TALIBAN ISOLATION EASING Anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe, concerns about militancy in Asia and acceptance that the regime is unlikely to collapse soon are bringing the militants in from the cold @ricknoack.bsky.social reports from Islamabad www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Horoscope says Mercury will pass through the fifth house before slamming into your house

When President Trump began threatening Canada and Mexico with tariffs, some Canadian officials proposed negotiating a U.S.-Canada trade deal that excluded Mexico. Now PM Mark Carney has gone to Mexico to try to make up www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

OVERNIGHT Federal law enforcement agents dismantled the White House Peace Vigil, the nation’s oldest and longest lasting protest, two weeks after President Trump ordered it taken down. Some sign-wielding volunteers remained @marissajae.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

POST EXCLUSIVE DEA leaders advocated this year for military strikes on Mexican cartel leaders and infrastructure. Some in the White House and Pentagon were alarmed @danlamothe.bsky.social and @ellenwapo.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." wapo.st/3I6wiZr

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

UPDATE Trump today: “We knocked off actually three boats, not two, but you saw two” @taracopp.bsky.social @schmidtsam.bsky.social @danlamothe.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Claudia Sheinbaum’s government doesn’t want to ban narcocorridos. They want to compete with them @teoarmus.bsky.social reports from CDMX www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The U.S. military has conducted a second attack on alleged drug smugglers from Latin America, killing three individuals in a strike in international waters, President Donald Trump announced Monday. https://wapo.st/4mmJCa6

The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.

At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything

GIBRALTAR EXITS BREXIT The British enclave, which voted 96 percent Remain in 2016, establishes a customs union with the EU and visa-free travel in the Schengen area. “This is actually going to be an improvement over where Gibraltar was pre-Brexit” First Minister Fabian Picardo says wapo.st/4gjzu0g

China has built the world’s tallest bridge, besting its own record with a structure that could fit a Sears Tower beneath it and still have room for a Washington Monument @nihamasih.bsky.social and Lyric Li have more www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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UPDATE Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years, 3 months for attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, VP Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Danish authorities forced IUDs and hormonal birth control injections on at least 350 Indigenous women and girls in Greenland, many without their knowledge or consent, into the 1990s, survivors tell investigators. Some reported abortions and sterilization www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

PR was once America’s aircraft carrier. But after the Navy stopped bombing Vieques ~20 years ago, the military sharply reduced its footprint there. Now, as Trump ramps up operations in the region, it’s back @danlamothe.bsky.social Noah Robertson @taracopp.bsky.social report wapo.st/4mPRz8J

WATCH As Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro warns of an impending U.S. invasion, his government is sharing AI-generated videos resurrecting national heroes to urge civilians to join militias. Notably absent from the pantheon: Maduro’s predecessor mentor, Hugo Chavéz www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

What kind of monster

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Farewell to Ken Dryden OC: Hockey Hall of Famer, author, attorney, MP, cabinet minister. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he wrote on what pretend hockey player Vladimir Putin doesn’t understand about toughness www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Moon over Maryland (Sam Brown photo)

🧵 Indulge me, gonna share some memories of one of the most Baltimore-y nights ever: There was this rowhouse on Hanover Street where the people had turned their TV around to face out the window, and neighbors were sitting in lawn chairs on the sidewalk to watch the game together 🚪

RECAP • U.S. sends warships off Venezuela • Maduro mobilizes troops, militias • U.S. strikes alleged drug boat • Venezuelan planes buzz U.S. guided-missile destroyer • U.S. warns Venezuela • www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

U.S. could have stopped the alleged drug boat, Rubio acknowledges, but Trump chose to destroy it, killing 11: “Instead of interdicting it, on the president’s orders, we blew it up — and it’ll happen again” @johnphudson.bsky.social @schmidtsam.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social wapo.st/3JJJiEG

Trump and Hegseth defend strike that killed 11 on boat allegedly carrying drugs but administration hasn't provided a legal authority or justification for attacking civilian vessel in international waters @schmidtsam.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social Karen DeYoung Noah Robertson wapo.st/3JJJiEG

PETRO: “If this is true, it’s murder anywhere in the world. “We’ve been capturing civilians who transport drugs without killing them for decades. Those who transport drugs aren’t the big narcos, but the very poor youth of the Caribbean and the Pacific”

Breaking news: U.S. forces conducted a “lethal strike” on a boat suspected of transporting drugs in the Caribbean Sea that departed from Venezuela, the Trump administration said.

“I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,” said Ely, 36. “So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” wapo.st/3VrzEJg

Justice Alexandre de Moraes opened the coup trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro by pledging judicial independence in the face of Trump’s attempts to interfere. Trump had ordered sanctions to pressure Moraes and others to drop the case against his friend www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Guadalajara, home to more than 1,000 tech companies, is sometimes called Mexico’s Silicon Valley. It hosts four World Cup games next year. Thanks to CJNG, It’s also ground zero for a national crisis: The abduction of tens of thousands of young people – many to work for the cartels wapo.st/422J9Cs

The Danes want answers on alleged covert influence ops in Greenland aimed at sowing division between Nuuk and Copenhagen. Which is how the United States got started in Texas and the Southwest, Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal … @vivianho.bsky.social and Bill Booth report wapo.st/4fVOYY0

The U.S. is sending three destroyers, an amphibious assault ship, a littoral combat ship, a cruiser and two landing dock ships on anti-cartel ops. Maduro is mobilizing troops and calling on civilians to join militias @taracopp.bsky.social @schmidtsam.bsky.social Ana Vanessa Herrero wapo.st/3HKhqzG

My latest, after a vacation hiatus On Israel's unprecedented slaughter of journalists Non-paywalled link: wapo.st/4oSWffh

Trump “has taken credit for ending an ever-increasing roster of conflicts,” @mbirnbaum.bsky.social writes: “Last week’s tally started at six and by Friday was 10, ‘if you think about pre-wars’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hey the current Tesla Model Y service manual, updated Jan. 30, has instructions for removing the T logo service.tesla.com/docs/ModelY/...

Dined out Friday evening in Adams Morgan. Police jammed traffic for blocks around, delaying our arrival, but no matter — the restaurant, normally busy, was empty. Staff told us people of color and immigrants, the main clientele, have been staying away www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

THIS JUST IN and I thought the Miatas at Virginia International Speedway was the most adorable race this weekend (h/t @erinmcunningham.bsky.social) apnews.com/article/corg...

Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man illegally deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in March, has been freed from federal detention, his lawyer said. He awaits trial on human smuggling charges @mariasacchetti.bsky.social and @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social report wapo.st/3JwtzIS

The U.S. is now requiring visitors from Malawi and Zambia to post bonds of up to $15,000, well beyond the capacity of all but a very few from two of the world's poorest nations. The State Department says the policy, intended to deter overstays, could be expanded to other countries wapo.st/3JwXv7H

A Canadian court upheld an order to kill 400 ostriches on a B.C. farm that had an avian flu outbreak. The farm’s owners say they aren’t giving up; some of the birds have been in the family for decades, and each has its own personality and name, such as Frank, Lulu and Q-Tip wapo.st/3Jm9OE3

At least eight people were killed Thursday when a drone downed a police helicopter and at least five more are dead after a truck bombing near an airbase in Cali as Colombians fear a return to the violence of the ‘90s @schmidtsam.bsky.social and Ana Vanessa Herrero report wapo.st/4oOk2No

Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.