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Behind the scenes of Shen Yun

January 25, 2026 / 10:27 AM EST / CBS News

Deep in the woods of New York State, behind guarded gates, lies a vision of ancient China reborn – a private sanctuary called Dragon Springs, 400 acres where faith and art share the same stage. It is the creative center of Shen Yun, the epic stage production of Chinese history, legends, and politics.

“We are putting on stage the tyranny of the CCP,” said Ying Chen, a vice president and conductor with Shen Yun.

The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, calls the group behind Shen Yun an evil cult. Known as Falun Gong, it’s a spiritual movement rooted in Buddhism. In 1992, founder Li Hongzhi started teaching Falun Gong’s meditation exercises, which spread quickly throughout China.

And Beijing responded. In 1999, China banned the religious group, referring to it as “public enemy number one” for challenging communist rule.

Ying Chen says practitioners were imprisoned and tortured, including her own family. “My mom and my brother was sent to a labor camp,” she said, “and he endured 18 months of agony, and his survival was a fragile miracle. He was literally tortured every single day.”

Founder Li Hongzhi settled in the U.S., and in 2006 launched Shen Yun. It would ask much of his followers, including Jeff Sun and Ashley Cheng, who both grew up in Falun Gong families. “Li Hongzhi made it quite clear that Shen Yun was the highest form of how practitioners can support the movement,” said Cheng.

Their parents had sent them in the late 2000s to a boarding school at Dragon Springs where young performers train for Shen Yun. We spoke with Sun and Cheng, now married, from their home in New Zealand.

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A rehearsal of the dance troupe Shen Yun. CBS News

“The entire community I grew up in was very proud of me,” Cheng said. “They thought it was a great honor to live with Li Hongzhi in that compound.

Sun said attending Shen Yun was “as if, like, I made it to Harvard.”

He was 15, she was 13 … nearly 9,000 miles from home. According to Cheng, “Everything was very isolated, and our main job is to dance.”

Regarding contact with the world outside Dragon Springs, Cheng said that, if their parents asked any questions, “we had to tell that we were happy, that Master (which is Li Hongzhi) was taking great care of us.”

The reality, Sun and Cheng claim, was they were part of a group of child laborers living in constant fear.

“I was in survival mode,” said Cheng. “It’s about not exceeding 100 pounds every day. It’s about following the footsteps of the person in front of me so I don’t get yelled out of line.”

Dragon Springs, located on 400 acres in Orange County, New York, is home to Shen Yun. CBS News

Sun said, “There’s no one we can talk to. The adults there who are your educators, [are] also your persecutors. You want to speak how you feel to them but the next day you get told that you’re thinking different to everybody else, that you are the problem.”

That was the weight of the mind. The body, they say, would bear its own. “Two kids kind of pushed my legs open in the side split, and it was the most amount of pain I’d ever experienced, ever,” Sun said. “I had internal bleeding. My entire inside of my leg, both legs, was purple. But every day I still had to do the same thing.”

Cheng said, “My shoulder was stretched for [an] abnormal amount of time once, and I lost all feeling in it. So, I had issues, from showering to going to the bathroom.”

She said, when telling her instructors about her injuries, “I was faced with an eye roll. I have not had or seen a single pill of medicine during my entire duration.”

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A scene from a production of Shen Yun. Shen Yun

Sun and Cheng are part of a growing group of former dancers contending that medical care was discouraged, a belief they say is rooted in Falun Gong teachings. “Any injury that you have, if you mention that you want to go the hospital, or if you wanted help, it will be denied,” Cheng said. “And it will be quickly, very quickly associated to, ‘You got injured because you disobeyed Li Hongzhi … It is your fault.’”

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Ashley Cheng and Jeff Sun, former members of Shen Yun. CBS News

In 2015 they were kicked out of Shen Yun. Last spring they sued, one of two federal lawsuits against the performance group alleging forced labor.

Describing his time with Shen Yun, Sun said, “Every time I think about what happened to me, it kinda breaks me apart, you know? And nobody deserves this. I mean, we’re all kids, you know? We wanted to impress our parents. We wanted to do what we thought was right.”

“Sunday Morning” asked Shen Yun about these allegations – and they invited us into Dragon Springs, where spokeswoman Ying Chen showed us around.

We observed young men and women in total quiet. “It’s a little bit like praying,” said Chen. “We settle down our minds and try to purge distracting thoughts, and just stay really focused.”

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Young Falun Gong members at Dragon Springs. CBS News

As to why men and women were sitting on opposite sides of the room, Chen said, “We have very conservative values in the school. So, we usually keep them separate.”

Asked why Shen Yun invited the media into Dragon Springs – which they have not done until now – Chen said, “I think part of it is because they talk about a compound. Does it look like a compound? I think it’s true that we work hard. This is a place that provides top-level dance training, and also it’s a faith-based community.”

Asked to respond to plaintiffs’ accusation that they were denied medical attention they may have needed, Chen replied, “I cannot speak to what they went through. But I just find it very shocking and very different from the practice here and our policies here.”

