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Top News Stories for Sunday, January 25th 2026
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning. Immigration officials said Pretti was shot several times shortly after 9 a.m. local time when federal officers were conducting a targeted operation against a different man who was undocumented and wanted for assault. Here is what to know. The victim was an ...
Source: npr.org
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has urged citizens to back domestic businesses and workers under a new "Buy Canadian" policy, hours after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods if Ottawa proceeded with trade deals with China. In a video posted on his X account, Carney framed the policy as a response to growing economic pressure from abroad. Trump Threatens Canada ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — Several Senate Democrats on Saturday came out against a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after another deadly shooting by federal authorities in Minneapolis earlier in the day. "Trump's endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote on the social platform X . "This brutal crackdown has to ...
Source: wfla.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump commended British soldiers who fought in Afghanistan in a social media post on Saturday, backtracking on remarks he made that attracted criticism from NATO allies. In an interview Thursday, Trump had claimed troops from non-American NATO countries had stayed off the "front lines" during the war in Afghanistan. The comments drew fierce criticism across Europe, including from British Prime ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 -
US climber takes an hour and half to scale one of Asia's tallest buildings without ropes or a harness The US rock climber Alex Honnold climbed one of Asia's tallest skyscrapers without ropes or a harness on Sunday, fulfilling an ambition that began more than a decade ago and which he hoped would inspire people to pursue their own challenges because "time is finite". Honnold, who starred in the 2019 Oscar-winning ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
A young boy who was bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour last week has died in hospital. Twelve-year-old Nico Antic had been jumping off a rock ledge with friends on 18 January when he was attacked by what authorities suspected was a bull shark. "We are heartbroken to share that our son, Nico has passed away," his parents Lorena and Juan said in a statement. The incident was one of four reported shark attacks along ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
As millions of Americans hunker down for a massive winter storm sweeping the country, new maps are offering updated forecasts of snow and ice accumulations. More than 200 million people are under winter storm threats as snow, sleet, and freezing rain began to move across impacted areas — with possible dangerous conditions forecast across 35 states . Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., declared ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that two days of trilateral talks with Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi concluded with "constructive" discussions on "possible parameters for ending the war." The talks are the first known instance that officials from the Trump administration have sat down with both countries as part of Washington's push for progress to end Moscow's nearly 4-year-old ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The attack left one survivor, and the coastguard has been notified to launch search and rescue operations Reading Time: 2 minutes The US military said on Friday that it had carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month. US Southern Command said on social ...
Source: scmp.com