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A Minneapolis church has delivered free groceries to 24k families amid the ICE occupation

When Iglesia Dios Habla Hoy pastor Sergio Amezcua noticed members of his community in Minneapolis were growing especially vulnerable to an intense surge of ICE officers in the area, he knew he had to do something.

Starting in mid-December, the church organized hundreds of volunteers to pack non-perishable goods for the community and put out a call on Facebook for people in need of help. Within two days, 2,000 people signed up to help.

As ICE tensions have only continued to escalate, so have the church’s efforts. As of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, about 24,000 families have registered for help, and the church has delivered 12,000 boxes of groceries in about six weeks.

Why is this good news? As Amezcua puts it, “Our Immigrant community, and Latinos, especially Somalis, are going through hell.” This coming together of volunteers and community members also proves to him that there’s a better path forward, and its defined by love and goodwill.

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Facing reports of a planned ICE facility, Kansas City, Missouri passed a five-year ban on detention centers. The City Council quickly passed the resolution after a local official was told by the Department of Homeland Security about plans to build a 7,500-bed ICE facility.

Activists created a 12.5 million block digital library in “Minecraft” to bypass censorship laws. In many authoritarian countries where news sources and books are censored, the video game is not, leading a group of designers to make a library full of information that people in those countries, and anyone else in the world, can access.

Rare twin baby mountain gorillas were born in the DRC, giving conservationists new hope for the endangered species. The young males are healthy for now, rangers say, but the subspecies has high rates of infant mortality – with about a quarter falling victim to disease, trauma, or infanticide.

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U.S. electricity demand surged last year — and solar covered 61% of it

In 2025, electricity demand in the U.S. jumped by 135 terawatt-hours, a 3.1% increase or the fourth-largest annual rise in the past decade.

In that same time period, solar generation grew by 83 TWh, a 27% increase over 2024 and the largest gain of any power source — and it covered 61% of all new electricity demand in the country.

When looking at just daytime hours between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., the increase in solar generation met the entire rise in demand.

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