Regarding the suggestion that the Chinese government is behind the lawsuits, Chen said, “These lawsuits emerge at a time when Beijing escalated its global campaign against Shen Yun. It’s really hard to see it as a mere coincidence.”

And just this month, the Chinese Embassy called Shen Yun “a cult’s propaganda,” using “culture as cover” to “deliver indoctrination.”

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Shen Yun dancer Shindy Cai. Shen Yun

Shen Yun company members Regina Dong, Shindy Cai, and Piotr Huang were also sent as teenagers to Dragon Springs.

Dong said, “The CCP has been trying to sabotage us since Day One. We’ve got death threats, bomb threats. And this tactic that they’re using now is very similar to what they were using to persecute Falun Gong.”

Huang said his parents did not pressure him to come to Dragon Springs: “Not at all. Now, if they came and tried to drag me away, I wouldn’t go.”

He says he has access to medical attention. “When I was having pain in my Achilles a few years back, my company manager, she gave me the contact to our doctor. I had an MRI done.” Huang said he got instructions from the doctor on what to do going forward.

Cai, however, said she never gets sick, and believes her faith has protected her: “I actually do think so, because I almost find it strange sometimes. I’m like, you know, usually I’m supposed to come down with, like, a flu, but never. And I think a lot of it has to do with the energy.”

For Jeff Sun and Ashley Cheng, they returned to New Zealand, and no longer practice Falun Gong.

Asked to respond to Shen Yun describing them as “disgruntled performers,” Cheng replied, “Yes, we are disgruntled. What happened to us was not our fault. We were children. And we’ve been living with the shame. And I don’t want to live with it for the rest of my life.”

New York’s Department of Labor is now looking into Shen Yun’s working conditions and child labor practices, just as the show’s 20th season goes on tour.

Each year is a new show, but the final scene is always the same: a Chinese city on the edge of destruction until the deus ex machina – a mystical being resembling Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi – descends from the heavens to save the world.

But for now, the story of Shen Yun seems neither so simple, nor perhaps so sacred.

Trump administration defends killing American in Minneapolis, contradicts videos

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MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration defended on Sunday the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by immigration agents in Minneapolis, even as video evidence contradicted their version of events and as tensions grew between local law enforcement and federal officers.

As residents visited a makeshift shrine of flowers and candles in frigid temperatures and snow to mark Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, Trump administration officials stated that Pretti assaulted officers, compelling them to fire in self-defense. That account was at odds with videos recorded by bystanders.

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Pretti is the second American to be fatally shot by federal immigration officers this month in Minneapolis, where Trump, a Republican, has deployed thousands of armed and masked agents in a deportation effort with little precedent.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, again called on Trump to pull federal agents out of the state, which has asked a federal judge to restrain what it says are unconstitutional excesses in Trump’s surge.

“The victims are Border Patrol agents,” Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

That official line, echoed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other members of the administration, drew outrage from local Democratic leaders and law enforcement and Democrats in the U.S. Congress, who pointed to the bystander videos that show all Pretti had in his hands was a cellphone before agents grappled him to the ground and ultimately shot him at close range.

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Federal agents over the past few weeks have been met by countless angry residents protesting in the city’s icy streets, some of them blowing whistles. Thousands of people again filled the streets of Minneapolis on Sunday to protest against the surge in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, chanting and waving signs saying: “ICE OUT!”

HOLDING A PHONE, NOT A GUN

Videos of Saturday’s killing verified by Reuters show Pretti, 37, holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, as he tries to help other protesters who had been pushed to the ground by agents.

Pretti can be seen filming while a federal agent pushes away one woman and shoves another woman to the ground. Pretti moves between the agent and the women, then raises his left arm to shield himself as the agent pepper sprays him.

Several agents then take hold of Pretti, who struggles with them, and force him onto his hands and knees. As the agents pin Pretti down, someone shouts what sounds like a warning about a gun.

Video footage then appears to show one of the agents removing a handgun from Pretti’s waistband area and stepping away from the group with it.

Moments later, an officer points his gun at Pretti’s back and fires four shots in quick succession. More shots are heard as another agent appears to fire at Pretti.

Darius Reeves, the former head of ICE’s field office in Baltimore, told Reuters that federal agents’ apparent lack of communication was troubling. “It’s clear no one is communicating to me, based on my observation of how that team responded,” Reeves said.

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Minnesota officials say Pretti had a valid state permit to carry a concealed gun in public, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled was a constitutional right in 2022.

‘VIDEOS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES’

Brian O’Hara, the Minneapolis police chief, told the CBS “Face the Nation” program that “the videos speak for themselves,” calling the Trump administration’s version of events deeply disturbing. He said he had seen no evidence that Pretti brandished a gun.

Tensions in the city were already running high after a federal immigration agent fatally shot U.S. citizen Renee Good on January 7 after approaching her in her parked vehicle. Trump officials said she was trying to ram the agent with the vehicle but other observers said bystander video suggests she was attempting to steer away from the officer who shot her.

