Japan's central bank holds rates steady after bond sell-off and ahead of elections<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//27//fed-set-to-keep-rates-steady-as-trump-threatens-banks-independence/">Fed set to keep rates steady as Trump threatens bank's independence<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>While the dollar is typically considered a safe investment, erratic policies from the Trump administration have fuelled a roughly 10% decline in the currency over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I think it\u2019s great,\u201d Trump told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday when asked if he was worried about the currency\u2019s slide. \u201cI think the value of the dollar \u2014 look at the business we\u2019re doing. The dollar\u2019s doing great.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What a weaker dollar means<\/h2>\n<p>The greenback\u2019s status as the global reserve currency means that it is held in large quantities by central banks around the world and dominates international transactions. On one hand, this lowers the cost of borrowing for the US government. On the other hand, a strong dollar means that American products become relatively more expensive for foreign customers, and overseas products become relatively cheaper for buyers in the US. As a result, some of Trump\u2019s entourage have expressed frustration at the effect of a strong dollar on the competitiveness of US exports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the distant past, it tended to be Republican administrations that preferred a weaker dollar. President Trump's lack of concern about the weaker dollar in comments late yesterday will feed the latter theory,\u201d said ING analyst Chris Turner. \u201cPresumably, there will now be renewed questions for Scott Bessent as to the US Treasury's dollar policy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to gold, a weaker dollar also makes the metal comparatively cheaper for foreign buyers, meaning the recent fall in the currency may be one factor driving up demand for bullion.<\/p>\n<h2>Upcoming Fed decision<\/h2>\n<p>The upcoming rate decision from the Federal Reserve is also impacting market movements.<\/p>\n<p>After three straight quarter-point cuts last year, the central bank's committee is expected to keep its key rate unchanged at 3.5% to 3.75% on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Such a decision is likely to displease President Trump, who has long complained that the committee has been too slow to lower rates. Policymakers at the Fed stress that their mandate is to ensure the stability of the US economy, meaning caution is required to stem inflationary risks. If price pressures are ignored, this could weaken the dollar and US fiscal stability, meaning the government could see its borrowing costs rise.<\/p>\n<p>Threats to the independence of the central bank hang heavily over this week\u2019s meeting after the Justice Department subpoenaed the Fed earlier this month. The legal action is linked to a criminal investigation into testimony Chair Jerome Powell gave about a $2.5bn (\u20ac2.1bn) building renovation. It's the first time a sitting Fed chair has been investigated, and Powell has publicly criticised the probe as an attempt to influence monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>Powell\u2019s term as chair is due to expire in May, with President Trump expected to nominate a successor in the coming days. Although Powell is set to leave the top job, it's unclear whether he will take the unusual decision to stay on as a governor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//05//06//is-trump-destroying-the-dollar-and-what-does-it-mean-for-the-euro/">Is Trump destroying the dollar - and what does it mean for the euro?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//21//gold-rises-to-record-high-and-stocks-fall-as-trump-travels-to-davos/">Gold rises to record high and stocks fall as Trump travels to Davos<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Combined with the US\u2019 unconventional tariff tactics, threats to Fed independence have prompted a series of spikes in Treasury yields since Trump took office. Alongside a drop in the dollar, a rise in bond yields has raised fears about a \u201csell America\u201d trade, with some analysts suggesting that investors are losing faith in Treasuries \u2014 pushing prices down and yields up as investors expect higher premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Recent yield spikes have, however, also been linked to the macroeconomic outlook in Japan, with some investors moving money away from US assets into higher-yielding Japanese debt.<\/p>\n<p>While economic patterns have been deviating from the norm recently, the standard trend is that when interest rates fall, bond prices rise and yields fall.<\/p>\n<h2>Stock market movements<\/h2>\n<p>Turning to equities, Europe opened lower on Wednesday morning. The DAX fell 0.25%, the CAC 40 slid 1.08%, the IBEX 35 dropped 0.74%, the FTSE MIB tumbled 0.48%, while the FTSE 100 fell 0.28%. The wider STOXX Europe 600 was down 0.42%.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the opening bell in the US, Nasdaq futures were up 0.73%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.29%, while Dow Jones futures slipped less than 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome investors have pointed out some evidence of national pension funds hedging their dollar exposure while maintaining their holdings in underlying US securities,\u201d said Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive investor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partially explains why markets have continued to prosper despite the currency weakness, and indeed the S&P 500 hit yet another record closing high yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769593368,"updatedAt":1769594662,"publishedAt":1769594659,"firstPublishedAt":1769594659,"lastPublishedAt":1769594659,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/11\/45\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_43d0ed30-a651-5cf4-ad2e-7724cccb422f-9114530.jpg","altText":"FILE. 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Saturday, according to the National Weather Service, which said another winter storm could affect parts of the East Coast this weekend.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769584761,"updatedAt":1769592957,"publishedAt":1769592841,"firstPublishedAt":1769592841,"lastPublishedAt":1769592841,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/90\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d6a3c4e6-4917-521b-b006-1bf092b93fd2-9629064.jpg","altText":"Ice floats on the Hudson River seen on the Staten Island Ferry, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026","caption":"Ice floats on the Hudson River seen on the Staten Island Ferry, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. 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Meanwhile, Trump has been criticising the renewable energy boom and taking his \u201cdrill baby drill\u201d attitude global.\n\nSo, here is everything the POTUS has done so far in 2026.\n\nJanuary: UN withdrawal, Venezuela's oil and legal fights\n\n'What happened to global warming?'\n\nIn the last week of January, a dangerous winter storm has swept across much of the US, leaving at least seven dead, cutting power to thousands of homes, and causing thousands of flights to be cancelled.\n\nTrump used the weather event to cast further doubt on 'global warming', writing on American conservative-focused social media platform Truth Social: \"Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 states. Rarely seen anything like it before.\n\n\"Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?\"\n\nMore than a dozen scientists tell news agency AP that the president\u2019s claims are wrong. They point out that even in a warmer world, winter and cold occur, and they never said otherwise. They note that even as it is cold in the eastern United States, more of the world is warmer than average. They also stressed the difference between daily and local weather and long-term, planet-wide climate change.\n\nMeteorologists also said that global warming over the past couple of decades may make this cold seem unprecedented and record-smashing. But government records show it has been much colder in the past.\n\n\u201cThis social media post crams a remarkable amount of inflammatory language and factually inaccurate assertions into a very short statement,\u201d says climate scientist Daniel Swain of the California Institute for Water Resources. \u201cFirst of all, global warming continues \u2013 and has in fact been progressing at an increased rate in recent years.\u201d\n\n'Stupid' wind turbine rant\n\nSpeaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on 21 January, Trump made several dubious claims about Greenland, NATO and renewable energy.\n\nIn a speech that lasted over an hour, Trump claimed that China makes \"almost all\" of the world's wind turbines, which he continues to refer to as \"windmills\".\n\n\"Yet I haven\u2019t been able to find any windfarms in China,\u201d\u00a0he said. \"Did you ever think of that? It\u2019s a good way of looking. China is very smart. They make [wind turbines].\u201d\n\nTrump went on to argue that China sells wind turbines to other countries for a \u201cfortune\u201d. \u201cThey sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but don\u2019t use them themselves,\u201d he added.\n\nAccording to energy think tank\u00a0Ember, China\u2019s wind generation in 2024 equalled 40 per cent of global wind generation. In April 2025, wind and solar power generated more than a quarter of the country's electricity.\n\nChina is also home to the world's largest wind farm, which is visible from space. Located in the vast desert region of western Gansu, construction of the Gansu Wind Farm began in 2009, with the first phase being completed just a year later. It already features more than 7,000 turbines.\u00a0\n\nBlocking clean energy grants\n\nOn 11 January, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it cancelled $7.6 billion (around \u20ac6.52 billion) in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.\n\nThe grants supported hundreds of clean energy projects in 16 different states. This includes battery plants, hydrogen technology projects, upgrades to the electric grid and efforts to capture carbon dioxide emissions.\n\nThe Energy Department says the projects were terminated after a review determined they did not adequately advance the nation\u2019s energy needs or were not economically viable. Russell Vought, the White House budget director, said on social media that \u201cthe Left\u2019s climate agenda is being cancelled\".\n\nHowever, US District Judge Amit Mehta said the administration\u2019s action violated the Constitution\u2019s equal protection requirements.\n\nAnne Evens, CEO of Elevate Energy, one of the groups that lost funding, said the court ruling would help keep clean energy affordable and create jobs.\n\nShe told AP: \"Affordable energy should be a reality for everyone, and the restoration of these grants is an important step toward making that possible.\"\n\nTrump\u2019s interest in Greenland\n\nTrump\u2019s growing obsession with Greenland has triggered concerns from environmentalists over its critical mineral resources, which are seen as \u201cessential\u201d for the green energy transition.\n\nA 2023 survey found that 25 of the 34 minerals deemed \u201ccritical raw materials\u201d by the European Commission were found in Greenland. The nation is estimated to hold between 36 and 42 million metric tons of rare earth oxides, making it the second-largest reserve after China.\n\nTapping into these resources could help the US reduce its dependency on China, which currently processes over 90 per cent of the world\u2019s rare earth minerals, and empower the US as demand rises.\n\nSince his first term, Trump has been trying to tackle this issue \u2013 passing bills to increase American mineral production and stepping up deep-sea mining within both US and international waters.\n\nHowever, some experts believe Greenland\u2019s mineral reserves could just be a smokescreen for Trump\u2019s real motives.\n\nTrump\u2019s block on renewable energy\u00a0\n\nLast year, the Trump administration suspended leases on all US offshore wind projects, citing national security concerns. The move halted work on five sites, including \u00d8rsted\u2019s Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind farms, as well as sites owned by firms like Equinor and Dominion Energy.\n\nIt follows Trump\u2019s constant criticism of renewable energy, which he has previously described as the \u201cscam of the century\u201d. But the move has had costly consequences that have slipped into the new year.\n\nLast week, \u00d8rsted launched a legal challenge to the US government\u2019s suspension, arguing that it had already secured all required federal and state permits back in 2023. Its Sunrise Wind project is predicted to cost the developer upward of $1 million per day (around \u20ac859,100).\n\nThe interior department said in December that the pause would give the government \u201ctime to work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects\u201d.\n\nNew dietary guidelines\n\nThe US Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture have come under fire after releasing their 2026 dietary guidelines, which encourage American households to prioritise diets built on \u201cwhole, nutrient-dense food.\u201d\n\nThe new food pyramid puts an image of a red steak and ground beef at the top under the \u201cprotein\u201d section, despite beef being responsible for 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions per gram of protein than plant-based alternatives such as beans and lentils.\u00a0\n\nNeither of these foods appears on the food pyramid, but they are mentioned in the full dietary guidelines.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWhile there are many ways to meet our protein needs, not all protein sources have the same impact on people or the planet,\u201d says Raychel Santo, a food and climate researcher at the World Resources Institute (WRI).\n\n\u201cBeef and lamb, in particular, have some of the highest environmental costs of any protein-rich food \u2013 with significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water pollution per ounce of protein than most alternatives.\u201d\n\nControlling Venezuela\u2019s oil\n\nAfter US special forces snatched Venezuela\u2019s President and his wife in a lightning raid, Trump has shown a clear interest in the country\u2019s oil reserves.\n\nVenezuela holds the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world, sitting on an estimated 303 billion barrels (Bbbl) \u2013 outranking petrostates like Saudi Arabia and Iran.\n\nTrump immediately confirmed the US would be \u201cvery strongly involved\u201d in the country\u2019s oil industry, with plans to send large US firms to fix Venezuela\u2019s oil infrastructure and \u201cstart making money for the country\u201d. In an interview on 8 January, he said the US could tap into Venezuela\u2019s oil reserves for years.\n\n\u201cIn an era of accelerating climate breakdown, eyeing Venezuela\u2019s vast oil reserves this way is both reckless and dangerous,\u201d says Mads Christensen from Greenpeace International.\n\n\u201cThe only safe path forward is a just transition away from fossil fuels, one that protects health, safeguards ecosystems, and supports communities rather than sacrificing them for short-term profit.\u201d\n\nUS pulls out of UN climate treaty\n\nThe POTUS was accused of \u201csinking to a new low\u201d this month after pulling the US out of a key climate treaty in a sweeping withdrawal from global institutions.\n\nIn a Presidential Memorandum signed on 7 January, Trump argued it is \u201ccontrary to the interests of the US\u201d to remain a member of, participate in, or provide support to more than 60 international organisations, treaties and conventions.\u00a0\n\nThis includes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) \u2013 which aims to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions \u2013 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world\u2019s leading authority on climate science.\u00a0\n\n\"At a time when rising seas, record heat, and deadly disasters demand urgent, coordinated action, the US government is choosing to retreat,\" says Rebecca Brown, President and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).\n\n\"The decision to defund and withdraw from the UNFCCC does not absolve the US of its legal obligations to prevent climate change and remedy climate harm, as the world\u2019s highest court made clear last year.\"\n\nOn 27 January, Trump also officially exited the Paris Agreement \u2013 a move he initially put in motion on his first day in office on 20 January 2025. It leaves the US the only country to have withdrawn from the pact, which aims to limit global warming from reaching 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. Iran, Libya and Yemen are the only countries that didn't join the agreement.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Attacking the climate is nothing new for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//13//us-to-host-officials-from-denmark-and-greenland-as-trump-renews-takeover-threats/">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> and his administration. <\/p>\n<p>The US has slowly been peeling away from acknowledging its involvement in the climate crisis, despite being the world\u2019s second-largest annual emitter of greenhouse gases and, historically, the largest contributor to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>It has stopped sending delegates to COP talks, scrubbed all mention of fossil fuels from its Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s website and scaled back on environmental protection. Meanwhile, Trump has been criticising the renewable energy boom and taking his \u201cdrill baby drill\u201d attitude global.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is everything the POTUS has done so far in 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>January: UN withdrawal, Venezuela's oil and legal fights<\/h2>\n<p><strong>'What happened to global warming?'<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the last week of January, a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//video//2026//01//25//drone-footage-shows-snow-covered-us-cities-snow-plows-at-work/">dangerous winter storm<\/strong><\/a> has swept across much of the US, leaving at least seven dead, cutting power to thousands of homes, and causing thousands of flights to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Trump used the weather event to cast further doubt on 'global warming', writing on American conservative-focused social media platform Truth Social: \"Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 states. Rarely seen anything like it before.<\/p>\n<p>\"Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//22//exceptionally-cold-how-a-warming-arctic-is-pushing-the-us-and-eastern-europe-into-a-deep-f/">/u2018Exceptionally cold\u2019: How a warming Arctic is pushing the US and Eastern Europe into a deep freeze<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//23//uk-national-security-threatened-by-biodiversity-loss-intelligence-chiefs-warn/">UK national security threatened by biodiversity loss, intelligence chiefs warn<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>More than a dozen scientists tell news agency AP that the president\u2019s claims are wrong. They point out that even in a warmer world, winter and cold occur, and they never said otherwise. They note that even as it is cold in the eastern United States, more of the world is warmer than average. They also stressed the difference between daily and local weather and long-term, planet-wide climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists also said that global warming over the past couple of decades may make this cold seem unprecedented and record-smashing. But government records show it has been much colder in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis social media post crams a remarkable amount of inflammatory language and factually inaccurate assertions into a very short statement,\u201d says climate scientist Daniel Swain of the California Institute for Water Resources. \u201cFirst of all, global warming continues \u2013 and has in fact been progressing at an increased rate in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>'Stupid' wind turbine rant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//22//trump-claims-china-doesnt-use-wind-power-but-the-worlds-largest-wind-farm-is-there/">World Economic Forum<\/strong> <\/a>(WEF) in Davos on 21 January, Trump made several dubious claims about Greenland, NATO and renewable energy. <\/p>\n<p>In a speech that lasted over an hour, Trump claimed that China makes \"almost all\" of the world's wind turbines, which he continues to refer to as \"windmills\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Yet I haven\u2019t been able to find any windfarms in China,\u201d he said. \"Did you ever think of that? It\u2019s a good way of looking. China is very smart. They make [wind turbines].