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A Border Patrol agent killed Alex Pretti, 37, a US citizen who worked as a nurse at the local Veteran Affairs hospital, on Saturday morning. Pretti had been filming federal immigration agents when the confrontation began. Minneapolis and neighboring St. Paul have been the site of continuous protests since the Department of Homeland Security flooded the cities with immigration agents in December.

A supervisor in the FBI's Minneapolis field office who unsuccessfully attempted to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in the city on 7 January has resigned, according to multiple reports. News of agent Tracee Mergen's resignation surfaced shortly before federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. Pretti and Good were both 37-year-old US citizens.

I get the concerns that AG Bondi and FBI Director Patel may try to scrub all Trump references and images in the Epstein files before they are released. Well, there are nearly 1,000 FBI/DOJ staff who looked at the files in March with no compartmentalizing, limits, or controls.

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.

"Our job is to enforce the laws of this state,"

Demonstrators gathered at the historic Placita Olvera marketplace. A banner fluttered above reading, From Los Angeles to Minneapolis, stop ICE terror. As the afternoon light began to fade, speakers led chants to abolish ICE and urged ICE out of Minnesota, ICE out of L.A. They carried signs printed with messages America hates ICE and Drop the charges on Minnesota activists.

The academic and political activist discusses what he sees as a moral collapse in the US and a leadership crisis in the Democratic Party. In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, American philosopher and activist Cornel West delivers a searing critique of the United States, describing what he sees as moral collapse, democratic decay and spiritual bankruptcy. Drawing on the Black freedom struggle and his own run in the 2024 presidential election,

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.

Former CNN host Don Lemon predicted President Donald Trump's administration will not stop pursuing him, even if it means they have to go around a judge. Lemon sat down with Alisyn Camerota this week just as his fellow former CNNer launched her new gig with Scripps News as a special events anchor and contributor. Lemon is currently facing pushback (and possible legal consequences) for his coverage of a group of Minnesota anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a church service in St. Paul.

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.

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,