State and local law enforcement are investigating whether the agent who killed Good broke any Minnesota laws. The U.S. Justice Department withdrew its cooperation from that probe, and at least a dozen federal prosecutors said they were resigning over the Justice Department’s handling of Good’s killing.

At Minnesota’s request, a federal judge issued a temporary order on Saturday night forbidding the Trump administration from destroying or altering evidence related to Pretti’s killing.

Chief executives of some of Minnesota’s largest companies, including Target, Cargill and Best Buy, published a letter calling for the “immediate de-escalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions.”

In separate statements, former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton decried the killings of Good and Pretti, with Clinton accusing the Trump administration of lying and Obama saying American values are under assault.

“This has to stop,” Barack and Michelle Obama said.

Pretti worked as an intensive care nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital. On Sunday, more than 200 healthcare workers gathered at the site of his killing, leaving flowers and other tributes. One woman in medical scrubs, when asked what brought her out, said she had worked with Pretti and began to sob.

“He was caring and he was kind,” she said, asking not to be named for fear of retribution from the federal government. “None of this makes any sense.”

At a Sunday press conference, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison recounted a story that he said was from his 31-year-old son, a nurse in Minnesota’s healthcare system.

“When he was at work today and last night, he said, ‘Look, our colleagues were crying and in tears, and they took this hit to one of their own very personally,’” Ellison told reporters.

Trump has defended the operations as necessary to reduce crime and enforce immigration laws.

Reporting by Brad Brooks, Tim Reid, Tom Polansek, Brad Heath and Doina Chiacu; Writing by Tim Reid and Jonathan Allen; Editing by Sergio Non, Nick Zieminski, Edmund Klamann, Diane Craft and David Gregorio

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JOSH HAMMER: Case against Israel cheapens the word ‘genocide’

ICJ genocide cases involving Myanmar and Israel threaten to weaken international law definition

By Josh Hammer
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Published January 25, 2026 6:10am EST

The horrific regime slaughter in Iran and President Trump’s aggressive campaign to acquire Greenland have resulted in the neglect of a major case now underway at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The ICJ last week began hearings brought by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the Rohingya people — about 1.4 million of whom live in Myanmar. Several other states have intervened in support of Gambia, which has presented the court with evidence it contends proves that Myanmar’s military forces committed a genocide against the Rohingya population. Myanmar vehemently denies the allegation.

While this case does not concern Israel directly, the ICJ’s determinations may have major ramifications for the case Israel is now defending at the tribunal against South Africa.

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Netanyahu praised Trump as Israel’s “greatest friend” in Knesset speech.(Evan Vucci/Pool via Reuters)

This is especially true since one of the judges hand-picked by Gambia to sit on its ICJ panel is South African national Navi Pillay. That would be the same Navi Pillay who recently rushed to publish a report accusing Israel of genocide before retiring as head of the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry — a panel widely criticized for its flagrant institutional bias against Israel and the anti-Semitic remarks of its members.

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In reality, South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is riddled with flaws. It is also pushing to redefine a term that been held sacrosanct since the end of World War II.

The term “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who in 1944 strived for its incorporation into modern international law. That occurred in 1948 via the UN Genocide Convention.

The prohibition on genocide is considered a jus cogens norm — that is, a non-derogable rule accepted by all of the first-world community with no exceptions. The definition of “genocide” requires no law degree to understand, and it should never, ever be politicized.

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For a genocide to take place under Geneva, there must be acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.” The phrase “intent” here is of paramount importance.

South Africa’s pending case before the ICJ alleges Israeli intent to destroy the Palestinian-Arab population of Gaza. Israel, by contrast, (correctly) maintains that its recent actions in Gaza have been a just and proper military response to the war of annihilationist jihad and unspeakable atrocities launched against it by the Hamas terrorist organization on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Public awareness campaign by the Israeli government on Oct. 7 in the streets of New York ahead of Netanyahu’s U.N. speech.(Fox News Digital)

Israel’s “intent” is to free Gaza from Hamas, to return hostages abducted and held by Hamas, and to ensure Hamas has no future role in Gaza and cannot undertake another October 7-style massacre. It repeatedly offered to end the war if Hamas laid down its arms and released all hostages.

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Hamas, on the other hand, has shown a complete disregard for human life and has openly stated that its sacrifice of Gazan civilians is a cynical strategic necessity to turn public opinion against Israel. It has for years embedded military infrastructure within Gazan civilian infrastructure — schools, hospitals, UN facilities, mosques, and children’s bedrooms. Israel has waged a defensive campaign in one of the most complex operational environments of any modern war.

At the same time, it has worked with states and NGOs to allow and facilitate extensive amounts of humanitarian aid, rebuilt water supplies, coordinated the vaccination of young Gazans against polio, and helped coordinate and approve the evacuation of those in need of urgent medical care.

Israel repeatedly provides advanced warnings of impending military strikes and has held off strikes where intelligence of nearby civilians has come to light. For a fighting party to so often relinquish the element of surprise to reduce harm to the local civilian population of its enemy is extraordinary.

