Spooked by President Trump’s praise of “very good talks” with Iran, Binyamin Netanyahu is rushing to Washington on Tuesday to try to impress upon the US that any deal must curb ballistic missiles as well as Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
The Israeli prime minister requested that a visit due on February 18 be brought forward after Trump touted an imminent follow-up meeting between his envoys and Tehran. Iran insisted that only nuclear issues were on the table.
Nearly half of the households that watched the Super Bowl tuned out halftime performer Bad Bunny, per Samba TV.
This also represents a 39 percent decline in Bad Bunny viewers when compared to last year’s halftime show.
It started as a cheeky response on social media to the US secretary for homeland security. Months later, however, a Europe-based project to unmask US immigration and custom enforcement (ICE) agents has racked up millions of views and mobilised hundreds of volunteers.
“What we’re doing is a reaction to a problematic regime,” said Dominick Skinner, the Netherlands-based Irish national behind the website ICE List, of its mission to remove the anonymity that many of the armed federal agents operate under while deployed to US cities.
Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no longer shares a commitment to liberal democratic norms and values, a report prepared by the Munich Security Conference asserts.
The report sets the scene for an all-out ideological confrontation with the Trump White House at the high-level annual meeting of security policy specialists, which starts on Friday.
In a now infamous speech to last year’s MSC, the US vice-president, JD Vance, claimed European elites were suppressing free speech and “opening the floodgates” to mass migration. The address marked the moment Europe realised the Trump administration would no longer be a reliable trading and security partner.
Whatever is in the water at the Guardian calls for quarantine.
In the 20th century, it was customary for Latin American military juntas to start a putsch by seizing control of the national broadcasting company. This often happened during the night or in the early hours of the morning. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet and his troops took over the radio and TV stations in Chile by 8am. On 24 March 1976, the leader of the Argentinian military junta captured Isabel Perón at 1am. By 3.10am, all TV and radio stations started to play military marches.
The actors have changed since then and so have their methods. What is unchanged is the idea that political power is about the control of the media. This is why the US and the EU have been engaged in a raging dispute over social media regulation and content moderation since JD Vance criticised the Europeans at last year’s Munich Security Conference for suppressing free speech.
Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland says when it comes to the U.S. and its relationships with other countries on the world stage, it needs to “get their act together.”
Since his 2025 inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened several countries, including Canada, with annexation and tariffs on goods, creating an ongoing trade war.
Freeland, fresh off her January resignation as a member of Parliament, appeared Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Freeland resigned after being appointed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as an adviser on economic development for Ukraine.
Did she ever work for Canada?
Thousands of miles from Westminster fuelled by gargantuan cans of energy drinks and a vim for free speech, Sarah Rogers is fast becoming a thorn in Sir Keir Starmer’s side.
As Donald Trump’s firebrand undersecretary for public diplomacy, she relishes admonishing Britain over its unfiltered mass migration and failures to safeguard free speech.
From her Washington office, a sprawling suite inside the Harry S Truman Building, the New York lawyer leads the administration’s charge to rescue what it believes are Western civil liberties in terminal decline.
From the very start, there was something weird about Operation Absolute Resolve. The official story went something like this: after a whirlwind air attack, which included the use of suicide drones for the first time, special operators from the US Army’s renowned but shadowy SFOD-D unit (“Delta Force”) were helicoptered into the Fuerte Tiuna military complex in the south of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. They defeated the local garrison, used “massive blowtorches” to breach heavy metal doors in a fortress-like residential site within the base, captured the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, then spirited them back to the helicopters and flew them out to face charges in the United States. Donald Trump said it had been “an assault like people have not seen since World War Two.”
Painfully real for Maduro I’m betting.
US President Donald J. Trump’s Gulf Arab allies, according to the New York Times, oppose an American strike on Iran primarily out of fear of regional instability and the possible damage to economies, tourism, and domestic security.
While this explanation may sound credible on the surface, a deeper and far more uncomfortable reality is that for several of these regimes, the real danger is not Iran’s collapse, but an ideological exposure that could follow decisive American action, as well as concern about Israel becoming more prominent in the region.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is inching closer to a possible decision to end Canada’s F-35 procurement plans and accept an offer from Sweden’s Saab, instead, with news this week revealing that the Swedish manufacturer is now providing Ottawa with detailed, technical information on what a JAS 39 Gripen fighter deal would actually look like in practice.
Among the topics currently being discussed in Ottawa are timelines for technology transfers, the speed at which a Canadian production line could be established, and how Canada could participate in future export sales of the aircraft.
Niall Ferguson is a British Historian affiliated with Harvard University and the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He’s the author of a whole bunch of books about western civilization but also writes a column for the Free Press. He’s a fan of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and has been a recent supporter of the UK conservative party.
Today I came across this video of a discussion he had last December in Vancouver. This was part of a series called the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Voices That Inspire. The snippet I saw starts came only about 7-8 minutes into the discussion. It was literally the second question and Ferguson complained that the interviewer was setting him up for failure by asking him to say something positive about Donald Trump in front of a Canadian audience.
You will probably watch the Super Bowl on Sunday. Maybe you’re a casual fan. Maybe you’re a football nut who wants to see how New England’s defense matches Seattle’s heavy formations. Maybe you just want to watch the commercials.
Whatever your motivation, you’ll have company. More than 191 million people tuned into the Super Bowl in 2025. Americans are projected to spend more than $20 billion on game-related food, drinks, gear, and more this year. Many households observe the Super Bowl more reverently than Easter.
You may have noticed that there’s a common element for a lot of the anti-ICE folks that we’ve seen out in places like Minnesota. They’re largely white, liberal women, often middle-aged.
They think they are “fighting fascism,” so they think that gives them the right to act as they do.
IMO liberalism is a disease, and this video is the proof. A bunch of white liberal females in Minnesota circle yoga studio clerks and gang-bully them as if they’re political hostages. Why? A: for apparently not having ICE OUT stickers on the door.
pic.twitter.com/jtPkTwaqzO— Dennis Michael Lynch (@TrustDML) February 7, 2026
Four people in Indiana are dead following a crash involving a semi truck on Feb. 3, 2026. The driver of the semi truck, Bekzhan Beishekeev, is a 30-year-old illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was paroled into the country under the Biden administration’s CBP One app, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS also stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer for Beishkeev and took custody of him on Feb. 5, 2026. “He will remain in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings,” they added.
The defiance against America that has consumed Canadian life for over a year now has finally spread to the rest of the West. The message of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos last month — that of a “rupture in the world order” — was not new for Canadians. Just after his election in April, Mr. Carney declared that “our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over.” At Davos, the moment caught up with him, and with Canada.
Throughout last year, the consensus among many European policymakers in the face of Donald Trump’s bombast was to wait out the nonsense and appease when possible. Mr. Carney’s speech arrived at the exact point at which that position proved untenable: Mr. Trump’s intensifying threats to forcibly annex Greenland, not to mention his insults to NATO troops who fought and died alongside U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. “They stayed a little back, little off the front lines” is a statement that will be remembered in Europe alongside “Ich bin ein Berliner” and “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” as a presidential remark that embodies the American spirit of its moment. Suddenly, Mr. Trump’s mindless drive toward territorial expansion and his desire to humiliate and degrade were impossible to ignore.
Media manipulated TDS he means.
