A former USDA official tells HuffPost that his superiors ignored the case that would inspire today's deadly immigration crackdown. President Donald Trump even claimed Gov. Tim Walz (D) declined to run for reelection because he'd been "caught" stealing billions with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and "others of his Somali friends." But in 2020, the first Trump administration was warned by the state that the nonprofit in question, Feeding Our Future, was likely engaged in fraud, and the administration declined to get involved.
The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., his lawyer said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge.
President Donald Trump, his two eldest sons and his family business sued the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department over alleged leaks of their confidential tax information.
Israel's military has accepted that around 70,000 Palestinians were killed during the war in Gaza, after having earlier cast doubt on death tolls reported by the enclave's health officials, Israeli media reported on Friday citing senior military officials. The United Nations has long accepted death tolls recorded by health authorities in Gaza as accurate. Israel has cast doubt on the figures, arguing that the health ministry in the enclave was run by Hamas and could not be trusted. Read more
"Today, we remember and honor the lives of Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzeddine Soufiane, and Aboubaker Thabti, who were brutally murdered in the Islamophobic attack at the Centre culturel islamique de Quebec in Sainte-Foy, which also left 19 people injured. The horror of that day remains a solemn reminder of the pervasiveness of Islamophobia and the devastating consequences of hatred. Our government stands with the Muslim community against hate and remains steadfast in our commitment to build a country where Canadians of all faiths can thrive."
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"Two citizens were arrested outside an ICE facility in Texas where the Trump administration is imprisoning children, including Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was arrested after coming home from preschool. He's being detained with his father. Liam's father is a legal asylum seeker who's followed proper protocols and has no criminal record."
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A US Army unit created to train Afghan forces will operate the Combined Jungle Operations Training Course (CJOTC) in Panama. Graduates of that 21-day course will receive the US Army's "Jungle" tab.
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Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes. A letter written by Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Mazie Hirono and signed by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher Coons and Richard Blumenthal cited a ProPublica investigation that revealed Blanche owned at least $159,000 worth of crypto-related assets when he ordered an end to the work.
National leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs initially blocked a memorial planned for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. In an email obtained by The New Republic, officials at the Minneapolis VA claimed that "local leadership was instructed to pause the memorial" for Pretti, initially scheduled for Tuesday at noon. Two employees also told The Washington Post that a memorial for Pretti had been initially blocked, but another service is scheduled for next week. In response to an inquiry Wednesday about why the first memorial was canceled, Minneapolis VA Medical Center spokesperson Melanie Nelson told TNR that the organization was still working to schedule an event.
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee is facing charges after a Minnesota state trooper found him passed out in his car this week, "covered in vomit," according to a report. Read more
Nine progressive prosecutors from cities around the US are launching a coalition to prosecute federal law enforcement officers who violate state laws called "Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach" (AKA FAFO). Elected prosecutors from Philadelphia, Hennepin County, MN, Austin; Dallas; Pima County in Arizona, which includes Tucson; and several cities in Virginia: Fairfax, Falls Church and Arlington, Portsmouth, and Norfolk, have so far joined FAFO.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a court filing Monday, defended its subpoena seeking potential witnesses and victims of antisemitism at the university and said the request is not unusual for such investigations. The commission is seeking employees' names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses to further an investigation it began in 2023 over the school's treatment of Jewish faculty and other employees regarding antisemitism complaints following Hamas' attack on Israel. "The EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent " and indeed, over the objections " of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry," the university wrote in its filing.
Rock legend Neil Young gifted his entire music archive to Greenland residents.
Young, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said he hoped the offering "will ease some of the unwarranted stress ... you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government," Pitchfork reported Tuesday.
Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan Follow The Minnesota Star Tribune confirmed with Alex Pretti's family that the man in this video is indeed Alex Pretti. Filmed by @thenewsmovement on January 13, two weeks before Pretti was shot by ICE:
A list of 30 agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) shows that 29 of them have been charged with sexual offenses, and two-thirds committed sexual crimes against children, according to a list published by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance and the Pacific Antifascist Collective. "The off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Keith Porter, Jr. has a history of racism, child abuse, and explosive tempers. Despite murdering Porter in cold blood, Brian Palacios remains free without charge and employed by ICE," the groups' website states, invoking the name of Porter, a Black 43-year-old father of two who was fatally shot by an ICE officer on New Year's Eve outside his apartment complex
Senate Democrats are finally showing a united front after federal immigration agents killed two people in Minneapolis. Read more
