Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns to a New York courtroom to answer a rewritten drug trafficking indictment. He and his wife are now accused of leading a state-sponsored repression effort to torture opponents and others, including three Americans. The rewritten indictment says Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, approved of torture techniques that included beatings and electric shocks. Attorney Barry Pollack says Maduro denies the new allegations. The couple was seized from their Caracas home by the U.S. military in a January nighttime raid. Both are expected to renew their not guilty pleas to the superseding indictment at Thursday's hearing.

The wife of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to be back in court. Her lawyers on Thursday will urge a judge to free her from jail and put her under house arrest because she has heart problems. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been behind bars in New York since early January when U.S. forces seized them from their Caracas home in a middle-of-the-night raid. Both have pleaded not guilty to charges that they were part of a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S. Flores is 69. Her lawyers say she has medical issues that cannot be treated effectively in jail. They want her to be allowed to live under 24-hour guard at a residence in New York while she awaits trial.