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Mayor Jacob Frey demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave Minneapolis in an explicit tirade just hours after a woman who was allegedly filming an anti-raid protest was shot dead inside a car by federal agents. The democratic politician told Donald Trump's ICE agents to 'get the f**k out of Minneapolis' after a woman, 37, was killed at a protest Wednesday. Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot. But ICE insisted the woman tried to use the SUV as a deadly weapon. Frey reiterated, after...

Multiple pro-life activists and a Christian conservative leader are criticizing President Donald Trump for saying Tuesday that Republicans need to be “flexible” in their demands for stricter rules preventing tax dollars from being used to fund abortions through healthcare subsidies. Trump discussed his views on healthcare while speaking at a retreat for Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives as U.S. Congress ponders a path forward on healthcare policy following the lapse of Affordable Care Act subsidies. He urged the conservative lawmakers to “let the money go in the healthcare account or however you do it” and “let the money...

Many are rushing to judgement. Some falsely concluded after watching the video, perhaps due to the smoke signature that the agent at the window fired the shot, but that's not the case. There was another agent not as clearly seen who was directly in the path of the vehicle. This pic shows one agent at the window who did not fire. The arrow points to the lesser seen agent in the path of the vehicle who did fire. This cap shows the agent who fired beginning to draw - the front wheels of the vehicle clearly pointed in his direction....

Nick Reiner smiled eerily in court today as his high-profile criminal defense lawyer sensationally removed himself from the case. The dramatic departure suggests the Reiner family is pulling financial support from Nick's legal battle after the shocking murders of their parents. Nick, 32, appeared behind a glass screen in brown jail garb with a shaved head, staring blankly through proceedings and occasionally letting out a chilling grin and looked directly into the packed Downtown LA courtroom. He was scheduled to be arraigned on two counts of first-degree murder at Los Angeles Superior Court's Stanley Mosk Courthouse and was widely expected...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's top adviser ⁠hailed "concrete results" on Wednesday as talks in Paris on peace and security guarantees for Ukraine entered their second day, vowing Kyiv's national interests would be protected. Ukraine is seeking strong backing from allies in the event of a ceasefire with Russia while also pushing ⁠back on a Kremlin demand that it give up its eastern Donbas region in exchange ​for peace. "Not all information can be public, but there are already concrete results, (and) our work continues," Kyrylo Budanov, who was appointed head of Zelenskyy's office last week, said ⁠on the Telegram app. "Ukrainian...

President Donald Trump wants to bar major investors from purchasing homes, as a housing shortage pushes home prices further out of reach for many Americans."I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it," Trump said in a social media post. "People live in homes, not corporations."He said he would further elaborate on the proposal at a speech in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of chief executives, foreign leaders, and ultra-wealthy figures. No details were provided on how the ban...

ICE detained a man who has been living in the U.S. since he was a baby, remanding him into federal custody after a routine appointment with immigration officials. Chong Leng Vue, 45, was brought to the U.S. as a baby from a refugee camp in Thailand. His family was one of many that fled Laos during the Secret War and was granted asylum in the U.S.

'We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.' Frey highlighted how 'people are being hurt' and 'families are being ripped apart' by immigration officials.

Key Points * Headlight brightness has doubled in a decade, with widespread driver complaints and frustration. * Regulatory loopholes allow manufacturers to increase brightness because of outdated federal standards. * Regulations capping maximum brightness for LED headlights have still not been formulated. ============================================================= Illuminated headlights on an urban street at night The Bright Headlights Crisis Is Far From Over If you find yourself squinting while driving at night, you’re not alone. The IIHS reports that average headlight brightness has roughly doubled in the last decade. The NHTSA receives growing consumer complaints regarding headlight brightness. There’s a real, widespread anger out...

Elon Musk, the visionary former head of DOGE, amplified a brave citizen journalist’s exposé on rampant fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community under Tim Walz’s lax oversight. Young conservative Nick Shirley documented empty daycares and shell companies siphoning billions in taxpayer funds for housing, food, and vehicles. For context, most estimates place the total amount of fraud at $80-100 billion statewide, tied to scandals like Feeding Our Future. Building on this point, Musk declared that fraud in California, New York, and Illinois is far worse and estimated nationwide waste at ~10% of the federal budget. Starting the interaction, one of the...

