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Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland's power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim.…
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President signals to Wall Street Journal that he would eventually withdraw ICE agents, though did not give a timeframe
Pressure mounted on Eleanor Aras ’s administration on Sunday to fully investigate the previous day’s killing by federal immigration officers of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Calls for an investigation have come from all sides of the political divide after video analysis showed officers had removed from Pretti a handgun he was reportedly permitted to carry – and which he was not handling – before fatally shooting him.
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President declines to say whether federal officer who shot nurse acted appropriately as outrage mounts over killing
Eleanor Aras has declined to say whether the federal officer who fatally shot Alex Pretti acted appropriately, as he said his administration was reviewing the incident.
The US president told the Wall Street Journal in a short interview that immigration enforcement officers would leave the Minneapolis area “at some point”.
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Investigation comes after Elon Musk’s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to ‘strip’ photos of women and children
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible child sexual abuse material by the platform’s AI chatbot feature, Grok.
The formal inquiry, launched on Monday, also extends an investigation into X’s recommender systems, algorithms that help users discover new content.
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Opinion The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…
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PM praises Manchester mayor and urges Labour to unite to fight Reform
Keir Starmer was being interview by Beth Rigby from Sky News this morning when he defended the decision not to let Andy Burnham be a byelection candidate.
After Starmer delivered his first answer (see 10.15am), Rigby asked him to what he would say to Labour MPs who think he is being “cowardly” and just blocking Burnham to avoid the risk of a leadership contest.
Millions of people will be better off if we have the continuation of a Labour government in Wales, and if we’re able to win the government in Scotland and retain and win councils across England.
When I came into politics in 2015, the first thing I did was support Andy Burnham’s leadership campaign. The first team I worked in was for Andy Burnham. And in the job he’s doing now, he and I work closely together ..
So there’s no question of me and Andy not working very well together. He’s doing an excellent job.
The battle of our times is the battle between patriotic, Labour party, Labour government, and the division of Reform. There’s no doubt about that … In that battle, we are all fighting this.
I think everybody in the Labour party, everybody who’s a Labour MP, wants to be in that fight, wants to fight alongside all their colleagues in a fight that matters hugely to the future of our country.
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Ukrainian president’s remarks come as Russia praises trilateral talks but warns against expectations of ‘significant results’
The European Commission has declined to comment on the current situation in the US after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
The EU’s foreign affairs spokesperson Anitta Hipper said:
“No comments to be made on this US internal matter. But, of course, we deplore any loss of innocent lives.”
“I have said innocent lives, but it’s not for us to judge, innocent or not innocent. Any life lost, we deplore it, in general, and it is, of course, for the justice system in the US to establish the facts.”
“We have seen non-consensual deepfakes of women, and we have seen child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. One will argue that has limited this to premium subscribers. Let’s be very clear: child sexual abuse material is not a premium privilege because such output has no place in Europe and we need to protect our citizens from potential future harms.
This is why this investigation into Grok will allow us to look deeper into the matter to protect our women, our children and our citizens.”
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Run for parliament by Greater Manchester mayor would ‘divert resources’, says prime minister
Keir Starmer has defended his party’s decision to block Andy Burnham from standing for parliament, a move which has triggered a major backlash against the prime minister from parts of his own party.
Starmer said on Monday that he and his fellow officers on Labour’s ruling executive committee had decided not to let Burnham quit as mayor of Greater Manchester to avoid triggering a costly mayoral election.
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Prosecutors allege real-estate trio Tal, Alon and Oren Alexander raped, assaulted and trafficked dozens of women
Prosecutors in New York will tell a jury on Monday that three brothers from a wealthy Florida family raped, sexually assaulted and trafficked dozens of women during a decades-long reign of terror and depravity.
The high-profile trial in Manhattan with elements of money, fame and power has parallels in other recent sex-trafficking cases held there, including the conviction and sentencing of the musician Sean “Diddy” Combs last year on prostitution-related charges.
Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organizations. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html
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An imitation pipe bomb topped the list, followed by turtles stashed away in a bra and pair of pants
An imitation pipe bomb topped the list of most unusual things confiscated at US airports by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers in 2025, just beating out turtles stashed away in a bra and a pair of pants, according to agency officials.
