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US Department of State Tells Americans Leave Venezuela 'Immediately'

Published Jan 10, 2026 at 06:20 PM EST updated Jan 10, 2026 at 06:23 PM EST The U.S. State Department ordered American citizens and lawful permanent residents on Saturday to leave Venezuela "immediately," citing an increasingly dangerous security environment and specific threats to U.S. nationals. The warning came in a post on X as the U.S. Embassy responsible for Venezuela relayed reports of armed militias targeting travelers for evidence of American citizenship amid mounting civil ...

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'See What Happens!' ICE Boss Dares Philly Sheriff to Arrest Agents After Saying They 'Don't Want This Smoke'

Jan 10th, 2026, 8:46 pm Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons dared Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal to follow through on her threat to arrest immigration agents who come to her city and “commit a crime” while appearing on The Big Weekend Show on Fox News on Saturday. Bilal made her brash comments on Thursday, one day after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Good blocked traffic and appeared to hit the officer with her SUV before she was shot multiple times ...

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

Updated 3:00 PM EST, January 10, 2026 NEW YORK (AP) — Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long-anticipated tribute from his adopted country. A Paine memorial in Washington, D.C., authorized by a 2022 law, awaits approval from the U.S. Department of Interior. It would be the first landmark in the nation’s capital to be dedicated to one of the American Revolution’s most stirring, popular and quotable advocates ...

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Loeffler says SBA will relocate Minneapolis district office amid 'local hostility' toward ICE

01/10/26 6:35 PM ET Small Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Saturday that the agency’s Minneapolis office is being relocated, citing “overwhelming local hostility” toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in recent days. “Since Day One, I have been clear that SBA will not continue to surge resources to communities that refuse to protect their small business owners by impeding this Administration’s efforts to deport and detain criminal illegal aliens,” Loe ...

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Grenell says X account hacked after sharing Washington Opera exit from Kennedy Center

12h Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell on Saturday said his X account was hacked, resulting in the removal of several posts related to the Washington National Opera’s (WNO) exit from the performance venue. “I have alerted @x that someone hacked my account last night – and deleted my content on our Opera announcement and media corrections,” Grenell wrote in the Saturday post on X. “X will find the hacker and deal with him/her. I will re-post the statements from last night once they are ...

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Hundreds of Anti-ICE Protesters Storm Minneapolis Hilton Hotel

Published Jan 10, 2026 at 04:43 AM EST updated Jan 10, 2026 at 04:44 AM EST Hundreds of protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed a Hilton hotel in Minneapolis after a woman was fatally shot by one of the agency’s officers this week. Newsweek contacted Hilton Hotels and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) via email for comment outside of regular business hours. Why It Matters Renee Nicole Good's killing by an ICE officer has ignited widespread protests in Mi ...

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Trump's Married Labor Boss Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer

Updated Jan. 10 2026 1:23PM EST Published Jan. 10 2026 7:38AM EST Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is facing an internal investigation after a complaint alleged she has been “abusing her position” by pursuing a relationship with a subordinate and drinking on the job. According to a report from The New York Post, a complaint filed last week with the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General alleged that Chavez-DeRemer hosted a subordinate at her Washington D.C. apartment three ...

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Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait

January 10, 2026 at 5:26 p.m. EST Visitors view an updated portrait of President Donald Trump, with abridged text adjoining it, on Saturday at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post) The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Donald Trump's two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week. Trump and the White House posted on social media Frid ...

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Bill Pulte says White House moving away from 50-year mortgage plan

01/10/26 2:09 PM ET Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte indicated Friday that the Trump administration may be moving away from a 50-year mortgage proposal floated as a way to lower costs for homebuyers. "I think we have other priorities," Pulte told reporters when asked if the White House was still considering the idea. His comments came just days after President Trump, who successfully campaigned on tackling the affordability crisis, called for a ban on "large i ...

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Leaders alarmed about fairness of FBI inquiry into Minneapolis ICE shooting

Sat 10 Jan 2026 07.00 EST Last modified on Sat 10 Jan 2026 10.00 EST State and local leaders say they do not believe that the FBI investigation of the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good will be fair and impartial, and are sounding alarms about the impact of federal officials holding onto evidence in a potential prosecution of the ICE agent who killed her. Minnesota’s lead investigative agency, the bureau of criminal apprehension, initially began investigating the shooting in conjunction with ...

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Germany rejects RFK Jr claims about Covid vaccine exemption prosecutions

12 min ago - Sun 11 Jan 2026 12.05 EST Last modified on Sun 11 Jan 2026 12.30 EST The German government has sharply rejected claims by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, that doctors in Germany have faced legal action for issuing vaccine and mask exemp ... (The Guardian)

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration

37 min ago - Leadership > Leadership Strategies The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration By Stuart Anderson,Senior Contributor. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Jan 11, 2026, 09:22am EST White Ho ... (Forbes)

Democrat says Trump is 'stealing' from taxpayers and could be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress

47 min ago - Sunday 11 January 2026 14:20 EST Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said on Sunday that Donald Trump had so far in his second term committed “10 times” the number of impeachable offenses as he’d committed in his first term and appeared to di ... (The Independent)