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to argue that China sells wind turbines to other countries for a \u201cfortune\u201d. \u201cThey sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but don\u2019t use them themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to energy think tank <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////ember-energy.org//latest-updates//wind-and-solar-generate-over-a-quarter-of-chinas-electricity-for-the-first-month-on-record///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Ember<\/strong><\/a>, China\u2019s wind generation in 2024 equalled 40 per cent of global wind generation. In April 2025, wind and solar power generated more than a quarter of the country's electricity.<\/p>\n<p>China is also home to the world's largest wind farm, which is visible from space. Located in the vast desert region of western Gansu, construction of the Gansu Wind Farm began in 2009, with the first phase being completed just a year later. It already features more than 7,000 turbines. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Blocking clean energy grants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 11 January, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it cancelled $7.6 billion (around \u20ac6.52 billion) in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The grants supported hundreds of clean energy projects in 16 different states. This includes battery plants, hydrogen technology projects, upgrades to the electric grid and efforts to capture carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Department says the projects were terminated after a review determined they did not adequately advance the nation\u2019s energy needs or were not economically viable. Russell Vought, the White House budget director, said on social media that \u201cthe Left\u2019s climate agenda is being cancelled\".<\/p>\n<p>However, US District Judge Amit Mehta said the administration\u2019s action violated the Constitution\u2019s equal protection requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Evens, CEO of Elevate Energy, one of the groups that lost funding, said the court ruling would help keep clean energy affordable and create jobs.<\/p>\n<p>She told AP: \"Affordable energy should be a reality for everyone, and the restoration of these grants is an important step toward making that possible.\"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s interest in Greenland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s growing obsession with Greenland has triggered concerns from environmentalists over its critical mineral resources, which are seen as \u201cessential\u201d for the green energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 survey found that 25 of the 34 minerals deemed \u201ccritical raw materials\u201d by the European Commission were found in Greenland. The nation is estimated to hold between 36 and 42 million metric tons of rare earth oxides, making it the second-largest reserve after China.<\/p>\n<p>Tapping into these resources could help the US reduce its dependency on China, which currently processes over 90 per cent of the world\u2019s rare earth minerals, and empower the US as demand rises.<\/p>\n<p>Since his first term, Trump has been trying to tackle this issue \u2013 passing bills to increase American mineral production and stepping up deep-sea mining within both US and international waters.<\/p>\n<p>However, some experts believe Greenland\u2019s mineral reserves could just be a smokescreen for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//09//mining-climate-and-smokescreens-whats-driving-trumps-interest-in-greenland/">Trump/u2019s real motives<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s block on renewable energy<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Trump administration suspended leases on all US offshore wind projects, citing national security concerns. The move halted work on five sites, including \u00d8rsted\u2019s Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind farms, as well as sites owned by firms like Equinor and Dominion Energy.<\/p>\n<p>It follows Trump\u2019s constant criticism of renewable energy, which he has previously described as the \u201cscam of the century\u201d. But the move has had costly consequences that have slipped into the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//02//denmarks-orsted-files-legal-challenge-to-trumps-wind-project-block/">/u00d8rsted launched a legal challenge to the US government\u2019s suspension, arguing that it had already secured all required federal and state permits back in 2023. Its Sunrise Wind project is predicted to cost the developer upward of $1 million per day (around \u20ac859,100).<\/p>\n<p>The interior department said in December that the pause would give the government \u201ctime to work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New dietary guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture have come under fire after releasing their 2026 dietary guidelines, which encourage American households to prioritise diets built on \u201cwhole, nutrient-dense food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new food pyramid puts an image of a red steak and ground beef at the top under the \u201cprotein\u201d section, despite beef being responsible for 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions per gram of protein than plant-based alternatives such as beans and lentils. <\/p>\n<p>Neither of these foods appears on the food pyramid, but they are mentioned in the full dietary guidelines. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there are many ways to meet our protein needs, not all protein sources have the same impact on people or the planet,\u201d says Raychel Santo, a food and climate researcher at the World Resources Institute (WRI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeef and lamb, in particular, have some of the highest environmental costs of any protein-rich food \u2013 with significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water pollution per ounce of protein than most alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Controlling Venezuela\u2019s oil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After US special forces snatched Venezuela\u2019s President and his wife in a lightning raid, Trump has shown a clear interest in the country\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//05//a-fossil-fuelled-war-trumps-plans-to-exploit-venezuelas-oil-reserves-sparks-climate-backla/">oil reserves<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela holds the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world, sitting on an estimated 303 billion barrels (Bbbl) \u2013 outranking petrostates like Saudi Arabia and Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//08//us-plans-to-dictate-all-venezuelan-oil-sales-amid-further-tanker-seizures/">US plans to 'dictate' Venezuelan oil sales amid further tanker seizures<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2026//01//09//analysis-from-venezuela-to-greenland-the-eu-scrambles-to-find-a-voice-and-a-plan/">Analysis: From Venezuela to Greenland, the EU scrambles to find a voice and a plan<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Trump immediately confirmed the US would be \u201cvery strongly involved\u201d in the country\u2019s oil industry, with plans to send large US firms to fix Venezuela\u2019s oil infrastructure and \u201cstart making money for the country\u201d. In an interview on 8 January, he said the US could tap into Venezuela\u2019s oil reserves for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an era of accelerating climate breakdown, eyeing Venezuela\u2019s vast oil reserves this way is both reckless and dangerous,\u201d says Mads Christensen from Greenpeace International.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only safe path forward is a just transition away from fossil fuels, one that protects health, safeguards ecosystems, and supports communities rather than sacrificing them for short-term profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>US pulls out of UN climate treaty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The POTUS was accused of \u201csinking to a new low\u201d this month after pulling the US out of a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2026//01//08//trump-pulls-us-out-of-un-climate-treaty-in-sweeping-withdrawal-from-global-institutions/">key climate treaty<\/strong><\/a>in a sweeping withdrawal from global institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In a Presidential Memorandum signed on 7 January, Trump argued it is \u201ccontrary to the interests of the US\u201d to remain a member of, participate in, or provide support to more than 60 international organisations, treaties and conventions. <\/p>\n<p>This includes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) \u2013 which aims to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions \u2013 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world\u2019s leading authority on climate science. <\/p>\n<p>\"At a time when rising seas, record heat, and deadly disasters demand urgent, coordinated action, the US government is choosing to retreat,\" says Rebecca Brown, President and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).<\/p>\n<p>\"The decision to defund and withdraw from the UNFCCC does not absolve the US of its legal obligations to prevent climate change and remedy climate harm, as the world\u2019s highest court made clear last year.\"<\/p>\n<p>On 27 January, Trump also officially exited the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//12//ten-years-of-the-paris-agreement-hope-for-change-clouded-by-climate-realities/">Paris Agreement<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 a move he initially put in motion on his first day in office on 20 January 2025. It leaves the US the only country to have withdrawn from the pact, which aims to limit global warming from reaching 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. Iran, Libya and Yemen are the only countries that didn't join the agreement. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1767971526,"updatedAt":1769602552,"publishedAt":1769587242,"firstPublishedAt":1768111242,"lastPublishedAt":1769602551,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. 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BORDER SHOOTING","daletPyramidId":4022201,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Shooting involving Border Patrol leaves one in critical condition near US-Mexico border","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"One person in critical condition after shooting at US-Mexico border","titleListing2":"Shooting involving Border Patrol leaves one in critical condition near US-Mexico border","leadin":"The incident comes after angry protests erupted in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday.","summary":"The incident comes after angry protests erupted in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday.","keySentence":"","url":"shooting-involving-border-patrol-leaves-one-in-critical-condition-near-us-mexico-border","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/shooting-involving-border-patrol-leaves-one-in-critical-condition-near-us-mexico-border","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"One person was shot and is in stable but critical condition in a shooting involving Border Patrol agents near the US-Mexico border, authorities in Arizona said on Tuesday.\n\nAuthorities said federal agents were attempting to apprehend a 34-year-old Arizona man suspected of human trafficking during a traffic stop near Arivaca, a community about 16 kilometres from the border.\n\nThe man, identified as Patrick Gary Schlegel, fled and shot at a Border Patrol helicopter and at agents, to which the agents returned fire, striking the man and wounding him, according to FBI special agent Heith Janke. Schlegel was transported to a hospital and was recovering from surgery Tuesday evening.\n\nAgents had attempted to stop the same vehicle earlier that morning, but the occupants drove away. When a Border Patrol agent spotted the car again later that morning and tried to stop it, the driver fled on foot.\n\nSchlegel had escaped a halfway house in December where he had been incarcerated for a previous human smuggling and firearms conviction and was subject to an arrest warrant.\n\nPima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the Border Patrol agent involved in the shootout \"acted lawfully,\" based on information available at this time.\n\n\u201cThe investigation is still ongoing. There may be other things that show up,\u201d Nanos added.\n\nNanos was unsure if there was body camera footage from the shooting. He said there was a video, but was unsure where it came from.\n\nThe incident comes after angry protests erupted in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday.\n\nThe death of Pretti was the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by immigration officers in Minneapolis in less than three weeks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said on Monday his administration is \"reviewing everything\" following the shooting.\n\nParents decry 'sickening lies'\n\nVideo verified by US media showed agents shooting Pretti seconds after spraying him with a chemical irritant and throwing him to the icy ground.\n\nThe footage shows Pretti never drew a weapon, contradicting administration officials who described him as an \"assassin\" who had assaulted federal agents and was found with a pistol.\n\nPretti's parents condemned what they called \"sickening lies\" about their son in a statement issued Saturday.\n\nThe shootings occurred during \"Operation Metro Surge,\" which has deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to the heavily Democratic city for weeks.\n\nTrump has blamed the deaths on Minnesota's Democratic leadership, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, calling the situation \"Democrat ensued chaos.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>One person was shot and is in stable but critical condition in a shooting involving Border Patrol agents near the US-Mexico border, authorities in Arizona said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said federal agents were attempting to apprehend a 34-year-old Arizona man suspected of human trafficking during a traffic stop near Arivaca, a community about 16 kilometres from the border.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Patrick Gary Schlegel, fled and shot at a Border Patrol helicopter and at agents, to which the agents returned fire, striking the man and wounding him, according to FBI special agent Heith Janke. Schlegel was transported to a hospital and was recovering from surgery Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Agents had attempted to stop the same vehicle earlier that morning, but the occupants drove away. When a Border Patrol agent spotted the car again later that morning and tried to stop it, the driver fled on foot. <\/p>\n<p>Schlegel had escaped a halfway house in December where he had been incarcerated for a previous human smuggling and firearms conviction and was subject to an arrest warrant. <\/p>\n<p>Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the Border Patrol agent involved in the shootout \"acted lawfully,\" based on information available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation is still ongoing. There may be other things that show up,\u201d Nanos added.<\/p>\n<p>Nanos was unsure if there was body camera footage from the shooting. He said there was a video, but was unsure where it came from. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//88//14//808x539_cmsv2_fefe8d65-5bc7-581f-887b-2a3625b80646-9628814.jpg/" alt=\"The US-Mexico border fence stretches through remote desert terrain near Nogales, 22 July, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/88\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_fefe8d65-5bc7-581f-887b-2a3625b80646-9628814.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/88\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_fefe8d65-5bc7-581f-887b-2a3625b80646-9628814.jpg 640w, 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2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The incident comes after angry protests erupted in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Pretti was the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by immigration officers in Minneapolis in less than three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said on Monday his administration is \"reviewing everything\" following the shooting.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Parents decry 'sickening lies'<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Video verified by US media showed agents shooting Pretti seconds after spraying him with a chemical irritant and throwing him to the icy ground.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows Pretti never drew a weapon, contradicting administration officials who described him as an \"assassin\" who had assaulted federal agents and was found with a pistol.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//88//14//808x539_cmsv2_915bce0e-5588-5b85-b0a9-49d2c4e6e685-9628814.jpg/" alt=\"Tributes to Alex Pretti at the scene where he was fatally shot by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis, 27 January, 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/88\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_915bce0e-5588-5b85-b0a9-49d2c4e6e685-9628814.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/88\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_915bce0e-5588-5b85-b0a9-49d2c4e6e685-9628814.jpg 640w, 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CLOCK UPDATE","daletPyramidId":4018453,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'Doomsday Clock' set at 85 seconds to midnight, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"'Doomsday Clock' reaches less than minute and a half to midnight","titleListing2":"'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says","leadin":"The Doomsday Clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest ever, due to rising threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation.","summary":"The Doomsday Clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest ever, due to rising threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation.","keySentence":"","url":"doomsday-clock-set-at-85-seconds-to-midnight-bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists-says","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/doomsday-clock-set-at-85-seconds-to-midnight-bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists-says","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The \"Doomsday Clock\" which represents how near humanity is to catastrophe moved closer than ever to midnight on Tuesday as concerns grow over nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation.\n\nThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which set up the metaphorical clock at the start of the Cold War, moved its time to 85 seconds to midnight, four seconds closer than a year ago.\n\nThe announcement comes a year into US President Donald Trump's second term in which he has shattered global norms including by ordering unilateral attacks and withdrawing from a slew of international organisations.\n\nRussia, China, the US and other major countries have \"become increasingly aggressive, adversarial and nationalistic,\" said a statement announcing the clock shift, determined after consultations with a board that includes eight Nobel laureates.\n\n\"Hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation critical to reducing the risks of nuclear war, climate change, the misuse of biotechnology, the potential threat of artificial intelligence and other apocalyptic dangers.\"\n\nThe Doomsday Clock board warned of heightened risks of a nuclear arms race, with the New START arms reduction treaty between Washington and Moscow set to expire next week and Trump pushing a costly \"Golden Dome\" missile defence system that would further militarise space.\n\nThe group also highlighted droughts, heat waves, and floods linked to global warming, as well as the failure of nations to adopt meaningful agreements to address it.