Inside Edition for Monday, January 5, 2026

A few days ago, he was the president of an entire country... Today he's an inmate inside a notorious jail described as one of the worst in the U.S. Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro woke up inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where his jail-mates include none other than accused Healthcare CEO assassin, Luigi Mangione. And the mission to capture Maduro "Operation Absolute Resolve” involved 150 aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers... and was carried out under the cover of darkness. A former Delta force soldier, The Army’s most elite counter-terrorism unit... says for the team who took Maduro into custody, it was like winning the Super Bowl. Plus, the U.S. military strike on Venezuela is causing travel chaos. Airspace in the Caribbean shutdown forcing airlines to cancel and delay flights. Cruises put on hold. The move leaving tourists stranded. It's a story captivating the nation, a woman arrested, accused of kidnapping her own child more than four decades ago...and raising her in another state. That child is now grown up, meeting the family she never knew she had. Only Inside Edition was there for the emotional reunion.