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BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader set to speak shortlyLink
January 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader says Iran will not back down and Trump should focus on running his own countryLink
January 9, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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BREAKING: Trump says will conduct strikes against cartel targets in MexicoLink
January 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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BREAKING: Trump says Cuba is reliant on Venezuela for money and oil and is now 'going to fail'Link
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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BREAKING: Mayor of Portland calls for ICE to end operations in the cityLink
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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BREKAING: Iranian opposition leader Reza Pahlavi says that 'millions of Iranians demanded their freedom tonight' and thanks 'the leader of the free world, President Trump, for reiterating his promise to hold the regime to account'Link
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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BREAKING: Building linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has been set on fire in IsfahanLink
January 8, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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BREAKING: Two people have been shot by Federal agents in 🇺🇸 Portland, with circumstances not yet clear.Link
January 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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BREAKING: Iranian security forces attacked by protesters and their cars torched in TehranLink
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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BREAKING: Trump orders government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to push mortgage rates downLink
January 8, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Tulsi Gabbard, the 🇺🇸 Director of National Intelligence, was 'sidelined' from Venezuela operation planning and 'was posting social-media photos of herself on a beach in Hawaii' as final preparations were being made, according to Wall Street Journal report.Link
January 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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BREAKING: Telegram channels covering 🇮🇷 Iran protests are now offline after authorities cut internet accessLink
January 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Trump says 'ownership' of Greenland is 'very important'Link
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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ENERGY: Oil prices are up 4% todayLink
January 8, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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🇺🇸 President Trump says his 'own morality' is the only constraint on his power as commander in chief, and that 'I do not need international law', according to interview with The New York Times.Link
January 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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BREAKING: Trump says that if Iranian authorities 'kill people, we will hit them very hard'.Link
January 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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BREAKING: Internet blackout in Iran amid escalating protestsLink
January 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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BREAKING: Large anti-regime protests in TehranLink
January 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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BREAKING: Phone lines have been cut in IranLink
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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UNITED STATES: 61% of American adults will have some type of cardiovascular disease by 2050, according to a report by the American Heart Association.Link
January 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Share of global GDP

1990

🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇬🇧 France, Germany, Italy, Japan and UK combined: 37%

🇺🇸 United States: 26%

2025

🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇬🇧 France, Germany, Italy, Japan and UK combined: 16%

🇺🇸United States: 26%Link
January 8, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Average wealth per adult, 2025.

🇨🇭 Switzerland: $687,166
🇺🇸 United States: $620,654
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: $601,195
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: $566,735
🇦🇺 Australia: $516,640
🇩🇰 Denmark: $481,558
🇸🇬 Singapore: $441,596
🇳🇿 New Zealand: $393,773
🇳🇱 Netherlands: $370,697
🇳🇴 Norway: $368,410
🇨🇦 Ca....
January 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Trump's intervention in Venezuela has 'sent shivers down the spine of oil buyers in China', according to Financial Times report.Link
January 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Population of Bulgaria

2000: 8.1 million

2025: 6.3 millionLink
January 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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BREAKING: Protesters plan to go on strike in several regions across Iran todayLink
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM