Armed Suspect Shot By Border Patrol Dies; Tear Gas Deployed As Protesters Swarm Area

(Update: 1240ET): The armed man shot by federal agents today in Minneapolis has died, according to the city's police chief.

Close up picture of the suspect who was shot and is confirmed to be dead. pic.twitter.com/cvpprtQe1e

DHS has issued a statement regarding the incident:

At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here.

The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming.

Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.

About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement.

As noted by DHS, protesters have come out in force, resulting in the deployment of tear gas.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-patrol-agent-shoots-armed-suspect-minneapolis

Shockwaves In Beijing: Xi Targets His Own Top General, Longtime Confidant, In Elite Purge

Another significant military purge appears underway in China, as Saturday morning the West woke up to news that China's most senior military officer, who is second only to Xi Jinping, has been put under investigation over alleged "grave violations of discipline and the law."

Gen. Zhang Youxia is a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Communist Party body that controls China's armed forces, and this comes as somewhat of a major shock given he is widely regarded as President Xi's closest ally within the military - or at least prior to this.

Another member of the commission, Gen. Liu Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation, according to the Defense Ministry on the same day. He's in charge of the PLA military's Joint Staff Department.

No further details have been given regarding the accusations against General Zhang Youxia, but such language is often presented in such crackdowns as a euphemism for corruption.

Xi has described corruption as "the biggest threat" to the Communist Party, having previously several times warned that the struggle against it "remains grave and complex." But critics as well as Western observers say this has served as a convenient and public PR mechanism for sidelining political rivals, and strengthening Xi's power and hold on the levers of power.

The Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Cheng says that General Zhang's downfall is surprising as not only has he known Xi for decades, but is the "most senior member of military hierarchy to face dismissal since fallout of 1989 Tiananmen protests."

And a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst who follows Chinese elite politics, Christopher K. Johnson, tells the NY Times on Saturday, "This move is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese military and represents the total annihilation of the high command."

Chinese social media rumors: Previously, on the evening of January 21, there were online rumors that Zhang Youxia's suspected residence in Beijing was surrounded by plainclothes officers.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shockwaves-beijing-xi-targets-his-own-top-general-longtime-confidant-elite-purge

Trump Says Canada Will Face 100% Tariffs if It "Makes A Deal With China"

U.S. President Donald Trump says Canadian goods exported to the United States would be hit with 100 percent tariffs if Canada makes a deal with China.

“If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on the morning of Jan. 24.

“If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

The U.S. president wrote the remarks while posting a Jan. 23 article by Just the News titled, “Deal with the Devil: How Canada’s New Partnership With China Could Backfire.”

Trump’s reference to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as “Governor” marks a return to the relations the U.S. president had with Carney’s predecessor, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, using the title to reflect his view that Canada should be part of the United States. Trump had not previously used the title for Carney, saying on several occasions that he likes him, but relations soured after Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, last week in which he levied heavy criticism at the United States.

Prior to arriving in Davos, Carney met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, where he signed a series of agreements that included slashing tariffs on Chinese EV imports from 100 percent to 6.1 percent for the first 49,000 units, in exchange for China cutting tariffs on Canadian canola from 85 percent to 15 percent until at least the end of the year. While in Beijing, Carney said Canada–China relations are entering a “new era,” and that Ottawa’s pursuit of a partnership with China “sets us up well for the new world order.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-says-canada-will-face-100-tariffs-if-it-makes-deal-china

Ukrainian UAV kills Russian paramedics – governor

An ambulance carrying three medical personnel was fatally struck near the city of Golaya Pristan in Kherson Region, Vladimir Saldo has said

Three medical personnel were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on an ambulance in Russia’s Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo has reported.

In a post on his Telegram channel on Saturday, the official wrote that the vehicle was struck as it approached the city of Golaya Pristan. “The crew of three was trying to reach a seriously ill person in a zone where enemy drones are hunting for any vehicles around the clock,” the governor of Kherson Region stated.

While the paramedics’ fate remained unknown for some time, Saldo said in another Telegram post later in the day that all three had perished in the attack. He described the drone strike as “yet another war crime by the Kiev regime’s militants and a crime against humanity.”

“You can’t call this anything other than the murder of civilians who were saving lives and caring for the sick in the most dangerous area,” the governor added.

