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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged Trump to “take action now” to remove thousands of federal agents from his city following another fatal ICE shooting.

After federal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, the city’s mayor Jacob Frey called on President Donald Trump to “act like a leader” and remove federal law enforcement from his city.

The Trump Pentagon’s newly-released National Defense Strategy blueprint pushed U.S. allies to tackle their own security, and indicated that countering China, which the Biden administration saw as the top U.S. adversary, is not the primary focus.  The 34-page document, which was released late Friday, chastised the previous administrations for neglecting the interests of the American…

President Trump appeared on Saturday to walk back comments he made earlier in the week, suggesting non-U.S. troops in NATO avoided the front lines in Afghanistan, following widespread anger from British political leaders and military families. “The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!…

President Donald Trump said in a social media post that if Prime Minister Mark Carney “thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.”

Finnish President Alexander Stubb was asked at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday who or what can defuse rising tensions between the U.S. and its NATO allies over President Trump’s wish to take over Greenland, the world’s largest island. Stubb promptly responded, “Mark Rutte,” with a laugh, referring to the mild-mannered secretary-general of NATO, who…

First lady Melania Trump will hold a private friends-and-family screening of a new documentary about her at the White House on Saturday, just days before its worldwide release, a longtime advisor told Reuters. The film, “MELANIA,” follows the first lady in the days leading up to President Trump’s second inauguration in January of 2025. It…

A man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday in an incident involving federal law enforcement, who said the man was armed. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and Minneapolis resident, was shot several times in the chest before he was taken to the hospital, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told NewsNation, The…

President Trump’s interest in Greenland has reached meme territory, with the White House posting an AI-generated image on Friday of President Trump walking with a penguin through a snowy, mountain landscape. “Embrace the penguin,” the White House wrote on the social platform X, alongside a photo depicting a penguin holding an American flag next to…

Danish Ambassador to the U.S. Jesper Møller Sørensen on Friday clapped back at President Trump’s remarks about NATO troops who served in Afghanistan, saying “Denmark answered” following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “After 9/11, the U.S. called. Denmark answered,” Sørensen posted on the social platform X. “Thousands of Danish troops served in Helmand—on the front…

President Trump on Saturday threatened 100 percent tariffs on Canada if it decides to make a trade deal with China, less than a week after previously saying “it would be a good thing” that Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make…

Airports across the U.S. have canceled over 9,000 flights for the weekend as parts of the country brace for what’s expected to be a major winter storm, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware on Saturday. American Airlines had the largest number of canceled flights at 1,546 between Saturday and Sunday. Southwest canceled 1,243 flights and…

It’s apparently going to be a hell of a year.

“What’s happening here is clearly immoral.”

Oscar-winning director James Cameron was candid during a recent interview about why he chose to leave the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic and permanently relocate to his 12,000-acre New Zealand farm, saying he wanted to live in a place that “believes in science.” “Five or six months after the pandemic hit … [New Zealand] had…

Vice President JD Vance and conservative influencer Laura Loomer traded jabs on social media Friday after Loomer questioned why Republicans were “pushing more abortion messaging” ahead of the November midterms. “Why is the GOP pushing more abortion messaging in a midterm election year? Didn’t they learn their lesson in 2018? Loomer wrote on the social…

The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two “narco-terrorists,” but one person survived the operation. The vessel, operated by a designated terrorist organization, was transiting along “known narco-trafficking routes” in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in “narco-trafficking operations,” according to the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom).…
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{beacon} Technology   The Big Story TikTok saga comes to a close TikTok said Thursday that it has established a new U.S. venture as part of an agreement to allow the popular social media platform to continue operating in the U.S. © Jeff Chiu, Associated Press The deal brings to a close a lengthy saga…
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Tensions between the United States and Canada have rapidly escalated this week after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, declaring a “rupture” in the old world order and calling on “middle powers” to unite. The once jovial public relationship between Carney and…

How do teachers reassure their students when armed men really are out to get them and their families?

Grammy Award-winning opera singer Renée Fleming will no longer participate in a pair of symphony performances at the Kennedy Center this spring, according to a message on the center’s website. Fleming was scheduled to appear with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) on May 29-30 in a program titled “Appalachian Spring,” featuring American conductor James Gaffigan….

The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees have requested a visit to the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, alleging preferential treatment toward Maxwell and a cover-up of sexual abuse at the facility.  Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) made the demands in a letter to…

The Dropkick Murphys, an Irish American Celtic punk rock band, are showing their support for former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone after a clip of him confronting a Jan. 6, 2021, supporter while wearing the band’s T-shirt went viral. The band reposted a video of Fanone in a tense exchange with Ivan Raiklin, a…

The Treasury Department announced its Office of Foreign Assets Control will target and place sanctions on nine Iranian shadow fleet vessels and their owners who allegedly transported hundreds of millions in Iranian oil and petroleum to foreign markets. “Today’s sanctions target a critical component of how Iran generates the funds used to repress its own…

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called for an investigation Friday into a deal that saw TikTok’s American business spun off into a separate entity in order to allow the app to continue operating in the U.S. The deal was finalized Thursday, with TikTok announcing it had officially established the new U.S. venture. “After over a year…