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Union und SPD treffen sich erstmals in diesem Jahr im Koalitionsausschuss mit Fokus auf Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Resilienz der Demokratie und den Schutz kritischer Infrastruktur. Nach dem Brandanschlag auf das Berliner Stromnetz einigt sich die Koalition auf das zwischenzeitlich in den Innenausschuss verwiesene Kritis-Dachgesetz. Es soll das Land...
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An author who has written four books about Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday what caused the president to course-correct his deportation operations in Minneapolis. Trump surged immigration officers into Minneapolis under the guise of combating social benefits fraud, a move that has been met with stiff pushback from local officials and community...
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MAGA world watched chaos unfold at Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) town hall - in which a man charged the podium and sprayed her with a pungent mystery substance - and concluded the whole thing must've been staged.At the Minneapolis town hall on Tuesday night, a front-row agitator suddenly rushed at Omar and doused her with an odorous, vinegar-like liquid...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), sparked outrage on Tuesday after he seemed to play dumb about whether some of the actions of President Donald Trump's immigration forces are legal. Igor Bobíc, senior politics reporter at HuffPost, posted on X that he tried asking Grassley whether it is appropriate for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to...
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The Amazon-sponsored "Melania" documentary appears on track to land with a thud, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told anchor Erin Burnett on Tuesday.Already, reports indicate that theaters are dealing with massive amounts of unsold seats, and even some of the film crew who worked on the movie are hoping for it to tank.As evidence for the impending...
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Katie Miller, MAGA podcaster and wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, kicked a hornet's nest Tuesday when she tried to call out a Florida Republican on social media, only to be met with a flurry of wild accusations.The saga began when Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia, who represents part of Miami-Dade County, told The New York Times, "I do...
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Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement freaked out at a Hollywood film star on Tuesday after she made a teary-eyed statement about Trump's immigration forces. Natalie Portman, who has starred in films like "Garden State" and "Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith," discussed the actions of Trump's Immigration and Customs...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
Stephen Miller has consistently been one of the most extreme anti-immigrant, pro-mass deportation voices in the Trump administration, and had his hands deeply in the policies that led to federal agents instituting a harsh crackdown in Minneapolis that led to multiple deaths. But now even he is trying to run away from it.On Tuesday evening, CNN...
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Andrew Bragg has urged Australian Muslims to take some responsibility for religious extremism, after Scott Morrison told an antisemitism conference in Israel that Islamic leaders should enforce stronger standards on their communities.
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Officials at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service say the organization is mending its ways and acknowledging past investigating of Indigenous people has left a legacy of mistrust that persists today. One activist, however, is dismissing the overtures as propaganda.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
A person was left in critical condition Tuesday morning after being shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol agents near Arivaca in southern Pima County, Arizona, authorities said. The Santa Rita Fire District airlifted the wounded individual to a regional trauma center as the FBI and Customs and Border Protection joined the investigation....
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President Donald Trump's interim cybersecurity chief appears to have made a rookie mistake with the public version of ChatGPT, according to a new report. Politico reported on Tuesday that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency acting director Madhu Gottumukkala uploaded government contracting documents to ChatGPT, which set off "multiple...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice left out a pivotal detail in its latest update on efforts to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a new report. The Department of Justice sent a letter on Tuesday to judges Richard M. Berman and Paul A. Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York updating them on the department's efforts...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was sprayed with an unidentified substance while speaking at a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Video shared on social media by Jay O'Brien, Capitol Hill correspondent for ABC News, shows a bearded man in a heavy jacket charging Omar at the podium before he is grabbed and whisked away by security. Omar and the other local...
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, may be serving time in a cushy Texas federal prison, but the convicted child sex trafficker just detonated a political time bomb from behind bars, according to a new Daily Beast report Tuesday.In a recent habeas petition, Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim that four potential "co-conspirators"...
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Two analysts were stunned on Tuesday after a flood of "bloodthirsty" MAGA media personalities called for President Donald Trump to inflict more violence against protesters in Minneapolis following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Sam Stein, managing editor of The Bulwark, and Will Sommer, the publication's senior reporter, discussed how the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel tore into President Donald Trump's chaotic leadership on Monday's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, questioning how far gone the president must be before Republicans invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him — a dramatic public challenge amid outcry over recent ICE-related shootings, erratic foreign policy talk about Greenland and...
