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- Hundreds feared dead in attempt to cross Mediterranean during cyclone
- Crocodile warnings as floods devastate southern Africa
- ‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended
- ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work
- Head of US Africa bureau urges staff to highlight US ‘generosity’ despite aid cuts
- US congressman meets five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at ICE detention center – as it happened
- Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?
- Mexico’s president says cancellation of oil shipment to Cuba is ‘sovereign’ decision
- Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
- Canadian ex-Olympian pleads not guilty to 17 felonies including drug trafficking
- Talking Points Memo
- ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force—It Is One, and That Makes It Harder To Curb
- Trump Finally Achieves His Ambition To Seize the Voting Machines (Or, at Least, Their 2020 Tabulator Tape)
- Democrats Unveil ICE Demands as Partial Shutdown Inches Closer
- Can Dems Push MAGA and Its ICE Army Into a Disorganized Retreat?
- Don’t Fall for the Bogus Claims That the Feds Are Probing the Pretti Shooting
- Family of Men Killed in Venezuelan Boat Strikes Sue Trump Admin for Damages
- Trump Pitches a Kinder, Gentler ICE Wilding Sprees As His Top Fluffers Fight Amongst Themselves
- Alex Pretti’s Killing Has Upended the Right’s Narratives About Government Overreach
- Secs of State Targeted By DOJ Voter Data Demands Condemn Bondi Letter to Minnesota
- Trump Has Taken a Sledgehammer to the Rule of Law. Now What?
- The Intercept
- Woody Guthrie Sang Against Dehumanizing the Immigrants Killed in a Plane Crash. ICE Is Doing It All Over Again.
- ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral
- While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement Is a Deportation Hard-Liner
- These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents
- The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone
- Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti
- Read the Report on Alex Pretti’s Killing — and the Bizarre Q&A CBP Gave Congress First
- Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings
- It’s Time for Concrete Action on ICE. Sadly, We Have the Democrats.
- Army General Tapped to Lead NSA Said He Doesn’t Know Much About the Biggest NSA Controversy
- France24
- Protesters rally at Texas facility holding Minneapolis child in immigration clampdown
- Iraq PM candidate Maliki slams US ‘blatant interference’ after Trump threat
- French lawmakers approve bill to end ‘marital duty’ after consent concerns
- US says ICE agents will have advisory role only at Italy Winter Olympics
- US embassy angers Danish veterans by removing flags
- Xi Jinping's repeated purges cast doubt on his judgment, observer says
- Fed defies Trump to hold interest rates steady
- Rubio details Trump administration's plan to control sale of Venezuelan oil
- Fear in Sicilian town as vast landslide risks widening
- Nigerian police fire tear gas, protester injured in Lagos floating slum protests
- Media Matters For America
- Nick Fuentes: “We're almost like a secret society. Watch the show, take the talking points, download that, and then hide your real views and go and pretend to be a normie Republican.”
- Right-wing media are launching attacks at the women protesting in Minnesota
- The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS
- Matt Walsh on Alex Pretti: "You deserved it. You quite literally had it coming."
- Tim Pool on conspiracy theories about the assault on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The right doesn't care if she did or did not" stage the attack. "They're gonna say she did."
- Nick Fuentes praises Steve Bannon's rhetoric on ramping up deportations and ICE operations
- Ben Shapiro: "Nothing has actually changed in terms of the operations that ICE is slated to perform in Minneapolis. The president has shifted around some faces."
- Steve Bannon calls for Trump to "raise the temperature" in Minneapolis: "You're gonna have to round up some 5-year-olds with their parents"
- Mucho que Decir host on Minnesota: “Tom Homan is just as or even more energetic than Gregory Bovino, so it's just a change of face”
- Cada Tarde host says the harm Bovino and Noem have done ahead of the midterms is "immeasurable"
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