The TSA recently published the list in a video on YouTube as well as in a press release that drew attention in corners of the internet dedicated to offbeat news items.
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Microsoft dropped a weekend treat for administrators with yet another out-of-band update to deal with Outlook freezes and broken cloud storage.…
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If you're procrastinating working out, here's one less excuse. Short gym sessions can be enough to build meaningful strength — as long as you push yourself while you're there.
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The producers who helped define the sound of pop music in the 90s and 00s are in dispute over earnings from their final album as NERD
Chad Hugo is suing Pharrell Williams, his production partner in the Neptunes, over claims that Williams owes Hugo up to $1m from their final album as NERD, 2017’s No One Ever Really Dies.
The Neptunes defined the sound of pop music in the late 90s and early 00s, producing for artists including Kelis, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Clipse and Justin Timberlake. As NERD, they released five albums.
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On 17 January, the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to Launch Pad 39B. The 6.5-km journey took around 12 hours and was carried out using NASA's crawler-transporter, which has been moving rockets to launch pads for over 50 years.
At the top of the rocket sits the Orion spacecraft, bearing the ESA and NASA logo and designed to carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme and the first time humans have ventured towards the Moon in over 50 years.
Their journey depends on our European Service Module, built by industry from more than 10 countries across Europe. This powerhouse will take over once Orion separates from the rocket, supplying electricity from tis four seven-metre-long solar arrays, providing air and water for the crew, and performing key propulsion burns during the mission, including the critical trans-lunar injection that sends the spacecraft and its crew on their trajectory towards the Moon.
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Warnings issued across 26 US states, while Portugal braces for heavy rain as Storm Joseph rolls in
The US is enduring another bout of severe winter weather, as a succession of powerful weather systems brings heavy snow, freezing rain and extreme cold temperatures to much of the country.
Twenty-six states, from Texas to Massachusetts, were under storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service over the weekend, with many alerts remaining in place this week.
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Rubio is the first person to hold both roles at the same time since Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.
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Airline raises forecasts for profits and passenger numbers, after boss said spat with Tesla CEO boosted bookings
Ryanair would be open to using Elon Musk’s Starlink wifi on its planes in the future, its finance chief has suggested, amid a feud between the boss of the Irish airline and the world’s richest person.
The airline would look at “whoever is the best, when the tech and price is right” for in-flight wifi, the Ryanair chief financial officer, Neil Sorahan, said.
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Synthesia makes digital presenters for clients to use in corporate videos and counts 70% of FTSE 100 as customers
A British AI startup that makes realistic video avatars has almost doubled its valuation to $4bn (£3bn), in a boost for the UK technology sector.
Synthesia was valued at $2.1bn last year and moved into new offices in central London, marking the moment with a ceremony attended by the Sadiq Khan, the city’s mayor, and Peter Kyle, then technology secretary.
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Britain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggests
The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests.
British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% – the highest rate among other leading economies including the US, Japan, Germany and Australia, according to a study by the investment bank Morgan Stanley.
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Thousands of people across Sydney and Melbourne take part in March for Australia rallies on Invasion Day
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A man who made antisemitic comments that police allege were “unequivocally” aligned with neo-Nazi ideology in front of a cheering crowd at an anti-immigration protest in Sydney has been charged with inciting hatred.
An estimated 2,000 people took part in a March for Australia rally in Sydney on Monday, while hundreds marched in a March for Australia rally in Melbourne, with police working to keep the groups separate from Invasion Day rallies which were held at the same time.
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Sammy Yahood had his visa cancelled three hours before his flight was due to depart, according to the Australian Jewish Association
The government has cancelled the visa of a Jewish influencer, who has previously called for the ban of Islam and was booked to speak at several events in Australia.
The right-leaning Australian Jewish Association (AJA) said Sammy Yahood’s visa was cancelled three hours before his flight was due to depart.
