Trump admin. officials fly on first direct commercial flight between US and Venezuela in 7 years

April 30, 2026 / 6:01 PM EDT / CBS News

Trump administration officials were on the first nonstop commercial flight between the U.S. and Venezuela in seven years when it took off Thursday from Miami, bound for Caracas.

National Energy Dominance Council’s Jarrod Agen led the U.S. team, and Venezuela’s newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S., Félix Plasencia, was also on board the American Airlines flight.

Agen told CBS News that a White House team traveling to Caracas plans to push along some agreements between U.S. companies and Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA and some of its mining companies. HKN Energy, a company backed by Ross Perot Jr., as well as Hunt Energy, are among the new American entrants to the Venezuelan market. Agen expected to meet with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, too.

A ribbon is cut following the arrival of an American Eagle, operating a regional flight for American Airlines, aircraft at Simon Bolivar International Airport in La Guaira, La Guaira state, Venezuela on April 30, 2026. Federico PARRA /AFP via Getty Images

The trip comes nearly four months after U.S. forces seized Rodríguez’s predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife in a daring special forces raid. Both were extradited to New York to face drug trafficking charges and have since pleaded not guilty.

Since Maduro’s removal from power, the administration has sought to incentivize U.S. investment in Venezuela’s oil sector, rolling back sanctions to allow American oil companies to spend on infrastructure and production. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have also led delegations to Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest oil reserves.

Flight information for American Airlines Flight 3599, operating from Miami International Airport to Caracas, Venezuela, on a nonstop flight to Venezuela, on April 30, 2026. CHANDAN KHANNA /AFP via Getty Images

“The economic opening in Venezuela is on a bullet train. The democratic process is on a chicken cart,” former U.S. official Juan Gonzalez told CBS News, upon returning from a business trip to Caracas. Gonzalez served as the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs during the Biden administration. He said it was stunning to see the old posters of Maduro in Caracas being taken down and said Chavismo — the left-wing socialist ideology of Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro — as dead and gone. But at this point, the Maduro regime remains intact — albeit minus Maduro himself.

Chevron, America’s second largest energy company, has continuously operated in Venezuela, including under the Maduro regime. The Trump administration has tried to urge the Rodríguez government to make regulatory changes to help usher in more investment to stabilize the country’s economy.

In an interview that will air on “Face the Nation” Sunday, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said that progress has indeed been made by Rodríguez regarding changes to the country’s hydrocarbon laws, which effectively change the terms under which companies can invest in Venezuela.

“It still needs some work. It’s probably not enough to bring in the level of investment that would be desirable,” Wirth told CBS News. He spoke with CBS News before a meeting at the White House last week.

Venezuelan oil is the type of heavy crude that refineries along the Gulf Coast of the U.S. are designed to process. He said he supports changes to the system to increase energy production in Venezuela but described it as a “work in progress.” Wirth said Chevron maintains great employees in Venezuela but acknowledged that some of what he described as a very talented workforce had fled the country over the past two decades of Chavismo.

Wirth also told CBS News that he speaks to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and has heard him discuss the need to hold elections in due course in Venezuela. He did not share a timeline for that democratic transition. The U.S. has reestablished its diplomatic presence in Caracas and has appointed career foreign service officer John Barrett as chargé d’affaires.

The Trump administration has been tightlipped about the timeline for elections to be held. Multiple U.S. and Venezuelan officials indicated that it could be two to three years before the country is prepared for elections. The Trump administration has made stabilization of the country a top priority, with democracy a secondary goal. Rodríguez appears to be planning to finish out the remainder of Maduro’s six-year term, which could mean elections in 2030.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado told “Face the Nation” in February that a secure and precise timeline for a transition away from the Maduro regime is needed before exiles will feel safe enough to return. She has at least twice consulted with President Trump and recently with Rubio about her future plans to return to Venezuela. She confidently told CBS News that “I will be president when the time comes.”

Machado’s party won the last presidential election in 2024, according to the State Department, which assessed that 12 million Venezuelans peacefully went to the polls. Nonetheless, the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council declared Maduro the winner, and his representatives then sought to arrest Edmundo Gonzalez (who stood in for Machado in the race) and Machado as part of what the U.S. described as a scheme to hold onto power.

