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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s directive to prioritise British over Canadian spelling in government communications has catalysed Canadian linguists to organise a protest www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

DENTRO DEL CECOT (ENLACE DE REGALO) El informe del Washington Post sobre la prisión salvadoreña a la que la administración Trump envió a migrantes deportados de los Estados Unidos, basado en entrevistas con 16 exdetenidos wapo.st/3MPEeA6

INSIDE EL CECOT (GIFT LINK) The Post's reporting on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration sent migrants deported from the United States, based on interviews with 16 former detainees wapo.st/3KUUv6n

FACT CHECK American companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, and officials didn’t kick them out. Venezuela, following Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, nationalized its most lucrative sector in 1976 and developed mutually beneficial partnerships with American and other firms wapo.st/4jblLKs

To stop alleged drug-smuggling vessels, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to give the Trump administration the authority to issue letters of marque to privateers — licenses for PIRATES IN THE CARIBBEAN @tobiaraji.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Trump has scrapped plans for commemorative coins honoring women’s suffrage and Frederick Douglass. Instead, we’ll get George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and a Pilgrim couple — all of whom have already appeared on U.S. currency www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Vanity Fair’s story about the inner circle of President Trump’s staff, photographed by Christopher Anderson, has caused an online stir. We caught up with Anderson by phone to ask him about the online reaction to the photos and the process behind them. https://wapo.st/4qf9RS8

The Trump administration is trying to root out what it sees as rampant left-wing domestic terrorism, raising concerns among security experts and lawmakers that broad categories of Americans’ speech could come under surveillance.

Looking forward to showing out-of-town guests the Trump-Lincoln Memorial, the Trump-Washington Monument, the Trump-Jefferson Memorial

Jair Bolsonaro’s allies in Brazil’s Congress have voted to reduce his prison time for attempting a military coup – in part because his son, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, threatened to run for president next year if they didn’t approve an amnesty www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

POST EXCLUSIVE (GIFT LINK) Miller and others wanted to strike cartels in Mexico. But as the administration hardened the border, Mexico curbed cartel action, leaving them to look for other targets @ellenwapo.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social and @danlamothe.bsky.social report wapo.st/4p66tIm

DELIGHTFUL! “DiBella offered a blunter perspective: ‘This is a stupid article, and please put that on the record’” www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Ahmed El Ahmed A good guy without a gun www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The seizure of the oil tanker Skipper off Venezuela’s coast signaled a new stage in President Trump’s effort to oust President Maduro by strangling the economy with sanctions and military pressure, hitting a nation reliant on oil sales to China.

TEAMWORK The orcas trail the dolphins as they forage and eavesdrop on their echolocation calls. The dolphins, who are unable to eat the salmon whole, follow the orcas to the surface and feast on the scraps @leadergrev.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Breaking news: A federal judge ordered the “immediate release” of Kilmar Abrego García, a 30-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, from ICE custody, saying Department of Justice attorneys “misled” the court at a hearing last month.

Bradley cited the administration’s argument that drugs are weapons that kill Americans. Given the location of the strike, Post reporting has shown, the boat was most likely taking marijuana and/or cocaine to Africa or Europe, not fentanyl to the United States www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

FIRE SAGA IS OUT

Then forfeit www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Breaking news: U.S. forces seized an oil tanker near the Venezuelan coastline, President Trump said, a significant escalation against President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.

The top U.S. military officer overseeing operations in Latin America met privately with lawmakers, days before he is due to step down prematurely amid tension with the Trump administration over its deadly counternarcotics campaign there.

Congressional Republicans have been largely supportive of the Trump administration’s strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea. But President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. could soon bomb Venezuelan territory has put GOP lawmakers on edge.

Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya says he's issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted narcotrafficker who was pardoned last week by President Trump and released from federal prison, on charges of money laundering and fraud wapo.st/3KP9jTS

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

Breaking news: Ukraine will not surrender territory, President Zelensky declared, rejecting a central Russian demand that President Trump had incorporated into his latest proposal to end the Kremlin’s war.

Pew Research Center just released a big report on religiosity in America, finding little shift since 2020 across four big indicators of religious commitment in its high response-rate NPORS surveys. Worth a read -> www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Once a week, he takes a dog out of the shelter and carries it around New York in a backpack that says “adopt me.” It works! But there's a downside. Take Bertha: “The personality on this little girl, I truly did not want to leave her. She was just trying to kiss and love on people” wapo.st/4s0RFNZ

Four Cuban immigrants being held at a Texas detention center claim they were pressured by masked officials to cross the Mexican border or face imprisonment and beatings, according to a letter civil liberties groups sent to ICE.

Amid the U.S. military buildup, the boat strikes and Trump's threats, Maduro has added security and limited public appearances. But he's upbeat, his inner circle remains tight and he's refusing to go into exile, people close to his government say wapo.st/4pSNaCS

Court finds Canada has a legal duty to provide safe drinking water on reserve (Canada had argued it did not). decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi...

Instead of focusing on threats from Russia and China, Trump’s new National Security Strategy takes aim at Europe, warning against “civilizational erasure” caused by unfettered migration and a feckless liberal establishment @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Yesterday, it was a raccoon breaking into a Virginia liquor store and now this www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The family of a Colombian man killed in a U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean filed a complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging the U.S. committed human rights violations in an “extra-judicial killing.”

Deportation flights carrying Venezuelan migrants were scheduled to resume from the U.S. on Wednesday, officials in Caracas said, despite President Trump’s warning that Venezuela’s airspace should be considered closed as the threat of a U.S. attack loomed.

Breaking news: President Trump said he will pardon Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, abruptly ending his prosecution. Cuellar, one of the most conservative Democrats in the House, was charged last year with bribery, money laundering and conspiracy.

Franklin's publisher: “Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who … stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity” Pentagon spox: “We doubt Franklin the Turtle wants to be inclusive of drug cartels … or laud the kindness and empathy of narcoterrorists” wapo.st/4iCiiEv

Ex-DEA agent who worked on the case against former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez calls his release "devastating": “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Trump accuses Maduro of narcotrafficking, dispatches warships, blows up boats, kills crew members, threatens war. A federal court convicts JOH of narcotrafficking; Trump pardons him and sets him free www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Hi Bluesky, Giving Tuesday is almost here, and I’m asking y'all for extra support tomorrow. As most of you know, Prison Journalism Project trains and publishes the work of incarcerated writers so their stories can be heard. We are aiming to raise $50,000 before the end of the year

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When an opera fan saw plans to stage a work based on Thomas King’s “Indians on Vacations,” she contacted the company. Within weeks, one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers revealed he wasn’t, in fact, Indigenous www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of Armed Services, promises “rigorous oversight” after The Post reported Hegseth’s order to kill all 11 people in the first U.S. boat strike. A former JAG who advised Special Ops called the scenario “murder” and “a war crime” wapo.st/48k7g1S

Caught between the threat of a U.S. attack and a government they don’t trust, Venezuelans are living moment to moment, unsure of what to expect next — a disrupting, exhausting existence that’s leading some to wish that whatever is going to happen would just happen already (GIFT) wapo.st/4pY0TJ1

As Trump threatens to attack Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago are hosting U.S. forces and facilities. Grenada is considering it www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...