Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Tuesday, January 5th. Here's what we're covering.

Tracy Mumford: The continuing uproar over the US's attack on Venezuela and its capture of Nicholas Maduro played out in four key moments yesterday. First, at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

Quote: This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. And we're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be used as a base of operation for our nation's adversaries.

Tracy Mumford: And there the US defended its actions in Venezuela, but faced a wave of criticism from some of its staunch allies, including Brazil, Mexico, and France. They said the military operation to seize Maduro was a violation of international law. And a top French diplomat said the US had chipped away at the very foundation of international order.

Tracy Mumford: Next, in Venezuela,

Tracy Mumford: there was a fiery meeting of the country's National Assembly where lawmakers, including Maduro's son, called for his release, and Deli Rodriguez, the interim president of the country, blasted what she called an illegitimate military aggression, taking a hostile tone toward the US, even as she has called for peaceful coexistence. The defiant tone of the meeting underscored the fact that even with Maduro in detention in the US, his loyalists still have a tight grip on power in Venezuela.

Tracy Mumford: Then at almost exactly the same time in a courthouse in Manhattan, Maduro himself made his first appearance in front of a judge, entering a plea of not guilty to narotism and other charges and saying that he had been kidnapped by the American government. He said he was not a common criminal defendant, but a prisoner of war.

Quote: Outside the courthouse, crowds gathered both to protest the US's actions with chants of no blood for oil, hands off Venezuelan soil, but also to celebrate Maduro's capture. The Times spoke with Venezuelan dissident in the crowd who said they'd been persecuted by the Maduro regime and others who said that they hoped his removal would be a new beginning for Venezuela.

Quote: I understand that uh so many people doesn't agree because it it looks crazy what happened, but for us that been suffering so many years uh I I just tell you you never even know what we already live with this situation.

Tracy Mumford: And lastly, in Washington,

Quote: we have the United States military stationed outside the country. We set the terms and conditions. We have a complete embargo on all of their oil and their ability to do commerce. So, the United States is in charge.

Tracy Mumford: The administration has been doubling down on its insistence that it now controls Venezuela. Steven Miller, one of President Trump's top policy adviserss, went on CNN to explain their approach. He was quickly met with sharp criticism from Senator Bernie Sanders.

Quote: Mr. Miller gave a very good definition of imperialism. And that's not new. I mean, England did it, France did it, the United States has done it. We are powerful. We have the strongest military on Earth. We can run any country we want. Is that really the kind of America that our people want? I don't think so.

Tracy Mumford: The Senate is expected to hold a vote later this week on a resolution that would force President Trump to get Congress's permission to continue any military operations in Venezuela. So far, Republican lawmakers have largely backed the administration, while some Democrats have questioned whether the raid to capture Maduro was legal.

Tracy Mumford: Now, two more quick updates on the Trump administration. the United States should have Greenland as part of the United States.

Quote: In his interview on CNN, Steven Miller also declared that Greenland rightfully belongs to the US and that the Trump administration could seize it from Denmark if it wanted to.

Quote: We live in a world in the real world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are

Quote: the comments reflect Miller's vision for a world order in which the US can overthrow other countries and take territory if the government says it's in the national interest. If the US does act on Greenland, it would essentially rip NATO apart. Denmark and the US are both founding members of the military alliance where countries pledged to defend each other against attack. Denmark's prime minister said yesterday that Trump's threats to seize Greenland should be taken seriously.

Tracy Mumford: And in one of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s most significant changes yet, the CDC's list of recommended vaccines for children has been drastically scaled back. There were 17 routine shots recommended for kids. Now there are 11. Federal officials announced yesterday that they no longer suggest all children get immunized against hepatitis A and B, the flu, or RSV, which is the leading cause of hospitalization for infants in the US. Kennedy, who's been a longtime vaccine skeptic, said the move quote, protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health. The updated guidance isn't expected to immediately affect families access to the shots, but public health experts expressed outrage, saying federal officials did not present evidence to support the changes or incorporate input from vaccine experts.

Tracy Mumford: Been an honor and a privilege to serve Georgia's 14th district as their representative. Effective midnight last night, the hard-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Green has resigned from office. She abruptly announced that she was leaving late last year after publicly breaking with President Trump. The two went from close allies to repeatedly clashing over the last year, most notably over her push to get the Epstein files released. Trump branded her Marjgery Trader Green. as she leaves Washington swearing that she's done with politics. My colleague Robert Draper says her legacy in Congress isn't a legislative one. It's not about any bills she championed. It's about how she used the political spotlight.

Quote: What I am doing is sounding the alarm bells. This is a major crisis in America. She really more than almost any legislator before her understood that in Congress all the world's a stage and that you could seize people's attention. You could increase your own audience. You could amass online donations by doing outrageous things on camera.

Quote: Are your feelings hurt? her words down a both in committee hearings and for that matter at the State of the Union address where in 2022 she famously heckled President Biden.

Tracy Mumford: I spoke to Green at length and in a nutshell her reason for leaving Congress broke down into two categories. First, that Congress had become even more of a do nothing branch of government than it had in the past. And secondly, because she felt that the leader of her party, President Trump, had strayed from the America first principles that brought her to Congress to begin with. I think that among other things, it shows that there is a real fracture developing slowly but surely in the MAGA movement where a few, not many, but a few leaders of that movement are calling into question its godfather.

Tracy Mumford: And finally, Eva Schllo, a Holocaust survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank, has died at 96. Growing up, her family fled Vienna, then Brussels, ahead of the Nazis, before they landed in Amsterdam, where they became neighbors with the Franks. When both Eva and Anne were barely teenagers, their families went into hiding. Anne famously detailed that time in her diary. After roughly two years of staying hidden away, both families were discovered by the Gustapo. Anne died at the Bergen Bellson concentration camp. Eva was later freed from Awitz. And Anne's father, who was the only surviving member of the Frank family, went on to marry Eva's mother.

Tracy Mumford: For more than 40 years, Eva didn't talk about the horrors that she'd endured during the war. When her grandkids asked her about the tattoo on her arm, she told them it was a phone number.

Quote: I was a very shy person, never spoken about my experience, and suddenly there were 200 people looking at me.

Quote: But at the opening of an exhibit about Ann's life in the 1980s, Eva began to tell her own story publicly.

Quote: Then eventually the floodgates opened and I couldn't stop anymore. She went on to travel all across the world to speak about the dangers of injustice, particularly to young people. In 2019, when she heard about a group of students in California who'd been photographed giving a Nazi salute, she went to meet with them personally, saying afterwards, "I think they really didn't think about the consequences, but I think they have learned a lesson for life."

Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines today on the daily. The View from Venezuela with a Times correspondent on the ground in Caracus. You can listen to that in the New York Times app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.