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None of this constitutes a “genocide” — and clearly shows the lack of any intent by Israel to destroy the local Palestinian-Arab population in Gaza.

Nonetheless, since South Africa brought its case before the ICJ, numerous groups and states have leapt at the opportunity to join in on the anti-Israel campaign. This has ranged from tendentious so-called online genocide scholars to anti-Semitic mobs to deeply politicized NGOs. Amnesty International, for instance, shamelessly waited more than two years before publishing a report focusing on Hamas’ crimes on Oct. 7, while straining to remind readers of its slanderous accusation of genocide made against Israel a year prior.

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College campuses are getting ready for an influx of new anti-Israel protests with the anniversary of October 7 fast approaching.(CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP/ Leon Neal via Getty)

Together, they have all been involved in a campaign to redefine the term “genocide” to suit their narrative — all while ignoring the reality of Hamas’ own Nazi-esque barbarism.

The politically motivated efforts to undermine the concept should be of grave concern to us all. If successful, it will result in the ICJ’s further self-discrediting as an institution of political point scoring, rather than meaningful justice.

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Israel has legitimately responded to genocidal attacks by a terrorist organization that has repeatedly called for its entire annihilation and the murder of all global Jewry — something it broadcast live to the world on Oct. 7, 2023.

The term “genocide” is one too important to be cheapened. Those pushing for its redefinition must be stopped in their tracks.

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A conversation with Josh Shapiro on a life of service and faith

January 25, 2026 / 10:02 AM EST / CBS News

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says it’s special to visit his longtime congregation, Beth Sholom Synagogue, in the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park, which he’s attended since he was young. He grew up coming here with his parents. His father, a pediatrician, and his mother, a teacher and activist, inspired him into a life of service.

But we learned it was also his mom’s struggles with mental health that may have had the most impact on Shapiro. “There were moments where a switch could be flipped, and there’d be a lot of yelling and a lot of chaos and a lot of tumult in the house,” he said. “And you would just want to retreat to your room and try and escape it all.”

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In his new memoir, “Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service” (to be published Tuesday by HarperCollins), the 52-year-old governor details his childhood and his decades-long career.

Shapiro writes that he had a happy childhood, and at points an unhappy childhood home – something he’s never spoken about publicly. “I wanted to share that, in part, because I know there’s a lot of other families out there that go through this kind of stuff,” he said. “But in part, I want my mom to know that for as difficult as our childhood was at times, for as difficult as I imagine hers was, you know, she really set me on this path of service in a way that, you know, I hope she sees some of herself in, and I hope she takes pride in.”

Hard conversations

The memoir begins with a deeply personal recounting of the arson attack on the governor’s official residence in April 2025, while Shapiro and his family slept upstairs, hours after conducting a Passover seder.

His son, Ruben, asked if someone tried to kill their family because they were Jewish.

Shapiro said that conversation was really hard: “We had to have some honest, tough conversations with our kids about what political violence is all about, and how it’s designed to maybe target one person, but affect a broader swath of people based on a particular characteristic, perhaps in this case, our faith. And look, it’s a hard thing for a parent to have that kind of conversation with their kids when they know in this business, they can’t necessarily guarantee that level of safety.

“What I really hope for every day is that kids stop having to worry about that — not just my kids, but all people have to stop worrying that violence is gonna come to their community because of something they believe, or who they voted for, how they pray, who they love,” he said.

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The arson attack occurred less than a year after Donald Trump, campaigning for president in Shapiro’s state, had nearly been assassinated. I asked if political violence has changed how he carries out his work.

“I think political violence has gotten worse in this country since Butler,” Shapiro replied. “And I think it is only gonna get better when all politicians, all people condemn it universally, no matter who’s the target of it, and no matter who carries it out. I don’t care if you’re a left-wing ideology, right-wing ideology; it should not be hard for us to say that it is all wrong.”

A new generation of the Democratic Party

This year, Shapiro is in the middle of a re-election campaign, but he’s also considered a top contender to represent the Democratic Party in 2028.

We asked if the Democratic Party today has a clear set of ideals. “I think the Democratic Party has a lot of clear ideals and wonderful values,” Shapiro said. “Otherwise I wouldn’t be a member of this party.”

“Are they articulating in a way, in a national message, that will win elections?” I asked.

“Yeah. I think folks are hoping that there will be one person every day, who’s gonna go out and be the alternative to Donald Trump, or be the voice of the Democratic Party. And that one person certainly does not exist right now,” Shapiro said. “And that’s okay, because there are wonderful Democrats who are governors, who are mayors, who are members of Congress, who are doing really good work every single day. And that work they’re doing, I think, is helping shape and define the new generation of the Democratic Party.”

Right now, Shapiro is watching closely what’s happening in Minneapolis with the president’s immigration crackdown.

“The President claims it’s all about safety,” Shapiro said, adding, “I think what the president’s trying to do is show that he can be the dominant figure, that he can dictate behavior. Whether we’re talking about Minneapolis or Greenland or Venezuela, this president wants to try and show what he believes to be strength that I think is a facade of strength and ultimately a veneer of strength. And ultimately what he’s doing is making people worse off, less safe.”

What Governor Shapiro won’t say is whether he will ultimately run for president himself. “Here’s what I can tell you with absolute certainty: I want to be a part of the dialog that helps shape us going forward into a party that can be one that helps people get a great education, that creates safer communities. I want to help build a Democratic Party that sees us as part of a world order, not going it alone. So yeah, I wanna be a part of shaping that dialog. And then ultimately from that dialogue that we have, there will be people who emerge, who ultimately want to lead that party. And that’s a conversation for another day down the road.”

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• “Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service”by Josh Shapiro (HarperCollins), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available Jan. 27 viaAmazon,Barnes & NobleandBookshop.org
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gov. Josh Shapiro
• Thanks toBeth Sholom Congregation, Elkins Park, Pa.

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Delta operates reduced schedule amid ongoing winter weather

January 25, 2026 4:04 PM UTC / Reuters

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Jan 25 (Reuters) – Delta Air lines [(DAL.N)] said on Sunday it is operating a reduced flight schedule as winter weather continues to affect several U.S. regions, while closely monitoring conditions in the Northeast and at its Atlanta hub.

Due to proactive schedule adjustments, Delta said the current scheduled flying is operating as planned.

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[The winter storm] is disrupting U.S. air travel, prompting airlines to cancel flights, warn of delays, and issue travel waivers as ice, snow, and strong winds sweep across major hubs and regional airports in the South, East, and central parts of the U.S.

Delta on [Saturday] made additional flight cancellations for Atlanta and along the U.S. East Coast, including at its hubs in Boston and New York due to winter storm Fern.

The National Weather Service warned that a mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow could make travel hazardous and cause power outages and tree damage across the Southeast, with heavier snowfall expected farther north as the storm moves up the country.

Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru Editing by Nick Zieminski

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How Gregory Bovino became the face of Trump’s immigration crackdown

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN

Updated Jan 25, 2026, 11:49 AM ET | Published Jan 25, 2026, 7:00 AM ET

US Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino confronts demonstrators outside an immigrant processing center on September 27, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois.

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A year ago, few Americans knew Gregory Bovino’s name. Now he’s the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

And everything from the Border Patrol commander-at-large’s tactics in the field to his wardrobe choices have become lightning rods in a storm with no end in sight.

On the streets of multiple American cities, Bovino – sporting a buzzcut and the Border Patrol’s olive green uniform – has been spotted leading patrols, hurling tear gas canisters and verbally sparring with critics. He often stands out among groups of federal officers as one of the few people not wearing a mask.

On social media, he’s known for sharing photos and cinematic videos that tout Border Patrol agents’ determination to carry out their mission.

And now, his presence at the podium and on screens around the world is becoming more common as he delivers briefings from Minneapolis.

That’s where Bovino stood hours after a Border Patrol officer shot and killed a man in that city Saturday, telling reporters that officers had followed their training when faced with an armed suspect who “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

Critics quickly slammed Bovino’s statement and others from Homeland Security officials, arguing that videos of the shooting show no evidence the man was trying to harm anyone.

But Bovino doubled down on his defense of officers Sunday.

“The fact that they’re highly trained prevented any specific shootings of law enforcement, so good job for our law enforcement in taking him down before he was able to do that,” Bovino told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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‘What evidence do you have?’: Dana Bash presses Bovino on fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

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‘What evidence do you have?’: Dana Bash presses Bovino on fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

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Pressed to provide evidence, Bovino said more details would emerge as authorities investigate and argued that the man was trying to impede officers.

“It’s too bad the consequences had to be paid because he injected himself into that crime scene. I can’t say that enough. He made the decision to go there,” Bovino said.

The Border Patrol official’s account drew sharp criticism Sunday morning from Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy.

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“Everybody saw that video, and yet there he was telling you and telling the American public that this young man was brandishing a weapon, that he was impeding officers, that he was there to attend a riot, that he was engaged in assault, when everyone can see that that’s not true,” Murphy told CNN. “It should freak the American public out that the Trump administration lies this easily, will lie to your face when you can see the evidence for yourself.”

Bovino is no stranger to criticisms of his approach. For months in interviews, court testimony and social media posts, he’s repeatedly defended federal officers’ actions and vowed not to back down.

How Bovino describes his officers’ tactics

In multiple social media posts and interviews, Bovino has repeatedly used a phrase to describe his officers’ tactics.

“He calls them ‘turn and burn,’” CNN contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro says. “They’re very rapid. They’re very aggressive. Break windows, go in, grab people. And the reason he says that he does these tactics is to not put …agents at risk, not to allow protests to develop.”

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Supporters of the administration’s aggressive mass deportation push see Bovino as a hero. But the forceful, unapologetic approach that’s fueled his recent rise to prominence has also drawn fierce criticism from local leaders and protesters in cities his team is targeting.