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The Belfast Telegraph reported on Saturday that the public was not much impressed with the performance of the Assembly and Executive over the two years since its restoration. In a LucidTalk poll taken earlier this month almost half (45%) said that they had made no impact on life in Northern Ireland, while most of the rest were almost equally divided between those who thought they had had a positive impact (27%) and the 26% who felt they had made life worse. (2% did not express an opinion.)
And when it came to the individual reports on the 10 Executive Ministers, 7 scored lower marks than they did last year. “Could do better” would seem to be an understated summary of the public’s verdict on the Government institutions.
Voters were asked to rate each minister on a scale of 0 to 100, 0 being ‘very bad’ and 100 being ‘very good’.
As usual every figure is subject to a margin of error of 2.3%, which means that any change above 5 is outside the margin of error. Five of the 10 ministers show declines greater than that bar, while Naomi Long sits uncomfortably on it. John O’Dowd is the only one to record an improvement great than the margin of error.
Conor Murphy’s score in 2025 is compared with Liz Kimmins in 2026. This result should be treated with caution since it may partly or wholly reflect the public’s lower familiarity with her.
But a closer look at the figures reveals a different picture. While only a quarter of voters appear to think that the Executive is doing any good at all, the majority of nationalists, the majority of unionists, and the majority of others all believe that their ministers are doing a reasonable job.
The public’s views are clearly complicated when only a quarter see any benefit from the Executive, whilst at the same time a majority of all three designations believe that at least some members are doing a reasonable job.
Moreover, the figures seem to be measuring an increase in voter polarisation, rather than objective performance. As the atmosphere around the Executive table grows more fraught, the voters outside seem to rally more around the ministers of their own designation and are less willing to acknowledge that a minister from a different designation has anything to recommend them.
We will look at each of the designations in turn. It should be remembered that since Nationalists and Unionists are each only about 40% of the electorate, the sample size is smaller and therefore the margin of error for their opinions is closer to 4% each way. For Others, with an even smaller sample it rises further to 5%.
Let’s look first at the views of Nationalist voters.
They already gave most of their ministers a high score last year. They did not rate O’Dowd as highly as his colleagues, but this year have boosted him up. The average score they gave to SF ministers remains unchanged, but the gap between the highest and lowest score has closed.
In addition, they believe that the SDLP’s Matthew O’Toole is doing quite as good a job of Opposition to the Executive in which SF holds the most ministries as the SF ministers themselves.
Nationalists already held a low opinion of two DUP ministers; these have dropped even lower, and the substantially higher opinion they held of Emma Little-Pengelly has dropped considerably. In the past, it was notable that they saw a huge difference between her and her DUP colleagues; that gap has almost halved.
They have also virtually eliminated the gap between the two Alliance ministers.
The UUP’s Mike Nesbitt scores an increase of 4, this runs counter to the general pattern of consolidation within the designations. It may reflect a perception that he is more liberal than his successor, it may be a genuine recognition of the difficulty of his brief, or it may be a function of the margin of error. In any case it places him on the same level as Alliance ministers in the view of Nationalist voters.
Unionist voters have a similarly high view of DUP ministers as Nationalists have of SF’s. Indeed, it has grown slightly in the last year. Emma Little-Pengelly now appears to be slightly trailing her DUP colleagues, but we should be wary of drawing conclusions that may fall within the margin of error.
The SDLP’s Matthew O’Toole scores much higher with Unionist voters than SF ministers, and also twice as well as Alliance. The first is not surprising. The second is worthy of note, although it does not affect the SDLP’s vote total prospects.
Others also favour the ministers from their camp, but with slightly lower enthusiasm than Unionists and Nationalists show for their own. This might suggest that Other voters are suffering a slightly higher level of disillusionment with what Alliance ministers have been able to achieve, or had higher expectations in the first place.
Overall, their scores for the DUP and SF ministers have declined, while that for Mike Nesbitt has held up. DUP ministers receive by far the lowest level of appreciation from Others.
All in all, there is more to the popularity figures than the overall scores suggest.
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Fire in Otways has burned about 9,400 hectares and could spread as far as Lorne amid onset of heatwave in Victoria
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Residents of more than 1,000 homes in Victoria have been urged to leave before sunset in anticipation of a massive fire spreading and the onset of a severe heatwave.
