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President Donald Trump appears to have moved forward with a major change in strategy after hearing about the idea on Fox News Monday morning, according to an analysis of the events from leading media reporter Brian Stelter.On Monday, Trump announced that he would be sending border official Tom Homan, one of his leading advisors on immigration enforcement, to Minnesota. While Trump only mentioned allegations of welfare fraud in the state, the move comes amid the historically large ICE and CBP enforcement surge in the

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – which states that Americans' right to bear arms "for the security of a free state ... not be infringed" — has now put both Americans and law enforcement in a uniquely precarious position.That's according to a Monday analysis by the Atlantic's Barry Friedman and Brandon Del Pozo, who wrote that the federal agents' recent killing of 37 year-old Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Al

An Iowa state lawmaker has become the second Republican candidate seeking major office to quit their campaign on Monday. The exit comes amid a broader pattern of GOP departures, even as candidates from both parties have begun dropping out of competitive races.“After careful consideration and discussion with my family, I have made the difficult but clear decision to suspend my campaign for Congress,” State Representative Shannon Lundgren announced. A self-described “America First Wife, Mom and Grandma, Original Trump Supporter,” Lundgren did not me

U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino is now reportedly leaving Minneapolis, Minnesota along with several other Border Patrol officials, according to a new report.CNN's Priscilla Alvarez reported Monday that Bovino and an unnamed number of Border Patrol agents will be called back to their original offices before they were deployed as part of Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. Alvarez called it "a major shift in strategy" by President Donald Trump's administration."Gregory Bovino has been a key player in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown an

Republican pollster Frank Luntz says President Donald Trump has finally seen the light on the economic woes of the American public.Speaking to the Washington Post, Luntz commented, "I think he’s woken up to where things are now. He believes he can change the perception by his tenacity. But affordability is a very stubborn issue.”Trump is headed to Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, where he'll deliver a speech on the affordability crisis, an issue where the Post reporter said he's struggled in the past. "Again and again, Trump has tried to stay focused on domestic economic

One prominent conservative writer is arguing that the White House's response to the fatal shooting of 37 year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota last weekend marks a turning point in how President Donald Trump's administration views its relationship with the law.In a Monday conversation hosted the New York Times' Matthew Rose, conservative columnist David French – speaking alongside the Times' Lydia Polgreen and Michelle Goldberg — asserted that Pretti's death is mere

Donald Trump on Monday renewed his attack on polling operations as his approval ratings continue to plummet, this time even roping in conservative stalwarts like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.Throughout his second term, the president has consistently argued that stories and poll results that paint him in an overtly negative light are "fake." While this has been a common tactic over the course of his entire political career, more recently, he has started claiming that these stories and polls should be criminal acts, a move that would violate the Constitution's protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.In

Judges in Minnesota are said to be "inundated" with new immigration cases amid Donald Trump's statewide crackdown, with several excoriating the administration for arrests they say are "sometimes flagrantly" breaking the law, according to a new report from Politico.On Friday, Politico's Kyle Cheney detailed the "hundreds of emergency lawsuits from immigrants targeted by ICE" in Minnesota's Twin Cities area during the agency's massive "Operation Metro Surge" crackdown. According to Cheney's findings, "in all but a handful o

Over the weekend several top officials in President Donald Trump's administration argued that it was unacceptable to bring a gun to a protest. When press secretary Karoline Leavitt was corned on it during Monday's press breifing, however, she stumbled in her answer. The reporter who asked the question cited the Fox News interview with FBI Director Kash Patel, who said, “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have that right to break the law and incite viole

When Donald Trump narrowly won the United States' 2024 presidential election, polls showed that the economy — especially inflation — was a high priority for Trump voters. Another top concern was immigration, with many voters calling for the deportation of violent criminals who were in the U.S. illegally.But Trump's immigration policies are now drawing widespread criticism following the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens during immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis: first motorist Renee Nicole Good by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross on January 7, then nurse Alex Pretti — who worked in an intensive care unit (ICU) in a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital — by