Two distinguished Church leaders in Nigeria have offered contrasting interpretations of the impact of the U.S. strikes targeting ISIS in Nigeria on Christmas Day 2025. Differing perspectivesOne month after those strikes were carried out, two leading Catholics in Nigeria spoke positively of the strikes, but offered different views of their impact. Father Patrick Alumuku, Director of Catholic Television of Nigeria, told CWR that U.S. strikes were “a providential and decisive turning point,” directly crediting them with improved security for Nigeria’s Christians. Both leaders agree that a simple change in the presidential ticket will not be enough to guarantee the safety of Christians. “It is the government that is fanning the embers of Christian persecution in Nigeria,” Umeagbalasi told CWR.

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Stores closed, bus service shut down early, and at least one hospital issued a call for volunteers to bring in staff if needed. On Sunday morning, dog owners decked their pups out in elaborate winter outfits and braved the freezing temperatures to play in the snow. At National, as of 8 p.m., the combination of at least 5.3 inches of snow, along with sleet and freezing rain, amounted to 2.06 inches of liquid precipitation. Gischlar cautioned that the combination of sleet and freezing temperatures would make roads more dangerous throughout the evening. The shift from snow to sleet also made the prospect of shoveling the snow a bit more daunting.

All six people on a Paris-bound private jet that crashed in Bangor, Maine, while attempting to depart in a snowstorm on Sunday are presumed dead, airport officials said. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe Bangor International Airport will remain closed until at least noon Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the airport. Open-source flight tracking data from ADS-B Exchange shows the private jet departed Houston’s Hobby Airport around 2:20 p.m. CST and arrived at Bangor International Airport around 6:10 p.m. EST. The private jet was cleared by Bangor controllers for a trans-Atlantic flight to Paris-Vatry Airport in France, according to air traffic control recordings archived by LiveATC.net,Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe plane taxied to a designated area at Bangor International Airport for deicing. However, Jose Saavedra, the Bangor airport director, told reporters at a news conference Monday the NTSB said its expects to “have a team of investigators on site” later in the afternoon.

Tim Walz, setting aside his long-running feud with the Democrat to push for greater coordination and weigh potentially pulling at least some federal agents out of the state. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a news briefing on January 26. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesBut Leavitt still faulted Democrats and local protesters for creating the combustible environment that led to federal agents shooting Renee Good earlier this month, and now Pretti. Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, looks on as he speaks to the media outside the White House on January 14. The White House has indicated that it wants greater cooperation from state and local officials in deporting undocumented immigrants.

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A U.S. aircraft carrier and several additional warships reached the Middle East on Monday, defense officials said, as President Donald Trump and his advisers weigh potential military strikes on Iran following the recent killing of thousands of Iranian civilians in protests. The current official said they won’t all be there for at least another week, providing Trump with a full range of options. Ask The Post AIDive deeperThe carrier strike group is led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is carrying dozens of fighter jets and nearly 5,000 sailors. Ask The Post AIDive deeperNo U.S. aircraft carrier has been in the Middle East since October, when the USS Nimitz departed the region. The Pentagon has since continued to build up forces in the Middle East.

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The Russian military said at the time that the crew of the warship was evacuated, although it later admitted some were missing. According to an independent Russian news outlet Mediazona, a military court in Moscow last week inadvertently corrected the Kremlin’s official narrative. Irina Zhirnova, the spokesperson for the 2nd Western District Military Court, which would have issued the now-deleted statement, said there would be no comment. The Russian military did not respond to CNN’s request. Tightly controlled narrativeThe backtracking on the statement by the court is just the latest propaganda fail by Russian authorities.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Sunday accused President Donald Trump and top officials of his administration of putting out a “flat-out insane” narrative regarding the shooting death of a Minneapolis man during an encounter with federal immigration agents. “Unlike other folks who are not in the chain of prosecution or defense, they are. The first of what appear to have been as many as 10 shots was fired less than a second later, the video shows. “They want to say, oh, this has to do with fraud,” Ellison said, referring to an ongoing scandal involving members of the Somali American community. “Well, you don’t stop fraud with a gun and a mask and a violent man who wants to hurt someone.”

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Two main reasons: 1) Congress made a number of new and expanded tax breaks effective for tax year 2025; and 2) most people did not adjust the tax withholding on their paychecks last year to account for the changes in their tax breaks. Your tax liability for 2025 went down because of changes to the tax law, but your tax payments didn’t, he explained. A larger standard deduction: The standard deduction is taken by the vast majority of filers. You may be seeing a little more in your paychecks already, because the IRS income tax withholding tables for 2026 have been adjusted, according to the Treasury. And those tables should account for all the tax breaks in effect for this year.