President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Venezuela is turning over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, with proceeds he said will benefit both the Venezuelan people and Americans. Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, just days after he authorized U.S. military action to remove socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are already announcing the arrests of criminal illegal migrants in the surge in Minneapolis. On Tuesday, DHS announced the arrest of Tomas Espin Tapia, an Ecuadorian national in the U.S. illegally. Tapia has been convicted of robbery and is wanted for murder and sexual assault.

President Donald Trump's administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about fraud. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the program, will require the states to provide extra documentation to access the funds.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were injured as U.S. special forces burst into the space where they were hiding during the audacious military raid to capture Maduro in Caracas, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter. Maduro and his wife were either bruised or bleeding after apparently having bumped into the wall or the door of the safe room within their compound, according to the sources. Their injuries occurred before U.S. Delta forces came into contact with them, the sources said.

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of our most vulnerable populations — female prisoners — by uttering five magic words: "I identify as a woman." This is not hyperbole. Under Massachusetts' 2018 Criminal Justice Reform Act, male offenders convicted of exactly the crimes named above are being housed at MCI-Framingham, the state's women's prison.

How well do you remember your childhood bedroom? I see the primrose-yellow room, shared with my twin sister for 13 years, like a distorted dream. The blue wooden beds, the huge spiders that would scuttle from under them, the bedside table stuffed with Enid Blytons and Beatrix Potters. And the favourite toys — mine a floppy-eared rabbit called Daisy, hers a long-legged monkey called Amby. Amby was a Jellycat — in fact, the oldest toy the beloved British brand has continually made. By the time we graduated to our own rooms, Amby had been through the wars: his shabbiness was a testament to being well-loved during a childhood which was now over. Amby served his purpose, and now enjoys a dignified retirement.

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