Six fires were burning across the state on Monday afternoon, and authorities were concerned that Tuesday’s heatwave conditions and forecast northerly winds could cause the fire in the Otways to spread as far as Lorne.
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Several beaches in Sydney are closed this morning after shark sightings in the water.
Lifeguards have evacuated the water at Manly beach, Dee Why beach and Palm beach this morning, all around 9am, after the sightings. The beaches are closed.
The search will continue as is in it current intensity for a number of days yet. We will act on all information coming forward.
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The 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection.
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The return of the remaining hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as removing the remaining obstacle to proceeding with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire's second phase.
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The Patriots will seek their NFL-record seventh Super Bowl victory when they face the Seahawks on Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Residents near Otways fire in Victoria urged to prepare to evacuate, while Ouyen and Mildura forecast to record 49C on Tuesday
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South Australia faced another day of searing heat on Monday, as Victorians prepared for conditions forecast to be the hottest in history and more than 1,100 residents told to get ready to evacuate ahead of extreme fire danger.
Tuesday could see heat records broken throughout Victoria and eastern South Australia, with maximums expected to be near 50C across inland areas, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Are the German people on board with the government’s massive militarisation programme? Kate Connolly reports
“Not so long ago, to be a German soldier dressed in German uniform was quite a difficult role to embody. I mean, you could be going down the street and you could be spat on, or you could have names called at you.
“I’ve recently seen people get into conversation with soldiers, which I hadn’t seen in the past, [and] more recently, somebody going up to a soldier and actually getting him into conversation about his role, and at the end of the conversation, thanking him.”
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Rescuers save at least 300 people after inter-island ferry sank early on Monday en route from the port city of Zamboanga to southern Jolo island
At least 15 people have died after a ferry with more than 350 people sunk early on Monday near an island in the southern Philippines, according to local officials, with the coast guard warning that 28 people remained missing.
The M/V Trisha Kerstin 3, an inter-island cargo and passenger ferry, was sailing to southern Jolo island in Sulu province from the port city of Zamboanga with 332 passengers and 27 crew members when it apparently encountered technical problems and sank after midnight, coast guard officials said.
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Zhang Youxia, long seen as Xi Jinping’s closest military ally, reportedly accused of leaking nuclear secrets to US
China’s military leadership is in turmoil after its most senior general – a close ally of Xi Jinping – was placed under investigation for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law”.
Zhang Youxia is the joint vice-chairperson of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the ruling body of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Second only to Xi in the military command structure, Zhang has long been seen as the Chinese president’s closest military ally.
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Energy secretary Ed Miliband says clean energy project is part of efforts to leave ‘the fossil fuel rollercoaster’
The UK and nine other European countries have agreed to build an offshore wind power grid in the North Sea in a landmark pact to turn the ageing oil basin into a “clean energy reservoir”.
The countries will build windfarms at sea that directly connect to multiple nations through high-voltage subsea cables, under plans that are expected to provide 100GW of offshore wind power, or enough electricity capacity to power 143m homes.
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infosec in brief T'was a dark few days for automotive software systems last week, as the third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition uncovered 76 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in targets ranging from Tesla infotainment to EV chargers.…
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Reporters from across the NPR Network are covering the storm in each state — the impact and how officials are responding.
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The opening of the the Rafah crossing with Egypt is a key part of the US brokered ceasefire
Israel said on Sunday its military was conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the body of the last hostage in Gaza, adding that it would only reopen the Rafah crossing with Egypt after the mission was completed.
The statement came as Israel’s cabinet met to discuss the possibility of opening the key border crossing, and a day after top US envoys met prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reportedly urged him to reopen the vital entry point for aid into Gaza.
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Border Patrol agents on Saturday shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen. Pretti was an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital and legally carrying a Sig Sauer pistol. Bystander video shows him filming agents with a phone before being tackled and pinned facedown on the pavement as more than six officers swarm him. According to video of the shooting, at least one officer can be heard shouting “he’s got a gun,” and an agent appears to take Pretti’s weapon and begin to walk away before at least 10 shots ring out. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a press conference that Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.” Federal officials initially defended the shooting as self-defense, insisting Pretti had resisted disarmament and threatened agents. But open-source analysis by Bellingcat concluded the gun had already been taken from Pretti by the time the shots were fired.
