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Advocate: ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

Common Dreams: ‘I Don’t Need International Law,’ Trump Says, Adding That His ‘Power’ Is Limited Only By His ‘Morality’

Lisa’s Substack: Fake Ceasefire In Gaza Has Ceased

Reuters: Syrian army pushes into Aleppo district after Kurdish groups reject withdrawal

Reuters: Trump threatens land strikes on Mexican drug cartels, Sheinbaum urges closer U.S. coordination

The Breach: New Brunswick is rolling out the red carpet for U.S.-backed extractive projects

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta needs to call state of emergency over crowded hospitals, physicians say

• American man extradited to Canada decades after brutal slaying of senior citizen at northern B.C. rest stop

• Canadian Armed Forces spy scandal exposes covert campaign to smear and silence critics of Ottawa’s role in Ukraine war

• Conservative grassroots to debate DEI, conversion therapy, abortion and immigration at convention

• Conservative insiders say Poilievre on track to easily survive leadership review but changes need to challenge Carney

• Dozens join abuse class-action lawsuit against Calgary school board

• French-U.K. Starlink rival pitches Canada on 'sovereign' satellite service for Arctic military operations

• Members of armed forces headed to help in Pimicikamak

• Unemployment rate rises to 6.8% as more Canadians search for work

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USA news:

• California completely drought-free for 1st time in 25 years after winter storms

• Federal judge rules Idaho can prevent transgender people from changing sex on birth certificate

• Hiring slows in December to end the weakest year of job growth since the pandemic

• ICE Is Okay With Renee Good’s Killing

• ICE protests continue in Minneapolis day after woman is fatally shot by ICE agent

• Luigi Mangione fights to block death penalty, murder charge and key evidence in court

• Portland Mayor Decries Mounting Bloodshed, Tells ICE to Get Out After Federal Agents Shoot Two

• Protestors, ICE clash at Albuquerque DHS facility

• Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness

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World News

• Assassination plot against President Ibrahim Traore foiled in Burkina Faso

• Australian Labor government calls Royal Commission to witch-hunt opposition to the Gaza genocide

• EU paves way for Mercosur trade deal after 25 years

• Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised

• One dead, dozens missing after Philippine dump site collapse

• Trump Vows to ‘Do Something’ With Greenland ‘Whether They Like It or Not’

• U.S. may lose voting rights at UN General Assembly at certain point: UN spokesperson

• US seizes fifth oil tanker as Venezuela pressure campaign continues

• US to provide $45m for Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire

• Venezuela Announces Diplomatic Outreach to U.S. While Condemning Military Aggression

• Venezuela frees political prisoners in move praised by Trump

What I’m Reading

• America’s New Imperialism

• The unintended consequences of Quebec's planned abortion bill

• These Abuses Will Continue Until People Force Them To Stop

• This Is Precisely Who CBP and ICE Have Always Been

• Toronto “War Bank” bid will only lead to further austerity and immiseration

• Transgender youth who receive hormone therapy are less suicidal: study

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