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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Internet blackout hampering efforts to verify if violent crackdown has blunted movement's momentum Iran's foreign minister has claimed the situation in the country has "come under total control" as authorities carry out a brutal crackdown against the nationwide protest movement . Abbas Araghchi made the comments to foreign diplomats in Tehran, without supplying evidence. The few messages and videos to have emerged ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
News Federalreserve , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US Justice Department serves Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced Sunday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has served the central bank with grand jury subpoenas. The documents, delivered on Friday, are related to Powell's testimony to the Senate Banking Committee regarding renovations to Fed ...
Source: jurist.org
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Financial services stocks including Capital One, Synchrony, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America slid in early trading on Monday. It follows U.S. President Donald Trump's call for a 10%, one-year cap on credit card interest rates. Trump made the call in a post on Truth Social on Friday, without outlining how such a move would play out. In this article Sign at the entrance to a Capital One Bank branch in ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
The top court of the United Nations has opened a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar's military deliberately targeted the Rohingya minority in a bid to destroy the community, The Gambia's Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday. "It is not about esoteric issues of international ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States would take Greenland "one way or the other," warning that Russia and China would "take over" if Washington didn't act. Trump says controlling the mineral-rich Danish territory is crucial for US national security given increased Russian and Chinese military activity in the Arctic. "If we don't take Greenland, Russia or China will, and I'm not letting that happen," ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is "inclined" to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro. "I didn't like Exxon's response," Trump said to reporters on Air Force One as he departed West Palm Beach, Florida. "They're playing too cute." ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Trump administration has ramped up its campaign, reportedly using 90 precision munitions on more than 35 targets The US military carried out airstrikes against ISIS in Syria on Saturday in another retaliatory strike over an attack that killed American service members. US ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered a warning to Cuba, advising Havana to strike a deal "before it is too late." In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the island nation would no longer receive oil or money from Venezuela . "Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela," Trump wrote. "In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
National Portrait Gallery removes text on new portrait of Trump standing in Oval Office with a scowl and fists on desk The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC has removed a placard that referred to Donald Trump's two impeachments and his supporters' January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to multiple news reports. The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, removed the text when it replaced an old ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By REBECCA SANTANA, MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and MARK VANCLEAVE MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever. ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
The Norwegian Nobel Institute has said the prize cannot be revoked, transferred or shared once announced. The US president has openly expressed interest in receiving the award. The organisation that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize has dismissed claims that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado could give her recent award to President Donald Trump. The Norwegian Nobel Institute said Friday that once ...
Source: news.sky.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy said in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that if the U.S. annexed Greenland, "it would be the end of NATO." The Connecticut Democrat's comments came in response to a question about whether the move floated by the Trump administration would effectively end the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive alliance created in the years after World War II. "NATO would ...
Source: nbcnews.com