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US Vice President JD Vance has launched a scathing attack on Europe’s handling of “critical” Greenland as its locals reject both Danish and US rule.
Vance told Fox News that Europe and Denmark have “not done a good job” in securing the area, claiming they underinvested in defences and failed to engage with Trump on the matter.
- Newspaper headlines: ‘PM is turning UK into military pygmy’ and ‘Love Island wildfire crisis’ BBC
- Senior military chiefs warn Keir Starmer of £28bn defence shortfall The Times
- No 10 defends military funding amid warnings of £28bn black hole Peeblesshire News
- Demands on defence are rising following reports of £28bn shortfall, MOD warns Forces News
- Labour’s refusal to prioritise defence over welfare leaves Britain exposed The Telegraph
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Keir Starmer backs London victims in row with mayor over grooming gangs The Times
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Reform chairman likens Starmer’s digital ID scheme to Nazi laws The Telegraph
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Starmer’s Corbyn smear accusations FINALLY go global with US coverage thecanary.co
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced the US president’s intention to acquire Greenland
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has denounced US President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring Denmark’s self-governing island of Greenland.
Elon Musk rips apart Keir Starmer’s Government in rant branding UK ‘fascist’ Daily Express
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Washington’s military intervention in Venezuela has reignited fears about Trump’s designs on the autonomous Danish territory, which has untapped rare earth deposits and could be a vital player as polar ice melts, opening up new shipping routes.
“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it,” the US leader said Sunday.
In response, Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told Trump to back off, while several European countries and the European Union rushed to back Denmark, which has urged Washington to stop threatening a NATO ally.
Indonesia suspends Musk’s Grok AI over porn New Age
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Somaliland Condemns Somalia’s Calls for What It Describes as “Foreign Military Intervention” Dawan Africa
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The UK government says X limiting Grok AI image edits to users who pay a monthly fee is “insulting” to victims of misogyny and sexual violence.
It follows backlash after Elon Musk’s AI engine digitally changed images of people by undressing them – something it says it now can only do for those who pay a monthly instalment.
The BBC’s technology editor Zoe Kleinman explains what’s happened and why.
On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, Democrat strategist Antjuan Seawright, commenting on President Trump’s Venezuela operation and his comments about Greenland, said:
“I don’t think this is the posture of someone who’s planning to leave the White House in three years because he’s been very aggressive about his foreign policy approach, and taking over countries.”
Aggressive foreign policy = determination to remain in power? Non sequitur much, Antjuan?
The aftermath of the ICE shooting of an anti-ICE activist in Minnesota has quickly exploded into a national story that sucks the oxygen out of anything else trying to elbow its way into the news cycle . This includes Venezuela, where the NBC Nightly News was the sole evening network newscast to chronicle a major development: the Chavista regime’s release of an indeterminate number of political prisoners.
Here is the Venezuela roundup that has the prisoner release at the top, in its entirety and as aired on NBC Nightly News on Thursday, January 8th, 2026:
NBC Nightly News was the only network newscast to mention the release of political prisoners in Venezuela (1/8/26). pic.twitter.com/wowfhFZAg0
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 9, 2026
The UK government “wants any excuse for censorship”, Elon Musk has said, amid a growing backlash over deepfake sexual images produced by his social media site X’s artificial intelligence tool.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said X needed “to get a grip of” its AI chatbot Grok, and he had asked media regulator Ofcom for “all options to be on the table”.
Hypocrisy was in high gear on Morning Joe today regarding the Minneapolis ICE shooting. The panel accused President Trump and JD Vance of “prejudging” the situation and “jumping to conclusions.” But the panel repeatedly described Renee Nicole Good as “the victim.” If Good is the victim, that, ipso facto, makes the ICE agents the guilty parties. So who’s prejudging now?
That wasn’t the only instance of hypocrisy/double standards on display. Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson lamented that instead of “trying to calm people’s fears down,” leaders “are simply playing to [their] base and trying to amp it up.” While Johnson didn’t name names, this is MS NOW, so his accusation clearly seemed aimed at the Trump administration.
But when it comes to playing to the base and amping things up instead of calming people’s fears, consider these statements by an array of Democrats:
- Tim Walz called ICE “Trump’s Gestapo,” and declared, as he mobilized the MN National Guard, “we’ve never been at war with our federal government [until now?]”
- Jasmine Crockett called ICE “slave patrols.”
- Ilhan Omar called ICE agents “vile and beyond cruel.”
- Hakeem Jeffries implored people to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.”
- Good old Maxine Waters called Trump “lowdown, no good, filthy,” over ICE raids.
If protests are an “unstoppable force that they can’t oppose,” that Trump “can’t oppose,” why are they opposable? That is something Rachel Maddow will never be able to answer, but it won’t stop her from going on a rant about percentages, authoritarianism, and blah blah blah.
