The news that a woman in Minneapolis had been gunned down by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, and that her parents lived in Valley Falls, Kansas, reached Bill Klenklen on Wednesday night when his daughter called.

Then, about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, his neighbor Tim Ganger walked across the street.

“The only thing I know is he came ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal immigration agent identified as Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, 37, on the morning of Jan. 7 during an enforcement operation near E. 34th Street and Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis, just blocks from where George Floyd was killed by police more than five years ago.

Here’s what we know about the shooting...Read more

Travelers from several countries visiting the United States for tourism and business purposes are now being required to pay a “visa bond” between $5,000 to $15,000 that experts say is designed to drown immigrants and travelers in bureaucracy.

The State Department expanded its visa bond program this week to more than three dozen new ...Read more

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday proposed a $373.8 million increase in the education budget, pitching a historic investment in schools even as the state heads into a looming $1.4 billion budget deficit expected to dominate the next legislative session.

The proposal would raise per-pupil spending to $11,811, up from just over $9,200 allocated...Read more

WASHINGTON — A band of House Republicans bucked party leaders to join Democrats in passing a measure to restore expired Obamacare subsidies through the end of President Donald Trump’s term, as rising health care costs drive midterm election anxieties.

The House voted 230-196 Thursday to send a three-year extension of the expired tax credits...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A day after a woman in Minneapolis was killed by an immigration federal agent, clergy leaders and advocates gathered on the steps of the downtown Los Angeles federal immigration building to honor her and denounce the killing.

Holding printed photos of Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot in the head by a federal immigration agent, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook the North Bay early Thursday morning shortly after midnight, waking up people across the region.

The quake, centered in a rural area five miles east of Cloverdale in Sonoma County, was the second-largest earthquake anywhere in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area in the past 12 months.

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is threatening to withhold $50 million in federal funding from North Carolina after determining that the state hasn’t followed policy when it comes to issuing nondomiciled commercial driver’s licenses.

Nondomiciled CDL’s are intended to be issued to foreign nationals who are in the United States ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday authorized the Minnesota National Guard to be staged and ready should they be needed to assist local law enforcement with any unrest following the federal agent’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday.

The Guard would be tasked with “protecting critical infrastructure and ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick accused some of his Republican colleagues of being “intellectually dishonest” about the Affordable Care Act, hours before he and other Republicans broke party lines to pass a bill to restore recently expired healthcare subsidies.

The Democratic-led bill passed the House by a vote of 230 to 196 after Fitzpatrick ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz is proclaiming Friday to be a “Day of Unity” and is inviting all Minnesotans and Americans to participate in acts of service to remember and honor Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old fatally shoot in Minneapolis by a federal agent.

“Renee Nicole Good was a loving mother, partner, daughter, and neighbor whose life was defined ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In recent months, Idaho lawmakers and state leaders have expressed angst over a projected state budget deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. They have deliberated how to close the gap. Cut spending by slashing state programs? Reverse tax cuts enacted in the 2025 legislative session?

During a sometimes-tense discussion ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Renee Nicole Good was a wife, an award-winning poet and a creative mother of three who liked to make “messy art” with her two sons and daughter.

On Wednesday, she became known worldwide as the woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. The action, which occurred on a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, after breaking with his party to praise President Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela this week, on Thursday gave Democrats a critical vote to advance a resolution aimed at reining in the president's future military endeavors in the country.

The resolution calls for the direct removal of U.S. military ...Read more

NASA is opting to bring home the four members of Crew-11 early after one of them suffered a medical incident on board the International Space Station.

Without revealing their identity, NASA said the astronaut experienced the issue on Wednesday afternoon, and is in stable condition.

“NASA has set the standard for safety and security and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents.

Little public ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A long-delayed plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack will temporarily hang in the Senate side, after a resolution was adopted by unanimous consent Thursday afternoon.

“We owe them eternal gratitude, and this nation is stronger because of them,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said on the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Republican lawmakers are a super-minority in the California Legislature, but that didn’t stop them from providing full-throated criticism of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final State of the State speech on Thursday, which they labeled an overly-optimistic and backslapping affair that glossed over budget deficits and economic ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Thursday banning cellphones in New Jersey public schools from “bell to bell” in an effort to help students focus on learning.

New Jersey joins a growing number of states that have enacted tighter cellphone restrictions in schools to remove distractions. Pennsylvania is considering a similar measure, ...Read more

Sen. Matt Nunn, R-Sadieville, on Friday plans to introduce a bill to “strengthen protections for Kentucky’s teachers” from student violence, a news release said.

The bill calls for:

• Expulsion from school for one year for physically injuring school staff.

• Required reporting of all attempted assaults on staff.

• Criminal ...Read more