Against a backdrop of broad but vague assertions by President Donald Trump that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro, a briefing by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top officials left questions among lawmakers about the administration’s next steps in the South American country.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so, raising questions among some lawmakers and former officials about the administration’s level of planning for the country after Maduro was gone.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services.

TORONTO (AP) – Canada’s Indigenous governor general and its foreign minister will visit Greenland in early February, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday. The visit comes as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, the Inuit self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark.

MIAMI (AP) – In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the dead-of-night U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face drug charges, officials said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration has launched what officials describe as the largest federal immigration enforcement operation ever carried out, preparing to deploy as many as 2,000 federal agents and officers to the Minneapolis area for a sweeping crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.