Iran has eased some restrictions and is allowing people to make international calls via mobile phones.

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense.

Iranians could call abroad on mobile phones for the first time since communications were halted during a crackdown on protests in which activists say at least 646 people have been killed.

Asian shares have mostly gained led by a rally in Japan after Wall Street hit more records.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in western Japan for a summit where the two leaders aim to improve the sometimes-strained relationship as Tokyo faces a deepening row with China.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.

President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.

Inflation likely remained elevated last month as the cost of electricity, groceries, and clothing may have jumped and continued to pressure consumers’ wallets.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

Washington’s inspector general’s office has launched an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department’s crime data reporting system.

“PBS News Weekend,” the companion to the weekday “NewsHour” program, has signed off, eliminated due to federal funding cuts to public broadcasting.

Democrats are looking to expand their hold on the nation's governorships in the midterm elections in November.

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer.

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released.

Plaintiffs' attorneys are asking a federal judge to intervene after three Democratic members of Congress were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota over the weekend.

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.

Hospital officials in Gaza say an Israeli drone strike has killed three Palestinians who crossed the ceasefire line.

Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant.

London's murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday.

The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.

The Trump administration’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has sparked a backlash that may undermine the White House’s goals.

New polling from Gallup shows that Americans are increasingly identifying as political independents and rejecting the labels of the two major political parties.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government.

U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats to take control of Greenland are straining relations with NATO allies.

Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the federal government to stop surge by federal immigration authorities.

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation is headed to Copenhagen later this week to show unity with Denmark amid tensions over Greenland.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. after his threat to strike the country over its crackdown on protesters.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has proposed negotiations following his threat to strike the country amid a crackdown on demonstrators.

Myanmar heard accusations that it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings began on Monday.

For thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S., the days since the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have brought a mixture of joy and trepidation.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok as concerns grow over its misuse in generating explicit images.

Five years after video of George Floyd's killing on a Minneapolis street, video of another law enforcement action in the northern city is central to another American debate.

Wall Street ticked to more records after bouncing back from early losses taken because of worries about the worsening feud between the White House and the Federal Reserve.

President Donald Trump's motorcade took an unusual route to the airport in Florida due to a "suspicious object.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.

President Donald Trump says 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.

A Hong Kong court on Monday heard arguments about the sentence for pro-democracy media founder Jimmy Lai in a landmark national security case.

A Minneapolis church opened its doors for a special Sunday service of ‘Lament and Hope’ amid the ongoing federal immigration crackdown in the city.

Hollywood’s awards season is underway with the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, happening now.

References to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments have been removed from his photo portrait display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

Britain is discussing with NATO allies how to enhance Arctic security against Russia and China.

Federal agents are carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman.

There's another warning from President Donald Trump to Cuba in the wake of Nicolás Maduro's ouster in Venezuela.

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests.

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted.

Becky Pepper-Jackson is a 15-year-old in West Virginia who knows the upcoming sports season could be her last.

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient autonomy during COVID-19.

President Donald Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed negotiations after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in the Middle Eastern country.

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bros.

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months.

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.

Adam Johnson, known for grabbing Nancy Pelosi's podium during the Capitol riot, is running for a county office in Florida.

Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world.

President Donald Trump says he wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates.

Members of Congress are considering the possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE officer shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota.

Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children.

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America.

Greenland’s party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to take control of the island.

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy has reached at least 116 people killed.

Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump’s efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.

The Washington National Opera is moving performances away from the Kennedy Center.

President Donald Trump gathered House Republicans this week at Washington’s Kennedy Center for a pep rally that kicked off the year.

The wife of the woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis says the couple had stopped their car to support their neighbors and they had whistles, while the masked agents had guns.

A federal judge is expected to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered legal protections for more than 10,000 relatives of citizens and green card holders.

The Republican U.S. senator praised Trump’s border initiatives and said fully securing the border should take priority over changing immigration law.

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

President Donald Trump is calling on oil executives to rush to invest in Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100 billion in private funding to revive the country's ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has asked the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis directly to her office.

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran.

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country.

U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea.

General Motors will be hit with charges of about $6 billion in its fourth quarter after sales of electric vehicles sputtered when the U.S. cut tax incentives to buy them and also eased auto emissions standards.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela.

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year.

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Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency.

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas.

Syria's Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes in Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters.

A Minnesota prosecutor is calling on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as new video emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with an immigration officer.

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Protests in Iran have continued despite threats from the government to crack down.

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market.

The Minnesota Timberwolves have held a moment of silence before their game for Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Federal officials say an immigration officer acted in self-defense when he shot through the window of a car, killing the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis.

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a football fan, now is quarterbacking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team as it navigates particularly turbulent global waters, notably in Venezuela.