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Investigators in Paris say the thieves who carried out the heist at the Louvre Museum escaped just 30 minutes before police arrived.

As NPR's Eleanor Beersley reports, investigators say they managed to get away because of broken security cameras and a lack of monitors.

Sophie Ginsella, author of the popular Shopaholic book series, has died at the age of 55.

Ginsella, whose real name was Madeline Wickham, sold tens of millions of copies of her books.

Two of them were adapted into a 2019 movie called Confessions.

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Tensions between the United States and Venezuela remain high and will probably escalate over an incident announced Wednesday by President Trump.

U.S.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the FBI and Coast Guard seized the tanker on suspicion that it was being used to circumvent U.S.

oil sanctions against Iran.

Trump has called for regime change in Venezuela, insisting that President Nicolas Maduro is a major drug trafficker.

The U.S.

is offering a massive reward for his arrest.

A federal judge in San Francisco is ordering the Trump administration to end its deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles.

The ruling by Judge Charles Breyer is the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the administration's efforts to position troops in cities led by Democrats.

The former president of Bolivia has been arrested a month after his leftist party lost elections.

The new conservative government in the South American nation swept a victory on vows to clean up corruption and end Bolivia's 20-year socialist rule.

NPR's Gary Cond has more.

Stocks rallied Wednesday after the Fed cut interest rates.