Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests.

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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.

Becky Pepper-Jackson is a 15-year-old in West Virginia who knows the upcoming sports season could be her last.

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient autonomy during COVID-19.

Iran’s parliament speaker warns the U.S. military and Israel could be “legitimate targets” if the U.S. strikes Iran over ongoing protests.

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

The Golden Globes bill themselves as Hollywood’s booziest bash.

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months.

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.

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.

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

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.

Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world.

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

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.

Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump’s efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.

In the wake of the United States’ ouster of the now former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump’s administration officials have suggested it is safe for Venezuelans living in exile to return to their home country. One man we talked to says while Maduro is no longer in power, his regime still is.

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.

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

The head of the FBI’s New York field office has been named co-deputy director of the bureau, replacing Dan Bongino following his departure last week.

President Donald Trump is showing off a lapel pin he says is called "Happy Trump," featuring a cartoonish version of himself.

In an unusual move, President Donald Trump posted a graph Thursday night on social media that reflected jobs data from December that weren’t supposed to be released until the Labor Department issued the monthly employment report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern.

The Heritage Foundation think tank is urging the federal government “to save and restore the American family,” kicking off the midterm election year with a call for conservatives to focus on domestic issues.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up an appeal from tech giant Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

President Donald Trump gathered House Republicans this week at Washington’s Kennedy Center for a pep rally that kicked off the year.

The wife of the woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis says the couple had stopped their car to support their neighbors and they had whistles, while the masked agents had guns.

A federal judge is expected to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered legal protections for more than 10,000 relatives of citizens and green card holders.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his agency is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia.

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

President Donald Trump is calling on oil executives to rush to invest in Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100 billion in private funding to revive the country's ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has asked the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis directly to her office.

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.

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country.

U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea.

General Motors will be hit with charges of about $6 billion in its fourth quarter after sales of electric vehicles sputtered when the U.S. cut tax incentives to buy them and also eased auto emissions standards.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela.

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.

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 in Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters.

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

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.

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

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market.

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.

Sluggish hiring last month closed out a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even as layoffs and unemployment have also been low.

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.”.