- A federal prosecutor in New York has been ousted after failing to find any basis to charge the state's attorney general, Letitia James, with mortgage fraud. James has been Trump's crosshairs ever since she won a civil fraud case against him on behalf of the state; Trump has appointed a new (and presumably more compliant) prosecutor to proceed with the case.
- A Democratic congressional candidate was roughed up by an ICE agent at a protest outside an ICE facility in Chicago. The candidate, Kat Abughazaleh, also says that agents fired pepper balls into the ground, then shouted "Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk".
- The Northern Irish rap group Kneecap has been barred from entering Canada, ostensibly because of their "support" for Hezbollah and Hamas. The group, who were set to perform in Toronto and Vancouver next month, deny supporting the organizations or condoning violence.
- Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles survived her leadership review, a week after Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie chose to resign after getting a lackluster review. Stiles accepts that the party will have to change if it is to defeat Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives in the next election; unfortunately I fear that the people of Ontario will have to change as well.
- Two people in Nipigon, Ontario were injured when a black bear forced its way into their house. Their dog, who was also injured, kept the animal at bay until police arrived to shoot the bear; the couple and their dog are expected to recover.
- One of Australia's major telecom providers suffered a significant outage last week, resulting in more than 600 calls to 000 (the country's equivalent of 911) not getting through. Three deaths are being blamed on the outage.
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