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One of President Donald Trump's top aides issued a stunning statement on Tuesday, walking back claims he made about slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti shortly after his death, according to a new report Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy, said shortly after Pretti's death that he attended a Minneapolis protest over the weekend with...
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Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pleaded ignorance when questioned by reporters on Tuesday about whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had legal authority to break into people's homes without a warrant from a judge.According to Igor Bobic of HuffPost, when Grassley was posed the question, the answer he gave was,...
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A federal judge has dealt the Trump administration yet another courtroom defeat over offshore wind, ruling Tuesday that construction can resume on the nearly complete $4.5 billion Vineyard Wind project off Martha's Vineyard.Judge Brian E. Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction allowing...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
A federal judge dealt a sharp setback to the Trump administration on Monday, dismissing a Justice Department lawsuit seeking access to Oregon's voter rolls amid growing alarm over election interference ahead of the 2026 midterms. The ruling halts one front of a sweeping DOJ campaign to obtain sensitive voter data from states nationwide — a push...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
CNN anchor Jake Tapper clashed with a Republican former Trump administration official on Tuesday in a fiery back-and-forth over the killing of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration agents. Chad Mizelle, who previously served as the chief of staff to the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi and...
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President Donald Trump made a bizarre claim about electric vehicles in one of his signature speech ad-libs on Tuesday. Trump spoke in Clive, Iowa, on Tuesday evening in front of a crowd of rural voters. In part of his speech, Trump mentioned rolling back many of the Biden administration's environmental protections and electric vehicle mandates. One...
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The odds of a partial government shutdown appear to be growing as Senate Democrats harden their position against the funding bill megapackage without serious changes to the Department of Homeland Security provisions.On Tuesday afternoon, CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju reported on X that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is...
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President Donald Trump stunned observers Monday by holding a conciliatory call with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey just days after immigration agents shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti during a protest. The discussion, which Frey said included ending the city's Operation Metro Surge, marked an unusually cooperative tone from Trump, who has...
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Virginia court strikes down redistricting amendment headed for April ballotby Markus Schmidt, Virginia Mercury January 27, 2026A Virginia circuit court on Tuesday struck down a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at giving lawmakers the option to redraw congressional districts mid-decade, dealing a major setback to Democratic legislative...
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The American Federation of Government Employees, representing over 820,000 federal workers, called Monday for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to resign or be fired after immigration agents under their direction fatally shot ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. AFGE President Everett Kelley criticized...
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Multiple Senate Republicans told reporters on Tuesday evening that they want Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be removed from her position, following weeks of chaos and a violent crackdown by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis that has left multiple people dead and neighborhoods marching in resistance. "I think that what she's done...
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Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis.
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First Lady Melania Trump broke sharply with her husband's scorched-earth rhetoric Tuesday, offering warm praise for former President Joe Biden and Jill Biden during a Fox News appearance promoting her upcoming documentary Melania. Recalling inauguration day, Melania described the Bidens as "very nice” and said their time together was marked by a...
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President Donald Trump said he felt "even worse" when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed Renee Good in Minnesota because he found out that her parents were "Trump people, Trump fans."During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, host Will Cain asked Trump about the killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer."Well, I think...
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The dollar fell to $0.83 against the Euro on Tuesday, the lowest it's been since June 2021, after President Donald Trump said that he doesn't care about its continued decline. "No, I think it's great,” Trump told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday, according to a report by Bloomberg. The president was responding to a question about whether he was...
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President Donald Trump was slated to speak in Iowa on Tuesday to shift focus to the American economy as the country reels over killings in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration agents.Trump, whose Republican Party expects to face a tough midterm battle, was expected to use the speech in Clive, Iowa, to try and convince Americans that he has his...
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Speculation is growing that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is positioning himself for a 2028 presidential run, and President Donald Trump is reportedly "frustrated and confounded” by the chatter, according to Axios. Once closely aligned with the MAGA agenda, Hawley has repeatedly broken with the White House on issues ranging from Medicaid cuts and...
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A Texas federal judge has delivered a stunning courtroom victory for an Ecuadorian father and his 5-year-old son, ordering federal immigration authorities to keep them in the country while he fights the Trump administration in court.U.S. District Judge Fred Biery issued a blistering stay order, declaring that "any possible or anticipated removal or...