A massive Ukrainian drone attack on a New Year’s Eve party in Russia’s Kherson Region late on December 31, 2025, claimed the lives of 29 people; dozens more were injured. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the café and hotel in the Black Sea village of Khorly, where about 100 revelers had gathered, were targeted by multiple kamikaze UAVs, including at least one with incendiary charges. The venue was quickly engulfed by the flames, trapping the victims inside.

The Russian authorities condemned the strike as a “terrorist act” and launched an investigation.

In Zaporozhye Region, which, along with Kherson Region as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, joined Russia following referendums in 2022, a hospital sustained a drone attack, Governor Evgeny Balitsky said on Friday. The building suffered minor damage with no casualties reported, according to the official.

https://www.rt.com/russia/631460-three-killed-uav-attack-ambulance-kherson-region/

It is a rigged game that failed asshole coz you all cheated

Larry Fink Says Public Has Lost Trust In Davos Elites And He Blames "Capitalism"

https://twitter.com/i/status/2013663396613296278

Syria Urges EU to Take Its Citizens Back as ISIS Prison Breaks Threaten Chaos

A senior official at the al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa, Syria, on Thursday pleaded with European and American officials to take control of the facility, before clashes between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) create more opportunities for Islamic State terrorists to escape.

Syrian officials are also suggesting Western powers take custody of the foreign-born ISIS fighters they have allowed to languish in Syrian prisons for years.

Al-Aqtan head of security Chiya Kobane posted a video message on Thursday in which he said the SDF can no longer manage the facility, so the world needed to step in and secure its ISIS prisoners.

“We have protected al-Aqtan prison until now, but it has reached its limit. Water and electricity are cut off, fuel is gone, and food supplies are running low,” said the security chief.

Kobane pleaded for an “international party” to “take over the prison so that we can reach our safe zones under international guarantees.” He said the SDF held out as long as it could, because it recognized its “humanitarian duty” to secure the prison.

The Kurdish-led SDF has been fighting with the Syrian army since December, as the central government of interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to bring the autonomous Kurdish region fully under his control. Each side consistently accuses the other of provoking conflicts and violating cease-fire agreements.

The SDF, a vital U.S. and European ally against the Islamic State, has long maintained prison camps where ISIS terrorists and their family members are held. Many of these prisoners are foreign fighters who traveled from other countries to join ISIS in Syria during its heydey. Their home governments have been reluctant to take them back, in part because they believe returning ISIS recruits, their wives, and their children could become security risks.

The SDF began falling back from the prison camps this week, under intense assault from Syrian government forces. A prison break involving hundreds of ISIS jihadis occurred at the al-Shaddadi prison camp on Monday.

Damascus has accused the SDF of releasing some of its prisoners to create a security crisis to put pressure on the government, while the SDF has accused jihadi fighters working for the Syrian army of releasing ISIS prisoners on purpose.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/01/23/syria-urges-eu-to-take-its-citizens-back-as-isis-prison-breaks-threaten-chaos/

Here Are The Eight Democrats Who Voted To Allow The Clintons To Evade Justice

The House Oversight Committee voted on Monday to hold former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas — and eight Democrats voted against the measure.

The eight Democrats who voted against — meaning they voted to allow the Clintons to ignore the subpoenas without penalty — were Reps. Wesley Bell (D-MO), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), and James Walkinshaw (D-VA).

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley laid out his thoughts on the situation, naming the Democrats who voted against efforts to hold the Clintons to account.

As some noted, Rep. Ro Khanna has been particularly insistent on getting to the bottom of everything and getting a full release of the Epstein documents — a fact that caused several eyebrows to raise when he was also among the Democrats suggesting it was fine for the Clintons to disregard congressional subpoenas on the matter.

The Clintons responded to the subpoenas with a lengthy letter explaining why they should not have to comply with requests to submit to the legal process.

The Clintons said in the letter that they believed the subpoenas to be “invalid” and had already given Congress all the information they had.

“There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics,” the letter said.

Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) made it clear that he was not impressed, saying, “They have had five months to comply with this … We expect to hear from Bill Clinton, he is not above the law.”

https://www.stationgossip.com/2026/01/here-are-eight-democrats-who-voted-to.html

National Defense Strategy for 2026

https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/2003864773/-1/-1/0/2026-NATIONAL-DEFENSE-STRATEGY.PDF

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Leaders of Germany, Italy say they can’t join Trump’s Board of Peace in its current form

Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni both cite constitutional objections to joining initiative, which the EU’s foreign policy arm warns the US president will have too much power over

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday he would be ready to join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace initiative for the sake of Gaza, but could not accept the plan in its current form.

