Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, an alt-right militia, announced in November 2025 that he will relaunch the group after it disbanded following his prison sentence in 2023.

Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes committed during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors say that a 55-year-old man sprayed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar with vinegar as she spoke Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, and that he had said in the past that he wished someone would kill her.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis, was charged Thursday in U.S. District Court with forcibly ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Additional people have been charged with stealing government property from federal agents’ vandalized vehicles during unrest after an ICE officer shot and wounded a man in north Minneapolis two weeks ago.

Charged in U.S. District Court in Minnesota with aiding and abetting the willful destruction of public property are: James ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Waymo self-driving taxi struck a child near a Santa Monica elementary school during drop-off hours, triggering an investigation into the incident by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The child sustained minor injuries, Waymo said. There were other children, a crossing guard and several double-parked vehicles ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — All but two of Philadelphia’s 17 City Council members have sponsored a package of legislation aimed at limiting ICE operations in the city, a level of support that could ensure the measures become law even if they are opposed by the mayor.

The 15 co-sponsors, confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson for Council member Kendra ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An anti-abortion group founder and activist has asked a judge to dismiss charges connected to a shooting at a Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic last November, according to court documents.

On Jan. 12, attorneys for Mark Baumgartner filed a motion to dismiss charges against their client based on South Carolina’s “Stand ...Read more

CHICAGO — While her husband was at work Monday evening, Eliza Morales planned to meet the 19-year-old who had purchased the couple’s pickup truck on Facebook Marketplace at her Downers Grove apartment.

In mere minutes, the transaction turned deadly. The teen brutally stabbed the 30-year-old pregnant mother around 70 times because he was “...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding information from the Grapevine-Colleyville school district over its involvement with the Islamic Games of North America.

The Islamic Games athletic event had been scheduled for May 9-10 at Colleyville Heritage High School until the district ended negotiations last week, saying...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — School leaders and lawmakers are worried about the health of the 5-year-old Minnesota boy whose detention with his father at a Texas immigration facility has drawn international attention.

Liam Conejo Ramos, a Columbia Heights preschooler, was taken by federal agents Jan. 20 along with his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, ...Read more

In his first press conference since taking over federal immigration operations in Minnesota after the killing of two U.S. citizens, border policy adviser Tom Homan said street operations in the state would wind down if the agents are allowed into the local jails instead.

“The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon ...Read more

In a major development in the legal fight over deportation protections for Venezuelans, a federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully moved to end the measure for hundreds of thousands of people from the South American country living in the United States.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San ...Read more

A powerful winter storm that swept across the United States in late January 2026, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power in freezing temperatures for days, has been linked to at least 80 deaths. And several East Coast states are under a new winter storm warning just days later.

The causes of the deaths and injuries ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA had planned to run its wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission at Florida's Kennedy Space Center as early as Saturday, but it will have to thread the needle before temperatures drop below the agency’s limits for the tanking test. Any delays could cut into February launch opportunities for what would be the first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration defended Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s participation in an FBI raid of a Georgia county election office to investigate the 2020 election, while senior Democrats raised concerns about her involvement.

An administration official confirmed that Gabbard was on-site during the Wednesday ...Read more

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will reopen Venezuela’s airspace to commercial flights, clearing the way for airlines to resume service to the South American country following the apprehension earlier this month of former strongman Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces in a predawn raid in Caracas.

Speaking at the White House, Trump ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that, after conversations with numerous political and law enforcement leaders in Minnesota, a plan is in the works to reduce the number of federal agents in the area.

That drawdown, Homan added, will require the cooperation of Minnesota law enforcement and political leaders with ...Read more

In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled.

“We had sold our ...Read more

Only 33 of Colorado’s 64 counties have an emergency shelter program specifically for survivors of domestic violence. In the greater Denver area, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, there are only five shelter programs for survivors.

I study the policies and programs that serve...Read more

Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don’t know what you’re doing – or even spit at you.

Unimaginable, right? But that’s what nurses experience when patients or their families do the eye roll or hit, bite or spit at them. What’s more, a bedside nurse may repeatedly endure bad ...Read more