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Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new hypersonic missile it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable.

Ukraine's security service said it considered the use of the missile a war crime.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media that a Russian drone hit the Qatar embassy. He noted that Qatar has played a key role in mediating the exchange of prisoners of war.

The intense barrage and the launching of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile came days after Ukraine and its allies reported major progress toward agreeing on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a peace deal is struck to end Russia's almost 4-year-old invasion.

Months of U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to stop the fighting, however. Zelenskyy says he has made significant progress on the terms of a possible peace settlement in talks with Washington envoys. But Moscow has given no public signal it is willing to budge from its demands.

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A Maryland woman has been released and reunited with her family after spending 25 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody – despite her attorneys saying documentation showed she was born in the US and therefore is a citizen.

Dulce Consuelo Díaz Morales and her legal team maintain she was born in the US and possess records supporting that claim. ICE, however, had disputed this, asserting she is a Mexican citizen who entered the US unlawfully.

According to Díaz Morales, ICE agents detained her near her home on 14 December while her family watched. She told the DC, Maryland and Virginia news outlet WRC-TV that she attempted to explain she was born in Maryland – but said authorities did not accept her explanation. She added that her faith and the hope of reuniting with her family helped her endure the detention.

Díaz Morales said she lived in Mexico starting at age seven and returned to the US more than a year and a half ago. She believes confusion arose because she used her mother’s last name while living in Mexico, whereas US records list both her father’s and mother’s last names.

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A pair of fatal shootings by NYPD officers on Thursday brought fresh attention to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to create a new Department of Community Safety which would deploy civilian workers to people having mental health emergencies in place of cops.

Both of the victims killed by police Thursday showed signs they had mental health issues, but NYPD officials said each situation escalated to the point where the officers at each scene used deadly force.

In the first incident, police shot and killed a man who was reportedly wielding a piece of a broken toilet inside Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope around 5:30 p.m. Police said he barricaded himself in a room and attempted to harm an elderly patient and a member of the hospital’s security staff. Roughly five hours later in the West Village, police shot and killed a man who pointed a fake gun at them.

“ Last night, officers were placed in incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances. The actions they took, they responded swiftly,” Mamdani said at an unrelated press event in Brooklyn Friday morning. "I will always emphasize, when someone has been killed, the need for a thorough investigation — as is our current process — and we are going to work to ensure the safety of both officers and New Yorkers at large.”

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Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed Friday that Moncada and Zambrano-Contreras do appear to have connections to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that began in a prison and has since expanded internationally. “They do have some nexus to involvement with TdA,” Day said. “We can confirm that.”

Day said a “self-identified Venezuelan immigrant” who was the victim of a July shooting told police the suspects were members of the gang. He did not name Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras as a suspect in the July shooting, or offer further details about how the two were involved. Day also said that ZambrMore...ano-Contreras had been cited for prostitution in Washington County, and that Moncada was on hand when police served a warrant in that case.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released the identities of two Venezuelan nationals shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland Thursday afternoon. They’re identified as Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras.

DHS said in a statement that the pair are affiliated with the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela and had criminal histories in the U.S.

OPB could not immediately confirm the allegations.

The Portland Police Bureau had no comment on the federal government’s allegations. As of Friday morning, no federal charges had been filed against Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras.

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President Donald Trump on Friday ramped up his rhetoric on Greenland, saying the U.S. will take action to acquire the longtime ally.

“We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

The remarks come days after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump could use the military to “pursue this important foreign policy goal.” That came on the heels of major European allies issuing in a joint statement saying they would “not stop defending” the values of sovereignty and Greenland’s territorial integrity.

Greenland is a semi-autonomous Danish territory that’s strategically important militarily and contains vast mineral wealth. The U.S. already has a military base on the island, and officials there have said they’d accept an expanded military presence.

Asked by a reporter Friday why he hasn’t accepted that offer, Trump said, “When we own it, we defend it. You don’t defend leases the same way. You have to own it.”

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The Washington National Opera announced Friday that it had decided to end its arrangement with the Kennedy Center in the nation’s capital, though it said it was hoping for an “amicable transition.”

“To ensure fiscal prudence and fulfill its obligations for a balanced budget, the WNO will reduce its spring season and relocate performances to new venues,” the Opera said in a statement.

It said the decision stemmed from the Center’s new business model, which “requires productions to be fully funded in advance — a requirement incompatible with opera operations.”

Kennedy Center spokesperst incompatible with opera operations.”on Roma Daravi told The New York Times, “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with the WNO due to a financially challenging relationship.

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A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting needy children and their families from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now.

The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze funds for three grant programs is having an immediate impact on them and creating “operational chaos.” In court filings and a hearing earlier Friday, the states contended that the government did not have a legal reason for holding back the money from those states.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it was pausing the funding because it had “reason to believe” the states were granting benefits to people in the country illegally, though it did not provide evidence or explain why it was targeting those states and not others.

The programs are the Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes child care for children from low-income families; the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance and job training; and the Social Services Block Grant, a smaller fund that provides money for a variety of programs.

The five states say they receive a total of more than $10 billion a year from the programs.

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Three Israelis were arrested after settlers wounded at least two people and set fire to cars at a Palestinian factory near Nablus in the West Bank earlier today, according to Israeli security forces and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

The IDF and Israel Police say in a joint statement that two Palestinians were hospitalized in moderate condition as a result of the attack.

According to the Red Crescent, three people were wounded in the attack on the al-Junaida dairy factory in the village of Deir Sharaf, including a 65-year-old man whose hand was broken. A 50-year-old and a 48-year-old man were also hospitalized with bruises to their bodies.

The Israeli forces say that they arrested three suspects at the entrance to the settlement of Shavei Shomron in the northern West Bank after receiving a report that “extremists” in the area set fire to four cars and assaulted Palestinians, including one who was inside one of the cars.

The suspects were taken for questioning at the Ariel police station, the joint statement says, adding that the IDF, Border Police and the Shin Bet are continuing searches in the area and investigating the incident.

TVNL Comment: No settlers are EVER held responsible for their crimes. Not ever.

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