Rodríguez – who was Maduro’s vice president — was officially recognized by the Trump administration as the “sole head of state” in March, nearly three months after a lightning U.S. military raid snatched Maduro in January and took him into U.S. custody on narcotrafficking charges linked to Cartel de los Soles.

The U.S. lifted sanctions on Rodríguez earlier this month, though Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello retains a $25 million U.S. government bounty on his head for his role in Cartel de los Soles, which is the same drug trafficking organization that the U.S. designated as a terror group. He ran Maduro’s repressive security apparatus but today remains a key figure in the government. Cabello, once Maduro’s chief thug, can now be seen sitting across from high level Trump officials in meetings discussing business deals.

US judge rejects Trump administration’s halt on immigration applications

2026-04-30 22:41:10 GMT / Reuters

By Nate Raymond

April 30, 2026 10:41 PM UTC Updated 29 mins ago

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Judge rules USCIS policies related to travel ban countries are unlawful
Preliminary injunction blocks enforcement for 22 plaintiffs, broader impact under discussion
Plaintiffs’ lawyer Jim Hacking says ruling is first to address both policies together

BOSTON, April 30 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday ruled that policies that make it harder for ‌people from countries on President Donald Trump’s travel ban list to get green cards and work permits are discriminatory and unlawful.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick in Boston reached that conclusion, opens new tab as she issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit by around ​200 people from 20 countries including Iran, Haiti, Venezuela and Syria who sued over a halt ​on the processing of their immigration-related applications.

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The lawsuit, filed in December, took aim at ⁠policies U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services adopted beginning in November affecting applications by immigrants seeking asylum, green ​cards and work authorization.

Those policies have resulted in the agency placing a hold on the processing of applications ​from people from the 39 countries that are the subject of full or partial travel bans imposed by Trump, who has cited vetting and security concerns.

Before instituting that halt, the agency, which is overseen by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, adopted ​a policy in November 2025 that treats the nationality of people from those countries as a “significant negative ​factor” when reviewing their applications.

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Kobick, who was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, concluded the plaintiffs were likely to succeed ‌in proving ⁠that policy ran afoul of the Immigration and Nationality Act’s bar against nationality-based discrimination.

The judge said the agency’s subsequent halt on reviewing asylum and naturalization applications was likewise “contrary to Congress’s command that the agency issue decisions on such applications.” She said the pause on reviewing green card and work authorization applications violated regulations ​governing them.

Kobick blocked USCIS from ​enforcing the policies against ⁠22 plaintiffs who had provided declarations detailing how they were harmed by them, and she directed the parties to discuss whether her order should apply to the ​rest of the 200.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Jim Hacking, ​a lawyer ⁠for the plaintiffs, welcomed the ruling, which he said appeared to be the first by a judge nationally to address the “significant negative factor” policy alongside the separate but related hold on the processing of applications. A handful ⁠of other ​judges have previously ruled against that halt in some migrants’ cases.

“USCIS ​wants to make it harder for people to receive an immigration benefit if they are from one of the 39 countries, even ​though Congress has never allowed them to,” he said.

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美战争部长：美对伊战争60天期限因停火暂时中止

2026年5月1日 06:54 / 联合早报

美战争部长：美对伊战争60天期限因停火暂时中止

赫格塞斯4月30日在众议院军事委员会听证会作证时称，特朗普政府眼下无须就对伊朗军事行动寻求国会授权。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普在未经国会授权下向伊朗动武的60天期限星期五（5月1日）到期，美国战争部长赫格塞斯在此期限前夕说，60天期限已因美伊停火暂时中止。

《纽约时报》报道，赫格塞斯星期四（4月30日）在众议院军事委员会听证会作证时称，美国与伊朗停火4月8日生效，意味着特朗普对伊朗采取军事行动的60天法律期限已“暂停或中止”。

他说，特朗普政府眼下无须就对伊朗军事行动寻求国会授权。

根据美国1973年通过的《战争权力法》，总统在首次通知国会动用军事力量后，应在60天内决定停止该军事行动或者寻求国会授权继续作战。

特朗普政府于2月28日与以色列联手对伊朗发动大规模空袭，3月2日才正式告知国会已对伊朗发起军事行动，由此推算的60天法律期限将于5月1日到期。到时，特朗普若未获得授权，理论上必须撤回美军。

Supreme Court decision sets off gerrymandering scramble

2026-04-30 6:48 PM ET / CNN

By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten, John Fritze

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PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2026, 6:48 PM ET

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A day after the Supreme Court further gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republican-led states are eying changes to boost the GOP’s gerrymandering effort at the expense of voters of color, while voting rights groups are trying to limit the impact of the ruling on this year’s midterms.