Officials in several cities have described Bovino as leading a law enforcement agency which deploys tactics that are frighteningly authoritarian and used by the president as a cudgel against Democrat-led communities and the people — citizens and noncitizens alike — who live in them.

“They want mayhem on the ground,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told CNN in October, accusing Bovino and other federal officials of deliberately inflaming tensions. “They want to create the war zone, so that they can send in even more troops.”

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Bovino stands with members of his convoy at a gas station in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, on January 13, 2026 — less than a week after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

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[Heavy-handed tactics], including immigration sweeps in parking lots and smashing car windows, have fueled alarm, including among some in the Trump administration, while also garnering praise from senior Homeland Security officials.

Asked about the aggressive approach that has spurred growing criticism and protests, Bovino has defended his officers.

“You know, folks are free to criticize. They’re free to armchair quarterback. When they don’t walk a mile in the shoes of law enforcement, then they might want to think a second before full-blown criticism. I’ve heard a lot of that,” he told CNN in October. “Our officers act legally, ethically and morally in all law enforcement actions.”

On Sunday, Murphy said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the latest shooting in Minneapolis should spur lawmakers to press for reforms within the Department of Homeland Security before approving its budget.

“People being killed simply for exercising their First Amendment rights is going to be a regular feature in this country. That is dystopian. We shouldn’t allow for it, and that should unite Republicans and Democrats in Congress, because it’s increasingly uniting Republicans and Democrats all around the country who are turning against this just unbelievably lawless way that Bovino and his team are operating in our cities,” he said.

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He’s led high-profile operations in several cities

Bovino’s presence in different cities across the country in recent months has become an unofficial barometer of how intense immigration enforcement is expected to get.

These days, Bovino is a frequent sight on the streets of Minneapolis – bringing what he calls the “Mean Green Team” thousands of miles from the sector along the US-Mexico border where he was stationed before.

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US Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, center, stands with agents in Metairie, Louisiana, on December 3, 2025, amid a federal immigration enforcement operation in the New Orleans area.

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“The [#MeanGreen] is patrolling Minneapolis through the cold, through the snow, and through it all arresting illegal aliens until the mission is accomplished,” Bovino posted Friday on X. “We’re here and we’re making the city safe.”

Originally from North Carolina, Bovino joined the Border Patrol in 1996. His 30-year career has taken him from Washington to New Orleans as well as foreign postings in Honduras and Africa. In 2020 he was named Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Sector of Southern California.

In 2023, Bovino was briefly relieved of command from his position in what House Republicans described as a retaliatory measure after he testified critically about conditions along the border under President Joe Biden’s administration. The Associated Press reported other factors were also at play – including his social-media presence and an online profile picture of him posing with an assault rifle.

He began drawing public attention last summer, when he helped orchestrate the arrests of more than 5,000 immigrants in a Los Angeles operation. Since then, Bovino – who’s in his mid-fifties – has led sweeps in Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and, now, Minneapolis.

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Bovino walks with other agents while conducting an immigration enforcement sweep in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood on November 6, 2025.

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Bovino’s conduct during the Chicago operation drew stern rebukes from a federal judge, who ruled that his descriptions of events weren’t supported by video evidence.

In one video, cited in a federal court case alleging excessive force against protesters in Chicago, the judge ruled that Bovino “obviously tackles” a protester on camera. But in his deposition, Bovino denied he tackled the man. “I’m imploring (him)…to comply with leaving the area to comply with instructions,” Bovino said, adding, “the use of force was against me.”

One recent target of Bovino’s critics: his coat

Lately, another aspect of Bovino’s image is also drawing attention: the long green trench coach he sometimes wears.

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US Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino at CNN’s bureau in Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.

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“Greg Bovino dressed up as if he literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb. Greg Bovino, secret police, private army, masked men, people disappearing quite literally, no due process,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said recently, drawing a comparison to Nazi uniforms.

Bovino says he’s had the jacket for more than 25 years, and got it from the Border Patrol.

“I bought that as a young agent, approximately 1999,” he told News Nation, noting that he was also photographed wearing it for a ceremony during the Biden administration.

That interview, Bovino wrote on social media, “cleared up any misconceptions and highlighted the double standard phenomenon.”

Whatever happens next, there’s little doubt we’ll be seeing more of Bovino – and his coat – on America’s streets.

Slickly produced videos and other social media posts from Bovino’s accounts have also drawn criticism. He says the posts are aimed at increasing transparency.

“This is not agenda-driven. Our social media is designed to give the public … a real-time snapshot of what is really happening,” Bovino told CNN in October.

Among his recent posts, Bovino shared a video clip of his response during a press briefing to a reporter who asked when the surge of federal law enforcement into Minneapolis will end.

“Is there a certain number of people you want to apprehend before you decide to ease the surge?” the reporter asked.

“There is a number,” Bovino said, “and it’s called all of them.”

CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez, Michael Williams, Dianne Gallagher and Zoe Sottile contributed to this report.

