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Thousands of Yemenis have rallied in the southern city of Aden to support a separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates

9:05 AM on Saturday, January 10

Members of Congress are considering the possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE officer shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota

9:01 AM on Saturday, January 10

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation

5:19 AM on Saturday, January 10

Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country

4:56 AM on Saturday, January 10

Greenland’s party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to take control of the island

4:32 AM on Saturday, January 10

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U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Greenland and says Washington must take control of the strategically located island

12:25 AM on Saturday, January 10

As U.S. seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge, so do concerns in Cuba about whether the island’s government and economy will survive

11:46 PM on Friday, January 9

North Korea's military has accused South Korea of flying drones across the border, warning of consequences for what it calls “unpardonable hysteria.”

9:37 PM on Friday, January 9

New York’s attorney general has sued the Trump administration for halting two major offshore wind projects expected to power more than 1 million homes

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A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block child care and other federal social service money from flowing to five states for now

7:01 PM on Friday, January 9

The Washington National Opera is moving performances away from the Kennedy Center

10:18 AM on Friday, January 9

The Trump administration has tried to freeze funds for programs including child care subsidies and cash assistance and job training for poor families with children

9:16 AM on Friday, January 9

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran

12:25 AM on Friday, January 9

A Minnesota prosecutor is calling on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as new video emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with an immigration officer

12:03 AM on Friday, January 9

Protests in Iran have continued despite threats from the government to crack down

10:58 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles

12:09 PM on Tuesday, December 23, 2025