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7:45 AM ET, January 11, 2026

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New York Times:
Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue  —  The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country.  —  President Trump has been briefed in recent days …
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Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Warns It Could Hit U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Military Options  —  Speaker of Iran's parliament says country would also target Middle Eastern shipping lanes and Israel  —  Iran will attack American military bases in the Middle East if the U.S. hits first, the country's parliamentary speaker …
Discussion: Israpundit, NewsMax.com and UPI
Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
‘Massacre’ feared as Iran tries to crush protests; U.S. weighs military options  —  A rights group said credible reports show hundreds were killed since Iran cut off the internet.  The Trump administration is mulling lethal and nonlethal military options.  —  ISTANBUL — Reports …
Discussion: Axios
Reuters:
Israel on high alert for possibility of US intervention in Iran, sources say  —  Israel is on high alert for the possibility of any U.S. intervention in Iran as authorities there confront the biggest anti-government protests in years, according to three Israeli sources with knowledge of the matter.
Discussion: israelhayom.com and Breitbart
New York Times:   Death Toll Grows as Nationwide Protests Rock Iran for a Third Night
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump says U.S. is ready to help Iranians get freedom
Daily Mail:
Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’: US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation  —  Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
Discussion: The Guardian and Bloomberg
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Financial Times:
Nato silence on Donald Trump's Greenland threats rattles European allies  —  Military alliance yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark  —  Henry Foy in Brussels and Richard Milne in Oslo  —  Nato's silence in response …
Washington Post:
Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait  —  A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection.  —  The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text …
Discussion: The Independent, The Hill and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments  —  When the National Portrait Gallery replaced a portrait of President Trump this week, it took down a biography of his first term.  —  The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery removed wall text that referred to President Trump's two impeachments …
Chris Hippensteel / New York Times:
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide  —  Mounting outrage over an ICE agent's killing of a woman in Minneapolis spilled into streets across the country on Saturday, as crowds of protesters mobilized against what they called the excesses of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Axios, Mother Jones and CBS News
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon
Wall Street Journal:
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
New York Times:
Trump's ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor  —  President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.”  They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.  —  President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Newsweek
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries  —  State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans  —  The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries …
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Launches Major Strikes on Islamic State Targets in Syria  —  The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year.  —  The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday …
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
US military says it carried out strikes across Syria targeting Islamic State
Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters:
Nobel Institute says Peace Prize cannot be transferred after Machado suggestion  —  The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred, shared, or revoked, following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado suggesting she might give her 2025 award to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CNBC
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David Gibson / New York Times:
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms  —  Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental counterweight to an incendiary American president.  —  A face-off between the two most prominent Americans on the world stage was inevitable …
Discussion: America Magazine
Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:
“I'm Not Mad At You”  —  “That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you.”  — Renee Nicole Good's last words to the ICE agent who killed her moments later.  —  “Fuckin' bitch.”  — voice on ICE agent Jonathan Ross's video after he shoots her.  —  The most remarkable thing about the latest Trumpist spin …
 
 
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