A man carries a shovel as he crosses a street in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in New York on Sunday. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images An immense and powerful winter storm is blanketing the eastern two-thirds of the United States with a mix of heavy snow, […]
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Minnesota governor wants federal immigration agents out after Pretti killed | Protests News
Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, has demanded that US President Donald Trump pull “untrained” federal immigration agents out of the state after Border Patrol agents shot and killed a demonstrator in Minneapolis, the second such death in the city amid the ongoing crackdown. As calls for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex […]
News live: honours council ‘concerned’ by its own list that saw three-quarters of Australia Day awards go to men | Australia news
Nearly three-quarters of Order of Australia awards go to men, reflecting imbalance in nominations Some 680 Australians were recognised with Order of Australia awards, made up of 496 men and 184 women. The differential didn’t go unnoticed by the Council of the Order of Australia. “The gender balance of this year’s honours list more broadly […]
Hundreds of thousands without power as winter storm hits US
Sakshi Venkatramanand Elizabeth Rizzini,Lead Weather Presenter Watch: Winter storm grips US as millions face power outages and disruption Hundreds of thousands of households in the US have no power as a major storm rolls across the country, which is also leading to flight cancellations and road closures. Snow, ice and freezing rain are creating “life […]
Man arrested for assaulting U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost at Sundance
PARK CITY, Utah — A man was arrested Friday night at a party during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, for allegedly assaulting a Florida congressman. Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost wrote on X Saturday that he was punched in the face by a man who told Frost that President Donald Trump was […]
Senators call for investigation into killing of Alex Pretti : NPR
A person holds a sign during a vigil for 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer earlier in the day, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray) Adam Gray/AP/FR172090 AP hide caption toggle caption Adam Gray/AP/FR172090 AP Congressional leaders are pushing back against the Trump administration’s account […]
Storm causes widespread US power outages, thousands of flights cancelled | Weather News
From Texas to New England, the monster storm brings hazardous conditions, prompting warnings to stay off roads. Nearly a million customers across the United States are without electricity and more than 10,000 flights have been cancelled as a monster winter storm threatens to paralyse a large part of the country with heavy snowfall and freezing […]
Thousands march in Crowborough over asylum plan for former military camp | Immigration and asylum
Thousands of people have marched through an East Sussex market town to protest against UK government plans to house asylum seekers on a former military site. Crowds of men, women and children walked to Crowborough from the base, where the Home Office plans to house up to 500 male asylum seekers as part of plans […]
Video shows moments around fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Bystander video footage has captured the moments before the killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers. The confrontation and altercation which led to Pretti’s shooting was recorded from multiple points of view. Federal and state officials have conflicting accounts of the events which led to Pretti’s death. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi […]
What we know about the latest Minneapolis shooting by federal agents
The second fatal shooting this month of an American citizen in Minneapolis by at the hands of a federal agent has ratcheted up tensions in the city once again — and led to disputed accounts of what happened. Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was fatally shot by a Border Patrol […]