The Flash Briefing is a daily news update every weekday morning from Todd Jeffries. 

• The U.S. has set new sanctions on three of Venezuelan President Maduro's nephews as the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado makes her first public appearance in nearly a year 
• The Austin City Council has approved $14.5 million in funding to support a number of homeless initiatives 
• The Travis County D.A.'s office is moving to clear the names of the four men who were wrongly convicted in the 1991 yogurt shop quadruple murder case