The Supreme Court kicked off the scramble by throwing out a Louisiana congressional map that had two Black-majority districts in an opinion that will make it significantly harder to challenge redistricting plans as discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.

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Leaders of Louisiana’s Republican-controlled legislature said they are preparing to draw a new congressional map to be used for November’s midterms, even as ballots have already put been in the mail for the May 16 primary. GOP officials said they won’t count the votes for US House candidates in the primary.

In Tennessee, top Republican officials faced growing public calls to launch a special legislative session with the goal of removing the state’s only Democratic congressman. Right-wing pressure for redistricting is also building in other states, including Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama.

Meanwhile, a group of Black voters who were defending Louisiana’s current congressional map cautioned the Supreme Court on Thursday against allowing the state to rush into a hasty redistricting based on the court’s decision.

“The governor has already indicated that he intends to cancel the ongoing Republican and Democratic primary elections in which voters have already cast ballots and on which candidates have already heavily expended their money, time, and resources,” the Black voters who were defending the maps told the Supreme Court, while citing past orders from the justices urging courts to be wary of disrupting election planning with last-minute moves.

“Such a drastic action,” the voters said, “is unnecessary and unwarranted.”

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday was able to use the Supreme Court’s ruling to help get a congressional plan passed in that state that aims to turn four blue House seats red, after facing leeriness by both the state legislature and the congressional delegation.

Once the legislature passes a new redistricting plan, “it’s the starting line, not the finishing line,” for the officials who need to hurriedly rework their plans for administering the election, said David Becker, a former Justice Department voting attorney who now advises election officials.

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That could include verifying that millions of voters are properly coded for their new districts and restarting the candidate qualification process.

The current tussling comes after President Donald Trump already injected enormous chaos into this electoral cycle by convincing Texas to embark on an unprecedented round of mid-decade redistricting – a move that started a gerrymandering arms race between Republicans and Democrats.

“In the partisan war that we are facing that the Supreme Court just inflamed, the parties caught in the middle are the election officials and the voters,” Becker said, “They’re not going to be any winners here.”

Trump join pressure campaign against longtime critic

The seat of Memphis-area US Rep. Steve Cohen, the sole Democrat in Tennessee’s congressional delegation and a major Trump critic, is now at risk with state lawmakers feeling the squeeze to draw him out of the district before an August primary.

In a social media post Thursday, Trump said he had spoken to the state’s GOP Gov. Bill Lee. Lee, he said, has pledged to “work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw” in the state’s US House map. The president said other political leaders in the state also have agreed to take action.

A Lee spokesperson did not immediately respond to CNN’s inquiry. In a statement, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said: “We are reviewing the recent opinion as I have conversations with the White House and other individuals.”

Under Tennessee law, the governor or the majority of members in both chambers of the state’s General Assembly would have to call the legislature back into a special session to redraw the House map.

Attempts to slow-roll Louisiana’s rush to redraw a Black Democrat’s House seat

Now pending before the Supreme Court is a technical but potentially meaningful procedural question about how quickly that ruling will take effect in Louisiana.

The group of White voters who challenged the second Black district filed an emergency request late Wednesday urging the court to make its decision final immediately, rather than waiting the month it would normally take to formally send the case back to a lower court for action.

But the voting rights group who lost the case told the justices on Thursday that there is “no urgency” for the Supreme Court to implement its decision and warned that doing so would cause confusion during an election that is already underway. It urged the court to hold off on taking further action until the election is over.

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The appeal over timing is pending before Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency cases rising from Louisiana, Texas and other states covered by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals. It was also Alito who authored the 6-3 opinion striking down the state’s map.

Alito’s opinion Wednesday included no guidance on what should happen next in the case. In 2024, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court ruling striking down the state’s map. Either Alito or the broader court will have to decide whether that two-year-old order remains in effect or was effectively lifted by the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday.

Louisiana Rep. Cleo Fields, the Democrat whose district is at the center of the voting rights opinion, decried the move by state Republicans to suspend the primary.

