Beltway Insider: Trump Softens Tone, Not Position, Minnesotans Continue Protests, Alex Pretti, NRA, DC Crash
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- Category: Beltway Insider
- Published on Saturday, 31 January 2026 16:40
- Written by Janet Walker
President Trump has softened his tone on immigration after the shooting of ICU Nurse Alex Pretti but has refused to temper his ICE efforts in Minneapolis, whose citizens are becoming a bellwether for protests around the country.







The military operation and the kidnapping of Nicolàs Maduro led and organized by the United States, as illegal as they are, confirms Donald Trump's desire to impose his vision of the world and the interests of the United States.
The United Kingdom's return to the Erasmus+ student exchange programme heralds the possibility of rejoining with the European Union and hoping to break London's diplomatic and economic isolation while recognizing the failure of the populist experiment.
The negotiations dedicated to a peace plan between Russians and Ukrainians under the aegis of the United States are proving to be a polite consultation of the Old Continent on an issue that concerns it but goes beyond it.
The overflight of Romanian and Polish airspace provoked the ire of NATO members without any large-scale military or diplomatic action being taken against Russia. The reason? The fear of an escalation that the West does not want at all.
By using starvation and the systematic bombing of health and hospital facilities, Israel is tending to depopulate Gaza right before the eyes of the international community who are caught between non-interference and historical guilt.
Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni rule over Italy, long perceived as an unstable and clumsily managed country, surprises many observers who are not very attentive to the anti-democratic excesses of a government with authoritarian tendencies. Analysis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pursued, since the October 7, massacre, the annihilation of Hamas, and now the destruction of Iranian Hamas leaders, or is the new wave all about securing the United States support.
While Franco-Algerian diplomatic relations are currently marked by heavy tensions, Algiers' reception of Rodolphe Saadé, head of CMA-CGM, opens the way to a potential and informal rapprochement between the two states, whose tensions date back to 1962.
Even as United States President Donald Trump attempts to establish a ceasefire or a peace protocol between Russia and Ukraine the effort has failed, the reality is that only direct negotiations between Kiev and Moscow will bear fruit.
The results of the first round of the Romanian presidential election pave the way for the potential arrival of George Simion, a far-right candidate as head of state, which could be extremely injurious to the European Union.
The reciprocal increase in customs duties undertaken by the United States and China borders on a confrontation between the two rival trading powers, with each digging deep on their positions, and promising new leverage in the trade wars escalate.
As the Ukrainian and Middle Eastern conflicts drag on, the attitude of the leaders who are leading them, here Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, whose intentions for conciliation remain uncertain, and are questioning at the very least.
The two-month Israeli Palestinian cease fire was shattered this week, amidst allegations from Israel that Palestinian government is not honoring the agreement, which Palestine denies, after both sides were unable to negotiate terms for an extension.
The foundation for a new world diplomacy, the United States, China, Russia and the others, President Donald Trump has conveyed to European allies the relationships in place since the end of World War II, are shifting in value.
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