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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) on Tuesday became the second Republican senator to call for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to step down over her handling of the Minneapolis shootings. In remarks to reporters, Murkowski called for accountability from the secretary, criticizing Noem for the “rhetoric” she deployed in the aftermath of Saturday’s fatal shooting…

Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after the attempt. 

A committee of Florida state senators on Tuesday unanimously advanced legislation to rename Palm Beach International Airport to “Donald J. Trump International Airport.” The bill, SB 706, leaves the names of all other airports the same but preempts the authority to rename airports to the state, not to local officials. The bill resembles a similar…

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Fewer Republicans say in a new poll that they have confidence in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. In the Economist/YouGov survey, conducted this past weekend, 60 percent of Republicans say they trust ICE, including 31 percent who say they have a…

Some people thought that the president accidentally made a great campaign ad for the Democrats.

Georgia state Rep. David Clark, who’s running for Georgia lieutenant governor, is proposing to rename Sawnee Mountain after President Trump as Republicans vie for the president’s endorsement in the crowded GOP primary. “President @realDonaldTrump is one of the most transformative presidents in our nation’s history,” Clark said in a Tuesday post on the social platform X….

President Trump’s support from independent voters dropped to a new low across both terms in office, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The survey, conducted over the weekend, shows Trump’s net job approval among independents at negative 40 percentage points, with 27 percent approving and 67 percent disapproving. That marks a significant drop from the…

More than half of Americans have “very little” confidence in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a poll taken in the days before and after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis. In The Economist/YouGov poll, 55 percent of respondents said they had “very little” confidence in ICE, while…

Political commentator Joe Scarborough on Tuesday slammed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “lying nonstop” about two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens involving federal officers in Minneapolis, calling it “Orwellian.” “The repeated lies, and people use the word ‘Orwellian’ … they overuse the word,” the host of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” told co-host Jonathan…

Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R), co-founder of Latinas for Trump, blasted President Trump’s immigration crackdown, warning that he “will lose the midterms” because of homeland security adviser Stephen Miller. “I do think that he will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller,” Garcia told the New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. Though…

Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) said Tuesday she asked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to pause Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in her home state and in Minnesota. “I asked her to pause the operations in both Maine and Minnesota so that they could be reviewed and far more targeted in their scope,” Collins,…

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, suffered a broken rib during a confrontation with federal immigration officers a week before his death, CNN reported Tuesday. Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot and killed in Minneapolis by a Border Patrol agent. An intensive care nurse at the Department…

In the past, Donald Trump has said the second amendment would always be safe with him in the Oval Office, but now, he’s changing his tune.

The MS NOW host on Monday ran down an extensive list of Republicans who previously supported the administration’s efforts.

Former senior director of the National Security Council Michael Allen said Monday that President Trump will “have to do something militarily” in Iran as the scope and scale of the regime’s bloody crackdown on protests has begun to emerge. More than 6,000 people, mostly protestors, have been killed since mass demonstrations erupted across the country…

President Trump said Tuesday that Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, should not have carried a firearm on him.  “You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns,” Trump told reporters before departing the White House for Iowa. The president went on to call the incident “very…

Fox News host Dana Perino on Tuesday pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on labeling Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident shot and killed by federal immigration enforcement officers this month, as a “domestic terrorist” after administration officials differed on using the term. Perino played a clip of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) threatened to lead impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem if President Trump does not fire her amid turmoil over immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota. “Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately,” Jeffries wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “Or Democrats…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney doubled down on his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, during which he backed Greenland’s sovereignty and pushed back on President Trump’s tariff agenda. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney told reporters…

President Trump is traveling to Iowa on Tuesday to tout his economic agenda ahead of the 2026 midterms. The visit to Des Moines is the latest on Trump’s tour, after he spoke in Detroit and Pennsylvania in recent months. The president has seen falling approval ratings amid rising concerns over inflation and affordability — which…

President Trump on Monday endorsed Indiana state Senate candidate Tracey Powell (R), making good on his threat to endorse challengers to Republicans in the state who blocked redistricting efforts last year. Powell is running to replace incumbent state Sen. Jim Buck (R), who has represented the Hoosier State’s 21st District in the state Senate since…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said he met with Border Czar Tom Homan on Tuesday and tha tthe two agree to an “ongoing dialogue” after two residents of Minneapolis were killed over the last month in separate altercations with federal law enforcement officials sent to the state as part of President Trump’s deportation crackdown.  “Governor…

Whether this was a technical failure, algorithmic chaos or something more intentional, the damage is the same. People don’t trust what they’re seeing — or not seeing.

Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly on Monday said she doesn’t feel sorry for Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minnesota on Saturday.  “I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t. I don’t. Do you know why I wasn’t shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because…