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January is the convergence of three highly disruptive and destructive forces.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, tangled with Democrats and Republicans alike online in the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis by federal immigration authorities. In a Saturday post on the social platform X, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) expressed concern about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s…

What happened to Alex Pretti forces us to confront a very uncomfortable truth: when the official story collapses under the weight of video evidence, accountability becomes the real test of democracy.  

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Monday, days after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend. President Trump declined to say Sunday whether federal law enforcement did the right thing, saying his administration is “reviewing everything” and will reach a conclusion. The latest shooting further…
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A federal judge ruled Friday against the Trump administration’s freeze on a $5 billion program that seeks to fund the build-out of electric vehicle (EV) chargers. Judge Tana Lin, a former President Biden appointee, barred the Department of Transportation from revoking previously approved state EV charger deployment plans and from withholding funds for the plans….

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal is pushing back on the federal government’s account of the shooting death of Alex Pretti during a confrontation with immigration authorities in Minneapolis over the weekend. The Journal, in an editorial published Sunday, called the incident “the worst … to date in what is becoming a moral…

President Trump said U.S. forces used a secret weapon called the “Discombobulator” that helped impair Venezuelan equipment during the early January raid in Caracas that led to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.  “The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” the president said in an interview with the New York Post published…

President Trump said he’s closed his eyes during Cabinet meetings because they are “boring as hell” but noted this isn’t a reflection of his health.  “It’s boring as hell; I’m going around a room, and I’ve got 28 guys — the last one was three and a half hours. I have to sit back and…

More Democrats are pushing for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following another fatal shooting by federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis. “Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from…

Not since Woodrow Wilson conceived of a League of Nations in the wake of World War I has a single figure imagined himself capable of reordering the world.

The remains of the last hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip were recovered and transferred to Israel on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement, clearing the way for the next phase of President Trump’s 20-point peace plan in the war-torn enclave.  The return of all the hostages kidnapped by Hamas,…

More than 800,000 Americans across the Southeast were experiencing power outages Monday morning due to the weekend winter storm, Fern.  A total of 808,997 people are without power as of Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.com.  Tennessee was hit the hardest by the storm, with 252,168 customers reporting outages, followed by 160,783 outages in Mississippi and…

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara expressed concern Sunday over the tactics of federal immigration personnel in his city, a day after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a U.S. citizen. “The problem is not that enforcement is happening. It’s clearly the manner in which these things are happening. These tactics are very obviously not safe,…

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Sunday railed against the fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis while attending a demonstration against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.  Pretti was shot with a phone in his hands; the administration says he approached agents with a 9 mm handgun. “Enough…

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said Sunday that President Trump should consider pulling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel from Minnesota, a day after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot an American citizen in Minneapolis.  “If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, ‘OK, if the mayor and the governor are going to put…

Another deadly shooting by federal immigration enforcement officials in Minneapolis has shaken the country, and it may push Washington to shut down part of the government later this week. The killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday has renewed uproar nationally, and Senate Democrats have said they will…

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada has no plans to go ahead with a free trade deal with China in the wake of a tariff threat from President Trump. “We have no intention of doing that with China or any other nonmarket economy,” Carney said Sunday, according to The Associated Press. “What we have done…

President Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl last year. It seems, at least for now, that he won’t be the first sitting president to attend two in a row.

It’s time to confront some fundamental questions. What kind of country are we, and what do we want to be? Do we really believe that diversity “poisons our blood” rather than gives us strength?

In dueling news conferences, federal and state officials offered starkly different messages Sunday about the immigration crackdown that has swept across Minneapolis and surrounding cities, with both claiming the moral high ground in the wake of another shooting death by federal agents.

President Trump’s aggressive moves in the foreign policy arena are hanging over Team USA’s trip to Europe for next month’s Winter Olympics, raising questions about how American athletes will be received in Milano Cortina while representing their country on the world’s stage. Trump roiled European leaders with a push to acquire Greenland, sparred over trade…
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The New York Democrat broke down what the homeland security secretary really means and warned of the “uncorking of chaos” by the Trump administration.

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Even one of Trump’s onetime lawyers criticized the event.

The actor said she was “outraged and sickened” by current events in a new video posted on Instagram.