\n\n\"We are living through an information Armageddon - the crisis beneath all crises - driven by extractive and predatory technology that spreads lies faster than facts and profits from our division,\" said Maria Ressa, the Filipino investigative journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.\n\nBoard members have further warned of fracturing global trust. \"If the world splinters into an us-versus-them, zero-sum approach, it increases the likelihood that we all lose,\u201d said Daniel Holz, chair of the group\u2019s science and security board.\n\nThe Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded by the likes of Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and other Manhattan Project nuclear scientists such as Eugene Rabinowitch and Hyman Goldsmith in late 1945.\n\nStarting in 1947, the advocacy group used a clock to symbolise the potential and even likelihood of people doing something to end humanity.\n\nAt the end of the Cold War in 1991, it was at its farthest point ever, at 17 minutes to midnight. Over the past few years, to address rapid global changes, the group has shifted from counting down the minutes until midnight to the seconds.\n\nThe group said the clock could be turned back if leaders and nations worked together to address existential risks.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The \"Doomsday Clock\" which represents how near humanity is to catastrophe moved closer than ever to midnight on Tuesday as concerns grow over nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which set up the metaphorical clock at the start of the Cold War, moved its time to 85 seconds to midnight, four seconds closer than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////thebulletin.org//doomsday-clock//?utm%5Fsource=BlueSky&utm%5Fmedium=SocialMedia&utm%5Fcampaign=BlueSkyPost01212026&utm%5Fcontent=DoomsdayClock%5FOverview%5F01212026\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>The announcement comes<\/strong><\/a> a year into US President Donald Trump's second term in which he has shattered global norms including by ordering unilateral attacks and withdrawing from a slew of international organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, China, the US and other major countries have \"become increasingly aggressive, adversarial and nationalistic,\" said a statement announcing the clock shift, determined after consultations with a board that includes eight Nobel laureates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2016167623810028020\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation critical to reducing the risks of nuclear war, climate change, the misuse of biotechnology, the potential threat of artificial intelligence and other apocalyptic dangers.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Doomsday Clock board warned of heightened risks of a nuclear arms race, with the New START arms reduction treaty between Washington and Moscow set to expire next week and Trump pushing a costly \"Golden Dome\" missile defence system that would further militarise space.<\/p>\n<p>The group also highlighted droughts, heat waves, and floods linked to global warming, as well as the failure of nations to adopt meaningful agreements to address it.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are living through an information Armageddon - the crisis beneath all crises - driven by extractive and predatory technology that spreads lies faster than facts and profits from our division,\" said Maria Ressa, the Filipino investigative journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.<\/p>\n<p>Board members have further warned of fracturing global trust. \"If the world splinters into an us-versus-them, zero-sum approach, it increases the likelihood that we all lose,\u201d said Daniel Holz, chair of the group\u2019s science and security board.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded by the likes of Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and other Manhattan Project nuclear scientists such as Eugene Rabinowitch and Hyman Goldsmith in late 1945.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//01//24//doomsday-clock-as-close-to-midnight-as-ever-what-does-it-all-mean/">'Doomsday Clock\u2019 as close to midnight as ever \u2013 what does it all mean?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//01//29//doomsday-clock-ticks-one-second-closer-to-midnight-how-doomed-are-we/">Doomsday Clock ticks one second closer to midnight: How doomed are we?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Starting in 1947, the advocacy group used a clock to symbolise the potential and even likelihood of people doing something to end humanity. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Cold War in 1991, it was at its farthest point ever, at 17 minutes to midnight. Over the past few years, to address rapid global changes, the group has shifted from counting down the minutes until midnight to the seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the clock could be turned back if leaders and nations worked together to address existential risks.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769529676,"updatedAt":1769531484,"publishedAt":1769531459,"firstPublishedAt":1769531459,"lastPublishedAt":1769531459,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/83\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bc44e608-5ec7-523a-a8e1-6b5406e4ff08-9628362.jpg","altText":"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members reveal the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight in Washington, 23 January, 2026","caption":"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members reveal the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight in Washington, 23 January, 2026","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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SOCIAL MEDIA TIKTOK EPSTEIN ","daletPyramidId":4016939,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"TikTok investigates blocking of 'Epstein' and anti-Trump videos amid censorship allegations","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"TikTok investigates blocking of 'Epstein' and anti-Trump videos","titleListing2":"TikTok investigates blocking of 'Epstein' and anti-Trump videos amid censorship allegations","leadin":"The controversy follows a major restructuring of TikTok's US operations.","summary":"The controversy follows a major restructuring of TikTok's US operations.","keySentence":"","url":"tiktok-investigates-blocking-of-epstein-and-anti-trump-videos-amid-censorship-allegations","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/01\/27\/tiktok-investigates-blocking-of-epstein-and-anti-trump-videos-amid-censorship-allegations","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"TikTok says it is investigating why users of the platform have been allegedly prevented from using the word \u201cEpstein\u201d in direct messages.\n\nIt comes after several public figures, including California Governor Gavin Newsom and musicians such as Billie Eilish, accused TikTok of censoring videos that criticised the Trump administration and its crackdown on immigration.\n\nThe controversy follows a major restructuring of TikTok's US operations. ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, was forced to divest its majority stake in the platform's US business. A separate US TikTok entity is now owned by a majority-American board of predominantly US investors.\n\nThe platform's content recommendation algorithm has been licensed to Oracle, a tech company headed by Trump ally Larry Ellison.\n\n\"We don't have rules against sharing the name 'Epstein' in direct messages and are investigating why some users are experiencing issues,\" a spokesman for TikTok's US operation told NPR in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nSince the takeover last week, TikTok users have also alleged that videos about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and protests in Minneapolis have been censored.\n\nTikTok said in a statement on Monday night that it was dealing with a \u201cmajor infrastructure issue triggered by a power outage\u201d at one of its US data centres and suggested that this was causing \u201cmultiple bugs\u201d for users.\n\n\u201cCreators may temporarily see \u2018O\u2019 views or likes on videos, and your earnings may look like they\u2019re missing. This is a display error caused by server timeouts,\u201d it added.\u00a0\n\nCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday that he will investigate whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to investigate,\u201d he wrote in a post to X on Monday night. \u201cI am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.\u201d\n\nNewsom\u2019s press office also said in a statement: \u201cFollowing TikTok\u2019s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports \u2014 and independently confirmed instances \u2014 of suppressed content critical of President Trump.\u201d\u00a0\n\nEuronews Next has reached out to TikTok for comment but did not receive a reply at the time of publication.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>TikTok says it is investigating why users of the platform have been allegedly prevented from using the word \u201cEpstein\u201d in direct messages.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after several public figures, including California Governor Gavin Newsom and musicians such as Billie Eilish, accused TikTok of censoring videos that criticised the Trump administration and its crackdown on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy follows a major restructuring of TikTok's US operations. ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, was forced to divest its majority stake in the platform's US business. A separate US TikTok entity is now owned by a majority-American board of predominantly US investors.<\/p>\n<p>The platform's content recommendation algorithm has been licensed to Oracle, a tech company headed by Trump ally Larry Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't have rules against sharing the name 'Epstein' in direct messages and are investigating why some users are experiencing issues,\" a spokesman for TikTok's US operation told NPR in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//27//ice-agents-role-in-milan-cortina-olympics-sparks-criticism-in-italy/">ICE agents' role in Milan-Cortina Olympics sparks criticism in Italy<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Since the takeover last week, TikTok users have also alleged that videos about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and protests in Minneapolis have been censored.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok said in a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//tiktokusdsjv//status//2015936397073437004//photo//1/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">statement<\/a> on Monday night that it was dealing with a \u201cmajor infrastructure issue triggered by a power outage\u201d at one of its US data centres and suggested that this was causing \u201cmultiple bugs\u201d for users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreators may temporarily see \u2018O\u2019 views or likes on videos, and your earnings may look like they\u2019re missing. 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The value of the settlement was not disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>KGM claims in the suit that the companies made deliberate design choices similar to techniques used at casinos to make their platforms more addictive to children in order to boost profits. <\/p>\n<p>This argument, if successful, could sidestep American laws that protect tech companies from liability for material posted on their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs are not merely the collateral damage of defendants\u2019 products,\u201d the lawsuit says. \u201cThey are the direct victims of the intentional product design choices made by each defendant... that pushed them into self-destructive feedback loops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KGM's case could determine how thousands of other, similar lawsuits against social media companies will play out before a jury and to see what damages, if any, may be awarded, according to Clay Calvert, a nonresident senior fellow of technology policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//21//ftc-presses-on-with-appeal-after-metas-monopoly-battle-win/">FTC presses on with appeal after Meta's monopoly battle win<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives are expected to testify at the trial, which could last up to eight weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Meta, YouTube and TikTok did not immediately respond to the Associated Press' requests for comment. A fourth company named in the lawsuit, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc., settled the case last week for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////about.fb.com//news//2026//01//metas-record-protecting-teens-supporting-parents///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>blog post<\/strong><\/a>, Meta wrote that blaming teen mental health struggles on social media platforms \"oversimplifies a serious issue\". <\/p>\n<p>\"Narrowing the challenges faced by teens to a single factor ignores the scientific research and the many stressors impacting young people today, like academic pressure, school safety, socio-economic challenges and substance abuse,\" the blog post reads. <\/p>\n<p>The KGM case is the first of many this year, with a case coming from school districts in California that have sued social media platforms over harms to children, and over 40 state suits filed against Meta. 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You'll see it better on TV anyway. And upon arrival, fans should expect that if they don\u2019t please the officials, they\u2019ll be put straight on the next flight home. If they're lucky.\"<\/p>\n<p>In his X post, Blatter quoted Pieth and added, \"I think Mark Pieth is right to question this World Cup.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2015763891951698064\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The United States is co-hosting the World Cup with Canada and Mexico from 11 June-19 July.<\/p>\n<p>The international football community's concerns about the United States as host stem from Trump's expansionist posture on Greenland, travel bans and aggressive tactics in dealing with migrants and immigration enforcement protestors in American cities, particularly Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Oke G\u00f6ttlich, one of the vice presidents of the German football federation, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper in an interview on Friday that the time had come to seriously consider boycotting the event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//77//94//808x454_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg/" alt=\"US President Donald Trump leaves after a signing ceremony of his Board of Peace plan at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/384x216_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/640x360_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/750x422_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/828x466_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/1080x608_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/1200x675_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/77\/94\/1920x1080_cmsv2_81841a95-a1b3-5062-9f3f-4c4eb4498acc-9627794.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">US President Donald Trump leaves after a signing ceremony of his Board of Peace plan at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Markus Schreiber\/Copyright 2026 The AP. 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Protesters were seen shouting slogans against ICE and holding banners calling for immigration agents to leave.<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that Bovino is among the federal agents leaving Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769505983,"updatedAt":1769515555,"publishedAt":1769515430,"firstPublishedAt":1769515430,"lastPublishedAt":1769515430,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/75\/04\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a462822f-2846-578a-9bd4-3bf5164e60be-9627504.jpg","altText":"A man holds a placard reading \u2018ICE out now\u2019 during a protest condemning ICE\u2019s deadly actions, Minneapolis, USA, Jan.26, 2026","caption":"A man holds a placard reading \u2018ICE out now\u2019 during a protest condemning ICE\u2019s deadly actions, Minneapolis, USA, Jan.26, 2026","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Screenshot from a video.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2134,"urlSafeValue":"mauduit","title":"Frederique Mauduit","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[{"id":2134,"urlSafeValue":"mauduit","title":"Frederique Mauduit","twitter":null}]},"keywords":[{"id":447,"slug":"usa","urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","titleRaw":"USA"},{"id":3759,"slug":"minneapolis","urlSafeValue":"minneapolis","title":"Minneapolis","titleRaw":"Minneapolis"},{"id":30622,"slug":"ice","urlSafeValue":"ice","title":"ICE","titleRaw":"ICE"},{"id":27110,"slug":"protestas","urlSafeValue":"protestas","title":"Protests","titleRaw":"Protests"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2864906},{"id":2864939},{"id":2864803}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"fsE32FzMPoc","dailymotionId":"x9yly4s"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"duration":60000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":12006307,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/ED\/34\/94\/84\/09\/ED_PYR_3494849_20260127112617.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"md"},{"duration":60000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":17190665,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/34\/94\/84\/09\/SHD_PYR_3494849_20260127112617.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"hd"},{"duration":60000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":48634761,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/FHD\/34\/94\/84\/09\/FHD_PYR_3494849_20260127112617.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"1080p"}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP - 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It's the first time a sitting Fed chair has been investigated, and prompted an unusually public rebuke from Powell.\n\nNow, Powell will have to shift from a dispute with the White House to emphasising that the Fed's decisions around interest rates are driven by economic concerns, not politics. Powell said on 11 January that the subpoenas were \u201cpretexts\u201d to punish the Fed for not cutting rates as sharply as Trump wants.\n\nMichael Gapen, chief US economist at Morgan Stanley and also a former Fed staffer, said that despite the scrutiny, the Fed can be expected to consider its interest rate policies like it always does.\n\n\u201cThe meetings have a regular flow to them,\u201d he said. \"There are presentations that are made, there are discussions that have to be had. ... Some of these other broader-based attacks on the Fed don't really come up.\"\n\nNot long after the Justice Department's subpoenas, the Supreme Court last week considered whether Trump can fire Fed governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she denies. No president has fired a governor in the Fed's 112-year history.\n\nDuring an oral argument, the justices appeared to be leaning toward allowing her to stay in her job until the case is resolved.\n\nAttempts to fire Lisa Cook\n\nOther Fed officials have also signalled that the central bank is likely to keep rates unchanged at their two-day meeting that ends on Wednesday.\n\nThe Fed's three rate cuts last year were intended to bolster the economy after hiring slowed sharply in the wake of Trump's April tariffs on dozens of countries.\n\nYet the unemployment rate ticked lower in December, after picking up for much of last year, and there are other signs the job market may be stabilising. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits has stayed historically low, a sign layoffs haven't spiked.\n\nMeanwhile, inflation remains elevated and actually ticked higher last year, according to the Fed's preferred measure, weakening the case for an immediate rate cut. Prices rose 2.8% in November from a year earlier, according to the latest data available. That is up from a year-on-year figure of 2.6% last November.\n\nUnless businesses start cutting jobs or the unemployment rate rises, the Fed is unlikely to cut rates again for at least a few months, economists say.