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A prosecutor's outburst on Tuesday at a hearing in Minnesota cost her her job and revealed how turmoil in the courts from the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has demoralized prosecutors, outraged judges, exhausted defense lawyers — and left many immigrants languishing in detention.

Despite two court orders to return Emilio Pena Jimenez to Minnesota from a detention center in Texas, the government sent the undocumented immigrant to Juarez, Mexico. Now, Pena Jimenez’s attorney is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to hold the government in contempt of court ...

With employees afraid to work and customers fearful, Minneapolis businesses are losing $10 million to $20 million in sales a week, with revenues down more than half in the two months since Operation Metro Surge began, according to city estimates.

The Minneapolis City Council voted Thursday, Feb. 5, to allocate $1 million to help residents pay rent as part of an effort to help immigrants who have lost income amid the federal immigration crackdown.

"......no former president has ever been compelled to testify to Congress under subpoena, and Comer has set a precedent his party might ultimately come to regret."

"In their solidarity, their devotion to the truth and their insistence on a country that listens when people on the wrong end of power cry for help, they shame the great indifference from above. They point us to other ways of relating."

A close read of the thousands of messages makes it less surprising. When Jeffrey Epstein, a financier turned convicted sex offender, needed friends to rehabilitate him, he knew where to turn: a power elite practiced at disregarding pain.

An unpredecented glimpse behind the curtain of the 1%.....

It quoted Seth Stodder, who worked for Customs and Border Protection under George W. Bush and the DHS under Barack Obama. After seeing Trump-era abuses, Stodder concluded, “It makes me think that maybe DHS was a bad idea.”

Two unindicted co-conspirators????

So what follows isn’t a drive-by critique: It’s a practitioner’s look at what 30×30 was meant to deliver, why it’s falling short in the ocean, and how we move beyond 2030 without sacrificing credibility.

Olympic Park’s fisheries team has dropped from five staff at the beginning of the second Trump administration to one intern by the start of this year.

Today, as reports suggest Russian troops are in turmoil across the frontline after being denied access to Starlink satellite communications, we return to Abu Dhabi for the latest developments in the ongoing trilateral peace talks between the United States, Ukraine, and Russia.

“@mackenziescott you have the opportunity to do an extremely funny (and genuinely heroic) thing right now.”

The fuel, developed using complex esters and fatty acids, includes used cooking oil sourced from the restaurant chain “Vkusno — i tochka .” The SAF fuel was tested on a jet engine, simulating various stages of flight, including takeoff, cruising, and landing.

Russia’s state-owned oil and gas company Gazprom has teamed up with Russia’s successor to McDonald’s, Vkusno & tochka, to make marine biofuel produced using waste cooking oil, Reuters has reported.

Vancouver city Coun. Pete Fry doesn’t like ICE and doesn’t want it in his city. He has submitted a motion to ban officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, from being assigned in Vancouver during the FIFA World Cup this summer.

Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern .....As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Muñoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead.

First announced in 2024 and made permanent in 2025, the program directs federal funding to provinces, territories and Indigenous partners to expand and strengthen school meal programs.

Time to get back to free trade - Pence.

Stories that rigorously analyze the successes, challenges and limitations of solutions......foster community support for climate action and encourage policymakers to do more to mitigate and adapt to the growing threats confronting our shared environment.

"And we must not only imagine but also understand that cutting off electricity, plunging a people into darkness and cold, betting on the fragility of bodies that, below a certain temperature, give way and die, is also a way of destroying a nation. War by fire and by ice."

"If you take one of those, buyers out of the equation, India, that puts Russia in a very terrible place." India's pledge to halt imports of Russian oil could could finish Putin's already crippled economy, says Bill Browder, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign leader on Frontline.

In one recent night alone, writes Owen Sennitt, 10 metres of land vanished in Norfolk as cliffs collapsed. This isn’t about storms it’s about long-term tidal processes and policy failure. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

The President praised the city’s contributions to the peace process, saying “Derry has shown us the path from conflict to peace” after she had viewed the Nobel Peace Prize shared by John Hume and David Trimble.

