The Uttarakhand government made a major administrative reshuffle in the police department on Friday and transferred 20 officers. Orders in this regard have been issued by the Home Department. According to the released list, new responsibilities have been assigned to Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSP) and equivalent officers posted in various districts and units.
In the order issued by the government, many officers have been removed from the districts and posted in special units like PAC, Vigilance and CID. Some officers have been entrusted with important responsibilities at the district level. This change is considered important from administrative point of view.
SSP changed in these districts
According to the transfer list, officers posted in other districts including Dehradun, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar have been transferred and given new postings. Apart from this, reshuffle has also been made in PAC and other battalions. Officers posted at one place for a long time have been removed and given new responsibilities, so that the functioning can be improved and activated.
All transferred officers have been instructed to take charge at their new place of posting with immediate effect. The government has made it clear that compliance with the orders should be ensured and there should not be any delay in assuming charge.
Objective to improve law and order
Administrative sources say that this reshuffle has been done with the aim of further strengthening the law and order. This decision is considered important in view of the upcoming events and security related challenges in the state. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami was continuously brainstorming regarding law and order, these transfers are being considered under the same.
Copies of the order have been sent to the police headquarters and concerned officials. After this major reshuffle, the hustle and bustle in the police department has intensified and now the focus will be on how much the new postings can strengthen the system at the ground level.
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych’s push to legally wear a customized helmet as he competed in races at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics ran into perhaps its most daunting obstacle Friday.
Heraskevych took his plea to don the helmet that paid tribute to Ukrainian war victims to the winter sliding sport’s highest court.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against Heraskevych’s appeal, effectively ending his final opportunity to compete for a medal at this year’s Games.
Heraskevych was disqualified from a skeleton race over the helmet, which displayed the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian coaches and athletes who have been killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych arrives at the finish during a men’s skeleton training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation also concluded that Heraskevych’s intention to wear the helmet was in direct violation of Olympic rules. The IOC cited rules against making political statements on the field of play.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry met with Heraskevych before Thursday’s men’s skeleton event to try to change his mind about wearing the helmet, ultimately to no avail.
“We didn’t find common ground in this regard,” Heraskevych said.
Heraskevych’s attorney, Yevhen Pronin, reacted to the court ruling in step with the IOC, arguing his client did not actually commit misconduct.
“The court sided with the IOC and upheld the decision that an athlete could be disqualified from the Olympic Games without actual misconduct, without a technical or safety threat and before the start,” Pronin said.
Vladyslav Heraskevych of Ukraine during training wearing a helmet in tribute to athletes who have died in Russia’s attack on Ukraine Feb. 11, 2026.(Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)
CAS, the sole arbitrator hearing the case, said it “found these limitations reasonable and proportionate,” especially since Heraskevych could show his helmet away from the racing surface, such as in interview areas and on social media. Heraskevych also wore the helmet in training runs.
The appeal was largely moot anyway. He was disqualified from the competition less than an hour before its start on Thursday, and whatever CAS said on Friday wouldn’t have changed that.
“Looks like this train has left,” Heraskevych said after Friday’s hearing.
He left Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Olympic Village on Thursday night with no plans to return, then headed to Milan and arrived in Munich on Friday night — helmet in hand — for a dinner with Ukrainian officials at a security conference. He is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this weekend as well.
Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych arrives at the finish during a men’s skeleton training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Heraskevych admitted he was surprised by the strong reaction.
s”I never expected it to be such a big scandal,” he said.
He also said he found his accreditation for the Games being taken away, then returned shortly afterward Thursday in what seemed like a goodwill gesture, puzzling.
“A mockery,” he said.
CAS did agree that Heraskevych should keep his accreditation.
Tributes from other athletes competing in Milan Cortina were permitted without penalty, including American figure skater Maxim Naumov displaying a photo of his late parents who were killed in a plane crash last year.
Italian snowboarder Roland Fischnaller had a small Russian flag image on the back of his helmet during the Games, and Israeli skeleton athlete Jared Firestone wore a kippah bearing the names of 11 athletes and coaches killed while representing that country during the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The IOC said those cases were not in violation of any rules.