\n\nIf inflation slowly declines this year, as economists expect, the Fed may cut again in the spring or summer. Wall Street investors expect just two quarter-point rate reductions this year, according to futures prices.\n\nMany economists expect growth could pick up in the coming months, which would be another reason to forego rate cuts. Gapen estimates that tax refunds could be about 20% higher this spring than last year as the Trump administration's tax cuts take effect.\n\nThe economy expanded at a 4.4% annual rate in last year's July-September quarter and may have grown at a similarly healthy pace in the final three months of last year.\n\nIf such solid growth continues, Fed officials will likely wait to see if hiring picks up as well, further reducing the need for more rate cuts.\n\nPowell's future\n\nJerome Powell has chaired the Fed since 2018, initially appointed by Trump in his first term then reinstated by Biden.\n\nHis term as chair is due to expire in May, with President Trump expected to nominate a successor in the coming days. Rumoured candidates include BlackRock's Rick Rieder, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett, Fed governor Christopher Waller, and former governor Kevin Warsh.\n\nAlthough Powell is set to leave the top job, it's unclear whether he will take the unusual decision to stay on as a governor \u2014 with this term lasting until 31 January 2028.\n\nThe Fed's board of governors includes seven members serving 14-year terms, although nearly all chairs step down from the board when their term in the top job ends.\n\nIf Powell does stay on the board, it would deny the White House a chance to gain a majority, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to seize greater control over the central bank.\n\nHe would be the first chair in nearly 50 years to stay on.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week's meeting about interest rates as uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won't like the result.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank's interest rate-setting committee is almost certain to keep its key short-term rate unchanged at about 3.6%, after three straight quarter-point cuts last year.<\/p>\n<p>Fed Chair Jerome Powell said after December's meeting that they were \u201cwell positioned to wait to see how the economy evolves\u201d before making any further moves.<\/p>\n<p>When the Fed lowers its short-term rate, it can over time influence other borrowing costs for things like mortgages, auto loans, and business borrowing, though those rates are also affected by market forces.<\/p>\n<p>This week's meeting \u2014 one of eight the Fed holds each year \u2014 will be overshadowed by the bombshell revelation earlier this month that the Justice Department has subpoenaed the Fed as part of a criminal investigation into testimony Powell gave last June about a $2.5bn (\u20ac2.1bn) building renovation. It's the first time a sitting Fed chair has been investigated, and prompted an unusually public rebuke from Powell.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Powell will have to shift from a dispute with the White House to emphasising that the Fed's decisions around interest rates are driven by economic concerns, not politics. Powell said on 11 January that the subpoenas were \u201cpretexts\u201d to punish the Fed for not cutting rates as sharply as Trump wants.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Morgan Stanley and also a former Fed staffer, said that despite the scrutiny, the Fed can be expected to consider its interest rate policies like it always does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meetings have a regular flow to them,\u201d he said. \"There are presentations that are made, there are discussions that have to be had. ... Some of these other broader-based attacks on the Fed don't really come up.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//27//trump-threatens-south-korea-with-tariff-hike-over-investment-delay/">Trump threatens South Korea with tariff hike over investment delay<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//16//criminal-probe-raises-key-question-will-powell-leave-the-fed-in-may/">Criminal probe raises key question: Will Powell leave the Fed in May?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Not long after the Justice Department's subpoenas, the Supreme Court last week considered whether Trump can fire Fed governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she denies. No president has fired a governor in the Fed's 112-year history. <\/p>\n<p>During an oral argument, the justices appeared to be leaning toward allowing her to stay in her job until the case is resolved.<\/p>\n<h2>Attempts to fire Lisa Cook<\/h2>\n<p>Other Fed officials have also signalled that the central bank is likely to keep rates unchanged at their two-day meeting that ends on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed's three rate cuts last year were intended to bolster the economy after hiring slowed sharply in the wake of Trump's April tariffs on dozens of countries.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the unemployment rate ticked lower in December, after picking up for much of last year, and there are other signs the job market may be stabilising. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits has stayed historically low, a sign layoffs haven't spiked.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, inflation remains elevated and actually ticked higher last year, according to the Fed's preferred measure, weakening the case for an immediate rate cut. Prices rose 2.8% in November from a year earlier, according to the latest data available. That is up from a year-on-year figure of 2.6% last November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//74//70//808x539_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg/" alt=\"FILE. Lisa Cook, then a nominee to be a member of the Fed Board of Governors, speaks during a hearing. 3 Feb. 2022.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/384x256_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/640x427_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/750x500_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/828x552_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/1080x720_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/1200x800_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/1920x1280_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE. Lisa Cook, then a nominee to be a member of the Fed Board of Governors, speaks during a hearing. 3 Feb. 2022.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/Ken Cedeno\/pool<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Unless businesses start cutting jobs or the unemployment rate rises, the Fed is unlikely to cut rates again for at least a few months, economists say.<\/p>\n<p>If inflation slowly declines this year, as economists expect, the Fed may cut again in the spring or summer. Wall Street investors expect just two quarter-point rate reductions this year, according to futures prices.<\/p>\n<p>Many economists expect growth could pick up in the coming months, which would be another reason to forego rate cuts. Gapen estimates that tax refunds could be about 20% higher this spring than last year as the Trump administration's tax cuts take effect.<\/p>\n<p>The economy expanded at a 4.4% annual rate in last year's July-September quarter and may have grown at a similarly healthy pace in the final three months of last year.<\/p>\n<p>If such solid growth continues, Fed officials will likely wait to see if hiring picks up as well, further reducing the need for more rate cuts.<\/p>\n<h2>Powell's future<\/h2>\n<p>Jerome Powell has chaired the Fed since 2018, initially appointed by Trump in his first term then reinstated by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>His term as chair is due to expire in May, with President Trump expected to nominate a successor in the coming days. Rumoured candidates include BlackRock's Rick Rieder, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett, Fed governor Christopher Waller, and former governor Kevin Warsh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//12//gold-and-silver-soar-after-us-targets-federal-reserve-in-powell-probe/">Gold and silver soar after US targets Federal Reserve in Powell probe<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2026//01//12//us-opens-criminal-investigation-into-fed-chair-jerome-powell/">US opens criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Although Powell is set to leave the top job, it's unclear whether he will take the unusual decision to stay on as a governor \u2014 with this term lasting until 31 January 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed's board of governors includes seven members serving 14-year terms, although nearly all chairs step down from the board when their term in the top job ends.<\/p>\n<p>If Powell does stay on the board, it would deny the White House a chance to gain a majority, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to seize greater control over the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>He would be the first chair in nearly 50 years to stay on.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769504004,"updatedAt":1769509616,"publishedAt":1769509613,"firstPublishedAt":1769509613,"lastPublishedAt":1769509613,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_daa87fe0-a71c-5e21-83e4-19486e8726e1-9627470.jpg","altText":"FILE. A video of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell plays on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. 12 Jan. 2026.","caption":"FILE. A video of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell plays on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. 12 Jan. 2026.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Richard Drew","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7fd65d49-e337-5fbd-82c3-3e08b1fa2b94-9627470.jpg","altText":"FILE. Lisa Cook, then a nominee to be a member of the Fed Board of Governors, speaks during a hearing. 3 Feb. 2022.","caption":"FILE. 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OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDER DRUG SMUGGLING TRIAL","daletPyramidId":4010335,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Ex-Olympic snowboarder denies drug trafficking and orchestrating murders in US court","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Ex-Olympic snowboarder denies drug trafficking and murders in US court","titleListing2":"Ex-Olympic snowboarder pleads not guilty to drug trafficking and murder charges","leadin":"Canadian national Ryan Wedding is accused of moving cocaine to the United States and Canada and directing the killing of a federal witness in Colombia.","summary":"Canadian national Ryan Wedding is accused of moving cocaine to the United States and Canada and directing the killing of a federal witness in Colombia.","keySentence":"","url":"ex-olympic-snowboarder-pleads-not-guilty-to-drug-trafficking-and-murder-charges","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/ex-olympic-snowboarder-pleads-not-guilty-to-drug-trafficking-and-murder-charges","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder has pleaded not guilty to running an international drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple murders.\n\nRyan Wedding made his first US court appearance on Monday after he was arrested in Mexico last week and flown to California.\n\nThe 44-year-old \u2014 also known as \"El Jefe\", \"Giant\" and \"Public Enemy\" \u2014 had been hiding in Mexico for more than a decade prior to his arrest, according to US authorities.\n\nHe was added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list last March when the agency offered a $15 million (\u20ac13m) reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.\n\nWedding is accused of moving up to 60 tonnes of cocaine between Colombia, Mexico, Canada and Southern California. US officials have alleged that he was working under the protection of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug rings.\n\nHe is also accused of directing the murder of a witness in Colombia who planned to testify against him.\n\nMexican officials said Wedding turned himself in at the US Embassy in Mexico City last week and was flown to Southern California after a yearlong effort by authorities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia and the Dominican Republic to arrest him.\n\nHis lawyer, Anthony Colombo, disputed that his client had turned himself in in Mexico and said he was not hiding out in the country.\n\n\"He was arrested,\" Colombo told reporters on Monday outside the federal court in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles. \"He did not surrender.\"\n\nWedding was scheduled to be back in court on 11 February, with a trial date set for 24 March. The judge ordered him held in custody, saying he could not immediately find conditions that would ensure public safety or guarantee Wedding's appearance in court.\n\nDrug and murder charges\n\nWedding was indicted in 2024 on federal charges of running a criminal enterprise, murder, conspiring to distribute cocaine and other crimes.\n\nUS authorities allege in court papers that Wedding\u2019s group obtained cocaine from Colombia and worked with Mexican cartels to move drugs by boat and plane to Mexico and then into the United States using semitrucks.\n\nThe group stored cocaine in Southern California before sending it to Canada and other US states, according to the indictment.\n\nThe murder charges accuse Wedding of directing the 2023 killings of two members of a Canadian family in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment, and for ordering a killing over a drug debt in 2024.\n\nLast year, Wedding was indicted on new charges of orchestrating the killing of a witness in Colombia to help him avoid extradition to the United States.\n\nWedding was previously convicted in the United States of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and sentenced to prison in 2010, before being released the following year.\n\nIn Canada, Wedding faces separate drug charges dating back to 2015.\n\nWedding represented Canada in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, where he finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom event.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder has pleaded not guilty to running an international drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple murders.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Wedding made his first US court appearance on Monday after he was arrested in Mexico last week and flown to California. <\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old \u2014 also known as \"El Jefe\", \"Giant\" and \"Public Enemy\" \u2014 had been hiding in Mexico for more than a decade prior to his arrest, according to US authorities. <\/p>\n<p>He was added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list last March when the agency offered a $15 million (\u20ac13m) reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Wedding is accused of moving up to 60 tonnes of cocaine between Colombia, Mexico, Canada and Southern California. US officials have alleged that he was working under the protection of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug rings.<\/p>\n<p>He is also accused of directing the murder of a witness in Colombia who planned to testify against him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//74//14//808x454_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is displayed on a video monitor during a news conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is displayed on a video monitor during a news conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Damian Dovarganes\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Mexican officials said Wedding turned himself in at the US Embassy in Mexico City last week and was flown to Southern California after a yearlong effort by authorities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia and the Dominican Republic to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Anthony Colombo, disputed that his client had turned himself in in Mexico and said he was not hiding out in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//28//pregnant-british-teen-may-get-two-years-in-georgia-prison-in-drug-smuggling-plea-deal/">Pregnant British teen may get two years in Georgia prison in drug smuggling plea deal<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//04//15//over-230-arrested-as-europol-dismantles-four-major-drug-smuggling-networks/">Over 230 arrested as Europol dismantles four major drug smuggling networks <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"He was arrested,\" Colombo told reporters on Monday outside the federal court in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles. \"He did not surrender.\"<\/p>\n<p>Wedding was scheduled to be back in court on 11 February, with a trial date set for 24 March. The judge ordered him held in custody, saying he could not immediately find conditions that would ensure public safety or guarantee Wedding's appearance in court.<\/p>\n<h2>Drug and murder charges<\/h2>\n<p>Wedding was indicted in 2024 on federal charges of running a criminal enterprise, murder, conspiring to distribute cocaine and other crimes. <\/p>\n<p>US authorities allege in court papers that Wedding\u2019s group obtained cocaine from Colombia and worked with Mexican cartels to move drugs by boat and plane to Mexico and then into the United States using semitrucks. <\/p>\n<p>The group stored cocaine in Southern California before sending it to Canada and other US states, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>The murder charges accuse Wedding of directing the 2023 killings of two members of a Canadian family in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment, and for ordering a killing over a drug debt in 2024. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//01//mexico-detains-suspected-cartel-leader-facing-us-terror-charges/">Mexico detains suspected cartel leader facing US terror charges<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2016//12//16//revenge-kidnapping-in-mexico-as-druglord-s-mother-snatched-by-angry-wife/">Revenge kidnapping in Mexico as druglord's mother snatched by angry wife<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Last year, Wedding was indicted on new charges of orchestrating the killing of a witness in Colombia to help him avoid extradition to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Wedding was previously convicted in the United States of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and sentenced to prison in 2010, before being released the following year.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, Wedding faces separate drug charges dating back to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Wedding represented Canada in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, where he finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom event.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769502919,"updatedAt":1769508113,"publishedAt":1769507919,"firstPublishedAt":1769507919,"lastPublishedAt":1769508113,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Bill Robles\/Bill Robles","altText":"In this courtroom sketch, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, left, attends court in in Santa Ana, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2026.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"In this courtroom sketch, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, left, attends court in in Santa Ana, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2026.","url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_91339e3f-6ce0-5a62-afa8-fe4013878df0-9627414.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":576},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Damian Dovarganes\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved","altText":"FILE: An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is displayed on a video monitor during a news conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2024.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"FILE: An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is displayed on a video monitor during a news conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2024.","url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/74\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_45e43957-54d3-5dea-a92c-b39e2e82054b-9627414.