Skip to main content. India has together with the US identified some 18, illegal Indian migrants in the US and is willing to repatriate them to avoid a trade war, some , illegal Indian immigrants resided in the US in according to a US Department of Homeland Security report. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz comments on Elon Musk's hand gesture during Donald Trump's inauguration by saying that there is freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany even for billionaires but that supporting extreme-right positions is not accepted, Musk who previously criticized Scholz after the Magdeburg Christmas market terror attack posts "Shame on Oaf Schitz" on X.
US withdraws from the World Health Organization due to its mishandling of the Covid pandemic and other global health crises as well as the unfairly onerous payments where the US contributes nearly ten times as much as China. Joe Biden announces USD 2. US airstrike in southern Somalia kills two Al-Shabaab members of which one top commander Mohamed Mire Jama, the strike was conducted in coordination with Somalia's federal government.
Miscellaneous Japan Post stops delivering live reptiles, says shipping animals in an environment where temperature control and food are unavailable can amount to animal abuse, deliveries of mammals and birds already banned. Cook County Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman reassigned to receive implicit bias training and may be disciplined after sending an AI generated meme showing a toy box where a black boy is wearing "My First Ankle Monitor".
David Lynch dead at 78 in emphysema, directed Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive as well as many other mainly surreal movies, also avidly practiced transcendental meditation and set up the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace.
Richard Dawkins steps down from the board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation after censoring of article pointing out that sex is immutable and biological, accuses the organization of caving to the hysterical squeals of cancel culture, Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker also leave the organization criticizing it of quasi-religion including dogma and blasphemy.