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A caller on a MAGA TV network called on President Donald Trump to unleash violence against his "domestic enemies" on Tuesday. During the caller segment of "Bolling!" on MAGA TV network Real America's Voice, an individual told Trump that he "hopes he has a plan" for the people protesting immigration raids in Minneapolis. The call happened at a time...
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Texas Republicans are working hand in hand with the Trump administration in a crackdown on work visas for high-skilled immigrants — and it's threatening a renowned cancer hospital in Houston.On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott, a close ally of the president, announced a freeze on all H-1B visa petitions at all state agencies and universities, as well as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
President Donald Trump Tuesday admitted that Border Patrol enforcer Greg Bovino might not have been the best fit to enforce immigration raids in Minnesota. In a Fox News interview on "The Will Cain Show" in Urbandale, Iowa, Trump told the outlet that he had some misgivings about putting Bovino in charge of the ICE operations following the fatal...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is bumbling toward wrecking the U.S. economy, Timothy Noah wrote in a blistering analysis for The New Republic published on Tuesday — and one simple economic trend proves it.The breaking point, he argued, was Bessent's bizarre speech at the World Economic Forum, where he pushed, among other things, nonsensical...
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Rock legend Neil Young gifted his entire music archive to Greenland residents. Young, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said he hoped the offering "will ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” Pitchfork reported Tuesday. The musician hasn't held back his thoughts...
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President Donald Trump dropped a new threat to an old international foe on Tuesday. Trump was slated to speak in Iowa and was arriving in Des Moines where he was expected to speak about the economy amid Republican concerns over upcoming midterm losses when he shared a sharp criticism of Nouri al-Maliki, an Iraqi politician who served as Prime...
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Video of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent threatening to "erase" a resident in Minnesota caught fire on social media this week.The video, purportedly filmed in January in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was shared in the latest edition of the MinnMax show."I will tell you this, brother," a man wearing an ICE uniform says from his vehicle. "You...
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President Donald Trump's attempt to hype his wife's upcoming documentary Melania backfired spectacularly Monday, as social media users mocked what appeared to be dismal ticket sales ahead of its release. Screenshots of wide-open theaters quickly went viral, undercutting Trump's promotional push and prompting jokes about the film "selling out...
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A watchdog group is raising concerns that President Donald Trump may have violated federal recordkeeping laws by using an auto-deleting message application to text world leaders.On Tuesday, the group American Oversight sent a letter to White House Counsel David Warrington asking for information about whether the president is taking all the required...
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The man at the center of a case involving a contempt threat from a judge against the Trump administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief was released from custody Tuesday. Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz found the administration had failed to comply with court orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered Todd Lyons, the...
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Behind the scenes of the Melania Trump documentary, morale appears to be so low that some crew members are now quietly rooting for the film to bomb, according to a new Rolling Stone report. Insiders described the Brett Ratner-directed project as chaotic, exhausting, and plagued by access issues — compounded by discomfort over Ratner's presence...
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A federal judge in Florida has ordered the immediate release of a high-schooler who was detained by Orlando-area sheriff's deputies on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — and threatened professional sanctions against the U.S. Attorney who oversaw all of this.Senior U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton of the Middle District of Florida...
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The U.S. government views Colorado as enemy territory. The Trump administration's abuse of the state has caused anguish and loss for its residents, including those who voted for President Donald Trump. He has obliterated trust with the state, and it no longer makes sense for Colorado to treat the federal government as a partner.The state would...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
White House aide Stephen Miller was reportedly behind false claims that slain activist Alex Pretti was planning to "massacre" law enforcement when federal agents killed him in Minnesota on Saturday.According to Axios, Miller ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to make the claim about Pretti after he died."Everything I've done, I've done...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Immigration agents across the country are quietly rebelling against the Trump administration after being thrust into what they describe as a "no-win situation” following the killing of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti, according to a report by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein. Agents told Klippenstein they are furious over what they see...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump privately fumed at the TV coverage of Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after the latest shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis, according to one CNN reporter. Over the weekend, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a swarm of immigration agents during a protest in Minneapolis. Pretti...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
A Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia has a bold plan to win over President Donald Trump and his loyalists in the primary: name a mountain after him."President @realDonaldTrump is one of the most transformative presidents in our nation's history," wrote state Rep. David Clark in a post to X on Tuesday. "That's why today I...
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