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":576}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"olimpiai-jatekok","titleRaw":"Olympics","id":28770,"title":"Olympics","slug":"olimpiai-jatekok"},{"urlSafeValue":"drugs","titleRaw":"Drugs","id":13574,"title":"Drugs","slug":"drugs"},{"urlSafeValue":"crimen","titleRaw":"Crime","id":29370,"title":"Crime","slug":"crimen"}],"widgets":[{"count":1,"slug":"image"},{"count":2,"slug":"related"}],"related":[{"id":2711274},{"id":1823614},{"id":1793830}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"AP","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2026\/01\/27\/ex-olympic-snowboarder-pleads-not-guilty-to-drug-trafficking-and-murder-charges","lastModified":1769508113},{"id":2865387,"cid":9627083,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"US WINTER STORM","daletPyramidId":4008262,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Death toll rises to 30 as freezing temperatures continue to sweep across the US","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Death toll rises to 30 as freezing temperatures batter the US","titleListing2":"At least 30 deaths as freezing temperatures continue to sweep across the US","leadin":"A historic winter storm resulted in traffic disruption, mass flight cancellations and power outages nationwide. More freezing temperatures are expected to sweep across the country in the coming days.","summary":"A historic winter storm resulted in traffic disruption, mass flight cancellations and power outages nationwide. More freezing temperatures are expected to sweep across the country in the coming days.","keySentence":"","url":"at-least-30-deaths-as-freezing-temperatures-continue-to-sweep-across-the-us","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/at-least-30-deaths-as-freezing-temperatures-continue-to-sweep-across-the-us","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At least 30 people have died as a severe winter storm hit much of the United States, with many states facing below-freezing temperatures and no electricity.\n\nRoughly two-thirds of the US is gripped by a cold wave, with the Midwest, south and northeast of the country most heavily affected. A new surge of Arctic air is expected to prolong freezing temperatures in areas already blanketed in snow and ice.\n\nAreas north of Pittsburgh saw up to 50 centimetres of snow and felt wind chills as low as -31 Celsius late Monday, according to the US National Weather Service. New York saw its snowiest day in years, with some areas recording up to 38 centimetres of snow.\n\nForecasters warned that another winter storm could hit parts of the East Coast this weekend.\n\nAs arctic temperatures persist, the death toll rose to at least 30. Victims include two people run over by snowploughs in Massachusetts and Ohio, teenagers killed in fatal sledging accidents in Arkansas and Texas, and a person frozen to death and found covered in snow after she had left a bar in Kansas.\n\nIn New York City, officials reported that at least eight people were found dead outdoors.\n\nHeavy snowfall stretching from Arkansas to New England caused widespread travel disruptions, flight cancellations, and school closures.\n\nThe country experienced over 12,000 flight delays or cancellations. On Sunday, 45% of US flights were cancelled, the highest rate since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.\n\nHundreds of thousands were left without electricity, with more than 560,000 power outages reported on Monday evening, mostly in the country's south.\n\nIn Mississippi, the state's worst ice storm since 1994 was recorded. Authorities delivered cots, blankets, bottled water and generators to warning stations in hard-hit regions.\n\nMeanwhile, in Nashville, Tennessee, electricity was restored to thousands of homes and businesses on Monday, though about 146,000 remained without power. Many hotels were sold out overnight as residents sought to escape their dark and frigid homes.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 30 people have died as a severe winter storm hit much of the United States, with many states facing below-freezing temperatures and no electricity. <\/p>\n<p>Roughly two-thirds of the US is gripped by a cold wave, with the Midwest, south and northeast of the country most heavily affected. A new surge of Arctic air is expected to prolong freezing temperatures in areas already blanketed in snow and ice. <\/p>\n<p>Areas north of Pittsburgh saw up to 50 centimetres of snow and felt wind chills as low as -31 Celsius late Monday, according to the US National Weather Service. New York saw its snowiest day in years, with some areas recording up to 38 centimetres of snow. <\/p>\n<p>Forecasters warned that another winter storm could hit parts of the East Coast this weekend. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//70//83//808x539_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg/" alt=\"People wait to cross the street in Times Square during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/384x256_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/640x427_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/750x500_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/828x552_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/1080x720_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/1200x800_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/1920x1281_cmsv2_49419f7e-16a9-58e1-95b2-f1f3b12b76df-9627083.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People wait to cross the street in Times Square during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heather Khalifa\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>As arctic temperatures persist, the death toll rose to at least 30. Victims include two people run over by snowploughs in Massachusetts and Ohio, teenagers killed in fatal sledging accidents in Arkansas and Texas, and a person frozen to death and found covered in snow after she had left a bar in Kansas. <\/p>\n<p>In New York City, officials reported that at least eight people were found dead outdoors. <\/p>\n<p>Heavy snowfall stretching from Arkansas to New England caused widespread travel disruptions, flight cancellations, and school closures.<\/p>\n<p>The country experienced over 12,000 flight delays or cancellations. On Sunday, 45% of US flights were cancelled, the highest rate since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands were left without electricity, with more than 560,000 power outages reported on Monday evening, mostly in the country's south. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//70//83//808x539_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg/" alt=\"A lineman works to restore power in Oxford, Miss. on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, following a weekend ice storm.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/384x256_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/640x427_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/750x500_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/828x552_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/1080x720_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/1200x800_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/70\/83\/1920x1281_cmsv2_19c78b0c-7b59-5786-bb20-e288e1ef378f-9627083.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A lineman works to restore power in Oxford, Miss. on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, following a weekend ice storm.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Bruce Newman\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In Mississippi, the state's worst ice storm since 1994 was recorded. Authorities delivered cots, blankets, bottled water and generators to warning stations in hard-hit regions. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Nashville, Tennessee, electricity was restored to thousands of homes and businesses on Monday, though about 146,000 remained without power. Many hotels were sold out overnight as residents sought to escape their dark and frigid homes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769485044,"updatedAt":1769504358,"publishedAt":1769496842,"firstPublishedAt":1769496842,"lastPublishedAt":1769501412,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/Copyright 2026 The AP. 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scrolling for a selection of the award-winning snaps.\n\nTravel Photographer of the Year 2025\u2019s overall winner\n\nAthanasios Maloukos was named the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025, having submitted a series of photos from Holy Week in Zamora and of whirling dervishes in Konya, Turkey.\n\nThe former was captured on Holy Thursday, where the Yacente brotherhood, dressed in white robes, walks through the streets in silence, while the latter shows the various stages of the Sema ceremony.\n\nTravel Photographer of the Year founder Chris Coe said of the entry, \u201cShot in low light, these images require immense skill to get right. Shooting on the edge like this requires very careful use of shutter speed to selectively freeze and blur the movements in these two ceremonies.\n\n\u201cHere, the hints of movement alongside the frozen elements enhance the atmosphere and drama in Athanasios\u2019s photographs. This is all achieved in camera without over-processing, and conveys the depth and intensity of each moment.\u201d\n\nMonochrome magic: The Travel Image of the Year\n\nDana Allen took home two top prizes for her black-and-white photo of a bull elephant.\n\nCaptured in Tanzania\u2019s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the incredible shot shows the moment an elephant showers himself in dust, which is typically done to cool down and to create a barrier protecting against sun damage and pests.\n\nA professional wildlife photographer, Allen lives in Zimbabwe and has been working across southern, central and eastern Africa for the past 30 years.\n\nOne shot to capture our Green Planet\n\nCaptured in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Sukhothai Historical Park, John Edwards\u2019 shot of a Buddha reflected in still water took home the top prize in the single image Green Planet category.\n\nInverting the photo, Edwards said he intended \u201cto create an image that mirrors the peaceful, dreamlike feeling of this sacred location, where the green textures and beautiful flowers of our world can be transformed into a new and unexpected reality\u201d.\n\nWhile many of the photographers handed gongs as part of this year\u2019s competition are snappers by trade, Edwards\u2019 day job involves developing treatments for cancer and rare diseases.\n\nSlow travel in the frame\n\nShot from above, Teo Chin Leong\u2019s striking image, which won in the single image Slow Travel category, shows a solitary corporate worker crossing a junction in Tokyo.\n\nFramed by the road markings, the snapshot is part of a series meant to \u201cdepict the overwhelming loneliness and the hectic pace of living in a large city\u201d.\n\nGiven Tokyo is perhaps best known for the bustling Shibuya Crossing, the photo is even more memorable than it seems at first glance.\n\nChin Leong has more than a decade\u2019s worth of experience as a photographer, and has worked across destinations including the United States, Saudi Arabia, China, Indonesia and Japan as well as his home country, Singapore.\n\nA striking portrait in Hanoi\n\nEveryday life takes centre stage in Rahsan Firtina\u2019s winning Travel Portrait image.\n\nCaptured in Hanoi, Vietnam, the photo shows a man lost in thought while two retirees play table tennis in the background.\n\nFirtina first picked up a camera as a hobby in 2019, and has begun to focus more intently on photography in recent years.\n\nThe People\u2019s Choice Winner\n\nWhile a panel of judges picked the winners for almost every category, the People\u2019s Choice Winner was chosen following more than 4,000 public votes.\n\nMark Julian Edwards\u2019 snap, taken in a bus station in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, captured the general public\u2019s eye.\n\nThe close-up shot features a young boy staring out of the window as the bus pulls away.\n\nSpeaking about the photo, Edwards said, \u201cThe bus itself seemed worn by time \u2013 its chipped paint and dented panels telling their own stories \u2013 yet the boy\u2019s expression carried a quiet energy, as if he couldn\u2019t wait to see what lay ahead on the road.\u201d\n\nHow are the Travel Photographer of the Year winners chosen?\n\nNow in its 23rd edition, the Travel Photographer of the Year entries are judged by a 16-strong panel of international experts.\n\nThese experts, who included travel and documentary photographer Mark Edward Harris and photographer Krystal Chryssomallis for the first time this year, assess the images without knowing the identity or nationality of the snapper.\n\nThose shortlisted will then need to provide the RAW and original image files so that their entries can be validated, and to ensure that AI was not used in their creation.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>While the advent of mobile phones has turned us all into budding photographers \u2013 particularly on holiday \u2013 it takes real talent to truly capture a destination.<\/p>\n<p>In the right hands, a camera can offer a snapshot into a particular place and time, and over the years, travel photography has no doubt inspired many to book a flight to far-flung destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Following more than 20,000 image submissions from photographers in 160 countries, this year\u2019s winning images from the Travel Photographer of the Year competition have taken us from Holy Week in Zamora to sunrise in Sukhothai, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Having been judged anonymously by an international panel of experts, you can keep scrolling for a selection of the award-winning snaps.<\/p>\n<h2>Travel Photographer of the Year 2025\u2019s overall winner<\/h2>\n<p>Athanasios Maloukos was named the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//01//29//lost-tribes-explosive-volcanoes-and-pangolin-hats-2024s-most-awe-inspiring-travel-photogra/">Travel Photographer of the Year<\/strong><\/a> 2025, having submitted a series of photos from Holy Week in Zamora and of whirling dervishes in Konya, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The former was captured on Holy Thursday, where the Yacente brotherhood, dressed in white robes, walks through the streets in silence, while the latter shows the various stages of the Sema ceremony. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.667\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//66//52//808x539_cmsv2_502b5e38-96c2-55c3-979b-81b3cc8c661c-9626652.jpg/" alt=\"Athanasios Maloukos was named the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025, having submitted a series of photos from Holy Week in Zamora.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_502b5e38-96c2-55c3-979b-81b3cc8c661c-9626652.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Athanasios Maloukos was named the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025, having submitted a series of photos from Holy Week in Zamora.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Athanasios Maloukos, tpoty.com<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Travel Photographer of the Year founder Chris Coe said of the entry, \u201cShot in low light, these images require immense skill to get right. Shooting on the edge like this requires very careful use of shutter speed to selectively freeze and blur the movements in these two ceremonies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, the hints of movement alongside the frozen elements enhance the atmosphere and drama in Athanasios\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//07//05//trash-talk-photo-shoots-and-bargaining-the-most-annoying-things-tourists-do-according-to-l/">photographs. This is all achieved in camera without over-processing, and conveys the depth and intensity of each moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Monochrome magic: The Travel Image of the Year<\/h2>\n<p>Dana Allen took home two top prizes for her black-and-white photo of a bull elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Captured in Tanzania\u2019s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the incredible shot shows the moment an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//02//12//how-the-rise-of-regenerative-travel-is-changing-thailands-elephant-tourism-for-the-better/">elephant showers himself in dust, which is typically done to cool down and to create a barrier protecting against sun damage and pests.<\/p>\n<p>A professional wildlife photographer, Allen lives in Zimbabwe and has been working across southern, central and eastern Africa for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<h2>One shot to capture our Green Planet<\/h2>\n<p>Captured in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Sukhothai Historical Park, John Edwards\u2019 shot of a Buddha reflected in still water took home the top prize in the single image Green Planet category.<\/p>\n<p>Inverting the photo, Edwards said he intended \u201cto create an image that mirrors the peaceful, dreamlike feeling of this sacred location, where the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//04//24//from-rising-rents-to-rewilding-how-tourists-are-rethinking-their-impact-on-the-places-they/">green textures and beautiful flowers of our world can be transformed into a new and unexpected reality\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7075\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//66//52//808x573_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg/" alt=\"John Edwards’ shot of a Buddha reflected in still water took home the top prize in the single image Green Planet category.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/384x272_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/640x453_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/750x531_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/828x586_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1080x764_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1200x849_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1920x1358_cmsv2_f997d8de-977f-5028-99ca-1a3d26871320-9626652.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">John Edwards’ shot of a Buddha reflected in still water took home the top prize in the single image Green Planet category.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">John Edwards, tpoty.com<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>While many of the photographers handed gongs as part of this year\u2019s competition are snappers by trade, Edwards\u2019 day job involves developing treatments for cancer and rare diseases.<\/p>\n<h2>Slow travel in the frame<\/h2>\n<p>Shot from above, Teo Chin Leong\u2019s striking image, which won in the single image Slow Travel category, shows a solitary corporate worker crossing a junction in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Framed by the road markings, the snapshot is part of a series meant to \u201cdepict the overwhelming loneliness and the hectic pace of living in a large city\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6675\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//66//52//808x539_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg/" alt=\"Teo Chin Leong’s striking image won in the single image Slow Travel category.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/750x501_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/828x553_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1080x721_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1200x801_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1920x1282_cmsv2_5eb40de7-ee05-5b99-b6f0-6ea8acf4c0b2-9626652.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Teo Chin Leong’s striking image won in the single image Slow Travel category.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Teo Chin Leong, tpoty.com<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Given <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2026//01//25//this-year-could-be-a-surprisingly-affordable-time-to-see-japans-cherry-blossoms/">Tokyo is perhaps best known for the bustling Shibuya Crossing, the photo is even more memorable than it seems at first glance.<\/p>\n<p>Chin Leong has more than a decade\u2019s worth of experience as a photographer, and has worked across destinations including the United States, Saudi Arabia, China, Indonesia and Japan as well as his home country, Singapore.<\/p>\n<h2>A striking portrait in Hanoi<\/h2>\n<p>Everyday life takes centre stage in Rahsan Firtina\u2019s winning Travel Portrait image.<\/p>\n<p>Captured in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//03//23//hanois-french-quarter-is-an-oasis-of-laid-back-luxury-in-the-chaotic-capital/">Hanoi, Vietnam, the photo shows a man lost in thought while two retirees play table tennis in the background.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//66//52//808x539_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg/" alt=\"Everyday life takes centre stage in Rahsan Firtina’s winning Travel Portrait image.