Trump, 79, announced the pick of Warsh, 55, on Truth Social hours after The Post's Charlie Gasparino reported that the commander in chief had settled on the former Fed governor.

"Those are the three most useless words in the world of communication."

The smart money is betting he either won't or can't blow up city coffers.

Seeing large men dressed in goggles and trenchcoats echoes the camp fascism of musical comedies

An aspect of ICE’s deadly performance in Minneapolis that goes hand-in-hand with its mission to intimidate is the absolutely farcical tone of the ICE aesthetic. Broadway numbers like Springtime for Hitler in The Producers and more recently, Das Ubermensch in Operation Mincemeat, a showstopper performed with a German techno beat and Nazi boyband – “Third Reich on the mic” – vocals, present fascism as an essentially camp enterprise and we’re reminded this week that ICE fits the mould entirely.

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President Trump proclaimed Friday that Alex Pretti's "stock has gone way down" after video emerged of him spitting at federal immigration officers and smashing the taillight of their black SUV days before his killing by border agents in Minneapolis.

There could be a rare opportunity for a Mets first-round pick to win a starting job.

Breezy brunch dates were never on the table for these two.

Canadian PM swaps tough talk at Davos aimed at Donald Trump for some fun at a film gala with Hudson Williams

Last week, Mark Carney was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, giving global leaders a lesson in realism. His powerful speech about the end of the old order and the need for middle powers to unite in the face of fractured international norms received a standing ovation.

The economist and central banker struck a slightly different tone at a gala in Ottawa to promote the Canadian film industry on Thursday evening. Appearing on the red carpet with the Canadian actor Hudson Williams, star of the hit HBO ice hockey drama Heated Rivalry, Carney was in a playful mood.

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Properly evaluating prospects is a difficult business, especially when they are teenagers on the international scene.

• Vonn crashes into nets and clutches left knee

• Race in Crans-Montana abandoned after early falls

• US star’s Olympic fitness now under scrutiny

Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final World Cup downhill before the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday, leaving the American skiing great limping and clutching her left knee as organizers abandoned the race amid worsening conditions.

The 41-year-old lost control after landing a jump on the upper section of the course in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, skidding sideways into the safety netting as snow fell steadily and visibility deteriorated. Vonn’s airbag deployed on impact and she remained down for several moments while medical staff attended to her on the piste.

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Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday and was left limping and keeping weight off her left knee

Ukraine is waiting to see if Russia will pause attacks on its power grid.

Victims of terrorist attacks say BAT’s operations in North Korea helped fund weapons used in the Middle East

Hundreds of US military service members, civilians and their families have filed a lawsuit for unspecified damages against British American Tobacco (BAT), one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, and a subsidiary, claiming the company spent years illicitly helping North Korea fund terrorism weapons that were used against Americans.

BAT formed a joint venture in 2001 with a North Korean company to manufacture cigarettes in the country. The venture quietly continued, a 2005 Guardian investigation revealed, even as the US government publicly warned North Korea was funding terrorism and imposed sanctions on the country. Amid mounting international pressure in 2007, the company claimed it was ending business in North Korea, but secretly continued its operation through a subsidiary, the US justice department said in 2023. BAT’s venture in North Korea provided around $418m in banking transactions, “generating revenue used to advance North Korea’s weapons program,” Matthew Olsen, then the justice department official in charge of its national security division, said during a 2023 Senate hearing.

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It took six years to identify the condition that caused my chronic pain: a blood sugar dysregulation condition

Seven years ago, when I was 27, I got my first-ever migraine. Ten months later, it was still there.

Even after the 10-month migraine ended, frequent weeks-long migraine attacks and bouts of stabbing “icepick” headaches kept me in pain more often than not. I was a software engineer at Facebook, but had to take leave from work because looking at my laptop screen made my head scream in revolt. I would never go back.

Natalie Mead publishes a Substack called Oops, My Brain about life with chronic illness and recovery. She is also working on a memoir about the tension between love and caregiving in chronic illness

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Activists call for Friday ‘blackout’ in protest against administration’s violent immigration crackdown

Activists are calling for a nationwide shutdown on Friday, advocating “no work, no school, no shopping” in a protest against the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdowns.

Organizers say Friday’s “blackout” – or general strike, as some are calling it – is part of a growing non-violent movement to combat ICE’s aggressive enforcement tactics, which have come under renewed scrutiny following a series of fatal shootings involving federal agents.

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When bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differently

It was December 1999. Tech investors were riding high, convinced that a website and a Super Bowl ad were all it took to get rich quick. Spending was mistaken for growth; marketing was mistaken for a business model. In just a few months, the dot-com boom would go bust: $1.7tn in market value vanished, and the broader economy took a $5tn hit.

Yet something remarkable emerged from the wreckage. The post-crash internet wasn’t defined by speculation, but by creation: the rise of web 2.0 and open-source software – and the birth of platforms like Firefox and Wikipedia. The lesson is simple: when bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differently.

Mark Surman is the president of Mozilla

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Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Lately I’ve been going back to read some classic works that I had, in my zany life-arc, missed, in the (selfish) hope of opening up new frequencies in my work. So: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (the zaniness seems to lack agenda and yet still says something big and political); then on to Speak, Memory by Nabokov, newly reminded that language alone (dense, beautiful) can power the reader along; and, coming soon, The Power Broker by Robert A Caro – a real ambition-inspirer, I’m imagining, in its scale and daring.

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Whether you're looking for love, taking the high road of independence, or hungry for the simple medicine of human touch, we have the light of the tarot to help carry you forward.

It claims that its students learn twice as fast and score in the top 1% to 2% on MAP testing, a nationwide measure of growth in reading and math for K-8 students. 

The full Snow Moon in Leo peaks on Sunday, February 1, 2026, at 5:08 p.m. EST.

Lydia Moynihan heads to Torrance, Calif., for an inside look at Divergent — the cutting-edge company quietly reshaping how everything from supercars to military hardware gets made. She sits down with CEO and Co-founder Lukas Czinger and straps into the jaw-dropping Czinger 21C hypercar, where 3D printing meets blistering speed. It’s part factory tour, part...

A survey taken in New Jersey revealed that 52% of salon-goers reported experiencing dermal or fungal symptoms.

President issues warning as warships deployed to Middle East but says ‘it would be great if we didn’t have to use them’

Donald Trump has warned Iran it must end its nuclear programme and stop killing protesters if the large US armada of warships deployed in the Middle East are not to be used.

The US president said protesters were being killed in their thousands, but that he had stopped Iran from carrying out executions.

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Millions told to stay home in US and more than a million are left without power, while Australia faces record heatwave

Cold weather across a vast swathe of the eastern US has been the likely cause of at least 49 deaths in the past week.

At one point, about 213 million people were under some sort of winter weather warnings, affecting areas from New Mexico to New England – a spread of about 2,000 miles (3,200km). Millions were told to stay at home, and at one point there were more than a million people without power. As of Wednesday night, there were still 312,000 outages, mostly across Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

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