“People are already voting,” Fields told CNN. “It adds insult to injury to come and say, ‘Your vote won’t be counted. We’re just going to change the districts. We’re going to stop the election.’”

A case over Mississippi’s judicial lines poses an early legal test

An early test to the Supreme Court ruling’s impact will be in Mississippi, where Black voters brought a successful Voting Rights Act challenge to the electoral boundaries for state supreme court seats. Proceedings in that case were under way this week to determine how a new judicial map should be drawn.

Senior District Judge Sharion Aycock has asked for additional briefs due next week on how the Supreme Court ruling affects the case.

An open question that election law scholars have been debating since the Supreme Court’s ruling is how it will apply in non-partisan elections.

Alito’s opinion sets up partisan gerrymandering as a defense that states can use to ward off VRA challenges. But because Mississippi’s judicial elections are non-partisan, that case could show how the new standard will work in non-partisan elections, which are common for local elected bodies.

Even before the ruling had come down, Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves had told lawmakers he’d call a special legislative session to address how the Supreme Court’s opinion affects the judicial plan.

Confrontation between law enforcement and alleged correspondents’ dinner shooter lasted 7 seconds

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Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, an alleged assassin burst through a set of double doors one floor above a ballroom where President Trump and roughly 2,600 other White House Correspondents’ Dinner guests were eating a salad course.

Seven seconds later, he was apprehended by federal law enforcement, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

After Cole Allen, the 31-year-old alleged assailant, used an interior stairwell to descend from his tenth-floor room at the Washington Hilton Hotel, he arrived at an elevator bank on the terrace level with a set of double doors to his left.

There, in a hallway out of view of security cameras, he removed a jacket that had concealed a shotgun, law enforcement officials told CBS News.

Authorities found the jacket there later, the sources said.

What followed was a rapid chain of events.

A K-9 unit exited a security checkpoint through the double doors. Two seconds later, Allen came through the doors, turned left and — in another two seconds — sprinted through a magnetometer the U.S. Secret Service had been in the process of disassembling.

Prosecutors say this image from surveillance video shows Cole Allen running with a shotgun outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, 2026. U.S. Department of Justice

Two seconds after that, gunfire rang out.

Secret Service Director Sean Curran said Thursday that from the evidence he had seen, the suspect shot at a uniformed officer. The officer “returned fire while being shot point-blank range in the chest with a shotgun, and was able to get off five shots” as he was falling, Curran said on Fox News.

The suspected gunman went down between the checkpoint and a staircase leading to the ballroom below.

“It appears that the suspect hit his knee while being engaged by the officer on one of our magnetometer boxes and began to fall to the ground,” Curran said.

After placing Allen in handcuffs, officers moved him a short distance away to remove what appeared to be a tactical vest.

Authorities found multiple knives and a handgun in addition to the shotgun, according to court filings by prosecutors.

The Secret Service officer was hit on his protective vest by buckshot from Allen’s gun, officials said, and sustained some bruising. The suspect wasn’t hit by gunfire. No one was seriously hurt.

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro shared a video on X Thursday that shows the moment when the alleged assailant ran through the security checkpoint.

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The distance between the security checkpoint and the ballroom staircase was about 40 feet, sources said. Had the gunman made it to the ballroom stairs, he would have had to navigate two sets of steps separated by a landing to reach the guests inside.

“You’re talking almost 355 feet from magnetometer to podium. That’s almost 120 yards. That’s a long distance to get to,” Curran said.

More than 30 federal protective details were working at the dinner, the sources told CBS News.

Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president, transporting a firearm with intent to commit a felony and discharging a firearm during a violent crime. He has not entered a plea.

Mr. Trump told reporters Thursday: “They stopped the NFL running back. He was like a running back. In fact, if he ever got out, they’re probably going to sign him. He was a speedy guy. But he was stopped.”

The president said there’s always room for improvement, but the Hilton where the dinner traditionally takes place is “a tough location” for security.

