Change of Venezuelan government favors creditors China, Russia: Guaido

Guaido said he had sent communications to both allies of President Nicolas Maduro, who accuses Guaido of staging a coup against his socialist administration. The United States and a number of other countries now recognize Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state. "What most suits Russia and China is the country's stability and a change of government," he said.

El Chapo's wife says drug kingpin is 'excellent' husband, father

Accused Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is an "excellent father, friend, brother, son and partner," his young wife said as his landmark trial in New York wound up. "Everything that has been said in court about Joaquin, the good and the bad, has done nothing to change how I think about him after years of knowing him," Emma Coronel, 29, said in a message on her Instagram account late Thursday. In his almost three-month-long trial, Guzman, the 69-year-old former head of the Sinaloa drugs cartel known widely as El Chapo, or Shorty, was accused of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States over the past quarter-century.

Mudslides, floods, rain, howling winds, 10 feet of snow: California braces for powerful, dangerous storm

With the polar vortex in full retreat, the USA's wildest weather shifts to the West.

Trump branded 'extraordinarily inappropriate' amid widespread astonishment at president's attack on intelligence chiefs

Donald Trump’s criticism of the US intelligence community as “extremely passive and naïve” has provoked widespread astonishment among lawmakers in Washington. The president was reportedly seething on Wednesday morning as he watched highlights of intelligence chiefs, including director of national intelligence Dan Coats, counter his views on a number of foreign policy issues during testimony on Capitol Hill. Mr Coats had suggested during the Senate intelligence committee briefing on Tuesday that Iran was avoiding steps towards a nuclear bomb, Isis was returning in Iraq and Syria, and North Korea was unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons.

DACA reportedly off the table as congressional negotiators meet to avert another government shutdown

Democrats doubt they'd be able to get long-term DACA protections; should Nancy Pelosi have taken Trump's deal? DACA recipient Hilario Yanez reacts.

Deutsche Bank struggles to rebound, merger rumors hit shares

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's struggling Deutsche Bank suffered another loss in the fourth quarter as it faces a raft of issues including a steeply lower share price, merger speculation and continuing legal questions.

Zebra dies on Indiana farm after being left out in extreme cold

A zebra died at a farm in northern Indiana due to exposure to the extreme cold