Chicago police are searching for a female suspect who attacked three people with a sharp object during a fight Thursday evening on the West Side in the Garfield Park neighborhood.

Shortly before 7 p.m., three people and a known suspect were involved in a disturbance in the 800 block of South Kilbourne Avenue when the suspect pulled out a sharp object.

A 16-year-old girl suffered a laceration to the face and neck, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was listed in critical condition, Chicago police said. A 43-year-old woman suffered cuts to the back of the head and was taken to the same hospital where she was treated and released. A 19-year-old man suffered a cut to the hand and was also treated and released at the same hospital, police said.

Their attacker fled south from the scene. No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/stabbing-garfield-park/ 

Ilhan Omar Brutally Mocked For Response When Asked About ‘Staged’ Skirmish

Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/30/2026 – 09:45

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ilhan-omar-brutally-mocked-response-when-asked-about-staged-skirmish 

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he’ll tap former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell in May — with Trump believing that he can finally get the booming economy that he promised to voters.

When Trump said that Warsh comes from “central casting,” the president revealed a lot about his own views of the 55 year-old’s looks and conventional pedigree. Warsh has many of the trappings of a traditional pick to lead the world’s most important central bank, yet he’s doing so at a decidedly unconventional moment for the Fed as Trump has said the new chair needs to cut its benchmark rates to the White House’s liking.

Rate cuts of the degree sought by Trump could temporarily boost growth, but they also pose the risk of overheating the economy at a time when inflation is already elevated and affordability is a top concern for much of the American public.

Trump names former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Powell

Warsh was previously a runner-up for the Senate-confirmed post of Fed Chair in 2017, when Trump selected Powell to lead the central bank. Trump has since said that he was given bad advice regarding Powell.

Warsh is credentialed with degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University Law School. He is also married to Jane Lauder, the daughter of billionaire cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, a major Republican donor.

At 35, Warsh became the youngest governor on the Fed’s seven member board, serving in that post from 2006 to 2011. He was previously an economic aide in George W. Bush’s Republican administration and was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Warsh worked closely with then-Chair Ben Bernanke in 2008-09 during the central bank’s efforts to combat the financial crisis and the Great Recession. Bernanke later wrote in his memoirs that Warsh was “one of my closest advisers and confidants” and added that his “political and markets savvy and many contacts on Wall Street would prove invaluable.”

Still, Warsh appeared in key moments to be misguided about the depth of the challenges confronting the U.S. economy as mortgage defaults and layoffs mounted in the Great Recession. He wanted the Fed to keep its benchmark rates higher when the economy was at risk of deflation and possibly collapsing.

Warsh raised concerns in 2008 that further interest rate cuts by the Fed could spur inflation. Yet even after the Fed cut its rate to nearly zero, inflation stayed low.

And he objected in meetings in 2011 to the Fed’s decision to purchase $600 billion of Treasury bonds, an effort to lower long-term interest rates, though he ultimately voted in favor of the decision at Bernanke’s behest.

Warsh also behaved at times like a pre-Trump Republican, calling in a 2010 speech for ending “the creep of trade protectionism” that he declared to be the opposite of “pro-growth policies.” Trump has since largely overhauled GOP dogma by pushing for massive hikes in import taxes, having unilaterally imposed them last year by declaring an economic emergency.

Warsh has been working as a visiting economics fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank located at Stanford University. He is also a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a partner at the Duquesne Family Office, which manages the wealth of billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller.

In recent months, Warsh has appeared to engage in active campaign for the Fed post with TV interviews and articles. He has become much more critical of the Fed, calling for “regime change” and assailing Powell for engaging on issues like climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion, which Warsh said are outside the Fed’s mandate.

In a July interview on CNBC, Warsh said Fed policy “has been broken for quite a long time.”

“The central bank that sits there today is radically different than the central bank I joined in 2006,” he added. By allowing inflation to surge in 2021-22, the Fed “brought about the greatest mistake in macroeconomic policy in 45 years, that divided the country.”

In a November opinion article in The Wall Street Journal, Warsh said that the Fed “should abandon the dogma that inflation is caused when the economy grows too much and workers get paid too much. Inflation is caused when government spends too much and prints too much.”

He suggested that inflationary pressures would be lowered because technologies such as artificial intelligence would lead to higher levels of productivity. His bet that AI will lead to growth without inflation aligns closely with Trump’s own belief that inflation has been defeated and that the AI buildout will power growth this year.

