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What happened when Border Patrol agents showed up at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High School
MINNEAPOLIS — A clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at Roosevelt High School in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7 has attracted national attention and social media commentary, and led former Gov. Jesse Ventura, a Roosevelt graduate, to condemn the federal agents’ actions in a viral video.
The confrontation occurred less than 3 ...Read more
As Venezuela's Maduro falls, Cubans and others in Florida are watching
TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro is being felt far beyond Venezuela.
In Florida, communities with ties to other authoritarian-led nations in Central and South America say the move to arrest Venezuela’s president could reshape immigration and regional stability.
Those like Jaime Arellano, who have firsthand experience with ...Read more
US may lift some Venezuela sanctions soon, Bessent tells Reuters
The U.S. may lift additional sanctions on Venezuela as early as next week to facilitate oil sales, Reuters reported, citing an interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
“We’re de-sanctioning the oil that’s going to be sold,” Bessent was quoted as telling the news agency. He didn’t identify which curbs may be removed, the ...Read more
NASA targets Artemis II rollout to pad, details launch options
ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA could be sending a crew on the Orion spacecraft out past the moon in less than a month if everything falls into place. But first the agency has to get its rocket to the launch pad.
That could as early as next Saturday when the mobile launcher topped with the Space Launch System rocket and Orion could make the 4-mile slow ...Read more
Elon Musk says X to make algorithm open source in 7 days
Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.
“This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed,” Musk, who owns X, said in a ...Read more
Honduran President Xiomara Castro orders vote recount, requests Trump meeting
Honduran President Xiomara Castro ordered a recount of November’s presidential election that was won by Nasry “Tito” Asfura, a conservative candidate supported by Donald Trump.
Among the reasons for her decree, Castro said the electoral council has refused to count 4,774 electoral ballots and also to review 292 challenges. She said her ...Read more
What ICE agents can and can't do -- and what legal rights the public has during encounters
MINNEAPOLIS — As ICE conducts what it describes as the “largest immigration effort ever” in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, federal agents have been questioning and arresting people inside homes, vehicles and businesses.
On Thursday, Jan. 8, Bridget Keller joined hundreds of others at Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis seeking answers ...Read more
Reps. Omar, Morrison, Craig 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 the morning of Jan. 10. Federal officials say they needed to make request seven days in advance.
Reps. Kelly Morrison, Angie Craig and Ilhan Omar arrived at the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling ...Read more
Mamdani doubles down amid criticism he was slow to condemn pro-Hamas chants at Queens synagogue
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down amid ongoing criticism that he was too slow in denouncing pro-Hamas chants by demonstrators outside a Queens synagogue Thursday, saying that demonstrators’ screams were “wrong” and have “no place in our city.”
“There’s no place for support for a terrorist organization in...Read more
US strikes multiple ISIS targets in Syria, military says
The U.S. launched missiles in Syria on Saturday, the latest attack on Islamic State militants following the December deaths of two U.S. soldiers, according to U.S. Central Command.
The attack comes after President Donald Trump vowed to do “big damage” to the militants behind the deadly attack of two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. interpreter...Read more
'Doomsday Plane' appearance at LAX sparks online worry
LOS ANGELES — The federal government's Boeing E-4B Nightwatch — a military aircraft known, somewhat alarmingly, as the "Doomsday Plane" — touched down at Los Angeles International Airport this week, in what may be the famed aircraft's first-ever LAX landing.
Aviation enthusiasts spotted the plane on Thursday on its approach to LAX. Billed...Read more
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
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