| After President’s Capture, U.S. and Venezuela Explore Restoring Diplomatic Ties
- In moves that embodied the contradictions and fast-changing nature of the two countries’ relationship, both said on Friday that they were eyeing reopening embassies and restoring long-severed diplomatic ties.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:08:38 +0000
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| Mamdani Responds Cautiously After the Police Kill 2 People in One Night
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not call the shootings justified, but said New York Police officers were placed in “incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances.”
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:07:03 +0000
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| Rare Comic Introducing Superman Sells Privately for $15 Million
- The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:45:42 +0000
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| Minnesota Woman Dies After Shark Bite in U.S. Virgin Islands, Authorities Say
- People at the beach went to the woman’s rescue and helped her ashore, the authorities said, but she died at a hospital.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:18:29 +0000
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| Officials Identify Pair Shot by Border Patrol in Portland, Ore.
- The two who were shot during a traffic stop are connected to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, city and federal officials said. The shooting generated angry denunciations by local officials.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:45:23 +0000
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| Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota
- The move was part of a broader effort to to freeze social services to some Democratic-led states amid a fraud investigation in Minnesota.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:42:30 +0000
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| New Cellphone Video Shows ICE Agent’s Perspective Before Minneapolis Shooting
- The Department of Homeland Security posted a clip of the video on social media and said it was taken by the agent, who killed a 37-year-old woman in the shooting.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:02:52 +0000
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| Iran Convulsed in Second Night of Nationwide Protests
- Large marches against the government occurred despite an internet blackout and threats of a severe crackdown.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:57:39 +0000
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| Mamdani Condemns Slurs and Pro-Hamas Chant at Heated Queens Protest
- Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators hurled threats at each other outside an event promoting real estate sales in Jerusalem. The mayor said those actions had “no place in our city.”
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:35:57 +0000
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| Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
- The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:25:28 +0000
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| Trump Urges Oil Companies to Speed Work in Venezuela
- The president met with executives on a day when the U.S. seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:25:20 +0000
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| Outside Prisons in Caracas, Venezuelans Anxiously Await Release of More Political Detainees
- Venezuela’s interim government said it would release an “important number” of imprisoned people, but only nine have been confirmed freed.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:41:56 +0000
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| Measles Cases Spike in South Carolina
- The outbreak has now spread to more than 300 people, most of them children.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:25:08 +0000
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| U.S. Hiring Continues at Modest Pace, but Weaknesses Are Evident
- The unemployment rate fell in December, but job growth across 2025 was the lowest in five years.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:17:05 +0000
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| Joel Habener, Whose Research Led to Weight-Loss Drugs, Dies at 88
- His discovery of the protein fragment GLP-1 was crucial in the development of Ozempic, Wegovy and other blockbuster obesity and diabetes treatments.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:54:21 +0000
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| Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91
- Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant — and she won.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:52:27 +0000
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| Trump Threatens to Take Greenland ‘the Hard Way’
- The president continued to advance an imperialist vision of American foreign policy, where the U.S. can dominate neighboring countries “whether they like it or not.”
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:52:07 +0000
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| Trump Pressures Oil Giants to Invest in Venezuela
- Also, protests spread across Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:50:07 +0000
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| Mamdani’s First Big Move to Help Renters Is Dealt a Blow by Court
- Summit Properties USA won an auction on Friday to buy more than 5,000 apartments out of bankruptcy from the Pinnacle Group despite City Hall’s efforts to intervene.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:50:04 +0000
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| A Look at Iran’s Antigovernment Protests
- Protests have rocked Iran in recent weeks, and the country’s supreme leader has threatened to escalate a crackdown on demonstrators. Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, discusses what’s fueling the protests with our senior writer Katrin Bennhold.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:29:36 +0000
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