Transcript: Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 25, 2026

2026-01-25T11:30:00-0500 / CBS News

Updated on: January 25, 2026 / 12:10 PM EST / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Jan. 25, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We are joined now by the city’s police chief, Brian O’Hara. Chief, welcome to Face the Nation.

MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF, BRIAN O’HARA: Good morning, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: What have you been able to learn about the shooting? Because we did just hear the claims by Secretary Noem and Mr. Bovino and their version of what happened. Do the videos and evidence back up their descriptions?

O’HARA: So, unfortunately, we don’t have any official information from federal law enforcement about what has happened. Even when our officers initially responded to the scene, our watch commander was not given even the most basic information that is typical in a, in a law enforcement involved shooting, just to ensure that there is potentially no other victims. Since then, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension responded to the scene at my request. They were blocked from the scene yesterday, but they have since returned to the scene and are, are now canvassing for additional witnesses and evidence that may be there.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So do I understand you saying that Minnesota has just begun its investigation today?

O’HARA: There were attempts yesterday to begin the investigation. I do not know what, if anything, was conducted yesterday. I do know that while they were at the scene, more than once, they were not permitted to enter before the scene then was contaminated.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And for our viewers, Minnesota is a little bit different. There is

this Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that is the state agency that investigates use of force incidents–

O’HARA: Yes.

MARGARET BRENNAN: –They are separate from your police force.

O’HARA: Yes.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But from what you have seen in the public space and heard from federal officials, is there any evidence that you know of that Pretti was assaulting the federal officers, as the Border Patrol chief claims?

O’HARA: Well, I have seen the videos, just as thousands of people around the country have, and the videos speak for themselves. I think it’s deeply concerning the things that are being said. This is an individual that was a city resident. It appears that he was present, exercising his First Amendment rights to record law enforcement activity and also exercising his Second Amendment rights to lawfully be armed in a public space in the city. So I think very obviously, there are serious questions that are being raised. And I think the greater issue is, even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there just- there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.

MARGARET BRENNAN: What do you mean it does not matter at this point? You mean the situation on the ground is already- the impression is left?

O’HARA: People have had enough. This is the third shooting now in less than three weeks. The Minneapolis Police Department went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds and hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn’t shoot anyone. And now this is the second American citizen that has been killed. It’s the third shooting within three weeks. People have been speaking out, saying that this was going to happen again. And I think everyone is kind of waiting for folks on both sides to come together and just figure this thing out. This is not sustainable. This police department has only 600 police officers. We are stretched incredibly thin. This is taking an enormous toll trying to manage all of this chaos, on top of having to be the police department for a major city. It’s too much.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Are you calling on ICE to leave?

O’HARA: We understand that for as long as there has been ICE, there has been immigration enforcement in Minnesota. The problem is not that enforcement is happening. It’s clearly the manner in which these things are happening. These tactics are very obviously not safe, and it is generating a lot of outrage and fear in the community.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about what we know, because DHS claims that Pretti had a weapon on him. You said that Pretti- you implied Pretti was carrying at the time of the incident, when you said he was a legal firearm owner with a license to carry. Do you know if the weapon remained concealed or was it ever brandished?

O’HARA: I have seen different experts and people analyzing the video that have made statements about that. I cannot speculate, but I do not have any, any evidence that I’ve seen that suggests that the weapon was brandished.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, because we checked the Minnesota gun permit rules allow for concealed carry, and there are no restrictions on carrying in a protest.

O’HARA: Yes, that’s right.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But the homeland security secretary said that he had two cartridges on him in addition to the gun. “I don’t know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.” The FBI director said, “You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest.” Are they on firm legal ground in Minnesota?

O’HARA: You have a Second Amendment right in the United States to possess a firearm, and there are some restrictions around that in Minnesota. And everything that we see, that we are aware of, shows that he did not violate any of those restrictions. He is not a convicted felon, and he is someone that did have a permit for the handgun to carry it.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So did he have magazines full of ammunition at the scene? Because both the president of the United States and the border security chief said that he did, and Bovino directly accused you of not saying that publicly. He said the police chief omitted the fact that the suspect had a gun and magazines full of ammunition.

O’HARA: Well, that- what they are omitting is that they are not sharing any information with us, and that they blocked state law enforcement, which is the agency that conducts the overwhelming majority of police involved shootings from the scene. So I don’t know how I’m supposed to share information with the public that they are not sharing with us.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you have not seen evidence that there were multiple magazines, but- but would it even be illegal if that were the case?

O’HARA: I don’t think there is any relevance if someone is lawfully exercising their Second Amendment right to carry. The only question would be if they were using the weapon in a- for an unlawful purpose.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about some of the things that the vice president also has said about local authorities. The vice president said that local police have been told to stand down when immigration authorities call 911 asking for help dealing with crowds surrounding them. Were you ever ordered to stand down? Have police been told not to protect ICE?

