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Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara held a press conference and noted that rioters gathering in response to Wednesday evening’s federal officer-involved shooting were “engaging in unlawful acts.” The Hill observed, “Protests in Minneapolis escalated Wednesday night after a federal officer shot and injured a Venezuelan migrant after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle…” Breitbart News reported that, after the shooting, rioters smashed into ICE vehicles, ripped out weapons lockers, and — according to video posted online — made off with a rifle and ammunition before fleeing the scene. The New York Times quoted O’Hara saying, “They have thrown fireworks at police officers…

Radicalization, diaspora politics, and fears of foreign interference have turned public discontent into a dead end The wave of protests in Iran is showing signs of gradual decline. The number of people on the streets is decreasing, there are fewer areas of instability, and state institutions are slowly regaining control over the situation. This suggests that the protests have reached their peak and unrest is gradually declining. However, the protests have not been uniform in their nature. When the first demonstrations erupted late last year, they were driven by socio-economic problems: rising prices, inflationary pressures, employment issues, and quality of life…

President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday that, while shah scion Reza Pahlavi “seems very nice,” the U.S. president did not feel confident that the Iranian people would support him as leader should the current Islamist dictatorship fall. Trump also remarked that he did not believe the situation in Iran — two weeks of massive protests in dozens of cities that the Iranian regime is repressing with outsized violence — had reached a point where discussion of a successor to dictator Ali Khamenei was appropriate. Iranians have taken the streets in as many as 195 cities, according to opposition groups,…

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House on Thursday, January 15. Leavitt will brief the media after President Donald Trump met earlier in the day with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. The press conference comes after another ICE-involved shooting in Minnesota on Wednesday when an officer was reportedly attacked and returned fire to defend himself. President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if Minnesota officials do not get violence against federal officers under control. Read the full article here

Brussels is facing significant pushback from key member states over its ongoing policy of refusing to speak with Moscow EU leadership is facing pressure to create a special negotiator role for talks with Russia, Politico reported Wednesday, citing diplomatic sources. The bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, is known as a gaffe-prone Russia hawk who has for years outright refused to engage in diplomacy with Moscow.French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have both recently argued for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a stance notably echoed this week by European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho.According to…

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons, has filed a lawsuit against the tech giant’s social media platform, X, over the prevalence of sexually explicit AI deepfakes of herself and of children. St. Clair has previously described the AI sexfakes of her as “revenge porn,” claiming that the platform retaliated against her by refusing to stop the onslaught of harassment she received, per the New York Post: The lawsuit seeks an emergency restraining order against Grok, calling it “unreasonably dangerous,” and demands it to cease creating digitally altered sexual imagery of her — and to restore…

Thousands of people in northwestern Nigeria have fled their homes, creating a new humanitarian and refugee crisis, after a powerful gang leader named Bello Turji threatened to exterminate entire villages in retaliation for a security operation that killed one of his men. Bello Turji, believed to be in his early 30s, is one of Nigeria’s most infamous bandit warlords. He is a member of the Fulani tribe, the Muslim herdsmen whose frequent attacks on Christian farming villages led President Donald Trump to call out the Nigerian government for allowing Christian persecution. Turji is a good example of how fine the…

Law & Order star Chris Meloni has compared U.S. immigration agents to Nazis and without evidence called President Donald Trump a “pedophile” in a series of unhinged social media rants. In the first of three recent posts on X, Meloni unleashed several fallacious proclamations. “How many countries do we need to invade in order to completely distract from a struggling economy, the “affordability hoax”, the gestapo at home, and proof of pedophilia?” he wrote on Wednesday. Of course, like many other leftist actors living in their Hollywood bubble, Meloni gets it wrong. There truth is, costs have been going down…

Washington’s “abuse” of financial instruments through sanctions is pushing the rest of the world away from the greenback, Paulo Batista has told RT The US is the main enemy of the dollar, prominent Brazilian economist and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive director, Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., has told RT. Washington has increasingly weaponized its national currency, undermining trust in the greenback and the broader Western financial system, he said, in an exclusive interview with RT.“The main enemy of the dollar and of the international payment system controlled by the West is the US itself,” Batista said. “There is a move…

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots… His public life is an endless series of evasions and false pretences. He is willing to embrace any issue, however idiotic, that will get him votes, and he is willing to sacrifice any principle, however sound, that will lose them for him… He may be, on the one hand, a cross-roads idler striving to get into the State Legislature … or he may be, on the other, the President of the United States.”—H. L. Mencken There’s an old saying that when you…