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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, January 10, 2026


** What Trump’s Venezuela Attack Means for the World
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At this point, it’s hardly controversial to call President Donald Trump a bully.

Last week, that penchant for bullying carried over into his foreign policy in a major way when the US capped off a monthslong campaign against Venezuela by capturing its president. Emma Ashford, a columnist for the magazine Foreign Policy, told my colleagues at More To The Story that this action was a big display of force.

“If the US can do this in Venezuela, the administration has been quite explicit that they can do it elsewhere in the region if they don't receive cooperation from the Mexicans or the Colombians or others,” Ashford said.

What now, now that Nicolás Maduro is out of power and the US is running Venezuela? Will the administration set its sights on other countries?

On this week’s More To The Story, host Al Letson sits down with Ashford to examine the implications of Maduro’s ouster, how she defines what Trump is now calling the “Donroe Doctrine,” and what the US’s latest actions could mean for the region and the world.

-Arianna Coghill

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** This Cop Trusted the Taser—Until It Nearly Killed His Son
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Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effective.

“At the end of the day, if you have to put your hands on somebody, you got to scuffle with somebody, why risk that?” he said. “You can just shoot them with a Taser.”

Then one day, his son Bryce was pulled over by an officer and shocked for more than 20 seconds. The result landed Bryce in the hospital with cardiac arrest. Masters’ training had led him to believe something like this could never happen.

As he went down a research rabbit hole following his son’s incident, Masters found reports of other Taser injuries and deaths and studies that showed the company that makes the Taser might have known its weapon was dangerous all along, but didn’t warn police. Instead, the company insisted there was nothing to worry about.

This week on Reveal, we partner with Lava for Good’s podcast Absolute: Taser Incorporated and its host, Nick Berardini, to learn the truth about Tasers and the company that makes them.

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** In Case You Missed It
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** 🎧The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug ([link removed])

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A fatal cat disease was finally cured, but the treatment wasn’t legally available. So a group of cat lovers created an international black market.

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** 🎧 How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist ([link removed])
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As Trump continues to plunder Venezuela's oil, now is a good time to revisit this Bill McKibben interview on the remarkable rise of solar energy.

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** 🎧 Trump’s New World (Dis)order ([link removed])
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Before he announced that he was "taking back" Venezuela's oil, Trump declared that he was going to take back the Panama Canal from...China.

Both claims are examples of Trump's bizarre "America First" approach to foreign policy.

Photo Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty

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** 🎧 Fancy Galleries, Fake Art ([link removed])
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It was the largest art fraud in modern US history, totaling more than $80 million. We look at how it happened and why almost no one was ever punished by the authorities.

Photo Credit: Illustration by Brian Britigan for Reveal

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