“AI will be a significant disinflationary force, increasing productivity and bolstering American competitiveness,” Warsh wrote.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/who-is-kevin-warsh/ 

Luis Martinez was on his way to work on a frigid Minneapolis morning when federal agents suddenly boxed him in, forcing the SUV he was driving to a dead stop in the middle of the street.

Masked agents rapped on the window, demanding Martinez produce his ID. Then one held his cellphone inches from Martinez’s face and scanned his features, capturing the shape of his eyes, the curves of his lips, the exact quadrants of his cheeks.

All the while, the agent kept asking: Are you a U.S. citizen?

The encounter in a Minneapolis suburb this week captures the tactics on display in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, which it describes as the largest of its kind and one that has drawn national scrutiny after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens this month.

Across Minnesota and other states where the Department of Homeland Security has surged personnel, officials say enforcement efforts are targeted and focused on serious offenders. But photographs, videos and internal documents paint a different picture, showing agents leaning heavily on biometric surveillance and vast, interconnected databases — highlighting how a sprawling digital surveillance apparatus has become central to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Civil liberties experts warn the expanding use of those systems risks sweeping up citizens and noncitizens alike, often with little transparency or meaningful oversight.

Over the past year, Homeland Security and other federal agencies have dramatically expanded their ability to collect, share and analyze people’s personal data, thanks to a web of agreements with local, state, federal and international agencies, plus contracts with technology companies and data brokers. The databases include immigration and travel records, facial images and information drawn from vehicle databases.

In Martinez’s case, the face scan didn’t find a match and it wasn’t until he produced his U.S. passport, which he said he carried for fear of such an encounter, that federal agents let him go.

“I had been telling people that here in Minnesota it’s like a paradise for everybody, all the cultures are free here,” he said. “But now people are running out of the state because of everything that is happening. It’s terrifying. It’s not safe anymore.”

Together with other government surveillance data and systems, federal authorities can now monitor American cities at a scale that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago, advocates say. Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.

When asked by The Associated Press about its expanding use of surveillance tools, the Department of Homeland Security said it would not disclose law enforcement sensitive methods.

“Employing various forms of technology in support of investigations and law enforcement activities aids in the arrest of criminal gang members, child sex offenders, murderers, drug dealers, identity thieves and more, all while respecting civil liberties and privacy interests,” it said.

Dan Herman, a former Customs and Border Protection senior adviser in the Biden administration who now works at the Center for American Progress, said the government’s access to facial recognition, other personal data and surveillance systems poses a threat to people’s privacy rights and civil liberties without adequate checks.

“They have access to a tremendous amount of trade, travel, immigration and screening data. That’s a significant and valuable national security asset, but there’s a concern about the potential for abuse,” Herman said. “Everyone should be very concerned about the potential that this data could be weaponized for improper purposes.”

Facial recognition

On Wednesday, DHS disclosed online that it has been using a facial recognition app, Mobile Fortify, that it said uses “trusted source photos” to compare scans of people’s faces that agents take to verify their identity. The app, which Customs and Border Protection said is made by the vendor NEC, uses facial comparison or fingerprint-matching systems.

The app was in operation for CBP and ICE before the immigration crackdown in the Los Angeles area in June, when website 404Media first reported its existence.

In interactions observed by reporters and videos posted online, federal agents are rarely seen asking for consent before holding their cellphones to people’s faces, and in some clips they continue scanning even after someone objects.

In two instances seen by an AP journalist near Columbia Heights, Minnesota, where immigration officials recently detained a 5-year-old boy and his father, masked agents held their phones a foot away from people’s faces to capture their biometric details.

The technology resembles facial recognition systems used at airports, but unlike airport screenings, where travelers are typically notified and can sometimes opt out, Martinez said he was given no choice.

According to a lawsuit filed against DHS by the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago this month, DHS has used Mobile Fortify in the field more than 100,000 times. The Department of Homeland Security told AP that Mobile Fortify supports “accurate identity and immigration-status verification during enforcement operations. It operates with a deliberately high-matching threshold,” and uses only some immigration data.

Without federal guidelines for the use of facial recognition tools, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights warned in a September 2024 report their deployment raises concerns about accuracy, oversight, transparency, discrimination and access to justice.

Body-camera footage

Last year, the Trump administration scaled back a program to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials body cameras, but administration officials said some agents tied to the fatal shooting of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti were wearing them and that footage is now being reviewed.

Gregory Bovino, who was the administration’s top Border Patrol official charged with the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis until Monday, began wearing a bodycam in response to a judge’s order late last year.

