10 h. ago Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie

Monochrome catering was all the rage at the VIP screening on Saturday for Ratner’s officially sanctioned $75m feature-length documentary about the First Lady. Have the photos whetted your appetite? This week sees the release of Melania, Amazon’s official feature-length documentary about Melania Trump. Melania was directed by Brett Ratner, and has a reported $40m production budget. And, obviously, you’re probably not going to watch it.Of course you’re not. Coming days after the killing of Alex Pretti by a US Border Patrol agent, an authorised vanity project about the current wife of a globally unpopular political leader – and directed by a man accused of sexual assault by multiple women (which he denies), and whose production and release carried the smell of institutionalised media timidity – seems like just about the least appealing prospect ever. But, hey, any excuse for a party, right? Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Minneapolis mourns ICU nurse killed by a Border Patrol agent as a warmhearted neighbor and caregiver

Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city

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33 h. ago Minneapolis protests in photos as man, 37, killed by border agents

Angry scenes unfolded on the streets of Minneapolis after a US Border Patrol agent shot a 37-year-old man dead as witnesses denied officials' claims the man was holding a weapon

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37 h. ago Minneapolis shooting protests and a free solo in Taipei – photos of the weekend

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2 w. ago Border Patrol shoot two people in Portland who 'attempted to run over agents' one day after ICE killed mom

US Customs and Border Protection agents have shot two people in Portland, Oregon just one day after an ICE officer shot and killed a mother-of-three in Minneapolis.

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2 w. ago Woman, 37, shot dead by Trump border agent after driving through ICE raid is named: Outrage over killing grows with flags burned in the streets

The 37-year-old victim, who has been named as Renee Nicole Good, was shot three times in the face today after 'an attempt to kill' Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel.

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