15 h. ago Minneapolis shooting latest: Clinton and Obama call on Americans to ‘stand up’ to ICE as Trump demands cooperation

The Obamas urged the Trump administration to ‘reconsider’ their approach to immigration enforcement

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20 h. ago Minneapolis shooting latest: Trump demands Minnesota cooperate with ICE as Obama and Clinton warn of historic moment’

The Obamas urged the Trump administration to ‘reconsider’ their approach to immigration enforcement

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22 h. ago Philippines ferry with 350 on board capsizes leaving 15 dead and dozens missing

Rescuers save at least 300 people after inter-island ferry sank early on Monday en route from the port city of Zamboanga to southern Jolo islandAt least 15 people have died after a ferry with more than 350 people sunk early on Monday near an island in the southern Philippines, according to local officials, with the coast guard warning that 28 people remained missing.The M/V Trisha Kerstin 3, an inter-island cargo and passenger ferry, was sailing to southern Jolo island in Sulu province from the port city of Zamboanga with 332 passengers and 27 crew members when it apparently encountered technical problems and sank after midnight, coast guard officials said. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Minneapolis shooting latest: Trump says Dems should cooperate with ICE while Obama calls shooting an assault on US values

The Obamas urged the Trump administration to ‘reconsider’ their approach to immigration enforcement

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31 h. ago Minneapolis shooting latest: Trump urged to pull federal agents from state as family of Alex Pretti demand ‘truth’

Trump has accused state officials of preventing local police from protecting ICE officers in Minnesota

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3 d. ago ICE live updates: Officers clash with Minnesota protesters as businesses participate in ‘economic blackout’

Vice President JD Vance blamed the level of chaos on local and state officials not cooperating with federal immigration enforcement

Economics

3 d. ago ICE latest: School official calls on agents to release body cam from 5

Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father were taken by ICE agents near Minneapolis this week, local school officials have said

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4 d. ago Vance's message in Minneapolis: Local officials must cooperate with the immigration crackdown

Vice President JD Vance says he came to Minneapolis to help “lower the temperature” in the city

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4 d. ago ICE live updates: School official calls on agents to release body cam from 5

Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father were taken by ICE agents near Minneapolis this week, local school officials have said

Politics

4 d. ago Vance goes to Minnesota and tries to ‘lower the temperature’ over ICE raids

JD Vance tried to ease tensions but his only suggestion? Full submission to ICE from state, local officials, writes John Bowden

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4 d. ago JD Vance blames local officials ‘not cooperating’ with ICE for Minneapolis violence

Vice-president says ‘number one thing’ that would lower the temperature would be for officials to help facilitate ‘reasonable enforcement of law’JD Vance on Thursday put the onus on local officials to “turn down the temperature” in Minneapolis, where federal immigration agents in recent days have detained a five-year-old child with his father and gassed protesters throughout the city.Flanked by federal law enforcement, the US vice-president said he spoke with immigration agents and local business leaders ahead of talking to the press, but he had not spoken with the state’s governor, Tim Walz. He said local officials could be helping ICE identify and arrest violent criminals so that the operation could be more targeted. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Israeli fire kills 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two children, local hospital officials say

Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in the latest violence in the war-battered enclave, including two 13-year-old boys who were collecting firewood, three journalists and a woman

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6 d. ago DC metro residents fume over plan to use sharpshooters to reduce deer population

A local activist is urging officials to consider a different approach to reducing the deer population

Events

6 d. ago Slave descendants take a fight to protect their Georgia island homes to voters

Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box

Politics

7 d. ago On embracing the ‘urgency of now’ and unconditional love on MLK Day

People across the US are moving on from the empty platitudes MLK Day often evokes – and embodying King’s wordsThis year, the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday forces Americans to grapple with the crisis and protests that have spread across the country, particularly in Minneapolis. Each year on this holiday, we reflect on King’s life and legacy. We wonder about what he might make of this moment. Though civil rights protesters in the 1950s and 60s were repeatedly met with extreme state violence, Americans are now facing a president who is troublingly more powerful than past figures such as the notorious segregationist and Alabama governor George Wallace.Militarized and masked federal police forces, abetted by a corrupted justice department, are expansive and employ far more deadly weapons against protesters today. Civil rights leaders often sought federal intervention to combat localized racial violence in the south. But now, local and state officials, along with ordinary citizens who ...

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7 d. ago MLK Day reminds us to harness ‘urgency of now’ as the US grapples with crisis

People across the US are moving on from the empty platitudes MLK Day often evokes – and embodying King’s wordsThis year, the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday forces Americans to grapple with the crisis and protests that have spread across the country, particularly in Minneapolis. Each year on this holiday, we reflect on King’s life and legacy. We wonder about what he might make of this moment. Though civil rights protesters in the 1950s and 60s were repeatedly met with extreme state violence, Americans are now facing a president who is troublingly more powerful than past figures such as the notorious segregationist and Alabama governor George Wallace.Militarized and masked federal police forces, abetted by a corrupted justice department, are expansive and employ far more deadly weapons against protesters today. Civil rights leaders often sought federal intervention to combat localized racial violence in the south. But now, local and state officials, along with ordinary citizens who ...

Events

1 week ago Trump says Renee Good probably a ‘wonderful person – but her actions were pretty tough’

President speaks to CBS News about killing of woman by ICE agent and defends immigration crackdownDonald Trump has defended his administration’s increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a “wonderful person” whose “tough” actions justified a lethal response.Trump’s comments, made during an interview with CBS News after his visit to a Ford factory in Detroit, came amid rising tensions between federal and local officials in Minneapolis after an ICE agent shot dead Renee Good at the wheel of her SUV on a residential street in Minneapolis last week. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'We're in a state nobody can imagine': residents describe devastating rainstorm in Gaza – video

A rainstorm swept across the Gaza Strip, flooding hundreds of tents and collapsing homes sheltering families displaced by two years of war. At least six people have been killed, local health officials said. Three months since a ceasefire halted major combat, Israeli forces have ordered the near-total depopulation of nearly two-thirds of Gaza. More than 2 million people have been forced into a narrow strip near the coast, with most living in makeshift tents or damaged buildings Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Monkeys still on the loose in St Louis as AI hinders search efforts

Local officials say they are doubtful anyone will come forward to claim them

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2 w. ago Minneapolis ICE shooting: What we know about the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal agent

Local media named Jonathan Ross as the shooter, with federal officials describing him as an ‘experienced’ officer

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