Trump to ban large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes Trump said that he would discuss the announcement further at his speech in Davos, Switzerland, in two weeks. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is taking immediate steps to ban large institutional investors from purchasing additional single-family homes, arguing that corporate ownership has pushed homeownership out of reach for many Americans. In a post shared Tuesday afternoon, Trump said buying and owning a home was long considered “the pinnacle of the American Dream,” but claimed that record-high inflation under the Biden administration and congressional Democrats has made that...

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Iranian opposition figure and son of Iran’s last monarch, has issued his first public call to action since the start of the current wave of nationwide protests, urging Iranians to take part in a coordinated act of protest later this week. In a video message released on Tuesday, coinciding with the tenth day of widespread demonstrations across Iran, Pahlavi called on citizens to chant slogans simultaneously on Thursday and Friday evenings, whether in the streets or from their homes. His appeal comes amid one of the most sustained periods of civil unrest in recent years, driven...

@RepNancyMace BREAKING: We just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee. Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization and deportation. Marrying a sibling is illegal in every state. We intend to get to the bottom of it. END THE FRAUD. DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT ILHAN OMAR.

News outlets report a Canadian woman is seeking assisted suicide after being unable to receive the medical treatment she desperately needs for eight years. Jolene Van Alstine from Saskatchewan was diagnosed with a rare condition called normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism that causes severe bone pain, nausea, and vomiting. Despite undergoing three surgeries, she still needs specialized care to locate and remove an overactive parathyroid gland. However, no surgeon is available in her province to perform the procedure, and she cannot get a referral to see specialists outside Saskatchewan. After going without proper treatment for so long, Van Alstine applied for Canada’s...

The Wyoming Supreme Court has struck down two pro-life laws banning most abortions, allowing the killing of unborn babies to continue. In a 4-1 ruling on Tuesday, the court declared the bans unconstitutional, citing a 2012 state constitutional amendment that protects the right to make health care decisions, despite the fact that killing babies in abortions is a denial of health care for unborn babies. The laws, passed in 2023, included a comprehensive prohibition on abortion with exceptions for rape, incest or to save the mother’s life, and the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills. “A woman has a...

Bayer's (BAYGn.DE), opens new tab Monsanto sued COVID-19 vaccine makers Pfizer (PFE.N), opens new tab, BioNTech (22UAy.DE), opens new tab and Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab in Delaware federal court on Tuesday for allegedly misusing its messenger RNA technology in manufacturing their vaccines, a Bayer spokesperson confirmed.

Zohran Mamdani is cornered and forced to admit that he has no security clearance and was not “briefed” on arrest of Maduro.Someone on his team opened X and read a couple of tweets to him. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ngeD5N0oEM— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 6, 2026

Chaos erupted on Wednesday after ICE fatally shot a rioter who attempted to run over agents in Minneapolis. Video posted to X shows the moment a female rioter was shot dead as she tried to run over federal agents in an attempt to kill them. The Department of Homeland Security called in an “act of domestic terrorism.” Full statement from DHS: Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act...

Independent journalist Nick Shirley's back at it, and his second Minnesota fraud video packs the same explosive punch as the first. That original 42-minute bombshell ripped the lid off Somali-run daycares that are raking in millions from taxpayers while sitting empty, while the Walz administration did nothing to stop it. The legacy media have been aggressively trying to discredit Shirley and his reporting, but he’s not backing down. In fact, he's doubling down with fresh footage that makes his first video look like small beans. Last month, after his team dug up over $110 million in shady dealings in just...

Multiple law enforcement agencies have swarmed the scene of a shooting involving ICE in south Minneapolis on Wednesday that left one person dead. DHS says the woman shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has died. In a statement to FOX 9, ICE says officers were conducting its operation when protesters began blocking officers. "One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism," the statement reads. "An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety...