Kristi Noem may have to fall on her sword, but a major reset of how ICE operations in Minneapolis are conducted is the best way to get the country back on track in terms of enforcing immigration law.

The White House said Monday that border czar Tom Homan will oversee Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota and head to ...Read more

California has hundreds of miles of coastline, yet melted snow from other states remains an important source of its water. Perhaps a needed change is on the horizon — one that would even help Nevada.

Interstate negotiations over the Colorado River appear deadlocked. The three Lower Basin states, including Nevada, remain at odds with their ...Read more

“Alexa, will you marry me?” When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reported in 2016 that over 250,000 people had proposed to their Alexa devices, commentators laughed it off. But by 2026, people have said, “I do,” to avatars, chatbots and robots in ceremonies around the world.

The American Marriage Ministries, which certifies marriage ...Read more

This time last year, the hottest Chinese tech product was DeepSeek’s market-moving artificial intelligence model. In 2026, it’s something far simpler: an app for people worried about dying alone.

The bluntly named “Are You Dead?” platform rocketed to the top of the app-store charts in China before going viral globally. The interface is...Read more

With the Newsom Administration and Democrats in charge of the California Legislature slashing funding for a key homeless shelter program by 75% over a two-year period, the Capitol is devoid of any substantive state-local partnership to turn the tide on this chronic crisis. But there is, at least, one idea.

The association that represents ...Read more

Florida woman Pam Bondi has really distinguished herself this time. The U.S. attorney general who famously botched the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files has written a letter to Minnesota’s governor — on Saturday, the same day nurse Alex Pretti was shot dead by immigration agents — in what can only be interpreted as an extortion attempt...Read more

January would have marked the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide — that is, until 2022, when the court overturned it. Since then, abortion has been banned in 13 states and severely limited in 10 others.

Yet anti-abortion activists remain frustrated, in some cases even more so ...Read more

Liberal Democrats who for years covered up Joe Biden’s mental decline are now raising questions about President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior and fitness for office – even invoking the Constitution to remove him from power.

“Invoke the 25th Amendment,” Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey – who is facing a Democratic primary challenge –...Read more

Here are a couple of points about the business community of Minnesota you may not have known.

First, it's home to a surprisingly large cadre of 17 major corporations, members of Fortune's roster of the 500 largest U.S. companies.

Some of America's best-known consumer companies, including UnitedHealth Group, Target, Best Buy, 3M and General ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When a California governor goes to Europe and lectures world leaders that they must “grow a spine” and “stand tall” against the American president, I wince.

Not that they shouldn’t, nor that President Donald Trump doesn’t deserve almost any nasty thing said about him. It just seems a tad arrogant.

A world ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- For as long as I can remember, the word “Russia” was shorthand for “oppression.” I grew up at the end of the Cold War and celebrated the unraveling of the Soviet Union, easily conflating the nightly news with Rocky IV.

But I learned that the world isn’t as black-and-white as Cold War propaganda suggested. Oppression can...Read more

A man stands to the side in Minneapolis, recording what is happening in front of him with his phone. Nearby, federal immigration agents deploy pepper spray on a female protester. The man steps forward. What began as observation becomes intervention.

Within moments, several agents move toward him and pin him to the ground. They shoot at him ...Read more

“Americans are not liking what they see,” Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said Sunday of the Saturday morning events in Minneapolis that resulted in the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer.

Ya think, governor?

So what do you and your fellow Republicans plan to do about a situation that has gone so far ...Read more

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared … Everyone is scared … No one can keep out of the conflict … the end...Read more

Enough is enough. With two people now dead in Minneapolis, it’s time for everyone involved to do what’s necessary to defuse the tension and to avoid further tragedy.

On Saturday, ICE agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse who was involved in a protest and became embroiled in a confrontation with immigration ...Read more

A few months ago, I made three bold predictions in print: (1) President Donald Trump will be impeached for a third time; (2) If Democrats win in the midterms, Trump will not accept the results of the election; and (3) Trump will not complete the final three years of his term. How are these predictions faring?

For predictions (1) and (3), it’s...Read more

Right now, as you read this, Iranian protesters are facing live ammunition in Tehran’s streets. Women risk execution for removing their hijabs. Some 12,000 to 20,000 people are feared dead from the protest crackdown. The regime is vulnerable, weakened by strikes on its nuclear program, facing economic collapse, confronting a population that ...Read more

This month, as Americans who rely on Affordable Care Act plans opened their first bills of 2026 and experienced sticker shock, President Donald Trump began pitching them on an alternative: his “Great Healthcare Plan,” which would shift government support away from subsidizing insurance coverage toward putting money directly into accounts ...Read more

Nearly two years ago, this page endorsed bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by Illinois congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, to force the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest the wildly popular app’s platform in the U.S. or see it shut down.

The bill became law with President Joe Biden’s signature and survived a Supreme Court challenge. But ...Read more

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.

Terms like “hate speech” and “ racism�...Read more