JANUARY 14, 2026
FILE PHOTO: A general view of a U.S. State Department sign outside the U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is suspending processing for immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday, as part of Washington's intensifying...
JANUARY 14, 2026
For more than a decade, the idea of American decline has hardened into a familiar refrain. Polarised politics, institutional strain and a relentless cycle of domestic crises have made it easy to assume that US power is ebbing, particularly when measured against a supposedly rising China and a cohort of wealthy democratic allies. Yet when the economic...
JANUARY 13, 2026
Offshore Wind. - Sebastian Elias Uth
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Donald Trump seeks to shut it down.
At the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Senior Judge Royce Lamberth said the government...
JANUARY 9, 2026
A Chipotle restaurant advertises it is hiring in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in December amid job losses in the construction, retail and manufacturing sectors, but a decline in the unemployment rate to 4.4% suggested the labor market was not rapidly deteriorating.
The Labor Department's closely...
JANUARY 8, 2026
Havana, Cuba’s capital. The country’s economy has imploded. - Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images
Elderly Cubans are digging through garbage for scraps of food in Havana. In the country’s second city, Santiago, crowds have gathered, blaring music by Cuban exiles such as Gloria Estefan and Willy Chirino, who sings “Our day is coming soon.”
The U.S. ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has...
JANAURY 8, 2026
An aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company Sociedad Quimica Minera (SQM) in the Atacama Desert (Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty)
The job is barely done in Venezuela, and we are invited, not least by Trump courtiers themselves, to ask, where next? On the menu are the overthrow of the...
JANAURY 5, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump hasn't minced words about the larger message he's trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife to the United States to face federal drug trafficking charges.
“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere," Trump declared following Maduro's capture, “will never be questioned again.”
In...
JANAURY 2, 2026
New York Attorney General Letitia James, left, administers the oath of office to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, center, as his wife Rama Duwaji looks on, on January 1, 2026.
Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated mayor of New York City on January 1, becoming the first Muslim and Asian American to lead the Big Apple and the youngest person to hold the post...
JANUARY 2, 2026
Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt jumps into the AI data center business with a failed, 150-year-old Texas railroad turned oil giant
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting into the AI and data center race with his new startup, and he’s betting on rural West Texas and a failed railroad turned oil giant to help him build enough power to light...
JANUARY 2, 2026
NYC Mayor Mamdani. - Eduardo Munoz Alvarez
NEW YORK (AP) — Less than 24 hours after throngs of ecstatic supporters poured into Manhattan for his history-making inauguration, Zohran Mamdani began his first full day of work with a routine familiar to many New Yorkers: trudging to the subway from a cramped apartment.
NYC Mayor Mamdani. - Eduardo Munoz Alvarez
Bundled against the frigid...