Body-camera video could help clarify events surrounding federal agents’ killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents with his cellphone when they shot him in the back.

Administration officials shifted their tone after independent video footage emerged raising serious questions about some Trump officials’ accusations that Pretti intended to harm agents.

Emerging technologies

Homeland Security and affiliated agencies are piloting and deploying more than 100 artificial intelligence systems, including some used in law enforcement activities, according to the department’s disclosure Wednesday.

Congress last year authorized U.S. Customs and Border Protection to get more than $2.7 billion to build out border surveillance systems and add in AI and other emerging technologies.

In recent weeks, DHS requested more information from private industry on how technology companies and data providers can support their investigations and help identify people.

Meanwhile, longtime government contractor Palantir was paid $30 million to extend a contract to build a system designed to locate people flagged for deportation. On Wednesday, the Trump administration disclosed it’s using Palantir’s AI models to sift through immigration enforcement tips submitted to its tip line.

DHS has also been exploring partnerships with license-plate reader companies like Flock Safety to expand their tracking capabilities.

Rachel Levinson-Waldman, who directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, said more funding for government surveillance tools changes the landscape.

“We are developing these technologies for immigrant enforcement,” she said. “Are we also going to expand it or wield it against U.S. citizens who are engaging in entirely lawful or protest activity?”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/surveillance-immigration-raids/ 

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will nominate former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Fed, a decision likely to result in sharp changes to the powerful agency that could bring it closer to the White House.

Warsh would replace current chair Jerome Powell when his term expires in May. Trump chose Powell to lead the Fed in 2017 but this year has relentlessly assailed him for not cutting interest rates quickly enough.

“I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” Trump posted on his Truth Social site. “On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting,’ and he will never let you down.”

Who is Kevin Warsh?

The appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, amounts to a return trip for Warsh, 55, who was a member of the Fed’s board from 2006 to 2011. He was the youngest governor in history when he was appointed at age 35. He is currently a fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In some ways, Warsh is an unlikely choice for the Republican president because he has long been a hawk in Fed parlance, or someone who typically supports higher interest rates to control inflation. Trump, by contrast, has said the Fed’s key rate should be as low as 1%, far below its current level of about 3.6%, a stance few economists endorse.

During his time as governor, Warsh objected to some of the low-interest rate policies that the Fed pursued during and after the 2008-09 Great Recession. He also often expressed concern at that time that inflation would soon accelerate, even though it remained at rock-bottom levels for many years after that recession ended.

More recently, however, in speeches and opinion columns, Warsh has said he supports lower rates.

Early reaction

Markets fell sharply overnight, but appeared to stabilize early Friday on the announcement of Fed chair. Precious metals, which had been on a tear in recent months, remain sharply lower Friday. Gold fell almost 5% and silver tumbled 13%. The dollar, which slumped over the past year, regained some ground.

In Congress, initial reaction broke along party lines. Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican and chair of the banking committee that will consider Warsh’s nomination, praised Trump’s choice.

“Federal Reserve independence remains paramount, and I am confident Kevin will work to instill confidence and credibility in the Fed’s monetary policy,” Scott said.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the highest-ranking Democrat on the committee, said that “Kevin Warsh — who cared more about helping Wall Street after the 2008 crash than millions of unemployed Americans — has apparently passed the loyalty test.”

Warsh beat out several other candidates, including Trump’s top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, investment manager Rick Rieder, and current Fed governor Christopher Waller.

Controlling the Fed

Warsh’s appointment could be a major step toward Trump asserting more control over the Fed, one of the few remaining independent federal agencies. While all presidents influence Fed policy through appointments, Trump’s rhetorical attacks on the central bank have raised concerns about its status as an independent institution.

The announcement comes after an extended and unusually public search that underscored the importance of the decision to Trump and the potential impact it could have on the economy. The chair of the Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful economic officials in the world, tasked with combating inflation in the United States while also supporting maximum employment. The Fed is also the nation’s top banking regulator.

The Fed’s rate decisions, over time, influence borrowing costs throughout the economy, including for mortgages, car loans and credit cards.

For now, Warsh would likely fill a seat on the Fed’s governing board that was temporarily occupied by Stephen Miran, a White House adviser who Trump appointed in September. Once on the board, Trump could then elevate Warsh to the chair position when Powell’s term ends in May.

Trump’s economic policies

Since Trump’s reelection, Warsh has expressed support for the president’s economic policies, despite a history as a more conventional, pro-free trade Republican.

