Despite a warning from New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would travel to the US metropolis. “Of course I will,” he said when asked by the New York Times. Mamdani is one of the harshest critics of the Israeli government. He accuses her of genocide in the Gaza Strip and assigns the USA complicity. Read more about this here.
According to insiders, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has confirmed a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump about ten days ago. The conversation was respectful and cordial, Maduro said in a televised speech on Wednesday. He sees this as a possible opening for diplomacy between the two countries. Four people familiar with the conversation told Reuters on Monday that Maduro had signaled to Trump his willingness to leave Venezuela if he and his family received full legal amnesty, including the lifting of U.S. sanctions and the termination of proceedings at the International Criminal Court. The phone call followed months of US pressure against Venezuela, including attacks on suspected drug smuggling boats, threats of military action and the designation of the Cartel de los Soles cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.
President Donald Trump is open to releasing a video of a US attack on a boat in the Caribbean in which two people who initially survived were later killed by the military. Asked whether the Defense Department was willing to release the video of the attack, Trump said: “I don’t know what they have, but whatever it is, we would definitely release it, no problem.”
The U.S. military on September 2 attacked a boat allegedly used to smuggle drugs. A little later, according to unconfirmed reports, the military killed two surviving men in a second attack on the boat. According to experts, the second attack may have violated international law – according to the Washington Post, the men had clung to the wreckage and posed no immediate threat.
Representative Nancy Mace from South Carolina is apparently considering resigning. According to information from the New York Times (NYT), she told confidants that she was frustrated with Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson and his leadership style in the House of Representatives – especially with regard to the treatment of women. She plans to meet with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week. She announced her resignation in January after a dispute with Donald Trump.
