Notable quotables from Jimmy Kimmel, Nicolás Maduro, Kamala Harris, JB Pritzker, Scott Adams, John Fetterman, Marco Rubio, and more.

The danger here is not just that Mamdani is mayor of New York City. The danger is that he represents the rising wing of the Democrat Party.

Our society is in deep trouble if many of us would rather see our country fail than see our political opponents succeed.

Even before the lightning-quick U.S. raid on Venezuela's capital, President Trump had made a crucial decision about what would happen once the country's leader, Nicolás Maduro, was out of the picture. Mr. Trump would not be throwing his support behind María Corina Machado, the opposition leader who led a successful election campaign against Mr. Maduro in 2024 and had the greatest popular legitimacy to lead the nation.

Drones were spotted near the airspace over the Palacio de Miraflores in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, according to Spanish-language news outlets on Monday, with additional reports of clashes in the streets and shots fired. The Venezuelan government confirmed that the drones were spotted illegally flying over Caracas by security officials, with the police firing warning shots in an attempt to deter the situation.

The BBC has instructed staff to avoid describing the US abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a "kidnapping" and to use less loaded alternatives such as "seized," according to a leaked internal memo shared online by British journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones. Maduro was apprehended in a US military raid on Caracas over the weekend and flown to New York to face US drug trafficking and weapons charges, which he denied during his first appearance before the court. Maduro insisted that he had been "kidnapped."

Switzerland said on Jan. 5 that it has frozen all assets held in the country by deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his associates. After Maduro's arrest in Caracas by U.S. forces and his subsequent transfer to the United States, Swiss authorities imposed a precautionary measure designed to prevent the removal of any illegally acquired assets from the country. The order is effective immediately and valid for four years. It is unclear how much the assets are worth.

When Marco Rubio and Donald Trump first encountered each other as rivals in the 2016 Republican primary, the contrasts could not have been starker. Trump denounced George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq as a disaster, while Rubio defended it with difficulty; the two naturally traded insults. After Rubio's nomination as Secretary of State in 2024, speculation abounded that he would be a mere placeholder, perhaps serving no longer than his predecessor from Trump's first term, Rex Tillerson. But the US military raid on 3 January that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife ensures that Rubio will leave a greater mark on the second Trump presidency.

Back in October, the U.S. Department of Defense — yes, I know what the administration calls it, but check the Federal Register or the most recently passed appropriations bill — instituted a new set of rules that stated that Pentagon correspondents who "solicit" "classified national security information" or "controlled classified information" may be considered a security risk.