Tehran warned the US and Israel against any intervention over nationwide protests in Iran while it sought to placate its citizens, as demonstrations entered their third week and fatalities mounted.

The U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell over the central bank's renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project,

President Donald Trump said US forces will "start now hitting land" in Mexico targeting drug cartels, following months of naval strikes against narcoboats. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has expressed opposition to this move.

The US' 'Doomsday plane' landed in Washington DC earlier this week before later landing at LAX on Thursday (January 8), sparking concern amid growing tensions across the globe. The Boeing E-4B 'Nightwatch', which has been commonly known as the 'Doomsday plane', is often used in emergencies including that of 9/11.

The U.S. State Department urges Americans traveling here to exercise increased caution as U.S. citizens have been robbed, assaulted and even murdered on the island.

US captures Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro in largest military incursion into foreign country since the war in Iraq.

U.S. manufacturing jobs in December continued an eight-month skid that began last spring after President Donald Trump rolled out aggressive import taxes that he pledged would lead to a resurgence of blue-collar jobs by reshuffling world trade to favor U.

The latest data means 2025 saw the weakest annual job growth since 2003, with just 584,000 jobs added last year.