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In Minneapolis yesterday, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. The shooting occurred on a residential street in south Minneapolis (less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020).Trump claimed that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the ICE agent. Kristi Noem claimed that “our officers were out trying to get a car stuck out of the snow when they were surrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protesters.” Several videos taken from different angles (see, for example, here) and several analyses of the videos (see

Bulwark editor Sam Stein and podcaster Tim Miller blasted the Trump administration for knowingly deploying a “trigger-happy” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent back onto streets to kill a Minneapolis mother.That agent, Jonathan Ross, was based out of the agency’s St. Paul field office before he shot Renee Good in the face and killed her Wednesday, setting off a political firestorm and a flurry of defensive accusations from the White House.Vice President JD Vance slammed the press for c

President Donald Trump is now softly reiterating his call for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado to give him the award when she visits the United States next week.During a Thursday interview with Trump in the White House, Fox News host Sean Hannity pointed out that Machado — the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year despite Trump's relentless campaign for the award — has said publicly that she wants to "give it to him and share it with him." Hannity also pointed out that Machado

Fresh off of demolishing the East Wing of the White House, President Donald Trump is now considering tampering with the West Wing and building a one-story addition, reports Daily Beast,“Despite previously declaring that the project would ‘not interfere’ with the existing White House building, the president’s lead architect revealed on Thursday that another level could soon be built above the West Wing Colonnade — the iconic columned walkway connecting the O

Vice President JD Vance's comments on U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross' shooting of Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Renee Nicole Good are now attracting harsh criticism from one of his fellow Catholics. In a Thursday column, National Catholic Reporter (NCR) digital editor John Grosso took Vance — who converted to Catholicism in 2019 — to task for saying that Good's death was "of her own making." Gro

Politico reports giant energy companies are worried about President Donald Trump pressuring them to invest resources in Venezuela and are quietly planning to ignore him.Trump is reportedly now pressing American oil giants to spend “billions of dollars reopening Venezuela,” after he sent troops to arrest Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. However, Politico reported Thursday that the companies with the most resources and experience to drill in the South American nation are on the fence about the proje

Zeteo reports two White House officials and an anonymous military source say President Donald Trump's administration privately plans to go scorched-earth if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are arrested or prosecuted for breaking the law.“As one senior Trump administration official describes it, the mandate was clear: Don’t give an inch, and protect the accused agents ‘no matter what,’” write Zeteo correspondents Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker. “Two of the sources add that within the past year, President [Donald] Trump himself has privately said that if one of his

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have reportedly shot two people in Portland, Oregon.On Thursday, ABC affiliate station KATU reported that an unnamed man and woman were shot by federal agents around the 10200 block of Southeast Main Street at approximately 2:20 PM Pacific Time. The Portland Police Department received a call from a man requesting help near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside. When officers arrived, they saw a man and a woman who had both suffered gunshot wounds.Police later confirmed that CBP agents were involved in the shooting, and that the two victims were being treate

After President Donald Trump called out several Republicans by name and demanded they be run out of office, most are shrugging off his threat. One is even poking fun at the president.Semafor reported Thursday that despite Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) all risking Trump's ire to vote with Democrats for a war powers resolution blocking Trump's ability to wage war in Venezuela, they all stand by their decisio

Two Colorado lawmakers say President Donald Trump is harming his own voters after appearing to veto an important clean water bill to slight a personal enemy.“Sadly, this veto is part of a broader campaign of attacks against our state,” wrote Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) in a Thursday op-ed for MS NOW.Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) previously accused Trump of blocking a non-controvers