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Three Democratic members of Congress from Minnesota, including House representative Ilhan Omar, were blocked from entering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center located near Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

The incident took place near the Whipple federal building in the Twin Cities as clashes and demonstrations continued after the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis earlier in the week.

During a press briefing, Omar explained that they were initially allowed inside the facility but were soon told to leave. “Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said that they received the message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building and that they were rescinding our invitation to come in and declining any further access to the building,” she said.

She then criticized the move as unlawful. “What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties,” she added.

Last month, a federal judge said that the Trump administration cannot bar members of Congress from making visits to immigrant detention facilities, even if they are unannounced. US district judge Jia Cobb said that homeland security policies deeming ICE field offices “off-limits for congressional oversight” and requiring seven days’ notice for visits violated federal law.

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Greenland’s party leaders on Friday rejected President Trump’s continued push to take over the self-autonomous Arctic territory.

“We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said in a statement Friday night, according to The Associated Press.

It comes as the Trump administration continues to float using military force to take over Greenland while also considering purchasing land from Denmark. The U.S. already has a military base there but the White House has said President Trump’s goal is to have more control, citing national security.

“Greenland’s future must be decided by the Greenlandic people,” the territory’s party leaders wrote on Friday.

“As Greenlandic party leaders, we would like to emphasize once again our wish that the United States’ contempt for our country ends,” their statement says.

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The U.S. military on Saturday carried out “large-scale” strikes against ISIS militants in Syria, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced.

CENTCOM forces worked with partners in the region to carry out the strikes.

“The strikes today targeted ISIS throughout Syria as part of our ongoing commitment to root out Islamic terrorism against our warfighters, prevent future attacks, and protect American and partner forces in the region. U.S. and coalition forces remain resolute in pursuing terrorists who seek to harm the United States,” CENTCOM wrote in a statement posted on the social platform X.

“Our message remains strong: if you harm our warfighters, we will find you and kill you anywhere in the world, no matter how hard you try to evade justice,” the statement reads.

The latest strikes mark the second time since Dec. 19 that the U.S. struck ISIS targets in Syria. During the previous strike, 70 targets were hit, including ISIS fighters, weapons sites and infrastructure.

Both strikes, on Dec. 19 and on Saturday, were part of “Operation Hawkeye Strike,” CENTCOM stated.

The initial strikes were in response to the Dec. 13 attack on U.S. service members in Palmyra, Syria, which killed two Iowa National Guard members and an American interpreter.

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At least four tankers, most of them loaded, that had departed from Venezuela in early January in "dark mode" — or with their transponders off amid a strict U.S. blockade — are now back in the South American country’s waters, according to state company PDVSA and monitoring service TankerTrackers.com.

A flotilla of about a dozen loaded vessels and at least three other empty ships left Venezuelan waters last month in apparent defiance of an embargo imposed by President Donald Trump since mid-December, which has dragged down the country’s oil exports to minimum.

One of the ships, the Panama-flagged supertanker M Sophia, was intercepted and seized by the U.S. this week when returning to the country; while another, the Aframax tanker Olina with a flag from Sao Tome And Principe, was intercepted but released to Venezuela on Friday, state company PDVSA said.

Three more of the vessels that had departed in that flotilla, Panama-flagged Merope, Cook Islands-flagged Min Hang and Panama-flagged Thalia III, were spotted by Tankertrackers.com in Venezuelan waters late on Friday through satellite images.

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Amber Glenn has won the women’s title at the 2026 U.S. figure skating championships, topping reigining world champion Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito to secure her third consecutive national title.

Glenn, who had a record-breaking score in the short program, put on a fantastic free skate Saturday, taking a moment in child's pose on the ice after as the crowd rained stuffies on the ice and applause from the stands.

The performance earned her a 150.50 from the judges, bringing her total to 233.55. This makes Glenn, Liu and Levito all but locks to make the Olympic roster. Milano Cortina will be Glenn's Olympic debut.

"So grateful," Glenn said after. "That was terrifying and I had to skate after these two incredible ladies brought the house down, so I'm glad that I didn't disappoint too much. I'm still just mind blown."

Glenn, Liu and Levito share a close bond, and held each other in a huge embrace after Glenn's score was announced.

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Casualty counts in the last 24 hours: Over the past 24 hours, the bodies of 14 Palestinians arrived at hospitals in Gaza, while 17 Palestinians were injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 71,409 killed, with 171,304 injured.

Total casualty counts since ceasefire: Sihttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VXWk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a142d40-10b6-46ff-93cc-c2dbc325d64d_6720x4480.jpegnce October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 439 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,223, while 688 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.

Israel kills at least 14 in a wave of attackhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VXWk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a142d40-10b6-46ff-93cc-c2dbc325d64d_6720x4480.jpegs across Gaza on Thursday: Israeli forces carried out a series of attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 14 Palestinians—including five children. The deadliest strikes hit tents and shelters for displaced families in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, the Jabaliya refugee camp, and Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood, while schools, residential homes, and a child in eastern Zeitoun were also targeted. Additional Israeli airstrikes, artillery fire, and gunfire were reported near Abu Hussein School, Khalifa bin Zayed School, Hamad Hospital, Al-Mashtal Hotel, and eastern Khan Younis. Civil defense crews in the Strip responded to fires, recovered bodies, and treated wounded civilians, including children, with bombardment continuing across northern and southern Gaza into Friday. Here are some additional details on one of the more horrifying attacks, the one in Al-Mawasi:

Four Palestinians, including children, were killed and others were wounded when an Israeli suicide drone struck tents sheltering displaced families in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, according to Felesteen Online. Separate strikes hit tents belonging to the Al-Farra and Al-Abadla families, with civil defense crews recovering four bodies and treating three wounded, including one in critical condition. Footage from the scene shows a father killed and his son wounded, surrounded by the wreckage of their tents.

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Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new hypersonic missile it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable.

Ukraine's security service said it considered the use of the missile a war crime.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media that a Russian drone hit the Qatar embassy. He noted that Qatar has played a key role in mediating the exchange of prisoners of war.

The intense barrage and the launching of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile came days after Ukraine and its allies reported major progress toward agreeing on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a peace deal is struck to end Russia's almost 4-year-old invasion.

Months of U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to stop the fighting, however. Zelenskyy says he has made significant progress on the terms of a possible peace settlement in talks with Washington envoys. But Moscow has given no public signal it is willing to budge from its demands.

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A Maryland woman has been released and reunited with her family after spending 25 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody – despite her attorneys saying documentation showed she was born in the US and therefore is a citizen.

Dulce Consuelo Díaz Morales and her legal team maintain she was born in the US and possess records supporting that claim. ICE, however, had disputed this, asserting she is a Mexican citizen who entered the US unlawfully.

According to Díaz Morales, ICE agents detained her near her home on 14 December while her family watched. She told the DC, Maryland and Virginia news outlet WRC-TV that she attempted to explain she was born in Maryland – but said authorities did not accept her explanation. She added that her faith and the hope of reuniting with her family helped her endure the detention.

Díaz Morales said she lived in Mexico starting at age seven and returned to the US more than a year and a half ago. She believes confusion arose because she used her mother’s last name while living in Mexico, whereas US records list both her father’s and mother’s last names.

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