O’HARA: It is deeply disappointing to have anyone question and disparage the hard work of the men and women of the Minneapolis Police Department. There are 600 police officers that are left here after the destruction of the city in 2020, and they are doing an incredible job. About a dozen of our cops have been injured responding to a lot of the chaos that has resulted on the streets. Our officers respond every time there’s a threat to someone’s life, to public safety or destruction in the city. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s because ICE is there or someone from the community is there. We are doing everything that we can to manage this chaos. But there’s only 600 cops here, and there’s thousands of immigration agents here.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, nearly 3000 as we understand it. The vice president and Secretary Noem said Minneapolis is uniquely chaotic. But they also pointed to sanctuary city policies and said that if those policies weren’t in place, these are policies that prohibit you from assisting federal immigration operations, that none of this would really be happening. How do you respond to that claim that because of the sanctuary city policies, you are being forced into this position?

O’HARA: Well, there’s policies and laws that have been the case here for decades, and it’s not on the Minneapolis Police Department or local law enforcement, you know, to hand folks over that are in jails. The city police do not operate a jail that’s at the county level and the prisons are at the state level, so we are complying with the law as we have been for many years. And I don’t know what else could possibly be asked of this very, very, you know, understaffed and overstretched police department.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And now you have the National Guard, I understand, assisting you. Is this sustainable now that you have the guard supporting you? Do you have any idea of how long these protests will last?

O’HARA: Yeah. I mean, yesterday, we had to do an emergency recall. We asked for mutual aid from the state, county and all of local law enforcement around the metro. It was very clearly an emergency, and we requested the National Guard. As of this morning, we have released all of mutual aid, as well as the National Guard partners, and it’s back to just the Minneapolis Police responding to calls and trying to protect the city. But this is absolutely not sustainable. Our cops are tired. They are thin stretched as it is, and we have a job to do, trying to keep the people of this city safe.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So before this shooting, CBS reported that there were at least 10 people from the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s Office who had resigned. We know the FBI agent resigned after being told to stop investigating the officer who shot Renee Good. What is local law enforcement experiencing beyond your officers, but in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in your local FBI?

O’HARA: I mean the sad part of this is the incredible work that we have done with all of federal law enforcement over the last few years to get real criminals put away, gang members, people that are shooting folks out here, bringing, smuggling fentanyl into this city. We’ve worked with all of these federal law enforcement agents that live in Minnesota, and it’s so- it’s so upsetting to see so many of them disparaged and so many of them walking away because it is destroying the foundation of addressing violent crime in Minnesota that’s produced incredible results over the last few years.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Police Chief O’Hara, we wish you well and peace for your city. Thank you for your time this morning. Face the Nation will be back in one minute. Stay with us.

法国防长：军事干预伊朗非法国首选方案

发布时间 / 来源：2026年1月25日 22:17 / 联合早报

法国国防部长鲁弗说，军事干预伊朗局势并非法国的首选方案。

法新社报道，鲁弗（Alice Rufo）星期天（1月25日）在政治广播节目“大陪审团”（Le Grand Jury）中说，法国必须尽一切可能支持伊朗人民，但“军事干预并非法国的首选方案”。

她表明，推翻伊朗政权是伊朗人民的责任。

由于货币崩盘和经济形势日益严峻，伊朗民众从去年12月底以来接连大规模示威。当局1月8日实施全国断网，超过9000万民众基本上与互联网隔绝。

与此同时，伊朗当局对抗议者进行暴力镇压，人权组织记录数千人死亡，并称最终死亡人数可能超过2万5000；伊朗政府公布的数字则为3117人。

鲁弗说，由于互联网大范围中断，“记录伊朗政权对人民犯下的大规模罪行”非常困难。

她同时强调：“伊朗人民拒绝接受他们的政权。伊朗人民的命运属于自己，我们无权选择他们的领导人。”

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法国防长：军事干预伊朗非法国首选方案 | 联合早报

发布/2026年1月25日 22:17

法国防长鲁弗表明，须尽一切可能支持伊朗人民，但也强调推翻现在的政权是伊朗人民的责任。图为鲁弗1月初在法国国会发言。 （法新社）

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法国国防部长鲁弗说，军事干预伊朗局势并非法国的首选方案。

法新社报道，鲁弗（Alice Rufo）星期天（1月25日）在政治广播节目“大陪审团”（Le Grand Jury）中说，法国必须尽一切可能支持伊朗人民，但“军事干预并非法国的首选方案”。

她表明，推翻伊朗政权是伊朗人民的责任。

由于货币崩盘和经济形势日益严峻，伊朗民众从去年12月底以来接连大规模示威。当局1月8日实施全国断网，超过9000万民众基本上与互联网隔绝。

与此同时，伊朗当局对抗议者进行暴力镇压，人权组织记录数千人死亡，并称最终死亡人数可能超过2万5000；伊朗政府公布的数字则为3117人。

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鲁弗说，由于互联网大范围中断，“记录伊朗政权对人民犯下的大规模罪行”非常困难。

她同时强调：“伊朗人民拒绝接受他们的政权。伊朗人民的命运属于自己，我们无权选择他们的领导人。”

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