Donald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company's chief executive called the country "uninvestable" during a White House meeting last week.
Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, during the high-profile meeting on Friday with at least 17 other oil executives.
Trump had urged the group to spend $100bn to revitalise Venezuela's oil industry in a meeting less than a week after US forces captured and removed Venezuelan president Nicols Maduro from power in a brazen overnight raid.
Woods' sceptical remarks quickly emerged as the dominant headline, undercutting the White House's hopes of building momentum from its engagement with the world's most prominent oil executives.
The UK's independent online safety watchdog, Ofcom, has opened a formal investigation into 'X' under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether Elon Musk's company has complied with its duties to protect people from content that is illegal in the UK.
Ofcom Protects UK Citizens Online
The Los Angeles Times obtained an internal review of US Border Patrol's use-of-force policies, which US Customs and Border Protection has refused to release publicly (members of Congress have seen a summary). While the Times did not offer the report in full, the paper did publish previously unseen snippets that portray a law enforcement agency operating under loose use-of-force standards and little accountability. The review was completed in February 2013 by the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit that develops best practices for law enforcement use-of-force policies. It examined sixty-seven use-of-force incidents by federal border agents near the US-Mexico border that resulted in nineteen deaths.
"USCENTCOM forces, alongside partner forces, conducted large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria. Our message remains strong: if you harm our warfighters, we will find you and kill you anywhere in the world, no matter how hard you try to evade justice."
A suspect has been arrested following an arson attack on Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, that heavily damaged the historic synagogue early Saturday morning, according to chief fire investigator Charles Felton. The fire, reported shortly after 3 a.m., destroyed two Torah scrolls and damaged five others while reducing the library and administrative offices to charred ruins, Mississippi Today reported. The Jackson Fire Department, FBI, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) made the arrest Saturday night after investigators ruled the blaze arson. No congregants were injured in the fire, which erupted during Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest. The synagogue has suspended services indefinitely, according to congregation president Zach Shemper.
Ecuadoran police on Sunday found five human heads hung on display on a tourist beach in Puerto Lopez, as the country reels from a wave of gang violence. Beside them a wooden board had a message threatening gang members who extort protection payments known locally as "vaccine cards".
Jan 11, 2026 Stranger Things
I've always been a fan of political cartoons because I feel that they can just cut through all the nonsense that goes on, and with just one picture and a sentence or two, they can speak volumes. Here are a few of them that I noticed from this past week.
Robert Kiyosaki warns of massive unemployment around the corner. And it'll be caused by the biggest change in history. Are you at risk in 2026?
Iran's parliamentary speaker warned on Saturday that Tehran could carry out preemptive strikes against Israel and U.S. military assets in the region, sharply escalating rhetoric as tensions rise across the Middle East. Speaking during a session of parliament broadcast live on Iranian state television, Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Israel -- which he referred to as "the occupied territory" -- as well as U.S. military centers, bases and ships would be considered "legitimate targets" in the event of an attack on Iran, according to media reports. "We do not consider ourselves limited to reacting after the action," Qalibaf said. "We will act based on any objective signs of a threat."
Iranian regime elites, in a massive money laundering operation masquerading as a private bank that essentially allowed high-ranking officials to steal the savings of ordinary Iranians and loot Iran's national treasury for themselves, now face a public who cannot access their bank accounts. Watch the video to see how this massive money laundering operation was done as the regime sees its end coming. Very interesting ... Read more
Mike Brock: Most people don't want to kill their neighbors. Most people don't want to wage unconstitutional war. Most people don't want to shoot women in Minneapolis. Most people don't want children trafficked. Most people don't want the republic destroyed.
The Mullahs are finally staring into the abyss, and for once, it's not because of a strongly worded letter from the UN or even Trump's recent bombing raid on their nascent nuclear program.
Most people of Somali descent in America are citizens, including those living in Minnesota, according to estimates from the American Community Survey, an ongoing survey conducted by the Census Bureau.
The promise of artificial intelligence was front and center at this year's CES gadget show. But spicing up a simple machine like a refrigerator with unnecessary AI was also a surefire way to win the "Worst in Show." The annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday.
Timothy Busfield Charged With Child Sex Abuse On The Cleaning Lady's New Mexico Set; WBTV Will "Cooperate With Law Enforcement"
The United Arab Emirates has restricted funding for its citizens who want to study at British universities, the latest sign of tensions over the UK's decision not to proscribe the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group. Abu Dhabi's decision to exclude UK institutions from a list of universities eligible for state scholarships comes as relations between the two historic allies have frayed in recent years. In June, the UAE higher education ministry published a list of global universities for which scholarships would be approved and qualifications certified, as part of reforms that limited funding to the best-performing institutions. Read more
