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FILE - Iranian protestors burn representations of the Israeli and U.S. flags during a protest to condemn Israeli attacks on multiple cities across Iran, after the Friday prayers ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi), File)

Iranian protests are growing. Israel is watching closely

9:15 AM on Sunday, January 11

Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests

Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, in Washington, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Lawsuits by Trump allies could shape how the 2030 census is done and who will be counted

7:54 AM on Sunday, January 11

The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted

Iran’s president says officials will listen to protesters, but rioters are trying to ‘destroy the entire society’

6:29 AM on Sunday, January 11

Iran’s president says officials will listen to protesters, but rioters are trying to ‘destroy the entire society’

A Facebook post of the Prime Minister of Israel with a retouched photo of the Prime Minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, is displayed on a phone in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan, 9, 2026 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Retouched images of Netanyahu's wife, distributed by the state, ignite a fiery ethics debate

12:07 AM on Sunday, January 11

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making

Pedestrians pass T-shirts featuring images of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at at a printing shop in Lima, Peru, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, two days after U.S. forces captured and removed him from Venezuela. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Millions of Venezuelans scattered across Latin America cautiously watch what comes next

12:02 AM on Sunday, January 11

Many of the 8 million Venezuelans scattered across the Americas received the news of their president's capture with caution

Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, dead at 88

5:55 PM on Saturday, January 10

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe has died at 88

FILE - Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega waves after attending the swearing-in ceremony of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro for a third term at the National Assembly in Caracas, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Nicaragua’s government says it’s freeing detainees after pressure from the US

5:00 PM on Saturday, January 10

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners

National Guard patrol the Washington Mall, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Virginia man pleads not guilty to charges in DC pipe bomb case

4:56 PM on Saturday, January 10

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to Trump

4:43 PM on Saturday, January 10

The organization that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing cold water on talk of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado giving her recent award to President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump chooses a reporter to ask a question with Vice President JD Vance, left, and Sec. of State Marco Rubio, right, during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs executive order meant to protect the money from Venezuelan oil

3:20 PM on Saturday, January 10

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order to protect Venezuelan oil revenue from judicial proceedings

FILE - Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Man convicted for carrying Pelosi's podium during US Capitol riot seeks Florida county office

12:38 PM on Saturday, January 10

A man who is known for grabbing Nancy Pelosi's podium during the U.S. Capitol riot is running for a county office in Florida

FILE - Visa and Mastercard credit cards are shown in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Trump pushes a 1-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates and banks balk

11:30 AM on Saturday, January 10

President Donald Trump says he wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates

This image provided by the National Gallery of Art shows a painted portrait of American founding-father Thomas Paine by John Wesley Jarvis. (National Gallery of Art via AP)(National Gallery of Art via AP)

Supporters press for a DC memorial to Thomas Paine, whose writings helped fuel the Revolutionary War

8:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America

Civilians evacuate an area of the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Kurdish fighters evacuated from Aleppo after days of violent clashes

7:02 AM on Saturday, January 10

Kurdish fighters have been evacuated from a contested neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, after days of violent clashes with government forces

This frame grab from a video released Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, by Iranian state television shows a man holding a device to document burning vehicles during a night of mass protests in Zanjan, Iran. (Iranian state TV via AP)

Death toll in violence surrounding protests challenging Iran's theocracy reaches 116, activists say

3:48 AM on Saturday, January 10

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy has reached at least 116 people killed

Protesters gather during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon

12:40 AM on Saturday, January 10

Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman

FILE - Evana, an oil tanker, is docked at El Palito Port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Dec. 21, 2025. The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea. The Olina is the fifth tanker seized by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

US intercepts fifth sanctioned tanker as it exerts control over Venezuelan oil distribution

9:16 AM on Friday, January 9

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela

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