Donald Trump has doubled down on his threats to acquire Greenland, saying the US is "going to do something [there] whether they like it or not".
Speaking at a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House, the US president justified his comments by saying: "If we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor."
He added: "So we're going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way."
Millions of people in Iran are now united around the hope of destroying the Islamic Republic and removing its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Symbols of the state have been defaced or set on fire, and it feels now that many are no longer afraid of the regime. Read more
Now, Mr. Brin and Mr. Page are cutting some ties with the state where they made their fortunes. In the 10 days before Christmas, an entity connected to Mr. Brin, 52, terminated or moved 15 California limited liability companies that oversee some of his business interests and investments out of the state, according to documents seen by The New York Times. Seven of the companies " including those that appear to manage one of Mr. Brin's superyachts and his interest in a private air terminal at San Jose's international airport " were converted into Nevada entities. Read more
Sweet child in time
You'll see the line The line that's drawn between Good and bad
See the blind man Shooting at the world
Bullets flying, Ohh taking toll
If you've been bad Oh Lord I bet you have And you've not been hit Oh by flying lead You'd better close your eyes Ooohhhh bow your head Wait for the ricochet
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Tucker Carlson has joined the multitude of conservatives with commentary on the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed on Wednesday in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. However, the former Fox News host had a starkly different reaction than many of his peers.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The killing of a US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis was a five-alarm fire for the Trump administration. But a torrent of untruths, half-truths, smears and innuendo has been unleashed by the White House, and amplified by its social media and cable television acolytes, in an attempt to douse the flames.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, called the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, a "stone cold liar" on Thursday for her efforts to falsely portray the victim, Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and award-winning poet, as a "domestic terrorist".
The Kennedy Center will host the Jan. 29 premiere of "Melania," the eponymous documentary focused on First Lady Melania Trump, making it the latest event linked to the president's interests to make its way to the newly Trump-branded performing arts center. The announcement was made by Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell in an X post on Thursday. President Donald Trump and the first lady will attend the premiere, according to Fox News. The Jan. 29 event will be one of 20 pre-release screenings that day for the Brett Ratner documentary, before its Jan. 30 wide release. The film will then stream on Prime Video as part of Amazon's reportedly $40 million deal for the doc and a follow-up docuseries. Melania unveiled the film's trailer last month.
Again, this is awful, but it is disingenuous at best to frame what happened simply as though Good was a mother killed by an ICE officer as she was out for a leisurely Sunday drive. Good was directly interfering with federal law enforcement operations and posed a threat, namely because she was driving a massive vehicle. This does not mean that she "deserved" to die or that the ICE agent should have employed lethal force. It just means I can see how the agent fired upon her car, and I am struggling to understand why Good was interfering with ICE agents.
Incredible news for California's water supply entering the new year - not a single square mile of California is categorized as dry for the first time in 25 years, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption. ICE, said Ellison, is all but telling people, "You want to defend your neighbors, you're going to do it at the risk of your own life.' I think that's the unmistakable message. Just looking at the tape, they could have said, You get out of here,' right? And then she gets out of there. They didn't want her to get out of there. They wanted to either drag her out of that car or do what they did. And it was all about teaching lessons."
Kentucky Republican legislator Shane Baker (R-Somerset) wants to limit eligibility for almost all elected offices in Kentucky to only natural-born US citizens.
Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user's request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini"the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot itself. "I just saw someone request Grok on X put the image of the woman shot by ICE in MN, slumped over in her car, in a bikini. It complied," Gold wrote on the social media platform on Thursday. "This is where we're at." In several posts, Grok confirmed that the chatbot had undressed the recently killed woman, writing in one, "I generated an AI image altering a photo of Renee Good, killed in the January 7, 2026, Minneapolis ICE shooting, by placing her in a bikini per a user request.
A bodyguard for the family of Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been arrested on charges of drug trafficking. Justin Salsburey, a 43-year-old resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, was arrested along with his wife, Urbana schoolteacher Ruthann Rankin, on Dec. 30, according to WSYX-TV. In one parcel, investigators found 119 pills of blue counterfeit OxyContin pills that tested positive for fentanyl, according to the criminal complaint against Salsburey. Investigators let a second parcel be delivered, after which then saw Salsburey and Rankin put objects on their porch that were picked up by multiple people, the complaint stated. One of the people, Tristan Aulds of Belle Center, Ohio, later told authorities that he purchased Adderall from the couple for $5 per pill. Salsburey also mailed dozens of packages to an address in Middlesburg Heights, one of which was found to contain pills that tested positive for fentanyl and methamphetamine, prosecutors say.
Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society's trajectory right now, but as I followed Wednesday's news of an ICE agent killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, then watched the federal government flatly lie about the sequence of events, the indignant language and informational smokescreens felt nauseatingly familiar. You don't have to leave the city, much less the state or country, to find precedent of law enforcement slaughtering the people they're supposed to protect. It's an American tradition already illustrated by many devastated families and callous police union presidents. But for years now, both in Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli government has modeled how to act with both viciousness and total impunity. That in turn has affected the efficacy of public pressure in other parts of the world. Read more
The Trump administration is reportedly planning a scheme to offer direct cash payments to each resident of Greenland to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join America.
