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The lawyer for imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi said the regime added another seven years and a half to her prison sentence on Saturday as part of its crackdown against dissidents in the wake of last month’s massive nationwide protests. “She has been sentenced to six years in prison for ‘gathering and collusion’ and one and a half years for propaganda and two-year travel ban,” lawyer Mostafa Nili said on social media. According to Nili, Mohammadi was also punished with two years of “internal exile” that would prevent her from leaving the city of Khosf after she eventually…

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents should be withdrawn from every city because “there is a body count of American citizens.” Co-host Ana Navarro said, “Governor, you’ve called the events that we’ve been seeing in Minneapolis the Bloody Sunday of our generation. President Trump said last week that he was going to take a softer touch on immigration enforcement, but there’s no indication his administration is backing down. In fact, they are now trying to remove Liam Ramos and his father do an expedited removal of that five year old…

A brazen daytime attempted robbery unfolded along the main highway linking Brindisi and Lecce in Italy’s Puglia region, where masked, heavily armed assailants ambushed an armored cash transit vehicle on Monday morning.According to video footage shared on social media, a group of at least six men – some wearing white and black overalls and masks – blocked both directions of State Road 613 near Tuturano by setting fire to a van and a truck, creating a fiery barricade.The attackers, some driving vehicles fitted with blue flashing lights to mimic police, fired rifles during the assault. The gang then detonated explosives on…

China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper proclaimed that America was besieged by “deep divisions” and that “social disorder” was plunging the country into chaos in an article this weekend on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. The state newspaper was referencing comments made by three American athletes at the event – out of 232 – suggesting that they were uncomfortable representing their country due to various policies implemented by President Donald Trump, most prominently immigration enforcement. At a press conference last week, freestyle skiers Hunter Hess and Chris Lillis emphasized to reporters that did not wish to represent “everything that’s going on”…

A poll shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy in its current state. Surveying 1,462 likely voters between January 27 and 30, the NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that only 36 percent of those surveyed approved of the president’s handling of the economy, versus 59 percent who disapproved. In the month of December, the president’s disapproval for handling the economy stood at 57 percent. “With about nine months until the midterms, the president is facing growing concerns on the economy,” noted the Hill. “More than half of respondents to the poll said the White House should…

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Ana Navarro said Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance was a “micro joy” for Latinos in the United States. Navarro said, “I think maybe the reason that Trump doesn’t like Bad Bunny is because Bad Bunny unlike him isn’t a nepo trust fund baby. Just 10 years ago — this is amazing to me — just 10 years ago Benito Martínez Ocasio, Bad Bunny, was bagging groceries at a supermarket in San Juan and uploading his music to YouTube. Ten years later, here he is at the biggest stage in the world.” She continued,…

The US president has demanded ownership of “at least half” of the crossing between Ontario and Michigan President Donald Trump has threatened to block the opening of a major new bridge linking Canada and the United States unless Washington receives compensation and a partial ownership stake in the project.In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump said he would not allow the Gordie Howe International Bridge – connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan – to open until the United States is “fully compensated” and Canada treats the US with what he described as “fairness and respect.”“With…

Chinese state media agencies confirmed a massive explosion taking place at a facility owned by a biotechnology company killed at least eight people in Shanxi, northern China this weekend. Multiple Asian news outlets identified the company involved as Shanyin Jiapeng Bio-Technology, which reportedly manufactures a host of chemicals including agricultural products and paint. None of the reports on the incident indicate any known reason for the explosion, indicating that investigations are still ongoing. The government’s Xinhua News Agency reported that the Communist Party had detained the company’s legal representative, stating that he or she was “placed under control” without any details.…

Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny — born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — appears to have deleted all of his Instagram posts after his Super Bowl halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl LX. The “Me Porto Bonito” singer’s Instagram account, boasting 52.6 million followers, shows no profile image, zero posts and zero people that he is following at the time of this writing. While the reason for this remains unclear, Bad Bunny’s removed Instagram content comes after the conclusion of his Super Bowl halftime show which resulted in fans taking to social media to bash the NFL for featuring the “boring” 31-year-old who performed in a…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that he viewed recent talks with the United States as “a step forward,” but his foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, insisted on the same day that Iran will never give up its uranium enrichment program. Araghchi held talks with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman on Friday, after a few days of last-minute demands from Tehran that looked like an effort to scuttle the event. Based on the news emerging from Oman, Araghchi and Witkoff seemed to accomplish little more than agreeing to hold more meetings in the future. Pezeshkian wrote a post on…