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WATCH: Leavitt doubts whether Gov. Walz's offer to speak with Trump is 'genuine'

By Liz Landers, Dan Cooney

Leavitt noted that, as of 30 minutes before Thursday’s White House news briefing, Trump had not spoken with Walz.

Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to put down protests in Minneapolis

By Steve Karnowski, Hallie Golden, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the rarely used federal law to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.

Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop Trump's immigration crackdown

By Rebecca Santana, Mark Vancleave, Associated Press

The lawsuit alleges that Operation Metro Surge violates federal law because it’s arbitrary and capricious, since it says other states aren’t seeing commensurate crackdowns.

Minnesota leaders and protesters push for accountability after ICE shooting

By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Sam Lane, Mary Fecteau, Frank Carlson

There are protests in Minnesota against ICE and the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. Local officials, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, are hammering ICE and its aggressive presence in the community. State officials also said that federal investigators were…

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WATCH: Walz says Minnesota must play a role in investigation into ICE's killing of Renee Good

By Rebecca Santana, Tim Sullivan, Associated Press

Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.

ICE shooting reinforces Minnesota's grim role as Trump's target

By Nicholas Riccardi, Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

Trump has focused on several blue states in the divide-and-conquer campaign that has characterized his second term, and now he has turned to Minnesota, where the killing of George Floyd and the protests it sparked stained his first presidency.

State, city leaders clash with feds after deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis

By Liz Landers, Winston Wilde

State and local officials in Minneapolis are outraged after an immigration and customs enforcement agent fatally shot a woman there. Federal officials accused that woman of trying to run over officers with a vehicle, claiming the shooting was in self-defense.

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What we know so far about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis

By Joshua Barajas

The full picture of what exactly happened is still coming into focus, including through eyewitness accounts and videos. But federal officials are describing the killing in starkly different terms from state and local officials.

WATCH: Gov. Walz holds briefing after ICE agent shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis

By Associated Press

The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration.