5 h. ago Tim Walz and Jacob Frey say Trump is withdrawing federal officers from Minnesota in wake of Alex Pretti shooting

Plans to withdraw and new oversight from Tom Homan follow mass protests, declining public opinion polls, and lawsuits demanding and end to administration’s surge

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7 h. ago Legally blind Kansas biker accused of threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar

First in The Independent: MAGA fan Adam Lee Osborn said he hated the Democrat from Minnesota ‘due to her disrespect for the United States and using God’s name in vain,’ court records show

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38 h. ago Political leaders reach different conclusions over Alex Pretti shooting despite video evidence

In bystander videos of the shooting, Pretti is seen with only a phone in his hand

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51 h. ago Trump responds to latest fatal DHS shooting of US citizen in Minneapolis with rant against Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and Ilhan Omar

Trump wrote a post on Truth Social less than two hours after a 37-year-old legal firearm owner was gunned down by federal agents. The post accompanied a picture of the gun that the victim carried

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57 h. ago Trump responds to latest fatal ICE shooting of US citizen in Minneapolis with rant against Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and Ilhan Omar

Trump wrote a post on Truth Social less than two hours after a 37-year-old legal firearm owner was gunned down by federal agents. The post accompanied a picture of the gun that the victim carried

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58 h. ago ICE shooting latest: ‘American citizen’ shot and killed by federal agents in another Minneapolis shooting

Footage of the incident appeared to show multiple law enforcement officers struggling with a man on the ground before a gunshot is heard

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59 h. ago ICE agents shoot and kill US citizen at Minnesota protest as person cries 'not again'

Disturbing video footage appears to show four ICE agents wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis

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6 d. ago Trump tells Somalians: 'GET THE HELL OUT' at ferocious press conference as DOJ hammers Tim Walz

Donald Trump has called for Somalians to leave the US during an attack on Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota amid riots over his immigration crackdown.

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6 d. ago US justice department subpoenas Minnesota Democrats accused of impeding ICE efforts

Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey among officials who received subpoenasThe justice department subpoenaed several top officials in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of its investigation into whether Minneapolis officials have conspired to impede federal immigration efforts there.A copy of a subpoena to the office of the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, obtained by the Guardian, requests guidance and policies related to immigration enforcement in Minnesota since last year. It also requests communication regarding those policies with other state agencies, as well as documents related to “hindering, doxxing, identifying, or surveilling immigration officers”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump claims Minneapolis church protesters are ‘trained professionals’ who should be ‘thrown out of the country’

The president suggested, without evidence, that they were “highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner”, and urged harsh legal action against Minnesota Democrats, including Governor Tim Walz and Representative Ilhan Omar.

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7 d. ago Tomi Lahren calls Rep. Ilhan Omar the ‘perfect poster child’ for closing the border

Democrat attacked by Fox News host for referring to the country as the ‘U.S. Goddamn States’ in a diatribe against ICE agents’ actions in Minnesota

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8 d. ago New Hampshire bishop warns clergy to prepare for 'new era of martyrdom'

A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop is drawing national attention for urging clergy to prepare for a “new era of martyrdom.”

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8 d. ago Ilhan Omar is under investigation for her skyrocketing wealth... as she berates reporters for questioning her about 'fraud'

House Republicans have launched an investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar after financial disclosures showed her family's wealth soaring from near zero to as much as $30 million in just one year.

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9 d. ago Legal experts blast Trump’s DOJ probe of Tim Walz and Jacob Frey as ‘total garbage’ while allies rally around Minnesota leaders

Former prosecutors say DOJ has ‘lost its mind’ after alleging Minnesota leaders obstructed law enforcement in recent surge

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1 week ago Minnesota leaders decry targeting by US justice department over ICE turmoil

Governor Tim Walz says ‘weaponizing the justice system is an authoritarian tactic’ as he and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey reportedly will be subpoenaedThe US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports.The investigation, which CBS News first reported, marks an extraordinary use of federal power to challenge two of the crackdown’s most vocal Democratic critics, including the state’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US justice department to inquire into Minnesota leaders for alleged conspiracy to obstruct ICE

Tim Walz, state’s Democratic governor and Jacob Frey, Minneapolis mayor, have been vocal critics of immigration crackdownThe US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports.The investigation, which CBS News first reported, marks an extraordinary use of federal power to challenge two of the crackdown’s most vocal Democratic critics, including the state’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey. Continue reading...

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1 week ago What to know about the threats on federal funds flowing to Minnesota

A large-scale immigration crackdown by an influx of federal law enforcement officers is not the only way President Donald Trump's administration is putting pressure on Minnesota

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1 week ago Renee Good's family hires George Floyd law firm to investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting

Renee Good's family hired the law firm that represented George Floyd’s family to seek answers and accountability for the Minneapolis mother's killing by a federal immigration agent

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1 week ago Democratic lawmakers to file articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem

Robin Kelly, Ilhan Omar and Maxine Dexter to move against homeland security secretary over ICE killing of Renee GoodDemocratic representative Robin Kelly on Wednesday plans to formally introduce articles of impeachment against Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, following the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an immigration agent in Minneapolis last week.The new push comes amid mounting national outrage over the death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, at the wheel of her car on a residential street, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dramatic standoff in Minnesota as federal agents with weapons drawn square up to Ilhan Omar's 'woke army' with tensions set to boil over

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar faced off with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis as tension continued to rise after a 37-year-old was shot dead by the agency.

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