On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman’s office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away by masked federal agents.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop has garnered national attention for warning his clergy to finalize their wills and affairs, preparing for a “new era of martyrdom.”

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At least 21 people have died and many more have been injured after the derailment of an Iryo train with 300 passengers on board in Adamuz, which crossed into the adjacent track and collided with an AVE train on the Madrid-Huelva route.

The firm’s senior financial strategist is concerned the advancements in the field of quantum computing will break Bitcoin.

IMHO really rare, but then happened with several eggs from the same batch.

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It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.

Goose is the only non-passerine emoji I have

I’m going through a rough spot and they haven’t left my side🤎🖤🤍

ReactOS as the long-in-development “open-source Windows” project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS.

”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!”

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Midwives have been told about the benefits of “close relative marriage” in training documents that minimise the risks to couples’ children.

The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 US troops based in Alaska to prepare to deploy to Minnesota as a precautionary measure in case the administration decides to send them, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The unit of the 11th Airborne Division is a cold-weather unit nicknamed “The Arctic Angels.”

Epstein invited her to come sit down next to him. “He explained that he was a philanthropist, known by so many people, a very generous man, and had sent so many young people to university, often the kids of women he’d been at school with. I completely believed him.”

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Establishment Democrats are rejecting an increasingly popular position by refusing to take a bold stance that happens to be good politics.

The Working Families Party launched a website where, among other efforts, voters can request refunds from Fetterman’s campaign.

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Just after Trump finished taping a 13-minute interview on Tuesday with Dokoupil in Michigan, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt approached Dokoupil and his colleagues with a message from the president.

Woman alarmed after being asked to leave Conservative town hall over T-shirt

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Remember when Apex Legends was shadow dropped? It’s a risky move for such a high-profile game to skip all the pre-release marketing hype entirely, but it paid off, and it’s clear why Respawn went that route—"photoreal PvP hero shooter” was an eyeroll-inducing prospect even back in 2019, so letting the game speak for itself short-circuited any pre-release angst.

Legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen delivered an impassioned condemnation of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement during a surprise 75-minute performance Saturday night at the Light of Day benefit concert in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Someone mentioned this on a the recent discussions about Nexus Mods cancelling their Linux mod loader, and after trying it out I thought it was worth making a dedicated post about it.

Calls grow for the EU to deploy its ultimate trade bazooka as Trump threatens fresh tariffs to force the sale of Greenland. The anti-coercion instrument would shut off access to the European single market, punishing US companies. It is powerful on paper, but untested in real life.

January 18, 2026

Ich würde gerne in meinen schlaf plumpsen

Das habe ich gerade gefunden, vielleicht wollt ihr es ja mit Freund:innen teilen? Piefed/Lemmy wird nicht genannt und auch die Föderation zwischen den einzelnen Diensten wird etwas übertrieben, aber das Video ist cool. Fand die englische Variante schon immer sehr geil.

It’s very nice to not have a dozen different versions of the same distro to parse through and figure out that are simply the same distro with a different DE. Moreover, very few of them offer this many options.

Thousands of bags of chips have washed up on a beach in Sussex.

State media said on Saturday that the army took over the northern city of Tabqa and its adjacent dam, as well as the major Freedom dam, formerly known as the Baath, west of the Syrian city of Raqaa. It came despite US calls to halt the advance.