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Top News Stories for Sunday, January 11th 2026
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
Ideas Big Oil Knows That Trump's Venezuela Plans Are Delusional The president's thinking is stuck in the 1980s. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Joe Raedle / Getty; Buyenlarge / Getty. January 10, 2026, 9:55 AM ET Save So, about all that Venezuelan oil. Although President Trump has declared that America's oil companies will soon "go in" to Venezuela and "spend billions of dollars" to rebuild that country's ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
, were blocked from entering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center located near Minneapolis on Saturday morning. of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis earlier in the week. During a press briefing, Omar explained that they were initially allowed inside the facility but were soon told to leave. "Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said that they ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
An anti-regime protester scaled the balcony of Iran's Embassy in London on Friday and tore down the Islamic Republic's flag, replacing it with Iran's pre-1979 "Lion and Sun" emblem, video shows. The demonstrator climbed the front of the embassy building in Kensington before ripping down the regime's flag and hoisting the historic symbol associated with Iran's monarchy prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a large ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
Greenland's political parties have rejected United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to take control of the Arctic island, saying that its future must be decided by its people. Trump has suggested using force to seize the mineral-rich Danish autonomous territory to prevent Russia or China from occupying the strategically located island, raising concerns worldwide. "We emphasise once again our ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
Indonesia suspended Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok on Saturday over growing concerns about AI-generated sexualized photos of people without their consent. Elon Musk's platform is facing global backlash after reports emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts. CBS News has verified that Grok fulfilled user requests asking it to edit images ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
A shopper pays with a credit card at the farmer's market in San Francisco on March 27, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was calling for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10% starting on Jan. 20, but he did not provide details on how his plan would come to fruition or how he planned to make companies comply. Trump also made the pledge during the 2024 campaign, which he won, but ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
720,102 15,867 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + December jobs growth was the slowest in years, keeping mortgage rates near 6% as bond yields held steady and Trump's MBS policy aided spreads. AI Summary Jobs Friday came and went without much reaction in bond yields because the labor market isn't breaking, nor is it getting stronger. Mortgage rates ...
Source: housingwire.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
For only the second time in the full-scale invasion, Russia used an Oreshnik hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine on Friday, in a warning to Kyiv's NATO allies. A drone strike by Ukraine has caused a fire at an oil depot in Russia's southern Volgograd region, according to regional authorities. In a post on Telegram, the local governor Andrei Bocharov said there had been no casualties reported ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze billions of dollars in funds for three grant ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
The U.S. military has launched airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria , U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News. The operation marks the second time the U.S. military has struck Islamic State targets in Syria since Dec. 19 following the killing of two Iowa National Guard soldiers and their American interpreter by a lone ISIS gunman. The strikes come as U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said he met ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
NASA has revealed the return date for four International Space Station (ISS) crew members who are being evacuated from the station after one fell ill with an unknown condition. The crew are set to begin their return to Earth no earlier than 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 14. The SpaceX capsule is then expected to splash down off the coast of California at about 3:40 a.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 15. The announcement ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
Protests against US President Donald Trump's militarised anti-immigration push are sweeping the United States, after the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent sparked outrage this week. Indivisible, a social movement group, said hundreds of demonstrations were scheduled in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and other US states on Saturday. "ICE's violence is not ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
ICE already receives less oversight for use-of-force incidents than local police departments, and hotly guards its policies The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has cast a spotlight on ICE's use-of-force policies, and whether the federal agent who shot her will face an impartial investigation or consequences for his actions. The agency already receives less oversight for use-of-force incidents ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
By President Donald Trump wants to keep large investors from buying single-family homes, which he says will help more Americans achieve the dream of becoming homeowners. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, the president wrote that he is "immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes" and "will be calling on Congress to codify it." In Miami, 5% of homes in the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
The organization that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing cold water on talk of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado giving her recent award to President Trump. Once the Nobel Peace Prize is announced , it can't be revoked, transferred or shared with others, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said in a short statement on Friday. "The decision is final and stands for all time," it said. A ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
A shark attacked and killed a Minnesota woman while she swam in waters along Dorsch Beach in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on Thursday afternoon. at 4:28 p.m. local time, and marine units and fire and emergency medical services personnel responded. They found a woman who lost an arm in the attack and searched for a possible second victim, but found no one else. The woman later was identified as Arlene Lillis, 56, ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Jan 10th, 2026 -
On Wednesday the Trump administration came out with new dietary guidelines for the United States. The goal is to give Americans guidance about what makes a healthy diet. As promised, the new guidelines are much shorter than in the past — 10 pages versus 100 or more — and written to be widely accessible. Many people will read these and (possibly) take the advice. Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
Source: sltrib.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
The United States military has seized another oil tanker in the Caribbean, as it continues to target vessels sanctioned by Washington in its pressure campaign against Venezuela. In a statement on Friday, the US military Southern Command said its forces had "apprehended" the Olina tanker "without incident". "Once again, our joint interagency forces sent a clear message this morning: 'there is no safe haven for ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
After the record lows that mortgage interest rates hovered near for most of 2020 and 2021, even a casual observer could tell you what a "good" rate could be considered to be at the time. A rate under 4% was generally considered good during this period but there were plentiful options under 3%, too, giving both homebuyers and owners reason to take action. But the economic climate and interest rate landscape, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. TerraPower , a Bill Gates-backed next-gen nuclear company, on Friday announced a deal with Meta to build up to eight small modular reactors in the U.S. with the first two coming online as soon as 2032. Tech companies have been aggressively pursuing new clean energy solutions as they race to build ...
Source: geekwire.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Video appearing to show Renee Nicole Good in her car right before she was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was first posted on social media by the site Alpha News. The video appears to have been taken by a phone held by the ICE agent who fired at Good on Wednesday. The ICE agent has been identified as Jonathan Ross. "Watch this, as hard as it is," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X, as he reposted the ...
Source: cnbc.com