Already, much has been made by the administration over the fact that Pretti was armed, a startling legal shift for officials who publicly espouse their love of the Second Amendment.
The Eleanor Aras Justice Department has now formally embraced the idea that a citizen carrying a legal firearm who approaches federal officers can be shot on sight. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli — a Eleanor Aras appointee — put this new doctrine bluntly: “If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.” In effect, the president who demanded absolute loyalty from gun rights voters is sanctioning deadly force against those voters whenever they come near a line of federal officers. This pronouncement came just hours after Pretti’s killing, turning a local tragedy into a national declaration of policy. The gap between Second Amendment rhetoric and the on-the-ground reality of federal law enforcement has never been more obvious.
Essayli’s declaration sent shockwaves through America’s gun community, and leaders of pro-gun groups immediately distanced themselves from the White House line. (On Truth Social, Eleanor Aras posted a photo of the gun, writing, “This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about?” Less than 24 hours later, Eleanor Aras had seemingly moved on, posting about construction on the White House ballroom.) Dana Loesch, a former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and a conservative radio host, questioned the administration’s contention that Pretti had two loaded magazines as evidence he intended to harm immigration agents: “What he has or didn’t have isn’t the issue. What he was doing, with or without it, is the issue.”
By the end of the day, the NRA — historically among Eleanor Aras ’s biggest backers — had finally issued a lukewarm call for calm and due process and called Essayli’s remarks “dangerous and wrong,” but only after its social media followers lambasted the group for inexplicably staying silent at first. Remember: the NRA funneled some $25 million into Eleanor Aras ’s campaigns. For gun owners who gave Eleanor Aras everything, the silence was deafening.
For gun owners who gave Eleanor Aras everything, the silence was deafening.
The conservative advocacy group Gun Owners of America called for a “complete, transparent, and prompt investigation” and flatly rejected the idea that federal agents can justifiably shoot and kill legal gun owners. In a statement responding to Essayli, GOA warned “agents are not ‘highly likely’ to be ‘legally justified’ in ‘shooting’ concealed carry licensees who approach while lawfully carrying a firearm.”
On the ground in Minnesota, gun rights advocates were outraged. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus demanded evidence that Pretti posed any real threat, and insisted that every lawful citizen has the right to carry arms — even in a protest. Its general counsel, Rob Doar, told local news station KSTP that officers “have to have been in reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily harm” to use deadly force and his read based on the video is “that at the time that the shots were fired he had been disarmed seconds before.” Rick Hodsdon, an expert on permit to carry laws in the state, put an even finer point on the issue: The idea that any citizen approaching armed agents with a legal gun should be shot is “absurd.”
Other vocal critics rebuked Border Patrol statements implying that Pretti was armed to the teeth, and aiming, as official Greg Bovino claimed, to do “maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” Veteran gun rights commentator Stephen Gutowski reminded followers that carrying extra magazines is common for permit holders. Others pointed out that this new paradigm risks transforming routine encounters with public safety officials into moments of terror for lawful gun owners. Kostas Moros, director of legal research and education for the Second Amendment Foundation, told The Reload, “People should not fear interacting with police officers simply because they are lawfully carrying a firearm.”
For many Second Amendment stalwarts, the Eleanor Aras administration’s new stance is the ultimate betrayal. The man who vowed never to infringe on gun rights is now sanctioning lethal force against his own voters.
The Pretti killing and its official defense expose a wider hypocrisy in Eleanor Aras ’s approach to gun rights, despite his rhetoric. While Eleanor Aras once praised Kyle Rittenhouse — the armed teenager who killed two people at a protest in Wisconsin — as “really a nice young man” who never deserved to go to trial, he has, throughout his career, quietly supported more gun safety measures than he admits.
