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With brutal winter conditions on the horizon, a meteorologist made headlines for issuing an ‘exploding tree’ advisory in parts of the Midwestern United States. “EXPLODING TREES are possible in the Midwest and Northern Plains on Friday and Saturday, as temperatures are forecasted to fall 20 degrees BELOW zero!” meteorologist Max Velocity said. EXPLODING TREES are possible in the Midwest and Northern Plains on Friday and Saturday, as temperatures are forecasted to fall 20 degrees BELOW zero! pic.twitter.com/nqnoqsbHNU — Max Velocity (@MaxVelocityWX) January 21, 2026 Patch explained further: Also known as “frost cracking,” the term does not mean trees literally explode, but rather that extreme cold can cause trees to crack or split abruptly. The phenomenon occurs when sap inside a tree freezes and expands, or when wood contracts rapidly in very dry, frigid air. The sudden stress release can sound like a gunshot or small explosion. The risk increases during severe cold snaps like the one forecast for Minnesota, where overnight temperatures are expected to fall near or below 20 degrees below zero, with wind chills approaching 40 to 45 below in some areas. While rare, tree cracking is most often reported overnight or in the early morning during the coldest part of an Arctic outbreak. The primary hazard comes from falling limbs rather than the cracking itself. Stay safe out there this Friday and Saturday in Wisconsin. Wind chills expected as low as -50 degrees. Hopefully this will keep the protestors off the streets of Minneapolis for a while. Also, watch out for exploding trees too! pic.twitter.com/2arq45XiFp — Brady Penfield (@brady_penfield) January 21, 2026 Residents are advised to avoid parking cars beneath large trees and remain indoors during the coldest stretches of the extreme weather. There were mixed reactions to the ‘exploding tree’ alert, with some people familiar with the phenomenon and others utterly clueless. I thought this was a joke, but apparently we need to be concerned with exploding trees & frost quake booms in Minnesota rn pic.twitter.com/jtmK7KGxGw — Laura Kuschel (@LaKusch) January 21, 2026 This is a real thing. I moved from Fires, Traffic and earthquakes to exploding trees. https://t.co/gE9G3y70gD — Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) January 21, 2026 Can’t say I had exploding trees on my 2026 bingo card https://t.co/SNHm3tvLCm — greg (@greg16676935420) January 21, 2026 Trees can explode during extreme cold due to sap expansion when it freezes.Oak, maple, and fruit trees with high moisture are most vulnerable to exploding.Extreme cold can also cause “cryoseismic booms” or “frost quakes” due to ground expansion. pic.twitter.com/Of8pmT2yHM — Pure Memeigan (@kalamazoo_memes) January 21, 2026 The U.S. Sun has more: Weather experts have warned about the incoming cold snap, set to hit much of America in the coming days. A brutal snowstorm is set to cause chaos with “unrelenting” freezing temperatures incoming. Multiple blasts of snow, ice and winds are set to batter the US that experts have warned could “take lives.” Americans are being warned to brace themselves for a new storm that could coat roads, trees and power lines with ice across a wide expanse of the south. “The storm arriving late this week and into the weekend is shaping up to be a widespread potentially catastrophic event from Texas to the Carolinas,” warned Ryan Maue, a former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “I don’t know how people are going to deal with it,” he said. Weather experts say they fear the incoming onslaught of freezing temperatures could even weigh down trees and affect power lines – triggering widespread outages across homes and businesses. “Great swathes” of heavy snow, sleet and rain are expected to begin on Friday in much of the midsection of America. From there the storm is expected to make its way toward the East Coast throughout the weekend, according to The National Weather Service.

