Jan 08 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. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch 3:53 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. Continue watching
Jan 07 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. Continue reading
Jan 07 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. Continue reading
Jan 06 2,000 federal agents sent to Minneapolis area to carry out 'largest immigration operation ever,' ICE says By Rebecca Santana, Michael Balsamo, Associated Press The surge dramatically expands the federal law enforcement footprint in Minnesota amid heightened political and community tensions. Continue reading
Jan 05 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz won't run for a third term By Steve Karnowski, Bill Barrow, Associated Press Walz, Democrats' 2024 candidate for vice president, said in a statement Monday that he believes he would have won another term but decided “that I can’t give a political campaign my all” after what he described as an “extraordinarily difficult… Continue reading
Dec 31 What to know about Trump administration freezing federal child care funds By Charlotte Kramon, Associated Press, Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press/Report for America States will have to provide more verification for the child care centers that receive funds from the Child Care and Development Fund, according to a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson. Continue reading
Dec 29 Noem says Homeland Security is investigating fraud in Minneapolis By Associated Press Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday posted a video on the social platform X showing DHS officers going into an unidentified business and questioning the person working behind the counter. Noem said that officers were “conducting a massive investigation… Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch 7:09 Fraud scandals and Trump's rhetoric escalate fears in Minnesota's Somali community By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Sam Lane, Simeon Lancaster President Trump has taken aim at Minnesota’s Somali community, with xenophobic remarks and calls for their removal from the U.S. It coincides with a new ICE operation in the Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro… Continue watching
Sep 26 Political divide stalls Minnesota gun control efforts a month after deadly church shooting By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press As Minnesota mourned a mass shooting at a church that left two schoolchildren dead and 21 people injured, Gov. Tim Walz promised to call a special session for the Legislature to pass solutions to gun violence and school safety. But a month later, talks… Continue reading