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Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 - Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning. Immigration officials said Pretti was shot several times shortly after 9 a.m. local time when federal officers were conducting a targeted operation against a different man who was undocumented and wanted for assault. Here is what to know. The victim was an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 - Ukraine's foreign minister accuses Vladimir Putin of sabotaging peace talks From Reuters is now reporting that the talks have ended for the day: Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Saturday slammed US president Donald Trump for saying Nato allies had shied away from the front line in Afghanistan. "I fully understand that Danish veterans have said no words can describe how much this hurts," she said on ...

Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 - The attack left one survivor, and the coastguard has been notified to launch search and rescue operations Reading Time: 2 minutes The US military said on Friday that it had 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 Nicolas Maduro earlier this month. US Southern Command said on social ...