Emine’s conversation with The Indy provides a snapshot of what immigration detention is like for pregnant individuals, especially as ICE seems to have reversed a policy that the agency should not generally detain individuals known to be pregnant or nursing.

But in 2017, the #MeToo movement sparked a reckoning for men at the highest levels of the entertainment and media industries .... The files provide a rare window into how Epstein reacted and strategized in real time to the political and cultural earthquake of #MeToo.

The news....

Immigration officials in Minnesota arrested more than 100 refugees and sent many of them to Texas detention centers where they faced long interviews to once again prove they qualified for protection when the U.S. resettled them. Thanks to a judge’s order the federal government must now release them.

How many court actions does it take to stave off a Trump-led fiscal attack on a state he considers too blue? The answer may be unknowable. But in the case of an attempt to freeze billions of dollars in federal funds that help kids and their families, including those in California, it is at least two

A nationwide shutdown, inspired by a one-day general strike in response to the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis last month, shows the evolving tactics of groups from Minnesota to Los Angeles mobilizing against Trump’s immigration agenda.

Even so, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) may eventually need to rotate the century-old Games between a small group of the most “climate-reliable” countries to help minimize complications. Bloomberg

That foresight, which hasn’t been typical in past Olympic construction, ensures an easy transition at the end of the games, allowing the city to skip the long and emissions-intensive process of adapting the development for its next, longer-term tenants.

Three personal stories show how these small, affordable, flexible homes provide big solutions for families.

Bordered by Colombia, the largest producer of cocaine, and Ecuador, a major transshipment hotspot, the country has progressively fallen captive to criminal cartels that have taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and an unprecedented crisis of governance to consolidate their presence.

Life for the average Russian is marked by poverty, stagnation, substance abuse, high suicide rates, and limited opportunity. Roughly 18 million Russians—about 12.5 percent of the population—live below the national poverty line.

"In a resource-rich state where two-thirds of the rural population lacks indoor plumbing and more than a million men have been killed or wounded in a war of choice, Putin’s record points .... to pursuit of power and perpetuation of a bloodthirsty imperial order at all costs."

The European Commission must decide by 2 March whether it intends to give legal follow-up to a European Citizens’ Initiative that gathered more than one million signatures in 2025. It would allow EU states to voluntarily fund women's abortion care when they need to travel from another EU state.

The Trump administration's approach to immigration is making the country less safe, a majority says in new Quinnipiac polling. Also, 62 percent says the shooting of Alex Pretti was not justified. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

In an interview with Euronews, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski warned that ending Russia's war in Ukraine without Kyiv’s full consent would undermine Western unity and embolden authoritarian regimes worldwide.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin-affiliated media outlets revealed that Moscow’s key demand is not only full Russian control over Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but also official recognition of Donbas as Russian territory by all sides, including Ukraine.

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to buzzy restaurants and nightlife, Muslim New Yorkers are creating a growing imprint on the city.

He hosted Pope Francis at his Edmonton parish when the late pontiff visited Canada in 2022 to apologize for the Catholic Church’s collaboration with the “catastrophic” system of Indigenous residential schools.

U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless there’s a likelihood of escape, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

In a recent policy brief, Kirill Shamiev, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, outlines Moscow’s strategy to utilize the Angara-Yenisei Valley — a planned $9.2-billion industrial hub in Siberia — as a geopolitical bargaining chip in future peace negotiations.

Rain, that once brought fear to Kerala’s riverine communities, drives vigilance and preparedness today. Across flood-prone regions, residents have become citizen scientists — tracking rainfall, sharing data, and issuing early warnings. Their collective action has turned anxiety into action.

Deep beneath the Earth sits 50,000 times more energy than all the world's fossil fuel reserves, but accessing it requires using the same controversial technology that oil companies spent trillions to develop: fracking.

After 8,262 miles, 21 countries, and a year and a half on the road, Ugandan-British runner and campaigner Deo Kato became the first person to run from Cape Town to London, using the feat to raise awareness about racism and reclaim the story of migration.

It goes without saying that the Twin Cities are in turmoil. For many residents, particularly immigrants, the simple act of leaving home no longer feels safe or reasonable after the Department of Homeland Security began cracking down on the area’s immigrant population and have killed two people.