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Rep. Omar, other Congress members denied entry at ICE detention facility
MINNEAPOLIS — Three of Minnesota’s Democratic members of Congress were denied a request to tour a federal immigration detention facility Saturday morning.
Reps. Kelly Morrison, Angie Craig and Ilhan Omar arrived at the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling about 9:30 a.m. to tour the operations. The representatives say they were invited...Read more
ICE agent Jonathan Ross' law enforcement, military career dates back 2 decades
MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renee Good on a south Minneapolis street served in a multitude of law enforcement roles during a two-decade career that also included military service.
Federal court records show Jonathan Ross’ career includes U.S. military experience and mostly high-level ...Read more
Trump signs order to firewall Venezuela oil revenue held in US
President Donald Trump took another step toward controlling future sales of Venezuelan oil and its proceeds by declaring a national emergency and issuing a directive meant to block claims on the revenue.
The executive order Trump signed Saturday is meant to safeguard Venezuelan oil revenue held in U.S. Treasury accounts, blocking it from the ...Read more
How a 40-second encounter led an ICE agent to shoot and kill a Twin Cities resident
MINNEAPOLIS — The lives of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross intersected on Jan. 7 as car horns blared, sirens wailed and whistles shrieked.
It was a brief encounter, just 40 seconds on the slippery streets of south Minneapolis in the first week of the new year. Cellphones recorded it from nearly every angle. ...Read more
Political prisoner release promise stalls amid internal power struggle in Venezuela
An announcement by Venezuela’s interim government that it would free a “substantial number” of political prisoners — a move publicly celebrated by President Donald Trump as a breakthrough — has stalled almost as soon as it began, exposing a fierce internal power struggle inside the fractured Chavista regime following the capture of ...Read more
Dozens feared dead as Iran hit by largest protests in years
The largest anti-government demonstrations to rock Iran in recent years intensified Friday night, fueling fears of growing fatalities as authorities battle to suppress the protests.
Social media footage trickling out of Iran amid a blanket shutdown of internet and telecommunications networks showed hundreds of thousands marching and chanting ...Read more
Minneapolis mayor says ICE agent 'walked away with hop in his step' after shooting
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said ICE agent Jonathan Ross “walked away with a hop in his step” after reviewing new footage of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good.
“He held onto his cellphone. I think that speaks for itself,” Frey said during an appearance on ABC’s “World News Tonight.”
Frey’s comments were in direct ...Read more
Literary world mourns loss of Renee Nicole Good's poetry
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus was reading her poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” to students in a south Minneapolis grade school classroom in October when an impatient voice piped up.
“This is a long poem,” the boy said.
The little voice belonged to the son of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old ...Read more
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth tours Long Beach rocket factory
LOS ANGELES — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is taking a tour of U.S. defense contractors, on Friday visited a Long Beach rocket maker, where he told workers they are key to President Donald Trump's vision of military supremacy.
Hegseth stopped by a manufacturing plant operated by Rocket Lab, an emerging company that builds satellites...Read more
City: 30 arrests, some damage caused during raucous ICE protest in downtown Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS — A raucous protest in downtown Minneapolis against ramped-up immigration enforcement Jan. 9 led to arrests and modest property damage but no reported injuries, city officials say.
Two days after an ICE agent killed 37-year-old Renee Good on Portland Avenue in Minneapolis, about a thousand people converged outside the Canopy by ...Read more
Trump's Venezuela, Greenland threats make Canada fear it's next
For months, many Canadians hoped Donald Trump had lost interest in making their country the 51st U.S. state — his plate full with turning Washington and the global trading system upside down.
Those hopes are fading.
The shock capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s ramped-up talk of seizing Greenland have rattled Canada...Read more
Trump's call for 10% credit card cap aims at banks' crown jewels
President Donald Trump’s demand that credit card lenders cap interest rates at 10% for a year takes aim at one of the banking industry’s crown jewels — a business line they guard doggedly.
After a week of jarring markets with announcements aimed at making homes more affordable, the president swiveled to another consumer burden: the cost ...Read more
'It is scary': Oak-killing beetle significantly expanding range in SoCal
LOS ANGELES — A tiny beetle responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of oak trees in Southern California has reached Ventura County, marking a troubling expansion.
This is the farthest north the goldspotted oak borer has been found in the state. Given the less-than-one-half-inch insect’s track record of devastating oaks since being ...Read more
Maduro's legal team is still up in the air a week after arrest
While the world has been consumed by the geopolitical ramifications of the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a struggle is playing out over who will represent the ousted leader in his criminal case in New York.
When Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty in the narco-terrorism case during a brief court appearance Monday, he ...Read more
The story behind a colonial-era gravesite hidden in NJ residential neighborhood
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Giancarlo Brugnolo moved to Cherry Hill’s Woodcrest neighborhood in 2014, but it wasn’t until last year that he heard about the centuries-old cemetery just a stone’s throw away from his house. When friends first mentioned it, he assumed they were joking.
“I was like, ‘What are you talking about? What graveyard?�...Read more
Trump casts Maduro as 'narco-terrorist' driving American deaths. Experts have questions
In explaining the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump accused Maduro and his wife of conducting a "campaign of deadly narco-terrorism against the United States and its citizens," and Maduro of being "the kingpin of a vast criminal network responsible for trafficking colossal amounts of ...Read more
In dozens of cases, Philly's federal judges have found Trump's mandatory detention policy unlawful
PHILADELPHIA — Federal judges in Philadelphia have ruled dozens of times against a Trump administration policy that mandates detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants — joining a nationwide wave of decisions criticizing the government for applying the policy in unlawful ways.
In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. District ...Read more
Trump calls for one-year cap on credit card rates at 10%
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%, effective Jan. 20, without specifying details.
“Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be “ripped off” by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which ...Read more
Bear under Altadena home for 6 weeks is finally evicted by paintball guns, electrified mat
LOS ANGELES — Ken Johnson found himself in a situation that was impossible to, well, bear.
A 550-pound male black bear wedged itself into the crawl space underneath Johnson's Altadena home just after Thanksgiving. Officials tried air horns, cherry and caramel flavored bait and even a trap that caught the wrong bear.
By Christmas, the ...Read more
Exxon calls Venezuela 'uninvestable' as Trump pushes oil plan
WASHINGTON — Major U.S. oil executives expressed caution about President Donald Trump’s push for them to spend at least $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela, with the head of Exxon Mobil Corp. calling the nation currently “uninvestable.”
Trump convened nearly 20 industry representatives in the East Room of the White House on Friday and ...Read more
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