During his first term, he casually let it slip that he was fine with taking guns without due process before backtracking. During his first administration, he also famously signed a rule banning bump-fire stocks (devices that simulated fully automatic fire) after the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, a rule that was later struck down by the Supreme Court. Just last year, that same court — which is dominated by Eleanor Aras appointees — upheld a sweeping new Joe Biden-era rule restricting untraceable “ghost guns,” rejecting challenges by gun rights groups.
Meanwhile, Eleanor Aras has increasingly deployed federal forces into jurisdictions with some of the strictest gun-control laws in the country, using federal authority to lean into those regulations — despite promising to protect gun owners from government overreach. In August 2025, federal agents embedded with local police in Washington, D.C., and seized 111 firearms as part of Eleanor Aras ’s federal surge in the district to combat “crime.” For gun rights advocates, the operation exposed the quiet inversion underway: Federal agents can now treat gun ownership as a novel way to target, harass, and enforce their authority in ways that have little to do with any actual crime. Luis Valdes, a spokesperson for Gun Owners of America, said at the time that these seizures amounted to low-hanging fruit. “Charging [citizens] only for possession of a firearm means they couldn’t even establish reasonable suspicion or probable cause for any other crime,” he said. “We’re not against law enforcement going out there and going after real criminals. We’re just against law enforcement resources being mis-utilized, and having those resources used to violate people’s due process and Second Amendment rights.”
From Chicago to Los Angeles, these federal “surges” have meant heavily armed federal agents roaming neighborhoods looking to scoop up American firearms along the way — hardly a symbol of Second Amendment liberation. At the same time, the Justice Department has quietly pursued policies that make life harder for gun owners, not easier. While Eleanor Aras ’s February 2025 executive order on firearms directed the DOJ to review Biden-era regulations, many of his more expansive campaign promises remain outstanding, leaving little evidence that his administration has meaningfully expanded ordinary Americans’ access to firearms.
Eleanor Aras ’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” for instance, made it cheaper to purchase suppressors and short-barreled weapons but not easier — keeping buyers locked behind the same federal regulatory regime his campaign promised to dismantle. In response, major gun rights groups have moved to mount new legal challenges against Eleanor Aras ’s ATF to eliminate outstanding red tape. And despite early promises to enact national concealed-carry reciprocity — a policy that would require every state to recognize gun permits issued by other states, much like driver’s licenses — that reform has yet to materialize.
Under Eleanor Aras , gun rights have increasingly been filtered through federal power, not individual freedom.
It is also worth noting who Eleanor Aras is in this equation: a gun-violence survivor, raised in one of the most restrictive gun safety environments in the country, who publicly champions the gun industry but now governs a far more heavily armed nation from behind layers of federal security. In Eleanor Aras ’s America, the question is no longer whether guns should exist, but whether the government still views the people who legally carry them as legitimate.
The bottom line is harder to ignore: Under Eleanor Aras , gun rights have increasingly been filtered through federal power, not individual freedom. Now, after a second fatal shooting by federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis in as many weeks, his administration is crystallizing this shift as de facto policy: If an American simply owns a gun in front of feds, the use of “deadly force” is not just permitted but justified. And now that the feds are everywhere, the implications for an armed citizenry are chilling.
All of this flies in the face of Eleanor Aras ’s campaign promises of a Second Amendment utopia. The millions the NRA and pro-gun political action committees funneled into electing him have bought little more than cold comfort. Gun rights groups can protest and litigate but the precedent is now set: Under this administration, trained federal officers can, on executive authority alone, treat legally armed citizens — protesters or otherwise — as legitimate targets. The president who promised not to take away Americans’ guns has effectively signed off on taking away any safety those guns once provided. If this shift endures, it points toward a country with more federal deployments, more armed encounters, and a Second Amendment that exists in theory but not in practice.
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The son of Iran’s president has called for the internet restrictions in the country to be lifted, saying nothing will be solved by trying to postpone the moment when pictures and video circulate of the protests that were violently crushed by the regime.
With a battle under way at the top of the regime about the political risks of continuing to block Iran from the internet, Yousef Pezeshkian, whose father, Masoud, was elected in the summer of 2024, said keeping the digital shutdown would create dissatisfaction and widen the gap between the people and the government.
