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key congressional panel focused on China’s impacts on human rights and religious freedom is urging Congress and the Trump administration to do far more to combat Beijing’s transnational intimidation and repression campaigns in the United States and across the globe. In a sweeping 2025 annual report, the Congressional Executive Commission on China, co-chaired by Republicans Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Chris Smith, warned of a continued multifaceted campaign of transnational repression against members of Chinese communities in the U.S. and abroad and critics aimed at intimidating individuals and stifling dissent.

New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has said he may arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents if he determines they are breaking the law. During an interview with MSNOW Senior Political and National Reporter Jacob Soboroff, Mamdani was asked about how he intends to follow through on his promise to help block President Trump’s policy of mass deportation of illegal aliens residing in New York City. Here is a transcript of the exchange:

Often in international relations, negotiations are held ‘where an intermediary travels back and forth between parties who are unwilling to communicate directly with each other’. They call this shuttle diplomacy. Because of Donald J. Trump’s vision that peace and cooperation with Russia will open up an age of prosperity for all involved, the US is devoting considerable resources to try to bridge the positions of Moscow and Kiev, and bring about a peace settlement.So, even if, like me, you are tired of the seemingly endless rounds of negotiation, we have to admit that it’s a heroic task worthy of our respect.

The BBC informs us that we have entered a ‘Super-Flu’ crisis, “unlike anything since the pandemic”. Other outlets scream that hospitals are facing a “worst case scenario”. Wes Streeting expands by telling us that a “tidal wave of flu” is tearing through them. Schools have closed pre-emptively, particularly in Wales. Some closures are to provide ‘firebreaks’, not because they have many cases. Leeds schoolchildren have been told not to sing in assembly. Shadowy ‘NHS Leaders’ advise the public to wear masks, with this recommendation shuffling-ly endorsed by the PM. Masking has been mandated at a few hospitals.