“In the form in which the peace board is currently set up, we cannot accept its governance structures in Germany for constitutional reasons,” Merz said in a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome.

“However, we are of course prepared to explore other forms — new forms — of cooperation with the United States of America if the aim is to find new formats that bring us closer to peace in different regions of the world.”

Merz said these formats would not need to be limited only to Gaza and the Middle East but could also apply, for example, to Ukraine.

Meloni expressed similar opposition to the Board of Peace in its current form, saying she has asked Trump to amend its terms to resolve constitutional issues that have prevented Italy from joining it.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/leaders-of-germany-italy-say-they-cant-join-trumps-board-of-peace-in-its-current-form/

@RepLuna

Everyone is frustrated because they want to see the Epstein files and I do too, but here are the facts:

As of today, the DOJ has completed a review of over 5 million documents, conducted by over 500 attorneys, and they are ready to be released NOW.

However, Obama appointed Judge Paul Engelmayer has ordered a SECOND review of those documents and is now requiring certification of those documents by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, while simultaneously blocking the appointment of a special counsel. This is causing MAJOR delays.

I will be bringing forward a bill to IMPEACH Judge Engelmayer for obstructing the release of the Epstein files and failure to appoint special counsel! Release the files!

https://twitter.com/i/status/2014020020871848318

Israeli-American Council Asks Miriam Adelson and Haim Saban How They Control U.S. Politicians

Israeli-American Council to Zionist billionaire Miriam Adelson: How do you buy and exercise influence over politicians in the US?

Adelson: "Can you allow me not to answer? … I want to be truthful and there are so many things I don't want to talk about."

https://twitter.com/i/status/2012735900560572918

Israeli-American Council to billionaire Haim Saban: How do you buy and exercise influence over politicians in the US?

Saban: "I wanna be cautious…We just play within the system…Those who give more have more access, and those who give less have less access—it's simple math."

https://x.com/i/status/2012732736193151356

Egypt And Saudi Arabia Wants Libya’s Haftar To Abandon UAE

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have stepped up pressure on Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the commander-in-chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), over facilitating Emirati military support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, the Middle East Eye reported on January 22.

The RSF, which is backed by the United Arab Emirates, has been engaged in a power struggle with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), allied to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and others, for close to three years now.

The news outlet said that the pressure is a part of a broader Egyptian-Saudi effort to block flows of arms, fuel and fighters to the RSF, curb the UAE influence across the Middle East, especially in the border triangle between Egypt, Sudan and Libya.

Earlier this month, specifically on January 9, Egypt struck an arms shipment that was heading from an area held by the LNA in southeast Libya to the RSF in the border triangle between the three countries. The attack reportedly caused significant losses.

Two days after the attack, Saddam Haftar, Khalifa’s son and deputy commander-in-chief of the LAN, visited Cairo and met Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Meguid Saker and other senior military and security officials.

Egyptian and Libyan media portrayed the meeting as focused on military cooperation, but MME said that the main topic discussed was the RSF.

“Saddam Haftar was literally summoned to Egypt, not invited for a courtesy visit, after confirmation that the UAE had supplied the RSF with weapons, military equipment, portable air defence systems and drones with the help of the LNA,” a senior Egyptian military source told the outlet.

“Egyptian intelligence and military officials delivered a strongly worded warning to Khalifa Haftar through his son, presenting evidence of fuel deliveries to RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo from Libya’s Sarir refinery, alongside weapons shipments from the UAE,” he added.

According to the source, Egypt has aerial imagery showing weapons shipments moving from Abu Dhabi to Haftar, and from there to the RSF, as well as Libyan fuel tankers transporting fuel to the RSF in Darfur.

“Egyptian security bodies have also monitored, through audio and visual surveillance, the arrival of mercenaries from Colombia and Venezuela into Libya, from where they are transferred to Sudan to join the RSF,” the source said.

“Without such support, the RSF would not have achieved its recent advances,” he continued.

“The message was clear: continued support for the RSF would force Egypt to reconsider its entire relationship with eastern Libya,” he added.

The UAE is a main backer of the LNA. According to MME, Egypt and Saudi Arabia offered Saddam Haftar cooperation and alternative backing.

https://southfront.press/egypt-and-saudi-arabia-wants-libyas-haftar-to-abandon-uae/