Naumov showed his photo in the kiss-and-cry area and not while he was actually on the ice. Fischnaller’s helmet was a tribute to all the past Olympic sites he competed at, with Sochi included. And Firestone’s kippah “was covered by a beanie,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.
The IOC offered Heraskevych a chance to compete with a different helmet and bring the tribute through the interview area after his runs. He also could have worn a black armband.
“I think it’s the wrong side of history for the IOC,” Heraskevych said.
Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
At least 130 people have been killed in US attacks on vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since September.
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The United States military has attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing three people, as it continues deadly air strikes that have killed at least 130 people since September 2025.
The US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said that US forces “conducted a lethal kinetic strike” on Friday, killing three people.
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The US military again repeated its claim, without providing any evidence, that it was targeting people suspected of drug trafficking.
International law and human rights experts have repeatedly said that such attacks amount to extrajudicial executions, even if those targeted are alleged to be engaged in trafficking drugs.
According to monitors and tallies kept by media organisations, the US has now carried out some 37 attacks against 39 vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, killing at least 130 people, including an attack that killed two people earlier this week.
We’ll bring you more on this breaking news story soon.
Bangladesh Politics: Bangladesh is currently standing at a major turning point in its history. After the collapse of the Awami League, the responsibility of the country came into the hands of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Mohammad Yunus. As soon as he became the Chief Advisor, he talked about handling the broken system and paving the way for such elections which will decide the future of the country. After the big victory of Tariq Rehman in the elections, now Yunus will have to step down. With this, efforts to rebuild the country will begin.
Yunus’s journey
Dr. Yunus is known all over the world for bringing the idea of small loans i.e. microcredit to the poor. After the terrible famine of 1974, he realized that teaching alone was not enough, money was also needed to advance the poor. Grameen Bank was started with this thinking. After becoming the caretaker PM, he had a big challenge to fix the government machinery of the country. In August 2024, he returned from exile at the call of protesters and said that he had found a completely broken system. He clearly said that the country should not be allowed to go towards dictatorship again.
Direction of reforms and elections Yunus government said that just conducting elections is not enough, after the elections the country will also have to be taken on the right path. For this a “reform charter” was prepared. Addressing the nation on 19 January, Yunus appealed to support the referendum and said that if people voted “yes” it would pave the way for a new Bangladesh.
Political situation and tension The situation is not easy. Awami League has been barred from contesting elections. Party chief Sheikh Hasina is currently in exile in India and faces serious allegations. In November last year, the International Criminal Tribunal sentenced him to death for ordering the use of lethal force during the August 2024 protests. He also got a separate life sentence for crimes against civilians.
On the other hand, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Tariq Rahman returned from London after two decades in December and emerged as a major contender for the post of PM. Their main contest was with Jamaat-e-Islami, but in this fight BNP registered a clear victory. Meanwhile, incidents of communal tension and violence in the country are also raising concerns. The murder of student leader Sharif Usman Hadi in December further heated up the atmosphere.
Awami League’s opposition
Awami League has completely rejected the election process announced by the Yunus government. The party termed the election date of February 12, 2026 as illegal and attacked the current administration in strong words. The party says that fair elections are not possible under this government. After the fall of Hasina government, relations with India have also soured.
Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The approval clears yet another hurdle to the commercial rollout of these miniaturized reactors by major bit barn operators. Amazon became one of the first to embrace the yet unproven tech in late 2024 when it made a $500 million bet on X-Energy’s Xe-100 reactors to end its reliance on the power grid and fuel its datacenter growth.
X-Energy’s license under 10 CFR part 70 enables its subsidiary TRISO-X to manufacture the high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel pellets that will eventually power that reactor.
The company boasts its TX-1 and TX-2 fuel plants are the first such facilities to receive approval in half a century, though we’ll note they’re not exactly finished. X-Energy expects to complete construction of the first site later this year, and it can’t start churning out pellets until it passes an on-site inspection by the NRC to ensure it’s safe.
