Across the Country; in MN, sustained anti-ICE riots escalated with National Guard deployments, autonomous zones, church disruptions, assaults on federal officers, and coordinated pressure campaigns by businesses all as government opposing forces declared a limited victory following a partial BP withdrawal and a pending agreement for state leaders to hand over immigrants criminals, in local LE detainment, to federal agents.; in OR, two Portland Police Bureau officers were shot and wounded during a domestic threat response as separate anti-ICE protests escalated at ICE facilities; in PA, armed members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense appeared at an anti-ICE protest outside Philadelphia City Hall; in VA, competing pro-2A and gun-control rallies converged at the State Capitol during Lobby Day as lawmakers debated new firearms taxes and restrictions; across more than 20 states, a major winter storm caused widespread power outages affecting roughly 1 million customers at peak, significant travel disruptions, and at least 18 deaths. On a national level, cybersecurity risks increased following a Chinese state-linked compromise of U.S. congressional email systems, a nationwide Verizon wireless outage, and expanded targeting of industrial control systems tied to geopolitical tensions; internationally, protests in Greenland and across Denmark, combined with European warnings over threatened U.S. tariffs, signaled an escalating sovereignty and trade standoff.
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