I am walking across America and very disturbed by the recent church disruption by anti-ICE protesters. It crosses sacred boundaries. Let me tell you about my experience in Chicago.

"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert said "f--- ICE" after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this weekend.

Billie Eilish's brother criticized conservatives in Instagram reel after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration agent in Minneapolis

Jennifer Homendy, the outspoken chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, is reclaiming the spotlight at a meeting on Tuesday about the Washington, D.C., crash that killed 67.

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In a brief ruling, the Minnesota judge wrote that unusual order was necessary because “the extent of ICE’s violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary.”

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada’s speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The international-affairs scholar Henry Farrell explains why.

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California's million-home shortage shows how strict zoning laws and environmental reviews drive housing prices to twice the national median, experts say.

U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents will reportedly support diplomatic security details at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin's fiancée, Carolina Matovac, shared her pregnancy loss in an emotional Instagram message Monday, explaining that their unborn baby "played a vital role" in discovering her heart failure last summer.

Ron Funches found one true friend in The Traitors castle in Rob Rausch and that was enough for him. 

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle rolled through Park City for the premiere of their documentary, people close to them noted a change in their demeanor.

The pickings are getting slim for Cleveland.

After debris balls closed Sydney beaches in October 2024, Guardian Australia reported they could be linked to sewage outfalls. Authorities were less keen to talk

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Last week, after torrential rain in Sydney, fresh poo balls washed up on the beach at Malabar, the closest beach to the problematic Malabar sewage treatment plant.

Signs were erected on the beach warning people not to touch the “debris balls” or swim. But authorities didn’t let the wider community know. There were no other warnings issued by Sydney Water, the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) or the state government.

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Manchester mayor suggests claims he was told Labour would not give him permission to stand were untrue

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The Labour party’s civil war over the Gorton and Denton byelection has intensified after Andy Burnham accused Downing Street sources of lying about his decision to apply to stand in the Manchester seat.

The Manchester mayor was reacting to suggestions by unnamed Keir Starmer allies that he had been told “in no uncertain terms” that any request to the NEC committee to put his name forward for the byelection would be refused.

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Sources say that the four-time Super Bowl winning QB usually racks up hundreds of thousands in appearances during a normal Super Bowl.

That Amy Winehouse needle drop hit hard.

Cupid-approved.

Trump's team insists that billionaire Bezos wasn't involved in her whopping $40 million Amazon MGM movie deal.

The driver allegedly told the actress Baldoni made him "uncomfortable" and he'd like to "do a background check on him or something."

Move affecting those who have been in Spain five months or more runs counter to anti-migration policies across Europe

Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has approved a decree it said would regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, rejecting the anti-migration policies and rhetoric prevalent across much of Europe.

The decree, expected to come into effect in April, will apply to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and people in Spain with irregular status. To qualify for regularisation, applicants will have to prove they do not have a criminal record and had lived in Spain for at least five months – or had sought international protection – before 31 December 2025.

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Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based

Europe’s supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum.

Brands using plastic packaging – from Kraft’s Heinz Beanz to Mondelez’s Philadelphia – use materials made by the plastic manufacturing arm of the oil company Saudi Aramco.

This article is part of a cross-border investigation, supported by IJ4EU and coordinated by the independent journalist Ludovica Jona, with the media outlets the Guardian, Voxeurop, Mediapart (France), Altreconomia (Italy), Público (Spain), Investigative Reporting Denmark, Deutsche Welle (Germany) and with reporters Lorenzo Sangermano and Lucy Taylor

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Napoli are on the brink of being eliminated from the Champions League as the troubled Italian club face Chelsea, racked by a deep injury crisis

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Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know

We in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot – such a lot – about what this US government and its hardcore fanbase thinks about us. So you know they’ll be super-relaxed and free-speechy about hearing some thoughts about how they look from the outside. Let’s use last Saturday as a single snapshot. In Minneapolis, they had the shooting by ICE agents of a protesting nurse who posed no threat – an event promptly, provably and blatantly lied about at the highest level by Donald Trump’s politburo. Then that evening in Washington, a lot of those same politburocrats turned out for the White House premiere of a ridiculous propaganda film about the president’s wife, also attended fawningly by bloodless Apple oligarch Tim Cook. And he’s not even the oligarch who paid an insane amount for the film. Top line, guys: all this makes you look like what your president likes to call a “shithole country”. Sorry! I assume it’s fine to use officially licensed vocabulary?

Obviously, it’s not a proper shithole country until the soft-skinned puppetmasters in the presidential palace cut some grizzled local warlord off at the knees for following orders, so it’s good to learn overnight that border patrol “commander at large” Gregory Bovino has been pulled out of Minneapolis, possibly locked out of his social media accounts, and may soon “retire”, presumably a fall guy for the likes of stage 4 homeland security tumour Stephen Miller. Bovino’s the guy who’s literally got the same haircut and outfit as the Sean Penn character in One Battle After Another. But hey, at least he wears a uniform. Again, what are international outsiders to make of the spectacle of ICE’s federal officers coming masked and frequently dressed in civilian clothes, while images from protests across the States show resisting civilians increasingly drawn to military-style clothing? Can Trump’s storm detachment not at least be issued with matching shirts? They don’t have to be brown, but Maga chic desperately needs to make even a first step to getting itself together. In the entire history of the movement, only one follower – the QAnon shaman – has ever had true style.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film

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The Bafta nominations list underscores the enormous award-season love being felt for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, his subversive vampire riff on America’s black experience – though it isn’t making history in quite the same way as it is at the Oscars, having 13 Bafta nominations, one behind Paul Thomas Anderson’s league-leader One Battle After Another with 14.

The awards-season prominence of Anderson’s epic antifa parable, inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a dishevelled, clueless ex-revolutionary facing off against Sean Penn’s brutal honcho Colonel Lockjaw, is happening at a queasily appropriate zeitgeist moment. The grotesquely trigger-happy immigration officers of ICE are shooting people dead on US streets and this ugly fiasco is giving us a horribly familiar-looking new figure.

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