On Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and anti-Muslim hate rally organized by racist Jake Lang was abruptly aborted after Lang was swarmed by local residents and counterprotesters. The robust community response to the rally underscores the unpopularity of Trump’s “mass deportation” policies and attacks on immigrants.

The law was clear: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by 19 December 2025, with rare exceptions.

Jan 16, 2026

Mozilla announced today in a blog post that it is now offering an RPM package of the Firefox open-source web browser for RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions, with an initial focus on the Firefox Nightly releases.

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What began as a joke on social media has snowballed into one of the most talked-about political satire campaigns in Europe this year. More than 200,000 Danish citizens have now signed a viral petition proposing that Denmark buy the U.S. state of California, a tongue-in-cheek response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s past interest in acquiring Greenland.

Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney's deal with China on electric vehicles has hurt Ontarians and the two have not spoken since.

What no one says aloud, at least not in official transcripts or press conferences, is that the Middle East’s geopolitical architecture is being quietly restructured not because conscience finally awakened in the imperial capitals, but because the balance sheet no longer closes. The numbers simply do not add up anymore. The debts are too high, the costs too visible, the returns too uncertain. What the world is witnessing is not a moral awakening but a foreclosure. The repossession of a region by creditors who were once clients. The quiet disposal of an asset, Israel, that has turned toxic on every ledger that matters to the men who actually move capital around the world.

The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing arguments today on a Quebec case that could have far-reaching implications on policing across Canada.

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Recently, U.S. representative Eli Crane introduced a provision into the recent spending package that would cut funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a cutout of the CIA used to advance regime change abroad.

Experts probing the cause of Sunday's derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which killed at least 39 people, found a broken joint on the rails, according to a source briefed on initial investigations into the disaster.

An Ontario woman who regularly shared her experiences as a sexual assault survivor at police training courses says she’s ending her relationship with the Ontario Police College and is raising concerns about what she and several experts say are harmful biases among some officers and a lack of accountability from the college.

Manitoba RCMP are investigating after a seven-year-old girl was coerced into sending nude photos to a man over Snapchat — an example of what experts and police warn is a growing trend of children under 13 being sexually exploited through social media.

Russian authorities have detained an Indigenous climate advocate, accusing her of participating in a terrorist organization in what international observers are calling “retribution” for her United Nations advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.

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Listen to Donald Trump and you would think Moscow and Beijing were lying in wait off the coast of Greenland, ready to pounce to boost their power in the Arctic.

The New York Stock Exchange is preparing for a future where Wall Street no longer closes. The exchange announced it is developing a tokenized securities platform that would enable round-the-clock trading, fractional share ownership, and immediate settlement of U.S. listed equities and ETFs. The project is being built by its parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, which owns and operates the NYSE and much of the infrastructure behind global financial markets.

The agreement builds on ICEYE’s support for Ukraine since 2022, when the company first enabled Kyiv to access Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery capable of penetrating cloud cover, smoke, and darkness. SAR collection has become an important complement to optical imagery in Ukraine, where winter conditions and smoke from artillery often degrade traditional sensors.

Israel routinely confiscates what it calls uncultivated Palestinian land. In the West Bank towns of Beit Furik or Beit Dajan, farmers who refuse to be driven from their territory are subject to constant attacks by armed settlers and the Israeli army.

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"The enemy is unable to push us back and entrench itself in Huliaipole, so [...] the enemy's engineer units have received a large number of anti-personnel and anti-tank TM-72 mines to mine all the roads, streets and gardens.

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Since the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks, killing hundreds of people.

Need some happy news in here occasionally...

The crisis is most acute in cargo aviation: air cargo turnover fell from 9.2 billion tonne-kilometers in 2021 to 1.9 billion in 2024. Experts note that without access to modern aircraft and service, the degradation of the industry may deepen further.

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Russia’s false claim about the city was an attempt to justify personnel losses, quell war fatigue and draw out peace talks through claims of territorial gains, said Fedorenko, the Achilles commander.

Kontext: Erst ploppt ich_iel_but_american auf, und jetzt hab ich auch noch mind. zwei Michmichs auf 196 gesehen, die mir verdächtig bekannt vorkamen. Was für eine bodenlose Frechheit!

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I spent some time setting up a Pentium II with Windows 98 and a Voodoo 3 on PCem this weekend.

Welp that'll be another year or so.

A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome. As it's currently a draft, it needs plenty more work before being accepted but the idea behind it and how it looks has me quite interested.

MaiaSpace has been selected by Eutelsat for multi-year OneWeb LEO satellite launches, strengthening Europe’s access to space from 2027.