Jan. 26 marks the official start date of the 2026 tax filing season, when the IRS will begin accepting and processing 2025 tax returns.

President Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is expected to visit the White House next week, saying he looks forward to meeting her and hearing her views on Venezuela's future.

Elon Musk's startup xAI has restricted the image generation function on its ⁠Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paid subscribers, after the tool's use of AI to create sexualized images sparked a widespread backlash. The chatbot's image generation had allowed users on...

A United Nations report said economic growth in the United States slowed to 1.9% in 2025 — from 2.8% in 2024 — but was forecast to edge up to 2.0% in 2026 and 2.2% in 2027, aided by expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new ballistic missile that it says...

President Donald Trump said he has "canceled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks" on Venezuela due to the country's release of political prisoners and its cooperation in rebuilding its oil and gas infrastructure.

In his most substantial critique of U.S., Russian, and other military incursions in sovereign countries, Pope Leo XIV on Friday denounced how nations were using force to assert their dominion worldwide, "completely undermining" peace...

Venezuela's ⁠acting President Delcy Rodriguez is expected to visit Bogota for a meeting with Colombian President ⁠Gustavo Petro in the coming ​weeks, Petro told newspaper El Pais in an interview published ⁠on Friday ."She has asked for two weeks. ⁠She ​needs ⁠to see what ...

Iran's supreme leader signaled Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters after they screamed from windows and marched through the streets overnight, directly challenging President Donald Trump's pledge...

The U.S. Supreme Court could issue at least one ruling on Friday as several major cases remain pending including litigation testing the legality of President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs.

Switzerland will hold a memorial service Friday, part of a national day of mourning to honor the 40 people who were killed in an Alpine bar fire earlier this month during a New Year's celebration. An additional 116 people were injured, many of them seriously, when the fire...

Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 13 people, according to health officials, as U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to announce the Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

The Trump administration is considering sending lump-sum payments of up to $100,000 to each of Greenland's roughly 57,000 residents as part of an effort to buy the Arctic island, media outlets reported Thursday.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that ⁠oil companies will spend ​at least $100 billion in Venezuela. Trump made ⁠his comments in a TV interview ahead ⁠of a meeting with oil executives on Friday. "We're going to meet with the biggest oil people in the world," Trump ...

The architect overseeing President Donald Trump's White House ballroom said Thursday the administration is also considering a modest one-story addition to the West Wing colonnade as part of a broader effort to restore architectural balance to the White House campus.

Democrats in Congress could face a series of primary challenges from the far left over their support for Israel, possibly upending the 2026 midterm elections.

Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to cut drug prices for Americans in exchange for exemptions from ⁠tariffs.

The Heritage Foundation's internal upheaval is accelerating, with two fresh resignations from its board of trustees adding to a growing sense of instability at the once-respected conservative institution.

President Donald Trump has publicly endorsed a long-stalled bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russia and foreign nations that buy its discounted energy exports, but the measure's path forward in Congress remains murky, the New York Post reported Thursday.

A bodyguard assigned to protect the family of Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been arrested on federal drug trafficking charges, Cleveland.com reported Thursday.