According to Rachel Maddow, “In political science terms, there’s what’s called the 3.5 percent rule, which is that if you look at authoritarian regimes all over the world over the last century, once you have 3.5 percent of a population protesting nonviolently against a dictator or an authoritarian, that is essentially an unstoppable force that they can’t oppose.”
The only problem with this is that it’s unclear what it is that Trump can’t oppose. What are they even fighting for? A woman who spent much of her free time dedicated to doxxing federal agents allegedly attempted to run over an officer with a deadly weapon. Now, apparently, 3.5 percent of the population is opposing this, and Maddow claims Trump can’t oppose that opposition.
Days after Renee Nicole Good tried to mow down an ICE agent with her car and got shot dead for it, fresh videos keep piling up. Each one proves the agent acted in self-defense. The latest clip of the shooting came straight from the agent’s cellphone, capturing her Honda Pilot barreling right at him.
That first-person footage hits different from the distant shots we saw early on. Good drove dead ahead while the agent stood smack in front of her bumper. Naturally, lefties scrambled as their story crumbled. Originally, they swore her car never touched him. A second angle proved them dead wrong. The cellphone footage buried any doubt. Even Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey admitted Good struck the agent with her car, even though he dismissed the seriousness of her actions.
Of course, the left is invested in the narrative that the agent was in the wrong, so they’ve leaned heavily into sob stories about Good. She was an “innocent mom” just dropping her kid off at school, they claimed. Another fairy tale portrayed Good as a terrified parent fleeing the scene. Yet another insisted she only wanted to turn around and leave — total baloney.
Musk Calls UK ‘Fascist’ as Row Over Grok AI Images Escalates Bloomberg.com
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Newly obtained footage of the fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday appears to strengthen the case that he was acting in self-defense.
CNN aired the surveillance video taken from a home nearby, which showed an SUV being driven by Renee Nicole Good, 37, pulling into the middle of a Minneapolis street to obstruct ICE officers during an operation.
CNN noted that agents converged on the vehicle, and when Good tried to flee the scene, that’s when the shots were fired.
Anderson Cooper explained that the video showed the four minutes leading up to the shooting.
So in the new CNN footage, it is quite clear that the officer did not walk up to the front of the car. When Good backs up the car, it places him in the front and would give him very good reason to believe she was aiming at him as the car guns forward. pic.twitter.com/8yE5fj5BdT
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) January 9, 2026
While the accomplice media go about making the next “Maryland Man” out of the Minneapolis woman fatally shot after allegedly trying to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, more details are emerging about the radical life and times of Renee Nicole Good.
As the New York Post reports, the 37-year-old woman was known as an anti-ICE “warrior” in a group called “ICE Watch.” The Post describes the resistance movement as a “loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids” in sanctuary city Minneapolis.
In fact, ICE Watch and radical groups like it have popped up around the country, emerging during President Donald Trump’s first term and exploding in this first year of a second term laser-focused on cleaning up America’s illegal immigration mess.
The left has been protesting and attending memorials for Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent after an act of self-defense. Liberals can protest and mourn all they want, but they do so because they don’t live in this little thing called “reality.” Because in reality, people would not mourn a woman en masse after her actions could have killed someone. This is not to say that it wasn’t tragic that she lost her life, but it was of her “own making.” Nonetheless, one white woman would like to chime in and cry about why this is somehow an issue regarding skin color.
According to this liberal woman, “it feels wrong” to be at the memorial. Why the left obsesses over feelings so much is beyond reason, but feelings are not facts. This is why she should not overanalyze how she “feels,” because it’s rooted in her imagination. Nonetheless, her faulty reasoning then concluded that she’s a white woman and she “has a lot of privilege,” and that she “feels like white tears are not always helpful or necessary.” She then claimed Black and Brown people have been dealing with this for a long time.
Democrats have rushed to brand a Wednesday shooting involving ICE as “murder” and “state sanctioned execution.” After months of attacks against ICE agents, such rhetoric only serves one purpose: to justify more vigilante violence.
Renee Good was fatally shot Wednesday after accelerating her vehicle toward an ICE agent standing in front of it during an encounter in Minneapolis. The ICE agent fired what the Department of Homeland Security described as “defensive shots.” Notably, seconds before the shooting, law enforcement seemingly ordered Good to exit her vehicle — but instead, she tried to flee.
Nonetheless, Democrats have recklessly rushed to issue a verdict, that is, that the shooting was “murder.”
California Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez said on X: “This was the glove compartment of the mother your agents just murdered,” alongside a photo of what is presumably the inside of Good’s vehicle. Democrat New York Rep. Dan Goldman accused Stephen Miller of “inciting untrained thugs to murder Americans.”
