
• A Somali Daycare center is pushing back on allegations of fraud.
• Wall Street edges higher in a wobbly start to 2026.
• A missed kick and a four-time MVP’s heroics headline Pittsburgh’s playoff-clinching win, Denver and Seattle clinch the NFL’s top seeds, Jacksonville and Carolina clinch their divisions and Las Vegas gets the No. 1 pick, a Browns star breaks a record, a coaching and front office change in Atlanta and a buzzer-beater slays the defending NBA champs.
• One dead and three injured following Russian attack on medical facility in Kyiv.
• Iran's leader says rioters 'must be put in their place' as protest death toll reaches at least 10.
• Swiss investigators believe sparkling candles atop wine bottles ignited fatal bar fire.
• A grandmother and her grandson burn to death in a Gaza tent; Angelina Jolie visits Rafah crossing.
• On this week's AP Religion Roundup, Pope Leo closes out 2025 and welcomes the new year with calls for peace and compassion. Plus, religious music is spreading a message of hope.

—The Associated Press

About this program

Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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