President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck a facility inside Venezuela.

More artists canceled performances at the Kennedy Center.

And we weighed the risks and benefits of red and white wine.

That's some of what we'll get to on The 7 from the Washington Post.

I'm Reni Svrovsky in for Hannah Jewell.

It's Tuesday, December 30th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Number one.

President Trump said the U.S. destroyed a loading dock in Venezuela.

For months, Trump has been putting pressure on Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. has built up naval forces in the region,

seized oil tankers, and destroyed boats the Trump administration alleges were carrying drugs.

And yesterday, Trump said that unspecified U.S.

forces were responsible for an explosion at a marine loading facility inside Venezuela.

There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.

They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area.

It's the implementation area. That's where they implement, and that is no longer around.

If confirmed, the shoreline attack would be the first known U.S. attack inside Venezuela.

Previous strikes targeted boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean.

Trump presented a united front with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That's number two.

The president welcomed Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida yesterday.

The meeting came as tensions between Washington and Jerusalem threatened the fragile ceasefire that the U.S. brokered in Gaza.

But the leaders mainly had warm words for each other.

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