For safety’s sake, the enriched uranium is formed into small TRISO fuel particles coated in multiple layers of carbon and ceramic materials, which are then embedded in graphite to form pebbles roughly the size of a billiard ball. Hundreds of thousands of these pebbles will be circulated through the reactor continuously. In the case of the Xe-100, heat generated by this process will be captured using helium gas and then used to produce steam to drive a turbine.
Each Xe-100 reactor is expected to produce up to 80 megawatts of power continuously for 60 years. For context, that’s enough to power the typical AWS campuses of yesteryear, although the honkin’ GPU-cranking datacenters of the putative AI boom are slated to use up to 50 times that much.
X-Energy expects to produce roughly 700,000 pebbles a year at its TX-1 site, enough for around 11 reactors. Its TX-2 site, which is currently in the design phase, is expected to dramatically increase production.
While a step toward energy independence, Amazon will be waiting a while longer to get its hands on the tech. X-Energy expects to deliver the five gigawatts of power contracted by Amazon “by” 2039, with the first reactors coming online sometime in the 2030s. ®
Mumbai, India — For Indian cricket fans travelling to Sri Lanka this weekend, the opportunity to watch their team take on archrivals Pakistan in the T20 World Cup has come at the cost of inflated airfares, soaring hotel prices and a long wait for matchday tickets.
But these are mere sacrifices that thousands are willing to make to witness the most heated rivalry in the sport as it unfolds on Sunday at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
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Fuelled by a decades-long fraught political relationship, cricket encounters between India and Pakistan are among the biggest spectacles in sport — often framed as bloodthirsty contests of national pride.
For the first time in the history of the World Cup, geopolitical tensions threatened to put the marquee contest in doubt until Pakistan’s government reversed its order for a boycott of the match.
While the near-last-minute U-turn revived excitement, it came at a price for the Indian supporters making late travel plans. Pakistan’s participation was confirmed only six days before the fixture, triggering a sharp surge in airfares from several Indian cities.
Fans who booked their air tickets weeks in advance, too, paid significantly higher fares due to the significantly higher demand surrounding any India-Pakistan match, which is commonly deemed the most lucrative fixture in cricket.
“I paid a premium of approximately 50 percent compared to the usual rates,” Aditya Chheda, a finance professional from Mumbai, told Al Jazeera. “This was despite booking a month in advance and opting for a layover instead of a direct flight.”
Chheda is among thousands of Indian fans who have travelled to Colombo for the blockbuster fixture [Courtesy of Aditya Chheda]
Flight, hotel prices skyrocket
A nonstop round-trip journey from India’s western metropolis Mumbai to Colombo, which typically costs approximately $275, went upwards of $1,000 two days before the match.
Similar fares were spotted for nonstop journeys from Bengaluru in southern India, while round-trip nonstop flights from Chennai to Colombo – a route that takes only about an hour and 20 minutes – had surged to at least $550, up from its usual fare of $165.
Planning ahead helped Bengaluru resident Parth Chauhan secure deals at a good price, but his friends accompanying him to Colombo had to pay a steep premium – three times the usual cost – after booking closer to the match date.
Known as the home of Sri Lankan cricket, the R Premadasa Stadium will host India vs Pakistan on Sunday [File: Hafsa Adil/Al Jazeera]
Accommodation costs rose sharply as well. Tariffs at five-star hotels in Colombo ranged between $400 and $1,000 per night from Saturday to Monday, when most spectators were expected to fly in and out.
Chauhan, who works in a cybersecurity organisation, had to wait a whopping four hours in a virtual queue to buy match tickets, but he insists the hassle was worth the wait, as he gears up to watch India play abroad for the first time.
“It’s an opportune moment, and there is a lot of exuberance to witness this because it’s a historic fixture,” he said.
For a lucky few, the surprise came not from the difficulty of securing tickets but from their unusually low price. Piyush Nathani, an IT professional from Bengaluru, paid only $5 for the fixture, which draws millions in broadcast, sponsor and advertising revenue.
