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BREAKING - Anti ICE agitators, led by failed CNN host Don Lemon, stormed a Minneapolis church this morning, halting services and holding members hostage because they believed the pastor was ICE affiliated. “The whole point of it is to disrupt and make people uncomfortable.”

Greenland rarely draws global attention. But as ice melts and great powers inch closer, the world’s largest island has become a strategic prize — one that caught President Donald Trump's eye long before most Americans were paying attention.

Those inside were forced to flee after a window was smashed and the home was deliberately set alightA suspect is believed to have set themselves on fire after a family home was deliberately set alight in a 'targeted petrol bomb attack' in Greater Manchester on Sunday (January 18). Emergency services raced to the scene of the blaze, which took hold of the dining room and spread to part of the kitchen, after the incident in Bury shortly before 2am. Police cordoned off the area off Kendal Drive in the Redvales area. The family home remained taped off throughout Sunday with...

The return of hard-power politics is no longer a theoretical debate for Europe. From U.S. military action in Venezuela to President Donald Trump’s renewed pressure over Greenland, long-standing assumptions about a rules-based international order are being openly tested as geopolitical competition sharpens. Sir Robin Niblett, Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House, told TVP World’s On the Record that the Trump administration represents a fundamental break with decades of U.S. alliance policy. “This is a U.S. administration that believes in ‘might is right,’” Niblett said. “The view of President Trump himself is that alliances are sources of leverage, not sources of solidarity.”...

The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, defense officials told The Washington Post late Saturday, after President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to unrest there. The soldiers are assigned to two infantry battalions with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, which is based in Alaska and specializes in cold-weather operations.

Summary Industry calls on EU to consider never-before-used 'Anti-Coercion Instrument' Current tariff regime already costing German companies billions U.S. is Germany's top export destination BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - German industry reacted with anger on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump's planned use of tariffs to crank up the pressure on Denmark to sell Greenland, calling on Europe not to cave in to his demands.Trump's threat to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the U.S. is allowed to buy the strategically important island derails a period of relative calm for businesses after Brussels and Washington agreed...

‘These are the type of sickos we are getting OUT of our neighborhoods,’ said DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin in a statement to The Federalist.As the Minneapolis mob and their fellow privileged leftists protest and hold signs declaring, “Renee Good, ICE Bad,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to do the hard, thankless work of removing “the worst of the worst” criminal illegal immigrants from crime-battered communities across the country. On Thursday, the roundup included perps convicted of sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation of a minor, and aggravated assault, according to the latest Department of Homeland Security report exclusively provided to...

Loud, ongoing protests in major cities in Iran, including Tehran. In UK demonstrators for Iran were broken up in front of 10 Downing by metro police, in Frankfurt, Germany, demonstrators got stabbed by Afghan nationals, perps arrested. USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group steaming towards Iran. Iran government threatening preemptive strikes against US and Israel. Israel warned US not to strike yet, but also warned that contemplated US strike would be insufficient, and to do more. Transcript linked below video.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rows of businesses stood shuttered inside a sprawling complex of Somali businesses on a recent afternoon. Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis contains more than a hundred small businesses in suites offering everything from clothing and food to insurance and accounting services. But many sellers sat alone in their clothing stores, waiting for the occasional customer to walk by. Everyone is afraid of federal immigration agents, business owners said. Sellers and customers, citizens and noncitizens. Some don’t bother opening shop because they aren’t expecting any customers. “It’s been like this for three weeks now,” said Abdi Wahid, who...

As silver’s history-making rally continues above $90/oz, a new wave of slick, high-volume commentary is sweeping across social media. A sudden new presence in the precious metals conversation is raising questions about how narratives emerge during market stress, what qualifies as reliable investment insight, and how quickly investor interest in silver is expanding. In this week’s The Gold Spot, Scottsdale Bullion & Coin Founder Eric Sepanek and Precious Metals Advisor John Karow analyze the YouTube phenomenon known as “The Asian Guy,” how this investment guidance lines up with more established voices, and what the channel’s rise in popularity says about...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said it’s “very unlikely” that the Supreme Court will overturn President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs, with a potential decision from the court looming as early as this week. “I believe that it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will overrule a president’s signature economic policy,” Bessent said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “They did not overrule Obamacare, I believe that the Supreme Court does not want to create chaos.” In June, the Supreme Court upheld a key Affordable Care Act provision that set up a panel to recommend...

