Category Archives: World
Trump thanks Iran for not following through on executions of political prisoners
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of politica...
Jan 16, 2026
Trump to pardon ex-Puerto Rico governor Vázquez in campaign finance case, official says
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vzquez, a White House official said Friday. Vzquez pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in ...
Jan 16, 2026
A South Korean court sentences Yoon to 5 years in prison on charges related to martial law decree
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that...
Jan 15, 2026
Venezuela's Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump during their meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) - Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a meeting with him at the White House on Thursday, "a...
Jan 15, 2026
Venezuela’s acting president adapts to post-Maduro reality and signals a new era of US ties
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodrguez used her first state of the union message on Thursday to advocate for opening the crucial state-run oil industry to more foreign i...
Jan 15, 2026
Judge hands offshore wind industry another victory against Trump in clearing way for NY project
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge Thursday cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction, a victory for the developer who said a Trump administration order to pause it wo...
Jan 15, 2026
Court ruling jeopardizes freedom for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
A federal appeals panel on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step ...
Jan 15, 2026
US seizes in Caribbean Sea another sanctioned oil tanker it says has ties to Venezuela
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, coming as part of a broader U.S. effort to take contro...
Jan 15, 2026
What Americans think about Trump's first year back in office, according to AP-NORC polling
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's second term has been eventful. You wouldn't know it from his approval numbers. An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of T...
Jan 15, 2026
Uganda’s presidential election experiences hours of delays at some polling stations
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Uganda's presidential election was plagued by widespread delays Thursday in addition to a days-long internet shutdown that has been criticized as an anti-democratic tactic in a ...
Jan 14, 2026