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A woman told a London court that Barron Trump saved her life by contacting police in the United Kingdom when he allegedly witnessed her being attacked by her ex-boyfriend on a FaceTime call, multiple outlets report. According to Metro UK, Barron Trump picked up a FaceTime call from the woman and allegedly saw Matvei Rumianstev hitting her. “It is claimed that Rumianstev, 22, was jealous of her friendship with Donald Trump’s youngest son,” the outlet stated. Barron Trump ‘saved’ friend’s life by calling cops while she was being beaten by ex-boyfriend, she says https://t.co/KPENXx2XMH pic.twitter.com/DA4ZvLMcKf — New York Post (@nypost) January 21, 2026 Metro UK shared further: Snaresbrook Crown Court heard a dramatic call in which Barron told 999 operators: ‘I just got a call from a girl I know. She’s getting beaten up’. The call to UK police was made at 2.23am on January 18 last year. After giving the woman’s address, he repeats: ‘It’s really an emergency, please. I got a call from her with a guy beating her up.’ Bodyworn footage from when police arrived was played in court, showing officers asking the woman if Rumianstev had been streaming during the alleged assault. They told her that someone in the US had been in touch, but he did not give his name. Eventually, she told them: ‘I am friends with Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son.’ After she explains the Facetime call earlier that evening, one of the officers can then be heard telling a colleague: ‘So apparently this informant from America is likely to be Donald Trump’s son.’ He adds: ‘This female is friends with Donald Trump’s son. She was on a Facetime with him when this assault happened and he’s called us.’ The unidentified woman told the courtroom that Barron Trump “saved my life” during Rumianstev’s trial. Donald Trump's youngest son Barron saved the life of a woman by calling the police when he witnessed her being beaten up over a videocall, a court heard. https://t.co/tf9hJN4TeQ pic.twitter.com/rNRqAc3NyS — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) January 21, 2026 More from Daily Mail: The woman is then asked to call Barron back, and the American explains to officers that he could see her crying and being struck during the FaceTime call. ‘I called you guys – that was the best thing I could do. I wasn’t going to call back and threaten things to him because that would just make the situation worse,’ he told the officers. Giving evidence, the woman said: ‘He [Barron Trump] helped save my life. That call was like a sign from God at that moment.’ Rumiantsev has been charged with raping the woman on two occasions, assault, actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice. Police attended his home in Poplar, east London, in the early hours of January 18, 2025, following two 999 calls from the alleged victim and one from Barron. The woman told officers she had been slapped, punched, kicked and strangled during the assault. While in custody, Rumiantsev tricked officers into allowing him to phone the woman, and was overheard saying words to the effect of ‘while you are sleeping in your warm bed, I’m in jail,’ Serena Gates, prosecuting, said. Eight days later, the Russian made a call from prison to a friend named Arsen, saying he had already posted him a letter that he should give to the woman, in which he pleads with her to withdraw her statement. The alleged victim withdrew her statement but later retracted this, telling police the original account was true and that Rumiantsev, a former MMA fighter, had also sexually assaulted her on two occasions. She explained that the Russian would deliberately get her so drunk that he could have sex with her without her being able to consent. She said she had asked him why he did this to her and he responded ‘you never want to do this with me so I make you drink and do this to you.’ Sasha Wass KC, defending, has suggested that her accounts of the alleged attacks were ‘untrue and fabricated’. Rumiantsev denies assault, ABH, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice. The trial continues.

President Donald Trump called out Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Tuesday briefing, calling her “crooked” and questioning the source of her multimillion-dollar fortune. This escalation follows a formal move by the House Oversight Committee to investigate the congresswoman’s assets.

We have some extreme Islamists who plan to take advantage of the anger toward ICE, which anarchists and communists whipped up.  Imam Abdullah said that if ICE attempts to “kidnap” anyone, they should take out their gun and kill them. The imam is referencing normal arrests and detention. This imam’s son is a Las Vegas […] The post Tulsa Imam Tells Islamists to Kill ICE If They Try to “Kidnap” You appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Many of the homeless in sanctuary cities are drug addicted and/or mentally ill. They are hurting innocent people and need to be off the streets. Homeless and drug-addicted felons live on the streets in these cities with drug dealers supplying them with the poison right in the “open air.” That isn’t liberalism; it’s far-left ideology. […] The post Finally! A President Who Will Bring Back Insane Asylums appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who hosts the weeknight program “No Spin News,” told followers on Wednesday that he is ill. He said the condition, which he did not name, would temporarily limit his appearances “Hey No Spin Nation. Sorry, I am dealing with a malady. We have great doctors, so we’ll fight the […] The post Bill O’Reilly Is Sick appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.