Minnesota's state official who investigates such shootings said in court filings he'd never seen federal agents block local access to a crime scene where both feds and the state had jurisdiction in 20 years on the job. It's the second time this month federal agents blocked Minnesota police from investigating a shooting death by federal officials. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has already pledged a state investigation, blasting the federal government's accounts of Alex Pretti's final moments as "lies."
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recent health episodes show "no evidence" of stroke or seizure, the Capitol physician said in a letter on Tuesday. McConnell, 81, froze up mid-sentence after being asked about running for reelection in 2026 during a press conference in Kentucky last week, a month after a similar incident occurred while the Senate minority leader was speaking to reporters at the Capitol.
New Jersey's car-brained lawmakers had just passed legislation that would impose heavy restrictions on e-bike ownership in the state, and I was livid. Obviously there's been a lot of concern about the growing number of teenagers being injured and killed while riding e-bikes, many of them powerful, high-speed ones that are more akin to motorcycles than bikes. Lawmakers claim they're just trying to bring some order to what is increasingly becoming a wild, unregulated market.
U.S. District Judge William G. Young ruled Thursday that the government must clearly prove any arrest, detention, or change in immigration status is based on a legitimate reason unrelated to retaliation. Young wrote that any attempt to change the immigration status of plaintiffs in the landmark case against the Trump administration will be presumed to be punishment for speaking out - unless the government can show strong evidence that the action was due to a crime, an expired visa, or another valid reason.
Here is what Barkley said on Saturday evening: Going back to, I think her name was Renee Good, and today it's just sad, man. It's scary, it's sad, and it's going to end bad. It's already ended badly twice. And somebody's got to step up and be adults, because, man, two people have died for no reason. And it's just sad.
Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. It's like Call of Duty, one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game. So cool, huh? This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday after armed agents, wearing masks and tactical vests, wrestled 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead.
President Trump is expected to sign the order this week, meaning companies who backed the repeal, such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, will now be free to share customer browsing habits, app usage history, financial information, location data, social security numbers and content of communications. The wealth of data will pave the way for more highly targeted ads and could step up competition with advertising behemoths such as Google and Facebook.
2024 is shaping up to be the biggest global election year yet. While the international spotlight is on the US presidential election race, more than 60 countries will have held regional, legislative, and presidential elections by the end of the year, according to Politico. For constituents, this has translated to a barrage of non-stop campaign ads across TV, radio, mobile devices, the internet, direct mail, billboards, and more.
I received an email recently that claims Wal-Mart senior management has been calling mandatory meetings for the company's employees in which the employees are told they "cannot" vote for the Obama-Biden ticket "or any other employee-friendly, union-friendly candidates for political office". It's not an urban legend, according to the sources I checked. This makes me so angry I just boil. When it comes to the Constitution, I am a rabid supporter.
Agents shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen at about 9am on Saturday, with other observers watching and videotaping their actions, in an area called Eat Street, a corridor of largely immigrant-owned restaurants and businesses. Footage appears to show moment Alex Pretti is shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis video It is the second killing in the city after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot dead by a federal agent in south Minneapolis on 7 January.
Over the past few weeks, the White House has rolled out a blitz of proposals that sound more like something out of Bernie Sanders', Elizabeth Warren's, or Zohran Mamdani's offices than a Republican administration. Trump has called for institutional investors to be banned from buying single-family homes, and he's sought to block military contractors from undertaking stock buybacks and issuing dividends unless they step it up on production. He's also revived a pledge from the campaign trail to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.
That was the case for Mailan Pacios, a 28-year-old Cuban immigrant living in Tennessee, who was scheduled to take her citizenship exam on January 8, only to receive a notice on January 3 that her appointment had been canceled. It was like a bucket of cold water. It's very painful when you come with the hope of moving forward and this happens, says Pacios, who has two children, owns an air-conditioning business, and insists she has never had legal problems nor been a public burden.
As parents, we did everything we could to teach our kids how to use social media responsibly and monitor their usage, but it still wasn't enough. Our sons, Carson and David, suffered from relentless cyberbullying that resulted in them taking their own lives. As we navigated our own grief and struggled to understand the pain that overwhelmed our sons, we met each other - and even more "survivor parents" who have experienced similar loss.
The deceased has been identified as an ICU nurse Minnesota Governor Tim Walz condemned the 'horrific shooting' and said the federal government cannot be 'trusted to lead' probe DHS said the man was armed during his struggle with the officers, but it is not clear in videos if the man is holding his weapon. Man was lawful gun owner. Trump accused Minnesota and Minneapolis leaders of 'inciting insurrection' The shooting comes amid ongoing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) anti-migrant operations
Federal agents have shot and killed another person in Minneapolis The deceased, a US citizen, has been identified as an ICU nurse Minnesota Governor Tim Walz condemned the 'horrific shooting' and said the federal government cannot be 'trusted to lead' probe DHS said the man was armed during his struggle with the officers, but
I never thought I'd live in California. I grew up in Colorado, went to college in Boston, and lived in Texas. I came out here for business school because I wanted to be at Stanford, and because you could play golf during the winter. Now I love it here. It has nothing to do with taxes; taxes have never been anywhere on our list of criteria for deciding where to live. I want to live where my family is and love the weather, the jobs,
ICE killed another American citizen on Saturday, so here's a list of five anti-ICE songs you can listen to right now. As music journalists we often struggle with how to respond to tragedies like this one. I don't have unreleased facts to share, or some vast network of activists to call upon. What I do have is my anger, alongside decades of practice working through difficult emotions with music.
The Stasi, the secret police, were legendary for their data files. Their work was based on instilling fear, and they induced stunningly amazing numbers of East Germans into informing on their neighbors. Something along the lines of 1 in 6 East Germans were informants, whether out of fear or out of approval of what the East German government was doing.
Thousands of anti-abortion rights advocates from the Bay Area and beyond were on the move down Market Street. "We're here because we believe the pro-life issue is the number one issue facing our community, the Black community, and we want to do more along those lines," said Walter Hoye from Fremont. This event is held annually around the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which ruled abortion as a constitutionally protected right.
Given we are slugging towards year three of living through a plague, it would not be politically expedient for any politician to openly tout their ambitions in this climate of exhaustion and frustration. That's why it was unsurprising to read Vice President Kamala Harris stress to the Wall Street Journal in mid-December that she and President Biden have not discussed whether he plans to seek re-election.
President Donald Trump's relentless and escalating drive to acquire Greenland from Denmark, whose government- along with that of Greenland-emphatically rejects the idea, has unnerved, offended, and outraged leaders of countries considered allies for decades. It's the latest, and perhaps most significant, eruption of an attitude of disdain towards allies that has become a hallmark of the second Trump administration, which has espoused an America First approach to the world.
