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Chile's far-right president-elect visits El Salvador mega-prison, plans to talk security with Bukele 01/30/2026 05:27pm • SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss organized crime. The Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, has fueled a steady stream of accusat 'Not acceptable': Northwest DC residents frustrated it took days to plow their street 01/30/2026 05:26pm • As last weekend's snowstorm dumped several inches of snow and sleet onto D.C. streets, Susan Oakley watched as her Northwest neighborhood became covered. A plow didn't pass through the area, near Sibley Memorial Hospital on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, Oakley said. She and several neighbors called It's freezing cold and you've lost power. Here's what emergency doctors want you to do 01/30/2026 04:34pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Freezing temperatures and long-term power outages can quickly create dangerous health situations. Even at seemingly routine winter temperatures, the cold can exhaust the body and overwork the heart over time. The indoor risk of hypothermia and frostbite are especially a concern in Anger and anguish spread across Cuba as it learns of Trump's tariff threat on those who provide oil 01/30/2026 04:05pm • HAVANA (AP) — Massive power outages in Cuba meant that many people awoke Friday unaware that U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to the Caribbean island. As word spread in Havana and beyond, anger and anguish boiled over about the Polygamous sect's sway has dwindled in twin towns on Arizona-Utah line. Residents enjoy new freedoms 01/30/2026 01:37pm • COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (AP) — The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border are mostly gone. These days, Colorado City, Arizona, and neighboring Hildale, Utah, look much like any other town in this remote and pictures Who is Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh? 01/30/2026 01:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’ll tap former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell in May — with Trump believing that he can finally get the booming economy that he promised to voters. When Trump said that Warsh comes from “cent ‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees 01/30/2026 01:26pm • Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he tol The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into the killing of Alex Pretti 01/30/2026 01:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday. “We’re looking at everything that would shed light on The Sundance Film Festival's big moments and breakout movies 01/30/2026 12:53pm • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The last Sundance Film Festival in Utah is drawing to a close this weekend. The Park City gathering was a wistful farewell to the place Robert Redford’s brainchild has called home for over 40 years and launched so many careers. Although the festival isn’t ending — it w What to know about Gaza's Rafah crossing, set to open Sunday 01/30/2026 10:57am • JERUSALEM (AP) — The gateway to the world for Palestinians in Gaza — the Rafah border crossing to Egypt — is set to reopen Sunday after being largely shut since it was seized by Israel in May 2024. The reopening, announced by Israel on Friday, is part of entering the second phase of the U.S.-b ASEAN to stick to Myanmar peace plan despite its failure to stop deadly civil war 01/30/2026 10:39am • CEBU, Philippines (AP) — A peace plan agreed on by Southeast Asian leaders five years ago has failed to end Myanmar’s civil war but it could still serve as a basis for working with the new government that will emerge from recent elections there, Thailand’s top diplomat said Friday. The nationw UN nuclear watchdog discusses risks to Ukraine's nuclear safety after relentless Russian strikes 01/30/2026 10:02am • VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog's board held a special session Friday to discuss risks to nuclear safety in Ukraine as concerns mount that relentless Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure pose an increasing danger of a nuclear accident. The urgent meeting of the International Atomic Trump claims Putin agreed to temporary halt in energy attacks on Ukraine, but terms are unclear 01/30/2026 09:50am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The terms of a Russian commitment to U.S. President Donald Trump to temporarily halt its bombardment of Ukraine during one of the country's bleakest winters in years remained unclear Friday, as Ukrainians braced for even worse conditions to come next week. Trump said late Thu Katseye, Addison Rae, Lola Young and more light up pre-Grammy Spotify showcase 01/30/2026 09:29am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leon Thomas and Olivia Dean brought soul, global girl group Katseye and Addison Rae performed electric pop and Lola Young made a triumphant return to the stage. Those acts, alongside The Marías, sombr and Alex Warren, make up the 2026 Grammys' best new artist nominees and were Cut off from most communication, Iranian protesters share rare stories of determination and dissent 01/30/2026 08:25am • BEIRUT (AP) — This time felt different. The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago — the ones that erupted after a young woman was arrested and died in custody for not wearing the hijab properly — would improve civil rights in the Islamic Republic.