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The Economist Today A Sunday edition of our daily newsletter

Roger McShane US digital editor

In the hours after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday, officials from the Department of Homeland Security offered an account that conflicted with available video evidence. The Trump administration’s misleading and hyperbolic rhetoric has been a feature of its siege of Minneapolis, a notional campaign of immigration enforcement whose larger and transparent purpose has been provocation and political theatre.

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Jeg har ikke tall på antallet høyere offiserer som har fått sparken på grunn av "Loss of Confidence". Det går mot Hitler-tilstander i USA, altså; Jeg alene vite. Men det er veldig mange ting nå som vi ser likner på 1938 med bruk av Gestapo, her kalt ICE. (Red.). 

Navy fires commodore of First Naval Construction Regiment

Stars and Stripes • January 25, 2026

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Navy Capt. Douglas B. Whimpey issues remarks at the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum on Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., in September 2023. Whimpey has been relieved of his duties the commodore of the First Naval Construction Regiment. (Christopher Okula/U.S. Navy)

The Navy has relieved the commodore of the First Naval Construction Regiment of his duties, the service said Friday.

Capt. Douglas Whimpey, a Navy reservist, was relieved “due to loss of confidence in his ability to command.”