美国FBI助理局长莱瑟曼说，中国黑客在中国境内获得的保护“一旦越过国界就不复存在”。图为美国FBI大楼。 （路透社）

美国联邦调查局（FBI）高级官员说，中国政府雇佣黑客的生态系统已经“失控”，并为网络犯罪分子提供了“某种合理推诿的借口”。

路透社报道，FBI助理局长莱瑟曼（Brett Leatherman）星期四（4月30日）警告，中国黑客一旦离开本国就可能被捕。

莱瑟曼说，中国黑客在中国境内获得的保护“一旦越过国界就不复存在”。

在莱瑟曼发出警告的几天之前，34岁中国公民徐泽伟（音译）从意大利被引渡到美国。徐泽伟被指控在2020年至2021年为一家中国承包商工作期间，在中国政府的指示下参与了大规模的网络攻击活动。应美国当局要求，徐泽伟去年7月在米兰被捕，意大利法院裁定允许引渡后，被引渡到美国。

中国驻华盛顿大使馆尚未回应置评请求。

中国外交部发言人林剑4月27日回应意大利将中国公民引渡至美国受审的消息，指责美国“通过政治操弄捏造罪名”，并敦促意大利“不要成为美国的帮凶”。

Trump says gas prices will drop as soon as Iran war is over

2026-04-30T19:41:50.649Z / Reuters

By Reuters

April 30, 2026 7:41 PM UTC Updated 40 mins ago

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WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – President Donald ​Trump on ‌Thursday told reporters that ​gas ​prices would “drop like ⁠a rock” ​as soon ​as the Iran war ended.

Global ​oil ​prices earlier hit a ‌four-year ⁠high of more than $126 a ​barrel ​over ⁠concerns that ​the conflict ​could ⁠lead to a ⁠prolonged ​crisis.

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Trump names physician, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier for US Surgeon General

2026-04-30 16:52:40 UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – President Donald ​Trump on ‌Thursday said he was ​nominating ​radiologist and Fox News ⁠contributor ​Dr. Nicole ​Saphier for U.S. Surgeon General, ​after earlier ​thanking his previous ‌nominee ⁠wellness influencer Casey Means in ​a ​social ⁠media post.

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US Senate bans its members, staff from betting in prediction markets

April 30, 2026 7:24 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago / Reuters

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• Move follows fraud case over soldier who allegedly placed bet on operation in Venezuela
• Senate urges House, executive, and judicial branches to adopt similar bans
• Bills that would ban or curtail House members from trading stocks ​remain stalled

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved an immediate ‌prohibition on incumbent senators, staff and other officers from using prediction markets that provide a form of gambling on real-world events.

The change in Senate rules to impose the senators’ ban was spearheaded by Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio, and an ​amendment by Democratic Senator Alex Padilla broadening the ban to Senate staff was included in ​the measure.

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Senators also urged the House of Representatives and the executive and judicial branches ⁠of government to do the same.

“United States senators have no business engaging in speculative activities like prediction ​markets while collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck,” Moreno said in a Senate speech in which he called for an ​immediate vote on the rules change.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer endorsed the effort, saying, “We must never allow Congress to turn into a casino where members representing the public can gamble on wars or economic crises.”

On Tuesday, a U.S. Army soldier pleaded not guilty ​to fraud charges stemming from his $400,000 in wins after allegedly using confidential information late last year for ​a bet that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would soon be out of office.

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The activity occurred just before the U.S. military ‌operation on ⁠January 3 that resulted in his removal.

For years, Congress has been debating whether to impose a ban on lawmakers’ stock trades, which proponents characterize as insider trading. Members of Congress get closed briefings on possible military matters, for example, and know in advance the timing of legislation impacting companies might advance toward enactment.

A bipartisan ​stock trading ban bill ​had been moving ahead ⁠in the House late last year. It fell apart, however, when a committee that oversees such efforts instead advanced a partisan Republican measure that has not yet ​been put to a vote in the full House.

In 2012, Congress passed ​legislation imposing new ⁠disclosures on stock trades, which sometimes are ignored by lawmakers or filed long after deadlines.

Backers of a full ban on lawmaker stock trades estimate that 113 members of Congress made 9,261 trades involving 706 million shares during ⁠2024 ​alone.

In April 2025, President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social ​platform that “This is a great time to buy!!!” hours before he announced a pause on tariffs he had imposed. The posting raised ​concerns that it prompted a high volume of stock market trades.

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After court ruling, Trump says Tennessee to seek new election maps

2026-04-30 5:13 PM UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – Tennessee’s ​Republican governor ‌will work to change ​its ​election districting maps, ⁠U.S. ​President Donald ​Trump said on Thursday, one ​day ​after the U.S. ‌Supreme ⁠Court struck down a key ​part ​of ⁠the civil rights ​law.

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