In a January 2025 column in The Wall Street Journal, Warsh wrote that “the Trump administration’s strong deregulatory policies, if implemented, would be disinflationary. Cutbacks in government spending — inspired by the Department of Government Efficiency — would also materially reduce inflationary pressures.” Lower inflation would allow the Fed to deliver the rate cuts the president wants.

Trump has sought to exert more control over the Fed. In August he tried to fire Lisa Cook, one of seven governors on the Fed’s board, in an effort to secure a majority of the board. Cook, however, sued to keep her job, and the Supreme Court, in a hearing last week, appeared inclined to let her stay in her position while her suit is resolved.

Economic research has found that independent central banks have better track records of controlling inflation. Elected officials, like Trump, often demand lower interest rates to juice growth and hiring, which can fuel higher prices.

Trump had said he would appoint a Fed chair who will cut interest rates to lower the government’s borrowing costs and bring down mortgage rates, though the Fed doesn’t decide those costs directly.

In December, he wrote on social media of the need for lower borrowing costs and said, “Anyone who disagrees with me will never be the Fed chairman!”

Potential challenges and pushback

If confirmed by the Senate, Warsh would face challenges in pushing interest rates much lower. The chair is just one member of the Fed’s 19-person rate-setting committee, with 12 of those officials voting on each rate decision. The committee is already split between those worried about persistent inflation, who’d like to keep rates unchanged, and those who think that recent upticks in unemployment point to a stumbling economy that needs lower interest rates to bolster hiring.

Financial markets could also push back. If the Fed cuts its short-term rate too aggressively and is seen as doing so for political reasons, then Wall Street investors could sell Treasury bonds out of fear that inflation would rise. Such sales would push up longer-term interest rates, including mortgage rates, and backfire on Warsh.

Trump considered appointing Warsh as Fed chair during his first term, though ultimately he went with Powell. Warsh’s father-in-law is Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune and a longtime donor and confidant of Trump’s.

Warsh in recent years has become harshly critical of the Fed, calling for “regime change” and assailing Powell for engaging on issues like climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion, which Warsh said are outside the Fed’s mandate.

His more critical approach suggests that if he does ascend to the position of chair, it would amount to a sharp transition at the Fed.

In a July interview on CNBC, Warsh said Fed policy “has been broken for quite a long time.”

“The central bank that sits there today is radically different than the central bank I joined in 2006,” he added. By allowing inflation to surge in 2021-22, the Fed “brought about the greatest mistake in macroeconomic policy in 45 years, that divided the country.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/trump-kevin-warsh-fed-chair/ 

Futures fell on Wall Street Friday as word leaked that President Donald Trump would nominate former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the U.S. central bank.

Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were each 0.5% lower before the opening bell. Nasdaq futures were down 0.6%.

The U.S. dollar also stabilized overnight and precious metals, which had been soaring past records almost daily, saw a big sell-off. Gold dipped 3.9% to $5,144 an ounce, while silver tumbled under $100 an ounce after falling 13%.

That sent shares in big miners down, led by Hecla, which slid 12%. Newmont lost 8% and Freeport McMoRan retreated 5.9% in the early going.

Trump names former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Powell

Prices for precious metals have been surging as investors look for safer investments while weighing a wide range of risks, including a U.S. stock market that critics say is expensive, political instability, threats of tariffs and heavy debt loads for governments worldwide.

The U.S. dollar has seen its value sink over the last year because of many of the same risks that drove gold’s price higher. Early Friday, the dollar was trading at 154 Japanese yen, up from 153.09 yen. The euro slipped to $1.1923 from $1.1971.

Warsh is viewed as a somewhat unlikely choice by Trump because he has long been considered a “hawk”: someone who typically supports higher interest rates to control inflation. Trump has said the Fed’s key rate should be as low as 1%, far below its current level of about 3.6%, a stance few economists endorse.

Warsh would replace current chair Jerome Powell when his term expires in May. Trump picked Powell to lead the Fed in 2017 but has been relentlessly assailed him for not cutting interest rates quickly enough.

The appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, amounts to a return trip for Warsh, 55, who was a member of the Fed’s board from 2006 to 2011.

In other equities trading, Sandisk climbed 23% before the opening bell after the data storage company trounced Wall Street’s second-quarter sales and profit targets. Sandisk, which saw its data center revenue soar 64% from the first quarter, credited the strong results to customers’ adoption and deployment of AI.

Who is Kevin Warsh?