“This is the cheapest ticket I’ve ever purchased. Just $5 to watch a World Cup match, that too of the magnitude of India vs Pakistan, is a steal,” said Nathani, who has travelled with a group of six friends.
Nathani has followed the Indian cricket team across several stadiums in Asia [Courtesy of Piyush Nathani]
‘More than a cricket match’
Having been part of the Ahmedabad crowd in 2023 that saw India beat Pakistan in a 50-over World Cup group game, Nathani is relishing the chance to watch Sunday’s match in a neutral venue, where fans from both countries are expected to be present.
“The feeling of beating Pakistan is something money cannot buy,” added the 29-year-old.
Like Nathani, Chheda has also travelled abroad previously to watch Team India. The 32-year-old watched India lift the 2024 T20 World Cup in Barbados and now wants to “pick up where I left off”.
“When there’s a World Cup, the first thing Indian fans hope for is to beat Pakistan,” he added.
“Winning the World Cup is the biggest target, but beating Pakistan feels like a moral victory – it’s more than a cricket match.”
An Arizona family is calling for change and demanding answers after a 27-year-old man died hours after he was wrongfully discharged from a hospital and dumped on a sidewalk during a hot summer day, according to a wrongful death lawsuit.
Seth and Gayle Lachica, the parents of Kaelen Lachica, allege staffers at Abrazo Health Arrowhead put their son in an Uber and had him dropped off outside a local homeless shelter in Phoenix despite his deteriorating condition.
“What they did is abandonment. I mean, they absolutely killed my son,” Seth Lachica told Fox News Digital.
The family of Kaelen Lachica filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an Arizona hospital, alleging he was discharged despite his worsening condition, causing his death. (Family attorney Richard Lyons with Kelly & Lyons)
Kaelan Lachica suffered from anorexia for nearly a decade but his condition had improved in the year proceeding his hospitalization in August 2025, his father said.
Lachica was hospitalized at one center before being transferred to Abrazo Health Arrowhead after having a possible stroke and losing weight.
Days prior to his discharge, his health declined to the point he was “delusional” and “immobile,” the lawsuit states. On Aug. 13, 2025, Kaelan lashed out and struck a nurse and asked to leave the hospital “against medical advice,” the family’s attorney, Richard Lyons, told Fox News Digital.
The lawsuit alleges that Kaelan was put in a wheelchair and into an Uber, which the hospital paid for, and was taken to a homeless shelter in downtown Phoenix. He couldn’t remember his address, Lyons said.
However, Kaelan’s address was on his medical records and was easily accessible to hospital staff prior to his discharge, the complaint states.
Kaelen Lachica suffered from anorexia for nearly a decade, his parents said. (Family attorney Richard Lyons with Kelly & Lyons)
“I mean they literally got him in a wheelchair and pushed him outside and discharged him,” Lyons said. “And I don’t mean medically discharged, I mean they evicted him from the hospital because they did not want him as a patient anymore.”
Kaelen was spotted collapsed on a sidewalk by a police officer, his family said. Temperatures reportedly reached triple digits that day.
“How in the world are you gonna discharge a man who is very ill and just dump him on a sidewalk in the middle of August?” Lyons said. “If he, you know, whether he can make medical decisions for himself or not, people die out here in the heat all the time.”
The hospital called Seth Lachica in the early morning hours while he was asleep to notify him that his son was being discharged. After circling the area where Kaelan was dropped off, he found emergency responders performing CPR on his son in the street.
“I told them not to release him. They f—— Ubered him here,” Lachica told responding officers. “They Ubered him here this morning and just f—— dropped him off to die.”
Seth Lachica speaks with police after finding his son, Kaelen Lachica, on a sidewalk hours after he was discharged from an Arizona hospital. (Family attorney Richard Lyons with Kelly & Lyons)
Kaelan was transported to another hospital, where he died. The lawsuit alleges that Abrazo staff displayed a conscious disregard for Kaelen’s physical safety and well-being.
“One would not expect a bouncer at a bar to dump an incapacitated patron onto a hot Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of August — let alone the staff at a hospital,” the lawsuit states.