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/640x426_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/1920x1279_cmsv2_a3a24dc2-9e4a-500f-8d57-2267f947cbb2-9626652.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Everyday life takes centre stage in Rahsan Firtina’s winning Travel Portrait image.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Rahsan Firtina, tpoty.com<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Firtina first picked up a camera as a hobby in 2019, and has begun to focus more intently on photography in recent years. <\/p>\n<h2>The People\u2019s Choice Winner<\/h2>\n<p>While a panel of judges picked the winners for almost every category, the People\u2019s Choice Winner was chosen following more than 4,000 public votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Julian Edwards\u2019 snap, taken in a bus station in Jaffna, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2026//01//22//tourism-investment-and-soft-power-key-takeaways-from-euronews-travels-davos-panel/">Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/a>, captured the general public\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//66//52//808x539_cmsv2_33794491-c616-5ea0-8d91-6669787e67af-9626652.jpg/" alt=\"The People’s Choice Winner was chosen following more than 4,000 public votes.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_33794491-c616-5ea0-8d91-6669787e67af-9626652.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">The People’s Choice Winner was chosen following more than 4,000 public votes.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mark Julian Edwards, tpoty.com<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The close-up shot features a young boy staring out of the window as the bus pulls away.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the photo, Edwards said, \u201cThe bus itself seemed worn by time \u2013 its chipped paint and dented panels telling their own stories \u2013 yet the boy\u2019s expression carried a quiet energy, as if he couldn\u2019t wait to see what lay ahead on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>How are the Travel Photographer of the Year winners chosen?<\/h2>\n<p>Now in its 23rd edition, the Travel Photographer of the Year entries are judged by a 16-strong panel of international experts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div 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images without knowing the identity or nationality of the snapper.<\/p>\n<p>Those shortlisted will then need to provide the RAW and original image files so that their entries can be validated, and to ensure that AI was not used in their creation.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769440374,"updatedAt":1769493680,"publishedAt":1769493603,"firstPublishedAt":1769493603,"lastPublishedAt":1769493680,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/66\/52\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7e1d50f7-5041-56ae-98f5-cd64d4d2135e-9626652.jpg","altText":"Athanasios Maloukos was named the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025.","caption":"Athanasios Maloukos was named the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Athanasios Maloukos, 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CONTROL CHIEF TO LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS","daletPyramidId":4008257,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Border patrol chief and other agents to leave Minneapolis following second fatal shooting","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Border patrol chief Greg Bovino and other agents to leave Minneapolis","titleListing2":"Border patrol chief and other agents to leave Minneapolis following second fatal shooting","leadin":"The Trump administration agreed to scale back federal presence after a second fatal shooting by federal officers. President Donald Trump said he will replace Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino with border czar, Tom Homan.","summary":"The Trump administration agreed to scale back federal presence after a second fatal shooting by federal officers. President Donald Trump said he will replace Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino with border czar, Tom Homan.","keySentence":"","url":"border-patrol-chief-and-other-agents-to-leave-minneapolis-following-second-fatal-shooting","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/border-patrol-chief-and-other-agents-to-leave-minneapolis-following-second-fatal-shooting","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"US Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who has been at the centre of fierce criticism following a second fatal shooting amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is expected to leave the city on Tuesday along with other agents, according to officials.\n\nIn response to rising furore, US President Donald Trump has scaled back federal presence in Minneapolis and replaced Bovino with his border czar Tom Homan, US media reported overnight on Tuesday.\n\nThe decision comes after 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration officers, intensifying scrutiny of the crackdown and sparking widespread protests against the presence of federal immigration agents in the state.\n\nMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other lawmakers demanded that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents be withdrawn from the state.\n\n\"All Alex ever wanted was to help someone \u2014 anyone. Even in his very last moments on this earth,\" Pretti's younger sister, Micayla Pretti, wrote in a statement on Monday.\n\n\"When does this end? How many more innocent lives must be lost before we say enough?\" the statement added.\n\nJust a few weeks earlier, 37-year-old Ren\u00e9e Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer while she was behind the wheel of her car.\n\nBovino has become the face of the immigration enforcement operation, drawing fresh condemnation for claiming that Pretti had been carrying a gun and was planning to \"massacre\" law enforcement officers, despite video footage filmed from several angles showing Pretti holding a cell phone in his hand, and no sign of him wielding a weapon.\n\nDozens of protesters gathered outside the hotel where Bovino was believed to be staying, blowing whistles, banging pots and, at one point, even blasting a trombone in a noisy demonstration aimed at disrupting federal agents inside.\n\nThe US Border Patrol commander also faced fierce criticism from local officials, civil rights advocates and congressional Democrats for his leading role in highly visible federal crackdowns.\n\nBovino has frequently appeared at anti-ICE protests, often without his face covered, unlike other agents. He is easily recognisable for his distinctive long army-green overcoat, which has drawn comparisons to those of the Gestapo, the secret police in Nazi Germany.\n\nSpeaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom said Bovino was dressed up as if he \"literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb\".\n\nSpeaking to local media, Bovino responded by saying the coat was \"Border Patrol issued,\" adding that he \"had it for over 25 years\".\n\nTrump has 'very good call' with Walz\n\nIn what appeared to be a thaw in their relationship, Trump said he had a \u201cvery good call\u201d with Democratic Governor Tim Walz and that the two \u201cseemed to be on a similar wavelength.\u201d\n\nWalz, on his end, described the call on social media platform X as \"productive\" and called on the White House to launch impartial investigations.\n\n\"The president must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now,\" he wrote in a separate post.\n\nThe US president also spoke with Mayor Frey, similarly calling it a \"very good telephone conversation\".\n\n\"Lots of progress is being made. Tom Homan will be meeting with him tomorrow in order to continue the discussion,\" Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>US Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who has been at the centre of fierce criticism following a second fatal shooting amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is expected to leave the city on Tuesday along with other agents, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>In response to rising furore, US President Donald Trump has scaled back federal presence in Minneapolis and replaced Bovino with his border czar Tom Homan, US media reported overnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration officers, intensifying scrutiny of the crackdown and sparking widespread protests against the presence of federal immigration agents in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other lawmakers demanded that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents be withdrawn from the state. <\/p>\n<p>\"All Alex ever wanted was to help someone \u2014 anyone. Even in his very last moments on this earth,\" Pretti's younger sister, Micayla Pretti, wrote in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\"When does this end? How many more innocent lives must be lost before we say enough?\" the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks earlier, 37-year-old Ren\u00e9e Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer while she was behind the wheel of her car.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//70//82//808x539_cmsv2_1f916c5f-eeb1-549a-a348-52b074d74be9-9627082.jpg/" alt=\"A person holds a sign of Alex Pretti during a protest outside the office of Sen. 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Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, in Minneapolis.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Adam Gray\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Bovino has become the face of the immigration enforcement operation, drawing fresh condemnation for claiming that Pretti had been carrying a gun and was planning to \"massacre\" law enforcement officers, despite video footage filmed from several angles showing Pretti holding a cell phone in his hand, and no sign of him wielding a weapon. <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of protesters gathered outside the hotel where Bovino was believed to be staying, blowing whistles, banging pots and, at one point, even blasting a trombone in a noisy demonstration aimed at disrupting federal agents inside. <\/p>\n<p>The US Border Patrol commander also faced fierce criticism from local officials, civil rights advocates and congressional Democrats for his leading role in highly visible federal crackdowns. <\/p>\n<p>Bovino has frequently appeared at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//25//calls-grow-for-ice-to-leave-minnesota-after-latest-shooting-of-citizen/">anti-ICE protests<\/a>, often without his face covered, unlike other agents. He is easily recognisable for his distinctive long army-green overcoat, which has drawn comparisons to those of the Gestapo, the secret police in Nazi Germany. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom said Bovino was dressed up as if he \"literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb\".<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to local media, Bovino responded by saying the coat was \"Border Patrol issued,\" adding that he \"had it for over 25 years\". <\/p>\n<h2>Trump has 'very good call' with Walz<\/h2>\n<p>In what appeared to be a thaw in their relationship, Trump said he had a \u201cvery good call\u201d with Democratic Governor Tim Walz and that the two \u201cseemed to be on a similar wavelength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walz, on his end, described the call on social media platform X as \"productive\" and called on the White House to launch impartial investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\"The president must end this operation. 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While he did not confirm the deaths were weather-related, he told reporters, \"there is no more powerful reminder of the danger of extreme cold\".\n\nIn Texas, authorities confirmed three deaths, including a 16-year-old girl killed in a sledging accident.\n\nTwo people died in Louisiana from hypothermia, the southern state's health department said.\n\nIn Tennessee, more than 300,000 residential and commercial customers were without electricity, while Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia \u2014 where such storms are less common \u2014 each had over 100,000 outages.\n\nThousands of flights cancelled as temperatures plummet to lowest in over a decade\n\nAt least 20 states and the US capital Washington have declared states of emergency. Federal offices have been preemptively closed for Monday.\n\nSeveral major airports in Washington, Philadelphia and New York had nearly all flights cancelled for the day.\n\nTracking site Flightaware.com showed more than 19,000 flights into and out of the country had been scrapped since Saturday.\n\nOvernight Sunday, the entire Lower 48 states were forecast to have their coldest average low temperature, -12.3C, since January 2014.\n\nRecord warmth in Florida was the only thing keeping that average from turning even colder, said former US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue, who calculates national averages based on National Weather Service data.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Swathes of the United States were hit by a colossal winter storm over the weekend, leaving at least 10 people dead across the country, and prompting mass flight cancelations, power outages, and warnings to stay off the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Freezing conditions persisted into Monday, as officials cautioned that an Arctic air mass behind the system would see temperatures fall dangerously low for days, prolonging disruptions to daily life.<\/p>\n<p>The US National Weather Service (NWS) told Americans to expect more of the same weather conditions into Monday morning.<\/p>\n<h2>Deaths a 'powerful reminder of the danger of extreme cold'<\/h2>\n<p>New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said five people were found dead over the weekend in freezing temperatures. 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It was way too cold for me. Today is much better. I\u2019m able to bear it. It\u2019s windy, but with the sun being out, it makes it worthwhile,\u201d the elder White said.\n\nThe father-son duo took turns sliding down the hill on an old inflatable water toy at Scissortail Park.\n\nA massive winter storm moved into the area Thursday, dumping several inches of snow and bringing dangerously cold temperatures before moving out Sunday.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Residents of all ages flocked to a small hill near downtown Oklahoma City in the US on Sunday to take advantage of the winter weather, turning Scissortail Park into a hub for snowball fights and sledding.<\/p>\n<p>Gil White drove from his home in Blanchard, Oklahoma, about 30 miles south of the city to go sledding with his 12-year-old son Thapelo White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, we had absolutely no sunshine at all, so I stayed in the truck. It was way too cold for me. Today is much better. I\u2019m able to bear it. 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He also indicated federal agents would eventually withdraw from the city, though he provided no timeline.\n\nThe death of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, marks the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by immigration officers in Minneapolis in less than three weeks, prompting sharp criticism from former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.\n\nBarack and Michelle Obama said in a statement Sunday that Pretti's killing should serve as a \"wake-up call\" that core US values \"are increasingly under assault\".\n\nHours later, Clinton issued a pointed rebuke of the current administration, saying peaceful protesters \"have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed.\"\n\n\"All of this is unacceptable,\" Clinton said, urging Americans to \"stand up, speak out. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.\"\n\nParents decry 'sickening lies'\n\nVideo verified by US media showed agents shooting Pretti seconds after spraying him with a chemical irritant and throwing him to the icy ground.\n\nThe footage shows Pretti never drew a weapon, contradicting administration officials who described him as an \"assassin\" who had assaulted federal agents and was found with a pistol.\n\nPretti's parents condemned what they called \"sickening lies\" about their son in a statement issued Saturday.\n\nThe shootings occurred during \"Operation Metro Surge,\" which has deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to the heavily Democratic city for weeks. Trump has blamed the deaths on Minnesota's Democratic leadership, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, calling the situation \"Democrat ensued chaos.\"\n\nRenee Good, also 37, was killed by an immigration officer while sitting in her car on 7 January. Trump's administration has excluded local investigators from examining her death.\n\nDeputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC's \"Meet the Press\" on Sunday that an investigation into Pretti's killing was necessary, though administration officials have defended the shooting officer.\n\nMultiple Republican senators have called for a thorough probe and cooperation with local authorities.\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison rejected Trump's fraud allegations, saying: \"It's not about fraud, because if he sent people who understand forensic accounting, we'd be having a different conversation. But he's sending armed masked men.\"\n\nWalz directly challenged the president during a Sunday press briefing, asking: \"What do we need to do to get these federal agents out of our state?\"\n\nDisapproval grows\n\nBusiness leaders from 60 corporations headquartered in Minnesota, including Target, General Mills and several professional sports franchises, signed an open letter Sunday calling for immediate de-escalation and for authorities to cooperate.\n\nProtesters gathered in Minneapolis on Sunday to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with one holding a sign reading: \"Be Pretti, be Good.\"\n\nRecent polling shows growing public disapproval of Trump's domestic immigration operations as videos spread of masked agents seizing people from sidewalks, including children.\n\nSince the operation began, many Minneapolis residents have carried whistles to alert others when immigration agents appear, while sometimes violent confrontations have erupted between officers and protesters.\n\nThe city has one of the United States' highest concentrations of Somali immigrants and is known for its harsh winters.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>US President Donald Trump said his administration is \"reviewing everything\" after immigration agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In comments to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Trump declined twice to say whether the officer had acted appropriately in the shooting. He also indicated federal agents would eventually withdraw from the city, though he provided no timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, marks the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by immigration officers in Minneapolis in less than three weeks, prompting sharp criticism from former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Barack and Michelle Obama said in a statement Sunday that Pretti's killing should serve as a \"wake-up call\" that core US values \"are increasingly under assault\".<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Clinton issued a pointed rebuke of the current administration, saying peaceful protesters \"have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"All of this is unacceptable,\" Clinton said, urging Americans to \"stand up, speak out. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Parents decry 'sickening lies'<\/h2>\n<p>Video verified by US media showed agents shooting Pretti seconds after spraying him with a chemical irritant and throwing him to the icy ground. <\/p>\n<p>The footage shows Pretti never drew a weapon, contradicting administration officials who described him as an \"assassin\" who had assaulted federal agents and was found with a pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Pretti's parents condemned what they called \"sickening lies\" about their son in a statement issued Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The shootings occurred during \"Operation Metro Surge,\" which has deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to the heavily Democratic city for weeks. Trump has blamed the deaths on Minnesota's Democratic leadership, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, calling the situation \"Democrat ensued chaos.