Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has arrived in the Caribbean.

4,000 sailors on board join thousands of service members already there.

The Trump administration says it is fighting narco-terrorism.

Military exercises are planned.

It is not clear whether the military will be used against Venezuela.

But pressure on Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro is growing.

He put his message to music at a Caracas rally this weekend, calling for peace with John Lennon's Imagine.

The imagining of people.

Yeah. Imagine. The United of people. The U.S. has long pushed for regime change, offering a $50 million reward for Maduro's arrest.

It's day two of a federal surge in Charlotte, North Carolina, that defies the wishes of state and local

leaders. Saturday saw immigration agents arrest 81 people, a border patrol official says.

People were detained outside church, supermarkets, and places of work. Charlotte's Democratic mayor

says the operation is causing unnecessary fear. President Trump has issued two new pardons for people

connected to the January 6th insurrection. NPR's Ava Pukatch reports. Trump issued a second

pardon for Daniel Edward Wilson. Wilson had already been pardoned for his actions on January 6th,

when on his first day in office, Trump

granted clemency to everyone charged or convicted for the attack. But Wilson had remained behind

bars due to a separate conviction for illegally possessing six guns and nearly 4,800 rounds of

ammunition. After the second pardon, he was released from prison where he had been

serving a five-year sentence. Trump also pardoned Suzanne Ellen Kay, who was convicted of

threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating whether she was at the Capitol on January 6.

She was released last year after serving 18 months. Eva Pugatch, NPR News, Washington.

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