“Yet that is exactly what the Abrazo staff did to Kaelen. This conduct goes beyond mere negligence, or medical malpractice — their decision to have their very sick young patient dumped onto the sidewalk — in Phoenix, in August — directly caused Kaelen’s death.”
Abrazo Health declined to comment on the lawsuit when reached by Fox News Digital.
A man who had recently been released from prison on a terrorism charge was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly tried to attack another officer with a knife and scissors near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday.
The incident happened near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame, which is carried out nightly.
The unidentified man, who is a French national born in 1978, allegedly tried to attack an officer guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and was shot by another officer.
He died of his wounds at a hospital, the French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said.
French police stand in front of the Arc de Triomphe Friday night after a man tried to attack an officer with a knife. (Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP via Getty Images)
He was previously sentenced to 17 years in prison in Brussels in 2013 on a terrorist-related offense of attempted murder of three police officers in Belgium and had just been released in December.
The man ended up serving 12 years in prison and was placed under police supervision with routine checks, the French prosecution office said.
The French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into the man related to his ties to “terrorist enterprise” before his death.
French President Emmanuel Macron visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arc de Triomphe in 2021. ( Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters)
The man was held in a Belgian prison until 2015, when he was transferred to France and released on Christmas Eve.
The Arc de Triomphe was closed to guests after the incident, in which no one else was hurt.
The man was killed in the incident. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva, File)
The Arc de Triomphe, at the end of the Champs-Élysées, is one of Paris and Europe’s most popular sights, with millions of tourists visiting the monument in the heart of France’s capital each year.
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Sir Keir Starmer will accuse parties like Reform UK and the Greens of being “soft on Russia”, “weak on NATO” and more likely to leave the nation divided and defeated.
The prime minister will further risk the wrath of Nigel Farage and his Brexiteers by saying that the UK is no longer the “Britain of the Brexit years” in a call for European unity to defend the continent from Russian aggression as the US steps back.
The comments will be delivered in a speech to global leaders at a security summit in Munich on Saturday.
However, despite the strong language, he is not expected to announce any plans to speed up a pledge to increase core defence spending from just over 2.3% to 3.5% of GDP by 2035.
Military officers privately concede this near-decade-long timeline, despite being agreed by all NATO allies, is far too slow and unambitious, given the scale of the threat posed by Russia and the need for the European side of the transatlantic alliance to do much more to defend itself as Donald Trump moves US assets away from the continent to focus on other priorities.
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In an extraordinary attack on Reform UK and the Green Party, Sir Keir underlined the need to explain to the public why it is important to invest in rebuilding Britain’s defences.
“Because, if we don’t, the peddlers of easy answers on the extreme left and the extreme right are ready. They will offer their solutions instead,” he will say, according to excerpts from the speech released in advance.
“It’s striking that the different ends of the spectrum share so much. Soft on Russia and weak on NATO – if not outright opposed.
“And determined to sacrifice the longstanding relationships that we want and need to build, on the altar of their ideology.
“The future they offer is one of division and then capitulation. The lamps would go out across Europe once again. But we will not let that happen.”
Image:Starmer is to address global leaders at a summit on Saturday. File pic: PA
A spokesperson for Reform UK fought back in a statement: “This is a speech from a weak prime minister on the verge of being hounded out of office by his own party. This is a man that refuses to find the money to increase defence spending and is making our country weaker and less secure.
“Reform UK believes our priority should be rebuilding our armed forces, properly funding defence to at least 3.5% of GDP, standing up to China and Russia and strengthening our bilateral relationships.”
The Starmer government is looking to forge closer relations with European Union allies in procuring military equipment, such as missiles, warplanes and drones – a strengthening of ties that were badly strained after the UK voted to leave the bloc a decade ago.
“We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore,” the prime minister is expected to say.
“Because we know that, in dangerous times, we would not take control by turning inward – we would surrender it. And I won’t let that happen.
“There is no British security without Europe, and no European security without Britain. That is the lesson of history – and it is today’s reality too.”
The comments triggered an instant backlash from the Conservatives.
