News Right Now: The Protected Class
The release of the redacted Epstein files recently reopened a disturbing and unresolved chapter. These documents, though heavily censored, reminded people that the full truth has still not been shared.
On 3 January 2026, the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a military operation in Caracas. Donald Trump announced that the US is “going to run the country”, and the US Ambassador to the UN, Michael Waltz, stated, "You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States”.
The Presidential Council, headed by Rashad Al-Alimi, on Wednesday, 07/01/2026, from Riyadh, directed a number of charges against one of its members, Aidarus Qassem Al-Zubaidi, including high treason, undermining and violating the constitution, assaulting it, and leading an armed gang to commit crimes of killing, and referred him to the Public Prosecutor.
To commemorate the 105th anniversary of the dismantling of the Khilafah (Caliphate), the members of Hizb ut Tahrir held a rally and public address in the city of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, on Wednesday, 18 Rajab 1447 AH, corresponding to 7 January 2026 CE, in the square of Al-Salihin Market Mosque.
