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President Donald Trump will hold a roundtable discussion on investments in rural health care at the White House on Friday, which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET. NTD will have live coverage of the event.The United States said on Thursday that all options remain on the table to stop the Iranian regime’s violent suppression of nationwide protests, with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz delivering a clear message during an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting held at Washington’s request. The meeting underscored international alarm over Iran’s brutal suppression of protests that began on Dec. 28, 2025, amid economic collapse and a failing currency.

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell protests against ICE agents in Minneapolis. This comes as tensions escalate in the city following a violent nighttime confrontation between an ICE agent and an illegal immigrant in the city. The Department of Homeland Security said the immigrant ambushed the agent, who shot the attacker in the leg in self-defense.President Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will meet at the White House on Thursday. Just hours before the meeting, U.S. Southern Command confirmed in a post on X that U.S. armed forces had seized another Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Caribbean.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers at the White House on Wednesday. Hours before the meeting, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that anything less than Greenland "in the hands" of the United States would be "unacceptable." Trump wrote that America needs Greenland for its national security. He added that NATO would be far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the United States.Trump said on Tuesday that the federal government would suspend payments to so-called sanctuary cities that defy federal immigration enforcement, starting on Feb. 1. Since reclaiming the Oval Office, Trump has made immigration enforcement a priority for his administration and already made similar bids to defund sanctuary jurisdictions. So far, however, he has been blocked from doing so in federal courts.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments over whether state bans on males in female sports violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the White House has “canceled all meetings” with Iranian officials and that “help is on the way” amid days of unprecedented protests in the country against the regime.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank was served with grand jury subpoenas by the Department of Justice on Jan. 9. Powell confirmed in a statement on Jan. 11 that officials threatened a criminal indictment over his Senate Banking Committee testimony in June 2025. Powell noted the testimony “concerned, in part, a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings.” The central bank chief dismissed the idea that this criminal probe was driven by his testimony or the renovation, saying it's connected to his position on interest rates.President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s leadership has contacted his administration to seek negotiations after he warned of possible military action in the wake of mass protests in Iran. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Iranian leaders had reached out to U.S. officials and that a meeting between the two sides was being set up.