\"<\/p>\n<p>Renee Good, also 37, was killed by an immigration officer while sitting in her car on 7 January. Trump's administration has excluded local investigators from examining her death.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC's \"Meet the Press\" on Sunday that an investigation into Pretti's killing was necessary, though administration officials have defended the shooting officer.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Republican senators have called for a thorough probe and cooperation with local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison rejected Trump's fraud allegations, saying: \"It's not about fraud, because if he sent people who understand forensic accounting, we'd be having a different conversation. But he's sending armed masked men.\"<\/p>\n<p>Walz directly challenged the president during a Sunday press briefing, asking: \"What do we need to do to get these federal agents out of our state?\"<\/p>\n<h2>Disapproval grows<\/h2>\n<p>Business leaders from 60 corporations headquartered in Minnesota, including Target, General Mills and several professional sports franchises, signed an open letter Sunday calling for immediate de-escalation and for authorities to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters gathered in Minneapolis on Sunday to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with one holding a sign reading: \"Be Pretti, be Good.\"<\/p>\n<p>Recent polling shows growing public disapproval of Trump's domestic immigration operations as videos spread of masked agents seizing people from sidewalks, including children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" 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States' highest concentrations of Somali immigrants and is known for its harsh winters.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769417831,"updatedAt":1769433105,"publishedAt":1769418239,"firstPublishedAt":1769418239,"lastPublishedAt":1769418239,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/60\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c86647e6-3e79-5935-b41b-8f8242667754-9626048.jpg","altText":"A federal agent stands guard near a hotel during a noise demonstration protest in response to federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, 26 January 2026","caption":"A federal agent stands guard near a hotel during a noise demonstration protest in response to federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, 26 January 2026","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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But how? (AP)","daletPyramidId":3964118,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"A former flight attendant is accused of fooling airlines into giving him free flights. But how?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Ex-flight attendant accused of scamming airlines for free flights","titleListing2":"A former flight attendant is accused of fooling airlines into giving him free flights. But how?","leadin":"Authorities say a former flight attendant exploited airline perks for years, raising questions about how security checks failed.","summary":"Authorities say a former flight attendant exploited airline perks for years, raising questions about how security checks failed.","keySentence":"","url":"a-former-flight-attendant-is-accused-of-fooling-airlines-into-giving-him-free-flights-but-","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2026\/01\/26\/a-former-flight-attendant-is-accused-of-fooling-airlines-into-giving-him-free-flights-but-","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A former flight attendant accused of posing as a pilot and working airline employee fooled three US carriers into giving him hundreds of free tickets over a span of four years, federal authorities say. But precisely how he is alleged to have done it - and why the airlines wouldn't have caught on sooner - has industry insiders scratching their heads.\n\nDallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded not guilty on 20 January following his extradition to the United States. His federal public defender declined to discuss the case.\n\nAccording to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fraudulent employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. Court documents contained no explanation of why, in an industry focused on flight and airport safety, the airlines didn't recognise the credentials as invalid.\n\nThe indictment did not identify any of the airlines involved but said the US carriers are based in Honolulu, Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas. A spokesperson for Hawaiian Airlines said on 21 January that the company does not comment on litigation. Representatives for United Airlines and American Airlines did not immediately respond to emails from news agency The Associated Press.\n\nOne Canadian carrier based in Toronto, Porter Airlines, said in an emailed statement it was \u201cunable to verify any information related to this story\u201d. Air Canada, which is based in Montreal but has a major hub in Toronto, said it had no record of Pokornik working there.\n\nAllegations surprise industry experts\n\nJohn Cox, a retired pilot who runs an aviation safety firm in St. Petersburg, Florida, called the allegations surprising, considering the cross-checking that airlines are able to do to verify the employment of a crew member seeking to fly on another airline.\n\nAirlines generally rely on databases of active airline employees maintained on third-party websites to check whether someone is actually an employee.\n\n\u201cThe only thing I can think is that they did not show him as no longer employed by the airline,\u201d Cox said in a phone interview. \u201cConsequently when the checks were made at the gate, he showed up as a valid employee.\u201d\n\nPassenger airlines typically offer such free or steeply discounted standby seats, when available, to their own crew members or those of other carriers - a courtesy that makes the whole industry function better, by getting crew members where they need to go.\n\nEmployees can also use the perk for their immediate families when flying for leisure. Sometimes employees might sit in one of the \u201cjump seats\" with shoulder harnesses in the cockpit or in the cabin, but federal rules prohibit the cockpit jump seats from being used for leisure travel.\n\nHow the screening usually works\n\nCrew members who need to travel to another city for work go through airport security by scanning a \u201cknown crew member\u201d card linked to a database that has their photo, said Bruce Rodger, an airline pilot who owns an aviation consulting firm. They also present an employee badge and government-issued identification.\n\nUsing the known crew member process for leisure travel isn\u2019t allowed, he said.\n\nFor leisure travel, crew members can purchase discounted standby tickets or request a jump seat. With a standby ticket, a crew member reaches the gates via normal airport security screening. It\u2019s possible to have a standby ticket but request a jump seat, which allows the employee to fly for free.\n\nThe plane's captain must approve who rides in the cockpit jump seats. Often that's a licensed pilot but Federal Aviation Administration regulations also allow for others with official reasons to be there like a Defense Department evaluator, an air traffic controller observing, a crew member or a representative of the manufacturer.\n\nIn 2023, an off-duty airline pilot riding in the cockpit of a Horizon Air flight said \u201cI\u2019m not OK\u201d just before trying to cut the engines mid-flight. That pilot, Joseph Emerson, later told police he had been struggling with depression. A federal judge sentenced that man to time served last November.\n\nPokornik asked to ride in the cockpit, prosecutors say\n\nUS prosecutors said on 20 January that Pokornik requested to sit in the cockpit's jump seat - typically reserved for off-duty pilots. It was not clear from court documents whether he ever actually rode in a plane\u2019s cockpit, and the US Attorney\u2019s Office in Honolulu declined to say.\n\nYears ago, the airline industry tightened up the standards for the flight benefits employees receive after the famous case of Frank Abagnale, whose exaggerated 1980 memoir, 'Catch Me If You Can', described posing as a pilot to fly for free, among other cons. His story gained additional fame when Steven Spielberg made it into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2002.\n\nAdditional restrictions on who can get aboard a plane and inside a cockpit were imposed by the airlines and FAA after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A former flight attendant accused of posing as a pilot and working airline employee fooled three US carriers into giving him hundreds of free tickets over a span of four years, federal authorities say. But precisely how he is alleged to have done it - and why the airlines wouldn't have caught on sooner - has industry insiders scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded not guilty on 20 January following his extradition to the United States. His federal public defender declined to discuss the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fraudulent employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. Court documents contained no explanation of why, in an industry focused on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2026//01//14//europes-safest-airlines-revealed-in-new-global-ranking/">flight and airport safety<\/strong><\/a>, the airlines didn't recognise the credentials as invalid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//15//would-you-pay-for-an-empty-seat-this-airline-will-let-you-bid-for-elbow-room-in-economy/">Would you pay for an empty seat? This European budget airline has launched a neighbour-free upgrade<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2026//01//22//how-the-aviation-industry-handles-airspace-closures-safely-and-what-to-expect-if-youre-fly/">How the aviation industry handles airspace closures safely \u2013 and what to expect if you\u2019re flying<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The indictment did not identify any of the airlines involved but said the US carriers are based in Honolulu, Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas. A spokesperson for Hawaiian Airlines said on 21 January that the company does not comment on litigation. Representatives for United Airlines and American Airlines did not immediately respond to emails from news agency The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>One Canadian carrier based in Toronto, Porter Airlines, said in an emailed statement it was \u201cunable to verify any information related to this story\u201d. Air Canada, which is based in Montreal but has a major hub in Toronto, said it had no record of Pokornik working there.<\/p>\n<h2>Allegations surprise industry experts<\/h2>\n<p>John Cox, a retired pilot who runs an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//12//26//why-do-you-have-to-open-your-window-blind-for-takeoff-airline-safety-rules-explained/">aviation safety<\/strong><\/a> firm in St. Petersburg, Florida, called the allegations surprising, considering the cross-checking that airlines are able to do to verify the employment of a crew member seeking to fly on another airline.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines generally rely on databases of active airline employees maintained on third-party websites to check whether someone is actually an employee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I can think is that they did not show him as no longer employed by the airline,\u201d Cox said in a phone interview. \u201cConsequently when the checks were made at the gate, he showed up as a valid employee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Passenger airlines typically offer such free or steeply discounted standby seats, when available, to their own crew members or those of other carriers - a courtesy that makes the whole industry function better, by getting crew members where they need to go. <\/p>\n<p>Employees can also use the perk for their immediate families when flying for leisure. Sometimes employees might sit in one of the \u201cjump seats\" with shoulder harnesses in the cockpit or in the cabin, but federal rules prohibit the cockpit jump seats from being used for leisure travel.<\/p>\n<h2>How the screening usually works<\/h2>\n<p>Crew members who need to travel to another city for work go through airport security by scanning a \u201cknown crew member\u201d card linked to a database that has their photo, said Bruce Rodger, an airline pilot who owns an aviation consulting firm. They also present an employee badge and government-issued identification.<\/p>\n<p>Using the known crew member process for leisure travel isn\u2019t allowed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>For leisure travel, crew members can purchase discounted standby tickets or request a jump seat. With a standby ticket, a crew member reaches the gates via normal airport security screening. It\u2019s possible to have a standby ticket but request a jump seat, which allows the employee to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//25//this-japanese-airline-is-offering-free-domestic-flights-for-uk-and-european-travellers/">fly for free<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plane's captain must approve who rides in the cockpit jump seats. Often that's a licensed pilot but Federal Aviation Administration regulations also allow for others with official reasons to be there like a Defense Department evaluator, an air traffic controller observing, a crew member or a representative of the manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, an off-duty airline pilot riding in the cockpit of a Horizon Air flight said \u201cI\u2019m not OK\u201d just before trying to cut the engines mid-flight. That pilot, Joseph Emerson, later told police he had been struggling with depression. A federal judge sentenced that man to time served last November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//18//travel-power-banks-lufthansa/">Lufthansa tightens rules for carriage of power banks inside the cabin<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Pokornik asked to ride in the cockpit, prosecutors say<\/h2>\n<p>US prosecutors said on 20 January that Pokornik requested to sit in the cockpit's jump seat - typically reserved for off-duty pilots. It was not clear from court documents whether he ever actually rode in a plane\u2019s cockpit, and the US Attorney\u2019s Office in Honolulu declined to say.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, the airline industry tightened up the standards for the flight benefits employees receive after the famous case of Frank Abagnale, whose exaggerated 1980 memoir, 'Catch Me If You Can', described posing as a pilot to fly for free, among other cons. His story gained additional fame when Steven Spielberg made it into a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//09//20//the-white-lotus-bridgeton-k-dramas-how-set-jetting-tourism-is-straining-trending-destinati/">movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Additional restrictions on who can get aboard a plane and inside a cockpit were imposed by the airlines and FAA after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769082380,"updatedAt":1769407418,"publishedAt":1769407400,"firstPublishedAt":1769407400,"lastPublishedAt":1769407416,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/23\/37\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d9774dfd-403b-5e0e-ae38-08b299d677ed-9622337.jpg","altText":"FILE - A sign for the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building and Courthouse is displayed outside the courthouse on Jan. 22, 2024, in Honolulu. 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WANT ICE OUT AFTER SHOOTING","daletPyramidId":3990509,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Calls grow for ICE to leave Minnesota after latest shooting of citizen","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Calls grow for ICE to leave Minnesota after latest shooting of citizen","titleListing2":"Calls grow for ICE to leave Minnesota after latest shooting of citizen.","leadin":"Hundreds of protesters took to the streets after the shooting, while several Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota.","summary":"Hundreds of protesters took to the streets after the shooting, while several Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota.","keySentence":"","url":"calls-grow-for-ice-to-leave-minnesota-after-latest-shooting-of-citizen","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/25\/calls-grow-for-ice-to-leave-minnesota-after-latest-shooting-of-citizen","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Democrats and protesters are demanding that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a US Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, the second such shooting of a US citizen in the city in the last three weeks.\n\nThe man who was killed has been identified as Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse.\n\nAfter the shooting, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the presence of federal immigration agents in their state, clashing with federal officers who wielded batons and deployed flash bangs.\n\nDuring a press conference alongside Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other lawmakers following the shooting, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar said: \u201cRight now, we are focused on getting ICE out of this state and of course we will use every lever that we have. But I do remind people that Donald Trump runs the White House and sadly, to date we have not seen the Republican members of Congress standing up. He also seems to run the Congress.\u201d Klobuchar also called on Republicans to stand with them.\n\nMayor Frey said the city is filing a declaration to encourage a judge to rule on a temporary restraining order that would \u201cgrant us immediate relief and help stop this operation that has been so harmful to the city.\u201d\n\nIn a statement of its own, the Department of Homeland Security said a man approached Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and resisted attempts to disarm him during an operation. The statement claimed that agents fired \u201cdefensive shots\u201d.\n\nBut in bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon after, Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand with no clear sign of him wielding a weapon.\n\nJust a few weeks earlier, a 37-year-old woman and mother of three, Renee Good, was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer while she was behind the wheel of her car, sparking public outrage and protests.\n\nTrump accuses Democrats of 'insurrection'\n\nMeanwhile, US President Donald Trump lashed out at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the Minneapolis mayor on his social media platform, Truth Social.\n\nTrump posted images of the gun that immigration officials said was recovered, commenting: \u201cWhat is that all about? Where are the local police? Why weren\u2019t they allowed to protect ICE officers?\u201d\n\nTrump also said the Democratic governor and mayor are \u201cinciting insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous and arrogant rhetoric.\u201d\n\nWalz said the state would lead the investigation into the shooting, saying he has no confidence in federal officials.\n\nBut federal officers blocked Minnesota\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the scene even after it obtained a signed judicial warrant, its superintendent Drew Evans said.\n\nWho was Alex Pretti?\n\nFamily members said Pretti was an ICU nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about others and was upset by President Donald Trump\u2019s actions on immigration in the city. According to the family, Pretti had attended protests after the recent killing of Renee Good by another ICE officer on 7 January.\n\nAlex\u2019s father, Michael Pretti, said: \u201cHe thought it was terrible \u2014 you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.\u201d\n\nCourt records show he had no criminal record, and his family said he had never had any dealings with law enforcement apart from a handful of traffic tickets.\n\nAccording to family members, Pretti possessed a handgun and had a licence to carry a concealed firearm in Minnesota. However, they said they had never known him to carry it.