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    Eight arrested in Minneapolis as Trump officials issue threats to protesters

    Federal agents use teargas against protesters as homeland security officials tell of ‘largest operation in DHS history’Eight people were arrested outside a federal building in Minneapolis on Tuesday, according to the Department of Homeland Security, as the Trump administration doubled down on threats to protesters and city and state officials who might try to impede their mass deportation agenda.Throughout the afternoon, crowds of people who gathered in protest against the continued presence and violent tactics of federal immigration officers in the city were hit with teargas, pepper balls and flash bangs. Demonstrators have amassed in the city and across the country after the Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good was killed by a federal immigration agent. Continue reading… More

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    Trump says Renee Good probably a ‘wonderful person – but her actions were pretty tough’

    President speaks to CBS News about killing of woman by ICE agent and defends immigration crackdownDonald Trump has defended his administration’s increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a “wonderful person” whose “tough” actions justified a lethal response.Trump’s comments, made during an interview with CBS News after touring a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, came as tensions continue to rise in Minneapolis days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good at the wheel of her SUV on a residential street last week. Continue reading… More

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    Trump news at a glance: president vows to help ‘Iranian Patriots’ in latest signal of military action against Tehran

    Administration issues warning to US citizens: ‘Leave Iran now’ – key US politics stories from 13 January at a glanceDonald Trump has told Iranians to keep protesting and said help was on the way, in the clearest sign yet that the US president may be preparing for military action against Tehran.“Iranian Patriots, keep protesting – take over your institutions!!! … help is on its way,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday. He added that he had cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials until the “senseless killing” of protesters stopped. Continue reading… More

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    US Strike on Venezuela: A Violation of the Sovereign Equality of Nation-State Principle

    The US strike on northern Venezuela’s establishment on January 3 is a gross violation of international law and the principle of the sovereign equality of the nation-state. This noble principle, first articulated in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 — which ended the balkanization of Europe — was later reiterated in the Charter of the… Continue reading US Strike on Venezuela: A Violation of the Sovereign Equality of Nation-State Principle
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    Why Iran’s Collapse Requires Decisive American and Israeli Intervention

    January 2026 marks an irrevocable geopolitical shift. The Islamic Republic of Iran faces terminal systemic failure. What began on December 28, 2025, as local economic protests has rapidly escalated into the clerical establishment’s gravest existential threat since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Unlike past unrest, this uprising demands revolution rather than reform.  The regime’s internal survival… Continue reading Why Iran’s Collapse Requires Decisive American and Israeli Intervention
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    2026 is already pure chaos. Is that Trump’s electoral strategy? | Moustafa Bayoumi

    Less than two weeks into the year, the US is stoking mayhem at home and abroad – with midterms coming in the autumnHave we ever seen a year in recent memory begin with as much deliberate turmoil as 2026 has? Less than two weeks into 2026, we have witnessed Donald Trump deploy US forces to depose and abduct the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, along with Cilia Flores, his wife and close political adviser. The US president then informed the world that the United States would “run” Venezuela for the time being, which he later explained could potentially last for several years.Trump has also threatened – and then seemingly made peace with – the president of Colombia; seized at least five oil tankers in the Caribbean (actions that UN experts label illegal armed aggression); promised US military strikes targeting cartels in Mexico against the wishes of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum; and frightened the people of Cuba with the prospect that Marco Rubio could be their next president. Continue reading… More

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    Trump news at a glance: White House doubles down on threat of ‘lethal force’ against Iran amid unrest

    Trump also announced a 25% tariff for ‘any country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran’ – key US politics stories from 12 JanuaryLast week, as growing protests in Iran were met with violent crackdowns, Donald Trump issued a threat to the country’s leadership: “You’d better not start shooting, because we’ll start shooting too.”This week the White House is doubling down on Trump’s saber-rattling. Continue reading… More

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    US Federal Reserve chair says DOJ has threatened criminal indictment – video

    Jerome Powell said on Sunday that the Department of Justice had threatened him with a criminal indictment and served grand jury subpoenas over Congressional testimony he gave last summer regarding a Federal Reserve building renovation project. Powell says this action is a pretext aimed at putting further pressure on the central bank to lower interest ratesJustice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve Continue reading… More