Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Jan. 11-17 include rapper-actor LL Cool J, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and actor-playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda

Over the past 50 years, Iran has been shaken by a series of protests

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Returns to “The Pitt,” the Grid and music of Kid Laroi are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro

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A tense calm held in Venezuela on Sunday, a day after President Nicolas Maduro was deposed and captured in an American military operation.

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A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded two others, including a 4-year-old child, in Russia’s Belgorod region on Sunday, officials said, ahead of peace talks in Paris this week

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Nicolás Maduro rose from a unionized bus driver in Caracas to the presidency of Venezuela, inheriting power after the death of Hugo Chávez and consolidating it over a turbulent decade in office.

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The United States has launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife

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