President Donald Trump said that the U.S. is closely monitoring the protests in Iran and is mulling potential options as the Islamic Republic faces its third week of nationwide protests, the largest since 2022.

“We’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options,” Trump told ...Read more

As protesters pour into the streets of Iran night after night, leaders across the region and around the world are grappling with the possibility that the Islamic Republic could be overthrown — a seminal event that would transform global geopolitics and energy markets.

The regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has weathered bouts of ...Read more

A group of European countries, led by the U.K. and Germany, is discussing plans for a military presence in Greenland to show U.S. President Donald Trump that the continent is serious about Arctic security and to try to tamp down American threats to take over the self-ruling Danish territory.

Germany will propose setting up a joint NATO mission...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed’s headquarters.

In a statement released Sunday evening, Powell rejected the notion that the action was ...Read more

More than 60 largely peaceful protests took place this weekend against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, including several in Southern California.

But while many protests were without incident, they were not short on anger and moments of tension. Organizers called the gatherings the "ICE Out for Good" weekend of action in ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.

In a forceful written and video statement released Sunday evening, Powell said the action was related to his ...Read more

Pete Hegseth, the U.S. secretary of war, will visit Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth on Monday as well as SpaceX in Brownsville, where “patriots work tirelessly, not with rifles, but with hardhats and relentless dedication, to ensure our military remains the most lethal and capable fighting force in the world,” the Pentagon said Sunday.

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Colorado will receive about $1 billion in federal funding to reshape rural health care over the next five years, but hospital CEOs aren’t happy with the state’s plan to spend the money.

Last year’s H.R. 1 — also known as the “big beautiful bill” — allocated $50 billion for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program over five ...Read more

Thousands of people gathered Sunday morning at River Park Shopping Center near Blackstone and Nees avenues in Fresno to protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother and U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis — a death that demonstrators said should never have occurred.

Protesters, lining the streets surrounding the shopping center, carried U.S. ...Read more

An alleged cult leader accused of targeting the Native American community and sexually assaulting multiple women appears to be heading to trial Tuesday after years of litigation.

Authorities have said Nathan Chasing Horse, 49, who played Smiles a Lot in the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves,” committed crimes in the U.S. and Canada while ...Read more

Thousands of demonstrators and a handful of elected officials turned out for a “No Kings” rally in Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their opposition to the Trump administration in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, and U.S. military actions in Venezuela.

“This is an urgent ...Read more

Venezuela said the country is in "absolute calm, peace and stability” as the U.S. urged its citizens to leave and the opposition reported the death of a political prisoner.

The U.S. advisory, issued after the capture of ousted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, is based on “nonexistent narratives aimed at manufacturing a perception of ...Read more

Yvette Hernandez has four grandchildren she wants to meet someday. But they’re halfway across the world.

Hernandez came to the U.S. about a decade ago after fleeing Venezuela’s authoritarian regime in search of a better future. She lives in Elgin, Illinois. Her daughter is in Venezuela, with Hernandez’s grandchildren.

“I haven’t been...Read more

A federal immigration agent identified as Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, 37, on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 7, during an enforcement operation near E. 34th Street and Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis, just blocks from where George Floyd was killed by police more than five years ago.

Here’s what we know about the shooting and...Read more

David Garcia, 34, arrived in the U.S. at the southern border seeking asylum four years ago after getting on the wrong side of the repressive Venezuelan administration.

Now, he fears retribution from that government if he returns — and it’s likely that he, and thousands of others, will soon be forced to do just that by the U.S. government.

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As protesters pour into the streets of Iran night after night, leaders across the region and around the world are grappling with the possibility that the Islamic Republic could be overthrown — a seminal event that would transform global geopolitics and energy markets.

The regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has weathered bouts of ...Read more

Several hundred people, signs and flags in hand, gathered at Fayette County courthouse square in bitter temperatures Sunday afternoon to protest of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.

The downtown Lexington, Kentucky, protest Jan. 11 was one of 1,200 in towns and cities around ...Read more

Venezuela said the country is in “absolute calm, peace and stability” after the U.S. urged its citizens to leave immediately on recently resumed international flights.

The U.S. advisory, issued after the capture of ousted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, is based on “nonexistent narratives aimed at manufacturing a perception of ...Read more