Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency.

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas.

Syria's Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters in Aleppo.

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is criticizing protesters, accusing them of acting to please U.S. President Donald Trump.

Asian shares have mostly advanced after mixed moves on Wall Street, where President Donald Trump's talk of raising military spending spurred a rally in defense-related shares.

Russia says the military has used the new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in a strike on Ukraine.

The Minnesota Timberwolves have held a moment of silence before their game for Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Federal officials say an immigration officer acted in self-defense when he shot through the window of a car, killing the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis.

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees Thursday brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.

President Donald Trump’s plan to control Venezuela's oil industry and counter China's influence could clash with his goal of stabilizing trade with Beijing.

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a football fan, now is quarterbacking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team as it navigates particularly turbulent global waters, notably in Venezuela.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

Vice President JD Vance is blaming a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sonia De Los Santos has canceled her upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices.

Environmental groups claim federal and state officials withheld evidence about funding for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.

The House has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills that would fund parts of the federal government through September.

A Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer struck by a car last month while helping a stranded motorist has died from his injuries, the department announced.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords returned to the House floor on the 15th anniversary of the assassination attempt that ended her political career.

Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker.

The Congressional Budget Office has released new economic projections, expecting the Federal Reserve to cut short-term rates in 2026.

The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body.

This week's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an immigration agent had grim echoes in Minnesota.

The House has passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start.

President Donald Trump is causing some commotion for investors in U.S. defense contractors this week.

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges.

A judge has disqualified a federal prosecutor from overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The IRS will start accepting 2025 tax returns on Jan. 26, marking the official start of the 2026 tax filing season.

The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support.

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program.

Russian drone strikes have knocked out power in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region and left over 600,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk without electricity.

A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good as she tried to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street, tensions have remained high.

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House has passed legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. filings for unemployment benefits rose in the last week of 2025 but remain historically low, despite signs that the labor market is weakening.

The White House says structural issues and decay had made it unfeasible to save the East Wing.

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island.

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza.

Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls.

Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has delivered his final State of the State address to lawmakers in Sacramento.

State lawmakers and governors will have decisions to make in 2026 about the budgets for their biggest social safety net programs.

The longest-serving Democrat in Congress has announced he's retiring at the end of his term, saying he's deeply concerned "this House is not living up to the Founders’ goals.”.

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was a U.S. citizen and mother of a 6-year-old.

The House refused Thursday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of two low-profile bills as Republicans stuck with the president despite their prior support for the measures.

A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund his plan to assassinate President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to homicide.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running for a second term in the pivotal battleground state after a first term that put him on the Democratic Party’s radar as a potential presidential contender in 2028.

Modest moves for Wall Street overall masked some big swings underneath the surface, including for makers of weapons and other military equipment.

Gadgets promoting a wide array of health benefits are on display at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump is now officially on board with a sanctions package aimed at Russia, according to a top GOP senator.

Spencer Pratt, a reality television personality who lost his home in the deadly Palisades wildfire last year, said Wednesday that he intends to run for mayor of Los Angeles.

Federal prosecutors are slamming Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what the government said were “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty against Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

President Donald Trump has abruptly changed his tone about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro.

President Donald Trump is seeking over $6.2 million in attorney fees from the Fulton County District Attorney's office.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

Speaker Mike Johnson has invited President Donald Trump to give his first State of the Union of his second term on Feb. 24.

President Donald Trump is proposing setting U_S_ military spending at $1_5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”.

A motorist who was fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person to die since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration crackdown last year.

Officials in about one-third of the states have considered revising their U.S. House districts since President Donald Trump called for mid-decade redistricting.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in a major U.S. city — a shooting that federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but that the city’s mayor described as “reckless” and unnecessary.

President Donald Trump says he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes.

The U.S. population is projected to grow more slowly over the next 30 years than previously predicted.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes care for 1.4 million children from low-income households, has rattled child care providers and families that rely on the aid money.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to roll back regulations implementing a landmark environmental law that the White House says needlessly delays federal approvals for energy and infrastructure projects.

Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana as the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba.

Venezuela’s oil industry has been in the spotlight since President Donald Trump captured the country’s President Nicolas Maduro.

The European Union is renewing negotiations for a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for a special session in April for Florida’s legislature to redraw congressional districts.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats against Greenland pose a new and potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO, perhaps even an existential one.

Offshore wind developers and states are suing the Trump administration over its order to suspend work on five large-scale projects under construction off the East Coast for at least 90 days.

The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money.

New guidelines for healthy eating say Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar.

The U.S. military operation in Venezuela can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing two sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum worldwide.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies and commissions.

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Faith leaders are urging prayers for peace following the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro.

Iran’s army chief has threatened preemptive military action over the “rhetoric” targeting the Islamic Republic.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration reiterated its intention to take over the strategic Arctic island.

Opposition supporters have long hoped their leaders could replace Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president.

As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran.

Nobody could accuse CBS News' Tony Dokoupil of participating in a soft launch.

Wall Street’s strong start to the year slowed.

A photo of 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashing through the streets of eastern Caracas as explosions boomed in the background was soon on front pages of major international outlets.

California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s sudden death this week leaves a new vacant seat in the House.

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's interim president, has risen to prominence through strategic moves and political savvy.

President Donald Trump’s administration is withholding funding to help needy families with children in five states governed by Democrats.

A suburban Phlladelphia shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it’s closing its doors, six years after opening.

Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing — a heavily secured spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president and pleaded “soy inocente” — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life.

The Department of Homeland Security says it has launched in Minnesota what it's calling the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency.

The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

President Donald Trump promised that “America First” would stand against more foreign entanglements.