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Donald Trump finally left for Davos after Air Force One was forced into a sudden mid-air U-turn on Tuesday night due to an on-board electrical issue that plunged part of the aircraft into darkness. Click here for full story.  

Click here to read about how as soon as Wednesday afternoon, a Texas jury will begin deliberating whether a law enforcement officer should be held criminally responsible for failing to act in the face of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.  After nine days of testimony, prosecutors and defense lawyers in the trial of former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales are scheduled to deliver their closing arguments in a Corpus Christi courtroom on Wednesday morning.

"If I know prices are going to be lower in the future because I expect this Venezuelan crude, that'll impact prices now," said Dr. Ian Lange, a professor of economics and business at the Colorado School of Mines. He also served as a senior economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Trump's first term.   However, others say it's too soon for Venezuela to be a factor at the pump.  Click here for more detail on this story.

The Pentagon was expected to send additional military assets to the Middle East in coming days, according to several people familiar with the discussions, including possibly the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.  Such a move is considered a typical precaution at times of heightened tensions because of the 30,000 troops stationed throughout the region in countries like Qatar, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.  Click here for more.

Click here to read about how  NASA has just revealed that the crew of the International Space Station was being evacuated for the first time in history after one of the astronauts suffered a medical emergency. 

Hiring ticked down in December, defying the Federal Reserve's effort to boost hiring with a recent series of interest rate cuts, a jobs report on Friday showed. The reading fell short of economists'  expectations.  The U.S. added 50,000 jobs in December, which marked a slight drop from 64,000 jobs added in the previous month.  Click here for more.  

Click here to read about how Iran's president says his country is in a 'full-scale war' with the US, Israel and Europe as the hostile nation looks to rebuild its nuclear capabilities. President Masoud Pezeshkian issued the chilling proclamation in an interview with the state-controlled media on Saturday, saying that he believes Iran is already at war with the West. 'We are in a full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe; they don’t want our country to remain stable,' Pezeshkian said.  Click here for more.

Under heavy guard, former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown from a federal jail in Brooklyn to Manhattan on Monday morning to make their first court appearance since being captured by U.S. forces over the weekend.  Surrounded by Drug Enforcement Agency agents, the shackled Maduro shuffled from the helicopter to an armored vehicle, and was then driven to a federal courthouse.  Click here for the full story.

Tesla on Friday reported a second straight annual drop in electric vehicle sales, as the phaseout of a $7,500 federal EV tax credit and mounting competition weighed on demand. With the decline, Tesla lost its title as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker.  Click here for more.