At midday in Europe, Germany’s DAX picked up 0.8%, while the CAC 40 in Paris advanced 0.9%. Britain’s FTSE 100 was 0.5% higher.

Elsewhere, The CEO of Indonesia’s stock market, Imam Rachman, resigned Friday “As part of a commitment toward recent market conditions,” the exchange said in an announcement.

Jakarta’s benchmark gained 1.2% following news of his resignation. It had been trading at all-time highs but sank 7.4% on Wednesday and 1.1% on Thursday after MSCI, a U.S. provider of global equity, fixed income and real estate indices, warned about market risks such as a lack of transparency.

Chinese markets retreated, with the Hang Seng in Hong Kong shedding 2.1% to 27,387.11. Shares in major ports operator CK Hutchison Holdings dropped 4.6% after Panama’s Supreme Court ruled that the concession held by a subsidiary to operate ports at either end of the Panama Canal was unconstitutional.

That advanced a U.S. effort to block any influence by China over the strategic waterway.

The Shanghai Composite index slipped 1% to 4,117.95.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell back, losing 0.1% to 53,322.85 as stocks related to artificial intelligence declined. Testing equipment maker Advantest lost 4.5% and computer chip equipment maker Disco Corp. lost 1.7%.

South Korea’s Kospi gave up most of its gains late in the session, edging just 0.1% higher to 5,224.36 after the Yonhap News Agency reported that a first day of talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick aimed at resolving trade tensions had not yielded an agreement. The talks are due to continue Friday.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump said he planned to raise tariffs on South Korean exports if the U.S. ally did not swiftly ratify a trade agreement worked out months ago.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.7% to 8,869.10.

Taiwan’s benchmark lost 1.5%, while India’s Sensex fell 0.3%.

Oil prices slipped after jumping more than 3% on Thursday due to worries about tensions between the United States and Iran, which could ultimately constrict the flow of crude. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned the U.S. military “will be prepared to deliver whatever the president expects,” just a day after President Donald Trump told Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear program.

U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 32 cents to $65.10 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, shed 40 cents to $69.19 per barrel.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/futures-trumo-kevin-warsh/ 

Don Lemon Arrested By Federal Authorities Over Minnesota Church Protest

Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/30/2026 – 09:25

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/don-lemon-arrested-federal-authorities-over-minnesota-church-protest 

WASHINGTON — Journalist Don Lemon was arrested in connection with an anti-immigration protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church and increased tensions between residents and the Trump administration, his lawyer said Friday.

Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he had been covering the Grammy Awards, his attorney Abbe Lowell said.

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Don Lemon speak out against Trump at annual MLK breakfast

It is unclear what charge or charges Lemon is facing in the Jan. 18 protest. The arrest came after a magistrate judge last week rejected prosecutors’ initial bid to charge the journalist.

Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023, has said he has no affiliation to the organization that went into the church and that he was there as a journalist chronicling protesters.

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” Lowell said in a statement. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”

Lowell added that “Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

A prominent civil rights attorney and two other people involved in the protest were arrested last week. Prosecutors have accused them of civil rights violations for disrupting a service at the Cities Church in St. Paul, where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor.

The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation after the group interrupted services by chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good,” referring to the 37-year-old mother of three who was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.

“Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in social media post last week.

Cities Church belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention and lists one of its pastors as David Easterwood, who leads an ICE field office. Many Baptist churches have pastors who also work other jobs.

The Justice Department’s swift investigation into the church disruption stands in contrast to its decision not to open a civil rights investigation into Good’s killing by an ICE officer. The department has not said whether it will open a civil rights probe into the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal officers.

“Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case,” Lowell said.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/don-lemon-arrested-protest-minnesota/ 

Por KIMBERLEE KRUESI y HOLLY RAMER

Manifestantes en todo Estados Unidos están llamando a una huelga general en protesta contra las redadas migratorias lanzadas por el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump.

Bajo el lema de “no trabajar, no ir a la escuela, no comprar”, la medida surge casi una semana después de que Alex Pretti, un enfermero de cuidados intensivos, fuera baleado varias veces mientras usaba su teléfono celular para grabar a agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza realizando una operación de control migratorio.

La muerte reavivó el escrutinio sobre las tácticas de la administración tras la muerte el 7 de enero de Renee Good, asesinada a tiros al volante de su vehículo por un oficial del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE).

“La gente de las Ciudades Gemelas (Minneapolis y St. Paul) ha mostrado el camino para todo el país: para detener el reinado de terror de ICE, necesitamos CERRARLO”, escribieron algunos de los organizadores en su sitio web.

