In the wake of the president authorizing the CIA to carry out covert operations and U.S. bombers flying near Venezulea's coast, two variables are crucial.

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation its first saint and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.