Minnesota’s burgeoning fraud revelations threaten to put the state in play politically. Tim Walz’s sudden, surprise exit indicates this could be true in 2026 and 2028. Democrats’ long-time dominance there all the more precarious for the fact that, below the surface, Minnesota was already on the precipice. Minnesota has long appeared to be a Democratic stronghold. No Republican presidential candidate has won there since Richard Nixon in 1972. The state has produced historic Democratic stalwarts like Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey (D) and Walter Mondale (D). It also produced the new generation of further-left liberals like former Sen. Paul Wellstone (D)....

@AndrewRosindell This evening, with sorrow, I have decided to resign from my position as an Opposition Shadow Minister and as a member of the Conservative & Unionist Party. Since joining the Conservative Party at the age of 14, I have been a loyal and committed supporter of the principles advocated by Margaret Thatcher that have always underpinned my own political beliefs. However, the time has come to put country before party. The failure of the Conservative Party both when in government and more recently in opposition to actively hold the government to account on the issue of Chagossian self-determination and...

It’s not often that Europe speaks with one voice – or responds with such urgency.But US President Donald Trump’s announcement Saturday of sanctions against several European countries that reject any US claim to Greenland, a Danish territory, was one of those moments.EU ambassadors are holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on Sunday in response to Trump’s threat, which he made after an estimated quarter of the population of Greenland’s capital Nuuk joined protests against any potential annexation.Across the continent, among allies that usually tread carefully in responding to utterances from the White House, the response was immediate and emphatic, and...

New taxation that started in Fairfax County, VA on Jan 1. The proposal was rejected twice by voters but rammed through by the board of supervisors. Some of the absurdities:cup of coffee: not taxable same cup of coffee with a sandwich: taxable donuts: taxable "prepackaged donuts sold separately, and not as part of a meal": not taxable "Seafood sold by the pound cooked by an employee-operated steam cooker at no additional charge": not taxable

In Seattle, the new socialist mayor Katie Wilson urged people to sign up for 'Washington for All ICE Mobilization Alerts', a group which is training to 'mobilize a unified response' to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. 'This will take all of us,' the Seattle Mayor said in a rallying call to residents via a video message posted on her X account, while she also joined protests in the city. 'We already have laws in place that forbid our local police from aiding ICE in most instances. The police will adhere to these laws. That's an important step,' added Wilson,...

Sunrise is bankrolled by a who’s who of deep-pocketed left-wing organizations. Open Society Foundations has sent it $2 million since 2019, according to its grant database. Half of the money supported general “social welfare activities.” The Ford Foundation contributed $150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, while the MacArthur Foundation—the 12th-largest private charity in America—gave $250,000 in 2024, according to tax filings and grant disclosures.

President Trump is restoring law and order. Transcript Summary Well, I think every day we get a murderer off the streets of Minneapolis. The public is safer, and President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people. And we literally have arrested and detained thousands of illegal criminals in Minnesota since President Trump came back into the White House. And I've never met a family that ever said, oh, I wish you would have left that rapist free. I wish you would have left that murderer on the streets. So we're just so thankful that we have a president...

🚨 DEMOCRATS IN FULL PANIC MODE! New DEVASTATING poll drops: Americans TRUST Republicans MORE than Dems on: • Economy & Inflation: +6 points • Tariffs: +2 points • Immigration: +11 points • Border Security: +28 POINTS

Donald Trump’s attempt to bully his Nato allies into handing over Greenland by imposing tariffs is, even by his standards, a step too far. The President is used to getting what he wants — to use his own words, “the soft way or the hard way”. And with one eye on his historical legacy, Mr Trump seems determined to purchase or annex the Arctic island, even if in the process he unleashes a trade war and destroys the Atlantic alliance. Nothing can justify this exercise of raw power. The US already has a base in Greenland and could, if it...