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Democrats and protesters are demanding that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a US Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, the second such shooting of a US citizen in the city in the last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The man who was killed has been identified as Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the presence of federal immigration agents in their state, clashing with federal officers who wielded batons and deployed flash bangs.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference alongside Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other lawmakers following the shooting, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar said: \u201cRight now, we are focused on getting ICE out of this state and of course we will use every lever that we have. But I do remind people that Donald Trump runs the White House and sadly, to date we have not seen the Republican members of Congress standing up. He also seems to run the Congress.\u201d Klobuchar also called on Republicans to stand with them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//51//36//808x539_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg/" alt=\"Protesters use a dumpster for cover as federal agents fire crowd control munitions at them after agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, 24 Jan 2026.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/384x256_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/640x427_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/750x500_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/828x552_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/1080x720_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/1200x800_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/1920x1280_cmsv2_e5eae5c3-f66c-5712-9a5d-ccd182244f1b-9625136.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Protesters use a dumpster for cover as federal agents fire crowd control munitions at them after agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, 24 Jan 2026.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Aaron Nesheim\/AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//08//woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-officer-during-minneapolis-immigration-raid/">Minnesota protests erupt after ICE officer kills woman during raid<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//24//video-shows-confrontation-between-federal-agents-leading-up-to-a-fatal-shooting-in-minneap/">Video shows confrontation between federal agents leading up to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//24//hundreds-gather-at-memorial-for-alex-pretti-the-man-killed-by-border-patrol-officer-in-min/">Hundreds gather at memorial for Alex Pretti, the man killed by Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Mayor Frey said the city is filing a declaration to encourage a judge to rule on a temporary restraining order that would \u201cgrant us immediate relief and help stop this operation that has been so harmful to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement of its own, the Department of Homeland Security said a man approached Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and resisted attempts to disarm him during an operation. The statement claimed that agents fired \u201cdefensive shots\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>But in bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon after, Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand with no clear sign of him wielding a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks earlier, a 37-year-old woman and mother of three, Renee Good, was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//08//woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-officer-during-minneapolis-immigration-raid/">fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer<\/a> while she was behind the wheel of her car, sparking public outrage and protests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//embed//2860498/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Trump accuses Democrats of 'insurrection'<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump lashed out at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the Minneapolis mayor on his social media platform, Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted images of the gun that immigration officials said was recovered, commenting: \u201cWhat is that all about? Where are the local police? Why weren\u2019t they allowed to protect ICE officers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said the Democratic governor and mayor are \u201cinciting insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous and arrogant rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walz said the state would lead the investigation into the shooting, saying he has no confidence in federal officials.<\/p>\n<p>But federal officers blocked Minnesota\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the scene even after it obtained a signed judicial warrant, its superintendent Drew Evans said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who was Alex Pretti?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Family members said Pretti was an ICU nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about others and was upset by President Donald Trump\u2019s actions on immigration in the city. According to the family, Pretti had attended protests after the recent killing of Renee Good by another ICE officer on 7 January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//51//36//808x539_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg/" alt=\"Undated photo provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the man who was shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, 24 January 2026.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/384x256_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/640x427_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/750x500_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/828x552_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/1080x720_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/1200x800_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/51\/36\/1920x1280_cmsv2_98a25625-b532-5f60-b463-0fd85a8a67f3-9625136.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Undated photo provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the man who was shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, 24 January 2026.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Alex\u2019s father, Michael Pretti, said: \u201cHe thought it was terrible \u2014 you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Court records show he had no criminal record, and his family said he had never had any dealings with law enforcement apart from a handful of traffic tickets.<\/p>\n<p>According to family members, Pretti possessed a handgun and had a licence to carry a concealed firearm in Minnesota. However, they said they had never known him to carry it.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1769323118,"updatedAt":1769342250,"publishedAt":1769338100,"firstPublishedAt":1769338100,"lastPublishedAt":1769338665,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Adam Gray\/Copyright 2026 The AP. 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I once again call on the President to remove the 3,000 agents from Minnesota who are sowing chaos and violence,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement of its own, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that an individual had approached officers with a semi-automatic handgun. 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Let's end this operation,\" Frey said.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the Democratic-led city, as Trump presses a sweeping campaign to deport undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis has been rocked by increasingly tense protests since federal agents shot and killed Good, a US citizen, on 7 January.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy concluded that the killing was a homicide, a classification that does not automatically mean a crime was committed.<\/p>\n<p>The officer who fired the shots that killed Good, Jonathan Ross, has neither been suspended nor charged.<\/p>\n<p>The detention of a five-year-old boy this week, as agents sought to arrest his father, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//24//thousands-rally-and-hundreds-of-businesses-close-in-protest-against-ice-presence-in-minnes/">rekindled public 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ANTI ICE PROTEST","daletPyramidId":3986984,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Thousands rally and hundreds of businesses close in protest against ICE presence in Minnesota","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Thousands rally in protest against ICE presence in Minnesota","titleListing2":"Thousands rally and hundreds of businesses close in protest against ICE presence in Minnesota","leadin":"Thousands of people protested against US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Friday, after a five-year-old boy and his father were detained by ICE agents.","summary":"Thousands of people protested against US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Friday, after a five-year-old boy and his father were detained by ICE agents.","keySentence":"","url":"thousands-rally-and-hundreds-of-businesses-close-in-protest-against-ice-presence-in-minnes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/24\/thousands-rally-and-hundreds-of-businesses-close-in-protest-against-ice-presence-in-minnes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Thousands of people took to the cold and icy streets of Minneapolis on Friday to protest against the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Democratic-led city, as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown continues.\n\nAcross Minnesota, eateries, attraction sites and other businesses shuttered as part of a day of coordinated action to defy the weeks-long federal immigration operation underway in the state over the past few weeks. Organisers said the number of buisinesses that closed in solidarity with the movement numbered around 700.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate protest outside Minneapolis-St Paul airport over the facility's use for deportations led to the arrest of 100 members of the clergy.\n\nThe protests took place days after images emerged of an apparently terrified pre-schooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, being held by immigration officers who were seeking to arrest the boy's father. The images rekindled public outrage at the federal crackdown, during which an agent shot and killed a US citizen on 7 January.\n\nThe superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, where the boy was a preschool student, said the child and his Ecuadoran father, Adrian Conejo Arias - both asylum seekers - were taken from their driveway as they arrived home on Tuesday.\n\nThe child was then used as \"bait\" by officers to draw out those inside his home, superintendent Zena Stenvik added.\n\nOne protester, who declined to be named, told news agencies he was marching \"because if we don't fight, we don't win. If we don't fight, fascism wins.\"\n\nHe held a sign reading \"five-years-old, dude,\" a reference to Liam Conejo Ramos.\n\nThousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the Democratic-led city, as US President Donald Trump presses his campaign to deport undocumented immigrants across the country.\n\nOn a visit to Minneapolis on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance confirmed the five-year-old was among those detained. But he argued that agents were protecting him after his father \"ran\" from officers.\n\n\"What are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child freeze to death?\" he said.\n\nUN human rights chief Volker Turk called on US authorities to end the \"harmful treatment of migrants and refugees.\"\n\nArias, the father of the boy, was at a Texas detention facility, according to an ICE database that does not list the whereabouts of under-18s.\n\n'Experts in dealing with children'\n\nBorder Patrol senior official Gregory Bovino defended his officers' treatment of Ramos, telling reporters on Friday: \"I\u00a0will say unequivocally that we\u00a0are experts in dealing with children.\"\n\nICE commander Marcos Charles said \"my officers did everything they could to reunite him with his family\" and alleged that the family refused to open the door to him after his father left him and ran from officers.\n\nThey would be detained \"pending their immigration proceedings\", he added, after alleging they entered the United States illegally and were \"deportable.\"\n\nRamos' teacher, whose name was given as Ella, called him \"a bright young student\".\n\nIn Minneapolis, where temperatures touched -23C on Friday, protesters wrapped in hats, gloves and scarves chanted \"ICE out\" as part of a broader anti-ICE day of action.\n\nSeparately, protesters picketed outside Minneapolis-St Paul airport over the facility's use for deporting those swept up in immigration raids.\n\nMethodist pastor Mariah Furness Tollgaard said in a statement that 100 members of clergy were arrested while demonstrating at the airport.\n\n\"As a faith leader in Minnesota, my tradition teaches that every person bears the image of God and is worthy of dignity and safety, and in this moment, all people of faith and moral conscience must stand up,\" she said.\n\nThey were issued misdemeanour citations of trespassing and failure to comply with a peace officer before being released, a Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesperson said.\n\n'Just a baby'\n\nFormer US vice president Kamala Harris said she was \"outraged\" by Ramos' detention and called him \"just a baby\".\n\nHe is one of at least four children detained in the same Minneapolis school district this month, administrators said.\n\nMinneapolis has been rocked by increasingly tense protests since federal agents shot and killed US citizen Renee Good on 7 January.\n\nAn autopsy concluded that the killing was a homicide, a classification that does not automatically mean a crime was committed.\n\nThe officer who fired the shots that killed Good, Jonathan Ross, has neither been suspended nor charged.\n\nMarc Prokosch, the lawyer for Ramos and his father, said they followed the law in applying for asylum in Minneapolis, a sanctuary city where police do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.\n\nMinnesota has sought a temporary restraining order for the ICE operation in the state which, if granted by a federal judge, would pause the sweeps. There will be a hearing on the application Monday.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Thousands of people took to the cold and icy streets of Minneapolis on Friday to protest against the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Democratic-led city, as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown continues.<\/p>\n<p>Across Minnesota, eateries, attraction sites and other businesses shuttered as part of a day of coordinated action to defy the weeks-long federal immigration operation underway in the state over the past few weeks. Organisers said the number of buisinesses that closed in solidarity with the movement numbered around 700.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a separate protest outside Minneapolis-St Paul airport over the facility's use for deportations led to the arrest of 100 members of the clergy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//47//82//808x539_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg/" alt=\"People protest against Federal immigration agents on Friday, 23 Jan 2026, in Minneapolis.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/384x256_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/640x427_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/750x500_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/828x552_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/1080x720_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/1200x800_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/1920x1280_cmsv2_50f2a4ca-6b67-537b-b24b-60ef79261a09-9624782.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People protest against Federal immigration agents on Friday, 23 Jan 2026, in Minneapolis.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Angelina Katsanis<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The protests took place days after images emerged of an apparently terrified pre-schooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, being held by immigration officers who were seeking to arrest the boy's father. The images rekindled public outrage at the federal crackdown, during which an agent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//08//woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-officer-during-minneapolis-immigration-raid/">shot and killed a US citizen<\/a> on 7 January.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, where the boy was a preschool student, said the child and his Ecuadoran father, Adrian Conejo Arias - both asylum seekers - were taken from their driveway as they arrived home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The child was then used as \"bait\" by officers to draw out those inside his home, superintendent Zena Stenvik added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//07//angry-protesters-throw-snowballs-after-us-immigration-officer-kills-driver-in-minneapolis/">Angry protesters throw snowballs after US immigration officer kills driver in Minneapolis<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2026//01//14//us-suspends-immigrant-visa-processing-for-nationals-of-75-countries-white-house-says/">US suspends immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries, White House says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>One protester, who declined to be named, told news agencies he was marching \"because if we don't fight, we don't win. If we don't fight, fascism wins.\"<\/p>\n<p>He held a sign reading \"five-years-old, dude,\" a reference to Liam Conejo Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the Democratic-led city, as US President Donald Trump presses his campaign to deport undocumented immigrants across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to Minneapolis on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance confirmed the five-year-old was among those detained. But he argued that agents were protecting him after his father \"ran\" from officers.<\/p>\n<p>\"What are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child freeze to death?\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>UN human rights chief Volker Turk called on US authorities to end the \"harmful treatment of migrants and refugees.\"<\/p>\n<p>Arias, the father of the boy, was at a Texas detention facility, according to an ICE database that does not list the whereabouts of under-18s.<\/p>\n<h2>'Experts in dealing with children'<\/h2>\n<p>Border Patrol senior official Gregory Bovino defended his officers' treatment of Ramos, telling reporters on Friday: \"I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children.\"<\/p>\n<p>ICE commander Marcos Charles said \"my officers did everything they could to reunite him with his family\" and alleged that the family refused to open the door to him after his father left him and ran from officers.<\/p>\n<p>They would be detained \"pending their immigration proceedings\", he added, after alleging they entered the United States illegally and were \"deportable.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ramos' teacher, whose name was given as Ella, called him \"a bright young student\".<\/p>\n<p>In Minneapolis, where temperatures touched -23C on Friday, protesters wrapped in hats, gloves and scarves chanted \"ICE out\" as part of a broader anti-ICE day of action.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, protesters picketed outside Minneapolis-St Paul airport over the facility's use for deporting those swept up in immigration raids.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//62//47//82//808x539_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg/" alt=\"Clergy members and community activists gather at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, to protest deportation flights on Friday, 23 Jan 2026.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/384x256_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/640x427_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/750x500_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/828x552_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/1080x720_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/62\/47\/82\/1200x800_cmsv2_47fd21a6-bef8-5200-8d62-f8356d9d2aa8-9624782.jpg 1200w, 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