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Minneapolis becomes ground zero in Trump’s immigration crackdown: Arrests, protests and 2 fatal shootings by agents
The fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents on Saturday has further escalated tensions in Minneapolis, a city now at the center of America’s heated battle over immigration enforcement. Pretti’s killing occurred less than three weeks after Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. A total…
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Democrats vow to oppose homeland security money, increasing shutdown chance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a 37-year-old Minnesota man, a stand that increases the prospect of a partial government shutdown by the end of the week. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, in a social media post hours after the Saturday shooting, said…
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Republican calls for investigation grow after fatal shooting in Minneapolis
WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number of Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, a sign that the Trump administration’s accounting of events may face bipartisan scrutiny. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino sought testimony from leaders at Immigration and Customs…
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Winter Storm Fern live updates: more than 10,000 flights canceled as snow and ice batter eastern US | US weather
Over 10,000 flights canceled from storm So far, more than 10,000 flights have been canceled, with up to 15,000 cancellations possible through Monday. Today will go down in history as one of the days with the most weather-related flight cancellations in US aviation history. The cancellations include all flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and most flights at the…
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What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE? Legal experts weigh in
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. Videos of confrontations between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Minneapolis residents have flooded social media, showing some of the 3,000 officers who are deployed in the city stopping, questioning and detaining residents. In one case, immigration agents escorted a U.S. citizen who is a grandfather of Hmong ancestry out of his house in his underwear in freezing…
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An Oregon woman was a baby when her mother was murdered. Decades later, evidence points to her loving father.
It was Thursday, Dec. 1, 1988, when Deborah Atrops, known as Debe, was found murdered in her car, next to a construction site in Beaverton, Oregon. Debe had been reported missing two days earlier by her estranged husband, Bob Atrops, who lived about five miles away on a rural road. Deborah “Debe” Atrops holds her infant daughter, Rhianna. Washington County…
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Democrats in Texas Senate race call for ICE overhaul, hours after Minnesota shooting
Hours after federal immigration agents killed a man in Minneapolis, the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate in Texas appeared on a debate stage together and both called for overhauling Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Just minutes into the debate between Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico, which was hosted by the Texas AFL-CIO and moderated by Nexstar’s KXAN-TV…
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As the winter storm rages, here’s what to know in your state : NPR
Pedestrians cross the street along Broadway during a winter storm Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV/AP hide caption toggle caption George Walker IV/AP A powerful winter storm has begun slowly carving its way across the eastern two-thirds of the United States, potentially bringing a mix of heavy snow, dangerous ice and bitterly cold temperatures from New…
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The consent of the governed has been withdrawn
The Friday edition of Strength In Numbers is free to all readers. If you’d like to support data-driven political journalism and get deep-dive analysis every Tuesday, become a paying subscriber today. Your support also helps fund interactive data projects, like this one. One year ago this week, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.…
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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — As she stood at the pulpit at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Thursday (Jan. 22), the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, a United Church of Christ minister, looked out at the packed sanctuary with tears in her eyes. Far from the typical flock of Presbyterian worshippers who frequent the church on Sundays, the more than 600 people who filled the…
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