Sen. Chris Murphy Says Venezuela Takeover Was 'About What's Best For Trump's Mar-A-Lago Oil Industry Buddies'

1 hr ago - Jan 11, 2026, 01:00 PM EST Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says President Trump’s takeover of Venezuela was “not about American national security interests,” but “about what’s best for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago oil industry buddies ... (Huff Post)

ICE Minneapolis shooting: Noem to deploy hundreds more federal agents to city

2 hrs ago - Published Sun, Jan 11 2026 11:59 AM EST Updated An Hour Ago Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday said the federal government will surge more law enforcement to Minneapolis after a U.S. citizen was shot and killed by an Immigration and Cu ... (CNBC)

Nordics reject Trump's claim of Chinese and Russian ships around Greenland, FT reports

2 hrs ago - January 11, 2026 7:50 AM EST Updated 8 hours ago Jan 11 (Reuters) - Nordic diplomats rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's claims of Russian and Chinese vessels operating near Greenland, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. There have been no si ... (Reuters)

States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting

3 hrs ago - 01/11/2026 07:00 AM EST Blue state lawmakers have had it with ICE. State legislatures across the country are accelerating efforts to shape immigration enforcement policy after the deadly shooting of a Minnesota woman by a federal agent, raising tens ... (Politico)

'I Will Not Answer Any More of These Questions!' Tom Homan Bristles at Kristen Welker Confronting Him About Alleged $50K

3 hrs ago - Payoff Border Czar Tom Homan quickly grew impatient with Kristen Welker questioning him about reports that he allegedly accepted a $50,000 payoff from undercover FBI agents. In a tense exchange on Meet the Press, Welker — who devoted most of her ... (Mediaite)

Live: Son of ousted shah says 'prepared to return to Iran' at first opportunity

3 hrs ago - The US-based son of Iran's ousted shah Reza Pahlavi said Sunday he is prepared to return to the country and lead a transition to a democratic government. As new protests took place in Iran overnight from Saturday to Sunday, a new report from the NGO ... (France 24)

Minneapolis mayor says there's a 'deep mistrust' of federal investigation into ICE shooting

3 hrs ago - Jan. 11, 2026, 9:47 AM EST Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday called for the federal government to allow state agencies to help investigate an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a woman in his city last week, citing a “deep mistrust” ... (NBC News)

Trump aide likens UK threat to ban X to Putin's Russia

3 hrs ago - President Trump’s free-speech tsar has compared the government’s threats against X to President Putin’s Russia in a row over deepfake pornography generated by artificial intelligence. Sarah Rogers, the US state department’s unders ... (The Times (UK))

Donald Trump Threatens Cuba With Oil Ultimatum

4 hrs ago - Published Jan 11, 2026 at 07:58 AM EST updated Jan 11, 2026 at 11:07 AM EST President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Cuba on Sunday, declaring that it will receive “zero” oil or money from Venezuela and urging its leaders to “m ... (Newsweek)

Minnesota senator: White House 'attempting to cover up' Good shooting

4 hrs ago - January 11, 2026, 11:09 AM Minnesota Democratic Sen. Tina Smith said Sunday that the Trump administration was "attempting to cover up what happened" in the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, by an Immigration and Custom ... (ABC News)

Iran protests continue with 538 people killed, activists say

4 hrs ago - The death toll from mass protests in Iran has risen to 538, according to data compiled by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) on Sunday. The group says it has confirmed the deaths of 490 protesters and 48 members of security fo ... (ABC)

Trump administration again restricts when members of Congress can inspect ICE facilities

5 hrs ago - Updated on: January 11, 2026 / 9:46 AM EST The Department of Homeland Security has again required members of Congress to give prior notice before inspecting immigration detention facilities, issuing a new policy to bypass a court order that had block ... (CBS News)

Border czar says ICE shooting victim's actions 'could fall within that definition' of domestic terrorism

6 hrs ago - Jan. 11, 2026, 10:20 AM EST WASHINGTON — Border czar Tom Homan weighed in on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s allegations that the ICE shooting victim was engaged in “domestic terrorism,” telling NBC News’ “Meet ... (NBC News)

Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents

7 hrs ago - -snip- The standard, developed with companies like Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, lets agents work across different parts of customer buying processes, including discovery and post-purchase support. The core idea is that the standard co ... (TechCrunch)

Erich von Daniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90

7 hrs ago - BERLIN (AP) -- Erich von Dniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame among paranormal enthusiasts and scorn from the scientific community, has died. He was 90. Von Dnik ... (Associated Press)

'Dangerous and alarming': Google removes some of its AI summaries after users' health put at risk

8 hrs ago - Sun 11 Jan 2026 02.00 EST Last modified on Sun 11 Jan 2026 04.42 EST Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk of harm by false and misleading informatio ... (The Guardian)

Suspect arrested after a fire damages a historic Mississippi synagogue

8 hrs ago - Updated 8:50 AM CST, January 11, 2026 A person was taken into custody late Saturday after a fire ripped through a synagogue in Mississippi, heavily damaging the historic house of worship in what authorities say was an act of arson. No one was injured ... (AP)

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