Nora Rahm

A search and rescue operation is underway in Indonesia after a regional passenger plane lost contact with ground control.

It was carrying 11 people when it vanished from radar screens while approaching a mountainous region between Java and Sulawesi Islands.

Ten Americans are featured in day one of competition in the Australian Open tennis tournament, including the oldest player in tournament history and the defending champ.

Lindsay Arkley reports.

NASA's giant new moon rocket is on its slow journey from the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad.

It started this morning and at one mile per hour could take until nightfall to get there.

It's to blast off to the moon with four astronauts on board as early as February.

It's to carry them around the moon and come back to Earth for the first time since the Apollo lunar landing program ended in 1972.

I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.

President Trump says the U.S.

is taking over Venezuela.

A military operation early this morning seized President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

They're being taken back to the U.S.

to stand trial.

in the Southern District of New York on drug and weapons charges.

Trump says U.S.

officials will run the country temporarily, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

U.S.

oil companies will operate Venezuela's oil reserves.