Israeli Foreign Minister Visits Somaliland After Contentious Recognition

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – The Israeli foreign minister said Tuesday that Israel would soon open an embassy in Somaliland as he made the first visit there since his government’s contentious move to formally recognize the breakaway Somali territory as a sovereign state.

Pope Leo XIV Closes 2025 Holy Year With Critique of Consumerism

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today’s consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw some 33 million pilgrims flock to Rome and a historic transition from one American pontiff to another.

Trump's Vague Claims of the US Running Venezuela Raise Questions

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so, raising questions among some lawmakers and former officials about the administration’s level of planning for the country after Maduro was gone.

Editorials from New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post

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Trump tells Republicans to be 'flexible' on abortion restrictions

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services.

Canada's Indigenous Governor General to Visit Greenland

TORONTO (AP) – Canada’s Indigenous governor general and its foreign minister will visit Greenland in early February, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday. The visit comes as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, the Inuit self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark.

How Delcy Rodríguez courted Trump and rose to power in Venezuela

MIAMI (AP) – In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening.

Venezuela says 24 security officers killed in Maduro operation

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the dead-of-night U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face drug charges, officials said Tuesday.

DHS deploys 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis area

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration has launched what officials describe as the largest federal immigration enforcement operation ever carried out, preparing to deploy as many as 2,000 federal agents and officers to the Minneapolis area for a sweeping crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.