Dame Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, said: “Keir Starmer has a habit of handing away sovereignty and now he is once again rolling the pitch for greater EU integration and less control for the UK.
“Britain is uniquely placed to help bring the US and Europe together, ensuring NATO is as strong as possible. We must not be overdependent on America, but neither should we offer Europe a blank cheque, prepared to accept any and all costs as Labour are.”
In what has become the biggest public annual gathering on European security, the three-day Munich Security Conference is also bringing together Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, as well as leaders of European allies such as Germany and France, plus delegates from across the world, including China’s foreign minister.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, is also present and is due to give his speech to the conference as well on Saturday, with efforts still under way, led by the US, to secure a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow even as Russia’s full-scale war is about to enter its fifth year.
Mindful of the need to keep Washington close, Sir Keir is expected to say that the US remains an indispensable ally – but that the UK and Europe need to be able to operate militarily with more independence.
“I’m talking about a vision of European security and greater European autonomy that does not herald US withdrawal but answers the call for more burden sharing in full, and remakes the ties that have served us so well,” he is expected to say.
After a self-imposed political exile to Ireland following President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the United States.
During an interview with Chris Cuomo on his new show, “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings,” the 63-year-old actress revealed she recently returned to the country to visit her family. The actress moved to Ireland with her teenage daughter in January 2025, just prior to President Trump’s second inauguration.
“I was recently home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone,” she told Cuomo. “I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country. I wanted to feel what it felt like. I wanted to hold my children again. And I hadn’t been home in over a year.”
She then shared that she “wanted to make sure that it was safe” for her and her daughter to come back over the summer so that they could be with family during her break from school.
O’Donnell said she recently returned to the U.S. without telling anyone.(Dave Benett/Getty Images)
When speaking to Cuomo, she went on to discuss how America “feels like a very different country” to her than when she lived here because she hasn’t “been watching the news” or keeping up with “American culture television” while living in Ireland.
“I’ve been in a place where celebrity worship does not exist,” she explained. “I’ve been in a place where there’s more balance to the news. There’s more balance to life. It’s not everyone trying to get more, more, more. It’s a very different culture. And I felt the United States in a completely different way than I ever had before I left.”
Ultimately, O’Donnell claimed she doesn’t “regret leaving at all” and feels she did “what I needed to do to save myself, my child, and my sanity.”
O’Donnell added that she doesn’t regret moving to Ireland.(Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Tinderbox Productions)
“And I’m very happy that I’m not in the midst of it there because the energy that I felt while in the United States was, if I could use the most simple word I can think of, it was scary,” she added. “There’s a feeling that something is really wrong and no one is doing anything about it.”
The bad blood between O’Donnell and President Trump goes back 20 years, when she criticized him while on “The View.” They continued to throw jabs at each other over the years, with O’Donnell telling the Irish radio show, “Sunday with Miriam,” “he uses me as a punching bag and a way to sort of rile his base.”
President Trump had previously threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s American citizenship twice before through posts on Truth Social.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” he wrote in July 2025. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
He later renewed the threats in September 2025, writing that “She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
O’Donnell fired back against the president’s threats, using the Constitution as her defense against the President.
President Trump threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship.(Getty Images)
“He can’t do that because it’s against the Constitution, and even the Supreme Court has not given him the right to do that … he’s not allowed to do that, the only way you’re allowed to take away someone’s citizenship is if they renounce it themselves, and I will never renounce my American citizenship,” the “Now and Then” star said. “I am a very proud citizen of the United States.”
“I am also getting my citizenship here so I can have dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States because I enjoy living here,” she added. “It’s very peaceful. I love the politics of the country. I love the people and their generous hearts and spirit. And it’s been very good for my daughter. But I still want to maintain my citizenship in the United States. My children are there. I will be there visiting and go to see them. And I have the freedom to do that, as does every American citizen.”
Under the United States Constitution, a president does not have the power to strip the citizenship of someone born in the country, meaning since O’Donnell was born in New York, her citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment.
Rosie O’Donnell has been one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent critics in the entertainment industry.(Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
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