Yesterday in Minneapolis, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were conducting a lawful immigration operation when Renee Nicole Macklin Good allegedly weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to run over federal agents. An ICE agent fatally shot Macklin in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as self-defense. The investigation is ongoing, and body camera footage has yet to be released.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey immediately blamed federal agents for the shooting, telling ICE, in an expletive, to “get out of Minneapolis” and accusing them of sowing chaos. This despite the fact that ICE agents were performing their constitutional duty to enforce immigration laws — the same laws that apply in every state, including Minnesota.
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association condemned the “irresponsible” and “reckless rhetoric from political leaders attacking law enforcement,” stating it “has real and dangerous consequences for officers on the street” and “fuels hostility.” DHS reports a 1,300 percent increase in assaults and an 8,000 percent increase in death threats against ICE agents — directly linked to the demonization by sanctuary politicians in deep-blue cities and states.
Leftist agitators and the corporate media wasted no time capitalizing on the death of a woman who was fatally shot by an ICE officer after she appeared to ram an agent who was positioned in front of her vehicle.
While those with common sense rightly point out that the shooting was justified by the circumstances and backed up by legal precedent, the left quickly capitalized on the woman’s death by further demonizing federal law enforcement and repeating their tired accusation that the Trump administration is little more than a fascist tyranny.
The shooting on Wednesday and the Somali fraud scandal that at least partially caused the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis call attention to the fact that the left will fanatically defend those whose crimes they themselves have facilitated.
This week, President Trump sent shockwaves through Wall Street when he announced via Truth Social his plan to ban large corporations and foreign entities from purchasing single-family homes. The proposal targets institutional investors like Blackstone and other real estate investment trusts that have been buying up American homes by the hundreds of thousands — driving up prices and locking out first-time buyers.
Political support came swiftly from both sides of the aisle. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, announced that he would introduce legislation to codify the ban, saying, “Millions of young Americans have been locked out of the American Dream.” Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.V., called it “huge,” while Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., signaled support. Even Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said she’s been advocating for years to limit Wall Street from buying up America’s homes.
The market reaction was severe. Invitation Homes tumbled 6 percent. Blackstone fell 9 percent. American Homes 4 Rent dropped 6.3 percent. And Wall Street understood completely: Trump means business. But for Main Street families, this proposal offers real hope.
Thousands of anti-ICE demonstrators gathered around the scene of an ICE-involved shooting in South Minneapolis, which left a 37-year-old woman dead after she attempted to run down a federal agent with her vehicle on Wednesday morning.
Shortly after the incident took place at the corner of Portland and 34th Street, a sizable contingent of leftist rioters proceeded to pelt federal agents with projectiles and blunt objects as they attempted to evacuate the scene. Agents deployed less-than-lethal crowd control measures while exiting, leaving the scene in the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department.
Not long after 2 p.m. local time, police fled after they came under assault by rioters hurling snowballs and other projectiles. A mob then proceeded to advance up 34th Street, impeding traffic and harassing drivers.
A number of rioters also stormed the Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse at 300 South Fourth Street, the main federal court facility in the city. Rioters smashed bulletproof glass out front of the building, while a woman who identified herself as a “lawyer” told the crowd to line up outside the doors in order to trap everyone inside.
The problem with the left is that they don’t actually stand for anything. This is why they would rather support a narco-terrorist dictator while protesting a fake dictator, a.k.a. the leader of the free world. They hate Trump so much that they would rather have Venezuelans continue to live in poverty and famine in an effort not give him a win. This is because, to them, this is a third-world problem—something their first-world brains could not even begin to understand if their lives depended on it. This is wrong, which is why one Venezuelan woman broke down in tears while speaking to KATV, calling out liberals for saying, “This is not a reason for celebration.”
The people who have a problem with what happened in Venezuela cannot even begin to understand anything this woman is saying. They don’t know what it’s like to not have a shower. In the U.S., something like Walmart is often frequented by lower-income individuals. But to this woman, she couldn’t even believe such a selection of food existed.
Many of her friends just disappeared. Many of her loved ones were forced to eat trash. The people were living in fear. This is not something the left can even begin to comprehend. They don’t even care, as they would rather these people suffer than give Trump a win.
Yeah, some woman got wrecked trying to murder federal agents and got a face-full of lead. Sorry, not sorry. We’re taking a victory lap here. We all saw how the Left reacted when Charlie Kirk got assassinated, so excuse me as I couldn’t give less of a #$%^ about your indignation right now, liberal America. These agents were doing their job: enforcing federal immigration laws. This leftist clown, Renee Nicole Good, 37, tried to run over an ICE agent and was shot and killed.
During a press conference this evening with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the officer was struck by Good’s vehicle and went to the hospital. ICE operations will not end. The deportations will continue. And the memes from this incident have been gold. A great way to not get shot by law enforcement is to not try and run them over.
“I’ll handle them, Mr. Frey.” https://t.co/60jjjWtb3R pic.twitter.com/jZ152qOxjq
— Frasier Payne (@MeinGottNiles) January 7, 2026