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Tensions in Minneapolis went from bad to worse when, on Saturday, January 24, 37-year-old Alex Pretti — an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at a Veterans Affairs (VA) — was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents. Pretti's death followed the fatal shooting of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent earlier in the month.In an op-ed published by the New York Times on January 27, conservative Rep. Mike Lawler (R-New York), criticizes Democratic immigration policy but is also critical of the Trump Administration. And he calls for th

The United States had a classified plan to conquer Canada in 1930 and a new report is pointing to that plan as further proof that the relationship between the two allies has always been on wobbly ground. "War Plan Red" would focus on a multipronged approach using "ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments," Canadian reporter Leyland Cecco wrote for The Guardian. "First, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance."

During his speech at the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the United States is "the hottest country anywhere in the world." But on Friday, January 23 — the last day of the event — reporting from Bloomberg News contradicted that claim. And Katie Koch, CEO of fund manager TCW Group, told Bloomberg that investors "are looking to diversify away from U.S. assets," adding, "I would kind of describe it as quiet quitting of U.S. bonds."In an article published

Donald Trump's "purge" of his perceived enemies within the GOP may have been successful in displaying his continued power over the party, but come the midterm elections, it could prove costly for him, according to an analysis from The Hill.In a piece published Tuesday morning, Chris Stirewalt, a political editor for The Hill, noted that of the 17 Republican members of the House and Senate who voted in favor of Trump's second impeachment, only three now remain in office, and only one — Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — is not facing a serious reelection challenge later this year. Murkowski, he added, might not have survived th

The new year has already brought several opportunities for President Donald Trump to embrace his "T.A.C.O." nickname: "Trump Always Chickens Out."Writing for CNN, Stephen Collinson listed recent examples of Trump backing down under pressure.Less than a week ago, former top Trump aide Steve Bannon told The A

Shockwaves from the shooting death of an anti-ICE Minneapolis protester over the weekend are reverberating throughout the Republican Party and even dividing conservative leaders within Florida — the most ICE-friendly state in the nation.The cracks in the resounding GOP support for the Department of Homeland Security are both rare and a first under President Donald Trump, whose promise of mass deportations helped him win in November 2024. But the tactics employed to carry out that agenda have begun to raise concerns, even among the president’s most ardent of supporters.“Distorting, politicizing, slandering — justifying what happened to Alex Pretti contradicts the American values the administration campaigned on,” Republican state Sen. Ileana Garcia

A key Trump official is facing the possibility of being held in contempt, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney, after a leading judge in Minnesota lashed the administration for failure to comply with court orders in a new filing from Monday.According to filing documents shared to social media by Cheney, Judge Patrick J. Schlitz, the chief federal judge for the District of Minnesota, ordered Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE under Donald Trump, to appear in court on Friday to answer

One of the few advantages of being as conspicuous as I am is that many people come up to me whom I don’t know, to give me their views about what’s happening in America — as if I’m a free-floating focus group. This morning, I was at a restaurant counter finishing my breakfast when a middle-aged man sat down next to me, turned to me, and said, “I don’t want to intrude.”He just had just done so, so I put down my knife and fork, wiped my mouth with my napkin, turned toward him, and asked, “May I help you?”“I’ve been a life-long Republican,” he said, “but the events of the past weeks have caused me to leave the Republican Party.”“I’m happy to hear that,” I said with

With President Donald Trump suffering low approval ratings in a long list of polls, New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall declares — in a column/essay published on January 27 — "The moment is ripe to deal a debilitating blow to Trumpism and the MAGA movement."But Edsall goes on to stress that in the months ahead, Democrats will need to do a lot more than voice their disdain for Trump — they will also need to realize that they aren't popular either and articulate a winning vision of their own."President Trump's favorability rating

Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, Greg Bovino, and even Whiskey Pete Hegseth are all out there trying to tell us that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist who came to a protest with the intention to “massacre” ICE agents.But that’s not their real message.Back in 1980, I went into Uganda during the Civil War against Idi Amin to take over a refugee camp up in the Karamoja region. When I was leaving the country, going through the Entebbe airport (which had only intermittent electricity and considerable damage from the war), I was confronted by three armed men, two of them Tanzanian soldiers (who’d just successfully occupied the country as Amin fled to Saudi Arabia) and one a local Ugandan policeman.