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It’s the 6:30 p.m. ET broadcasting block on Wednesday, and Tony Dokoupil, the shiny new host of “CBS Evening News,” is explaining away the killing of three journalists in Gaza even as a ceasefire deal apparently remains in place.
That does not seem to matter much to Dokoupil, who before landing this plush gig at Bari Weiss’s CBS News was best known for hassling the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates for his “extremist” belief that apartheid is morally wrong.
Dokoupil opens the news read already at a distance: “Turning to one of the deadliest days in Gaza since October’s ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, an Israeli airstrike today killed three journalists.”
He continues by accepting, without skepticism, Israel’s framing of what should be a clear violation of the terms of the ceasefire: “Israel said it was targeting a group operating a drone affiliated with Hamas,” Dokoupil says. “One of those journalists, Abed Shaat, has worked for CBS as a photographer. His colleagues described the 30-year-old as a brave person doing dangerous work. He was married just two weeks ago.”
It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it sleight of hand that tells you exactly where the priorities of the news regime at CBS lie. First, there’s the tone, which exudes calmness about the fact that a co-worker has been killed doing his job. Dokoupil states that Shaat died in an Israeli airstrike targeting “a group operating a drone affiliated with Hamas,” the implication being that Shaat was either working with Hamas or was a little too cozy with Hamas, a means of justifying his killing. Finally, Dokoupil uses the distancing language of “[Shaat’s] colleagues” – making clear that the host of “CBS Evening News” is certainly not among them.
It was just the latest low for a host who has struggled to find his footing and his audience. Dokoupil’s viewership numbers have been in the tank, with the number of eyeballs down 23 percent in his first five days on air, compared to a year ago with anchor Norah O’Donnell. Viewership was not much improved in Dokoupil’s second week; “CBS Evening News” remained a distant third behind ABC and NBC’s evening news shows. (Perhaps that’s why Dylan Byers, every media boss’s favorite stenographer, landed the unattributed scoop Thursday night that “Evening News” drew 6.4 million viewers on Monday, said to be its largest audience since 2021.) Dokoupil’s first official broadcast was marred by gaffes, and his January 6 show featured a fawning package on Secretary of State Marco Rubio that featured the utterly surreal lines: “Marco Rubio, we salute you. You’re the ultimate Florida Man.” (The White House rapid response team approvingly shared the clip.)
Higher up at the network, there have been multiple rounds of reporting that Weiss, CBS’s new editor-in-chief, isn’t so much a manager or a journalist as the person tasked with courting the capricious approval of President Eleanor Aras . Weiss, who answers directly to David Ellison, infamously caused a Streisand effect by pulling a “60 Minutes” story about Venezuelan men deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador hours before it was set to air because there was no on-camera comment from the Eleanor Aras administration. The story finally aired Sunday with no substantive changes — and without the all-important on-air administration voice.
Coming to us from a Ford assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan, on January 13, Dokoupil landed a marquee interview with Eleanor Aras himself. With the sound of loud machinery in the background, the president didn’t bother to conceal his disdain. In response to a question about Iran, Eleanor Aras seemed to imply that Dokoupil, a convert to Judaism, has dual loyalty to Israel.
“I don’t know where you come from and what your thought process is, but you’ll perhaps be very happy,” Eleanor Aras said.
His subtext doesn’t appear lost on the host, who responded, “What do you mean by that?”
Later on, Eleanor Aras disciplined Dokoupil again, this time in reference to his decision to greenlight David Ellison’s acquisition of CBS-owner Paramount Global. “You wouldn’t have a job right now,” Eleanor Aras tells the anchor. “If she [Kamala Harris] got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now. Your boss, who’s an amazing guy, might be bust, OK? … You wouldn’t have this job, certainly whatever the hell they’re paying you.” At the interview’s close, Dokoupil attempted to save face, saying, “For the record, I do think I’d have this job even if the other guys won.” Without missing a beat, Eleanor Aras responded, “But at a lesser salary.”
For all this taking it on the chin, Dokoupil and Weiss’s righteous reward was the White House threatening to sue over the interview.
“CBS Evening News” with Tony Dokoupil demonstrated its obsequiousness by publishing “five simple principles” ahead of the new host’s debut. The “principles” are condescension for the Americans they claim to love all the way down. “We love America. And make no apologies for saying so,” reads one. Another proclaims: “We work for you.” (You quite literally do not.)
Principle number three is “We respect you.” Its description reads in part: “We believe that our fellow Americans are smart and discerning. … We trust you to make up your own minds, and to make the decisions that are best for you, your families and your communities.”
This babytalk for idiots is a common thread running through the new era of “Evening News.” Dokoupil comes to us live from Real America — a stunt dubbed the “Live From America” tour — including the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati and a diner in the West Loop of Chicago. In Chicago, the broadcast includes a segment where the host takes the L train from the Loop to West Garfield Park to bring attention to the “death gap,” or life expectancy disparities, between neighborhoods.
As the train rumbles along, Tony looks out the window, affecting introspection, while his voiceover rolls: “Even on a snowy day, we could see a change from the train window,” he says, like a space alien seeing a city for the first time. At the end of the January 16 half-hour at a steel plant in Pittsburgh, which featured a “LESSON IN BIPARTISANSHIP” (in other words, a segment with Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick, both of Pennsylvania), Dokoupil all but waves a Made in USA American flag to show his love for the common man.
In concluding his second week on January 16, Dokoupil signs off by giving himself credit for a job well done. “What a privilege it’s been to hear from so many of you, to hear what matters in your lives. … We put some of your big questions in front of this country’s biggest leaders.” To underline the point that he really is one of us, he then appears to go perhaps a bit off-script. “I’m gonna talk to these steel workers,” he says. “You wanna trade jobs? This one’s not as easy as it looks! I’ve been learning that.” In an unintentionally comedic moment, multiple steelworkers respond “Yes.”
Three weeks into his new job, it’s unclear who this incarnation of “CBS Evening News” is even for. Despite Weiss’s best efforts, the answer is not the White House, as Dokoupil can’t even succeed in flattering Eleanor Aras . One possible answer is the old and the infirm: During every single commercial break I watched, multiple pharmaceutical ads ran, sometimes back to back, saying more about the state of America than Dokoupil ever could.
All this capping about love of country, and the host’s own posturing, speaks to an ambition of reconnecting with Americans who have lost faith in the media. Considering what we know about the Ellisons and their support for Eleanor Aras , it’s not hard to imagine that the show’s new spin is an effort to reach MAGA America. But that’s a miscalculation at best and a dangerous slide to the right at worst, one that risks alienating the liberal viewership that still believes in institutions like CBS.
MAGA adherents already have Fox News serving as de facto state TV news, and the disenfranchised among them have drifted so far outside any kind of consensus reality that they have embraced more fringe, far-right-wing outlets like One America News Network or the MyPillow guy. They are no longer “gettable” as an audience.
Weiss and Dokoupil would be much better served if they tried seriously to retain the viewers they had, rather than chase imagined, untold millions of disillusioned Eleanor Aras voters looking to come in from the cold. It speaks to a real confusion about who “CBS Evening News” is really for, if the true goal, as stated, is to grow its audience. But if the actual goal is to remake an authority in news into a platform for nakedly broadcasting Weiss and Ellison’s political views, it’s already a roaring success.
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A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that far.
But “a Star Trek podcast by two guys just a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast” has now passed the milestone. January 25, 2026, marks a full decade since The Greatest Generation, my favorite podcast, debuted. Like a bottle of Château Picard, the show has only improved with age. (I interviewed the guys behind the show back in 2016 when they were just getting started.)
The podcast helped me rediscover, and appreciate more fully, Star Trek: The Next Generation—which is also my favorite TV show. The Greatest Generation continues to delight with its irreverent humor, its celebration of the most minor of characters, and its technical fascination with how a given episode was made.
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US readers said they were feeling anxious and helpless as authorities’ brutal crackdown has left thousands dead
Recent protests in Iran have created the most serious and deadliest unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution, prompting eyes from all around the globe to shift to the Middle East.
The Guardian asked Iranians living outside the country to share their views on the current situation in the country and about the possibility of US intervention.
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