Varias empresas anunciaron que estarían cerradas durante el “apagón” del viernes, y algunas escuelas cancelaron clases de manera preventiva anticipando ausencias masivas. Algunos estudiantes planean realizar huelgas, mientras que otros planean reunirse en iglesias, juzgados y centros de las ciudades en solidaridad.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/manifestantes-convocan-a-huelga-nacional-contra-las-polticas-migratorias-de-trump/ 

Por DAVID McHUGH

FRÁNCFORT, Alemania (AP) — La economía europea registró un crecimiento modesto al final del año pasado, superando la agitación provocada por un alza de aranceles de Estados Unidos. Pero ahora la economía enfrenta otro obstáculo: un euro más fuerte frente al dólar que podría afectar las exportaciones.

El crecimiento en los 21 países que utilizan la moneda compartida del euro fue del 0,3% durante los últimos tres meses de 2025, igualando la cifra del tercer trimestre, informó el viernes la agencia de estadísticas de la UE, Eurostat. El crecimiento en comparación con el cuarto trimestre de 2024 fue del 1,3%.

El crecimiento moderado ha desafiado los temores de recesión de principios de año, cuando el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump amenazó con aumentar los aranceles a niveles que podrían haber devastado el comercio. Las conversaciones se resolvieron con un límite del 15% en los aranceles de Estados Unidos, o impuestos de importación, sobre los bienes de la Unión Europea. El aumento de impuestos no es ideal para los negocios, pero la certeza resultante del acuerdo permitió a las empresas al menos seguir adelante y planificar.

Esa seguridad se vio afectada luego que terminó el trimestre, cuando Trump amenazó el 17 de enero a los países miembros de la UE con aranceles más altos por apoyar a Groenlandia contra sus llamados a una toma de control por parte de Estados Unidos. Trump luego retiró la amenaza.

Las empresas de servicios europeas, una categoría amplia que abarca desde peluquerías hasta tratamientos médicos, han mostrado un crecimiento moderado, según la encuesta de S&P Global de gerentes de compras. Las exportaciones han caído y la industria sigue rezagada, pero mostró mejoría hacia finales de 2025. La inflación más baja del 1,9% en diciembre, tras un doloroso aumento en 2022-2023, y el aumento de los salarios han dejado a los consumidores con más poder adquisitivo y disposición para gastar.

La última amenaza es la fuerte caída del dólar frente al euro. Está en su nivel más débil en cuatro años y medio, lo que hace que las exportaciones europeas sean menos competitivas en precio en un mercado extranjero clave.

El dólar se ha debilitado debido a los temores de que los aranceles de Trump frenen el crecimiento y que sus ataques al presidente de la Reserva Federal de Estados Unidos, Jerome Powell, socaven el papel del banco central estadounidense como defensor contra la inflación y protector del valor del dólar. El euro ha subido un 14,4% frente al dólar en los últimos 12 meses y se cotizó a 1,19 dólares el viernes.

Los analistas advierten que si la debilidad del dólar frente al euro continúa, el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) podría recortar las tasas de interés más adelante este año para estimular el crecimiento. El BCE tiene una reunión para fijar tasas el jueves, pero no se espera que cambie las tasas entonces.

Alemania mostró un crecimiento mejorado del 0,3% en el trimestre, su mejor desempeño trimestral en tres años, pero aún enfrenta serios vientos en contra a corto y largo plazo. La economía más grande de la eurozona todavía espera que el gasto en infraestructura y defensa puesto en marcha por el canciller Friedrich Merz muestre sus efectos a través de un mayor crecimiento. Alemania creció un 0,2% el año pasado, su primer año de crecimiento luego de dos años de disminución de la producción. El miércoles, el gobierno redujo su perspectiva de crecimiento para este año al 1% desde el 1,3% previamente.

Alemania ha luchado con una serie de problemas: precios de energía más altos tras la pérdida de gas natural ruso debido a la guerra contra Ucrania, una escasez de mano de obra calificada, una competencia china creciente en sectores clave de exportación como automóviles y maquinaria industrial, años de subinversión en infraestructura que promueve el crecimiento y demasiada burocracia.

El crecimiento para la Unión Europea más amplia de 27 países también fue del 0,3% para el cuarto trimestre de 2025 y del 1,4% en comparación con el trimestre del año anterior. No todos los miembros de la UE se han movido para unirse al euro, que sumó su 21er miembro en enero cuando Bulgaria se unió. ___

Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

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