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Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
Family releases statement saying: 'Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs' From A GoFundMe page entitled Alex Pretti is an American Hero has raised almost $400,000 since it was set up just 17 hours ago. Its organiser, Keith Edwards, said that Pretti was '"executed on the streets of Minneapolis by ICE agents". On the page, he says: A number of prominent US sports ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has urged citizens to back domestic businesses and workers under a new "Buy Canadian" policy, hours after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods if Ottawa proceeded with trade deals with China. In a video posted on his X account, Carney framed the policy as a response to growing economic pressure from abroad. Trump Threatens Canada ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — Several Senate Democrats on Saturday came out against a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after another deadly shooting by federal authorities in Minneapolis earlier in the day. "Trump's endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote on the social platform X . "This brutal crackdown has to ...
Source: wfla.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump commended British soldiers who fought in Afghanistan in a social media post on Saturday, backtracking on remarks he made that attracted criticism from NATO allies. In an interview Thursday, Trump had claimed troops from non-American NATO countries had stayed off the "front lines" during the war in Afghanistan. The comments drew fierce criticism across Europe, including from British Prime ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
The American took just over 90 minutes to reach the top of one of the world's tallest buildings. American climber Alex Honnold ascended one of the world's tallest buildings on Sunday without a rope or protective equipment. The 40-year-old free solo climber - a term used to describe those who tackle ascents without ropes - took just over 90 minutes to scale the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan , at one time the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
Nico Antic was pulled from the water by friends and taken to hospital with severe injuries to both legs Reading Time: 1 minute An Australian boy had died in hospital after being bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour, his family said on Saturday after a series of shark attacks along the country's east coast. Nico Antic, 12, was attacked on Sunday as he and friends were jumping off rocks in Vaucluse, around 9km (5.5 ...
Source: scmp.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
OKLAHOMA CITY — More than 11,000 flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend were canceled as a monster storm started to wreak havoc Saturday across much of the country and threatened to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways with dangerous ice. Roughly 140 million people, or more than 40% of the U.S. population, were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England. The ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that two days of trilateral talks with Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi concluded with "constructive" discussions on "possible parameters for ending the war." The talks are the first known instance that officials from the Trump administration have sat down with both countries as part of Washington's push for progress to end Moscow's nearly 4-year-old ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat was "engaged in narco-trafficking operations" and that the strike ...
Source: pbs.org