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Adam Johnson served 75 days in prison before being pardoned by Donald Trump in January 2025 A Florida man who was convicted then pardoned by Donald Trump after he grabbed then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and posed for photographs with it during the US Capitol riot is running for county office. Adam Johnson filed … Read more

Four tankers that left Venezuela in early January with their transponders off, also known as “dark mode,” have reportedly returned to the country’s waters. The news comes after several U.S. tanker seizures and amid the Trump administration’s push to acquire Venezuelan oil following the arrest of dictator Nicolás Maduro. Most of the four tankers were … Read more

Unrest has spread across the Islamic Republic as it faces economic disaster at home and a profound weakening of its network of regional allies.

The State Department declared Saturday that the U.S. is “rejecting the outdated model of multilateralism,” saying the system turned American taxpayers into “the world’s underwriter for a sprawling architecture of global governance.”  Additionally, it said that President Donald Trump‘s recent order withdrawing the U.S. from 66 international organizations showed that “the era of writing blank … Read more

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order blocking U.S. courts from seizing Venezuelan oil revenues held in American Treasury accounts. The order states that court action against the funds would undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM JD Vance, the US vice-president, has agreed that it is “entirely unacceptable” for platforms such as X to allow the proliferation of AI-generated sexualised images of women and children, David Lammy has told the Guardian. The deputy prime minister said Vance, usually known … Read more

St Louis zoo identified the stray simians as vervet monkeys, but it’s not known where they came from Some residents in St Louis, Missouri, spotted monkeys roaming their streets this week in a situation that feels like the movie Jumanji came to life. A handful monkeys were spotted in north St Louis by residents on … Read more

USDA notified state’s governor of decision, citing inquiries into alleged fraud by local non-profits and businesses The Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state. The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on … Read more

Funding was paused because health department said benefits were going to people in country illegally A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot block federal money for childcare subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. The states of California, Colorado, … Read more

A coalition of anti-Trump state attorneys general met “daily” during 2025 to brainstorm and organize ways to foil the administration, according to George Soros-backed New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who has been an active member of the group. In an interview with Source New Mexico published on Dec. 31, Torrez said that he and … Read more