Nation and World
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Ukrainian drones set fire to Russian oil depot after Moscow launches new hypersonic missile
Jan 10, 2026 5:37 pm - A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s southern Volgograd region, officials said Saturday, after Russia launched a powerful hypersonic missile along with drones and other weapons that disrupted Kyiv's power supply and heating.
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Six killed in Mississippi, suspect charged with murder
Jan 10, 2026 5:29 pm - Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people — including a child — were killed in a series of shootings in northeast Mississippi.
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11 tankers under US sanctions defy blockade in Venezuela, satellite imagery indicates
Jan 10, 2026 5:18 pm - At least 11 oil tankers under U.S. sanctions were spotted this week well beyond Venezuelan waters, according to satellite-imagery analysis, having fled the maritime blockade that President Donald Trump imposed as part of the administration’s pressure campaign against the government there.
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Video shows armed men beating a Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Jan 10, 2026 5:14 pm - Dozens of masked men armed with sticks beat and injured a Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied West Bank when they attacked a plant nursery, according to people who saw the attack and video footage obtained by The Associated Press.Video filmed by security cameras shows men dressed mostly in black, faces covered, with several hitting and kicking a man on the ground.
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The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
Jan 10, 2026 5:08 pm - Cellphone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis surfaced online Friday, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident from a perspective rarely seen.
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Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon
Jan 10, 2026 2:49 pm - Minnesota leaders urged protesters to remain peaceful Saturday as thousands of people converged on a Minneapolis park to decry the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in that city and the shooting of two protesters in Portland, Oregon.
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Protests in Iran near the 2-week mark as authorities intensify crackdown on demonstrators
Jan 10, 2026 2:37 pm - Protests sweeping across Iran neared the two-week mark Saturday, with the country’s government acknowledging the ongoing demonstrations despite an intensifying crackdown and as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world.
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US intercepts fifth sanctioned tanker as it exerts control over Venezuelan oil distribution
Jan 09, 2026 7:29 pm - U.S. forces boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, the U.S. military said, as the Trump administration targets sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela as part of a broader effort to take control of the South American country's oil.
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Satellite images reveal Venezuela’s massive methane problem
Jan 09, 2026 7:24 pm - Oil executives weighing a potential investment in Venezuela’s fields may want to check out the view from space. Satellites have detected enormous amounts of methane billowing from the country’s abandoned oil rigs, rusty pipelines and other dilapidated energy infrastructure.
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ExxonMobil CEO calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without ‘significant changes’
Jan 09, 2026 7:05 pm - As President Donald Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting on Friday, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting.