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Minnesota Star Tribune: ICE shooting victim identified as Renee Nicole Good, 37. Mother said "her daughter is 'not part of anything like that at all,' referring to protesters challenging ICE agents."https://t.co/EcUhYa6PJL pic.twitter.com/8I7MFpytkd— Steve Lookner (@lookner) January 7, 2026

Conservative backlash to an earmark for a Somali-led organization in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district is creating a speed bump for a package of three funding bills, delaying the package’s advancement. Tucked into a funding “minibus” funding several departments and agencies, the requested community project funding would give $1,031,000 to the Somali-led organization Generation Hope’s “Justice Empowerment Initiative.” The earmark had also been backed by Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Conservative opposition to the Omar earmark held up the package’s advancement in the Rules panel overnight as conservatives and GOP leaders hashed out a solution. The House Rules...

It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs. “The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,” said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. “I have a very hard time seeing that the U.S. couldn’t get pretty much everything it wanted,” he said, adding, “if it just asked nicely.”

Chaos erupted on the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday as federal immigration enforcement agents were forced to deploy non-lethal munitions to disperse a hostile crowd of agitators after ICE fatally shot a rioter who attempted to run over agents in Minneapolis. According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the incident began while federal agents were conducting “targeted enforcement operations” in the neighborhood as part of a massive surge of 2,000 federal officers into the Twin Cities area. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin stated that a group of “rioters” had begun blocking ICE officers. The agency alleges that...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) has an unhinged meltdown during a House hearing on Minnesota fraud. Credit: C-SPAN 3 Screenshot. ============================================================= Far-Left Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) became the first Democrat to have a colossal meltdown in the House during a hearing this year after her colleagues and witnesses refused to put up with her garbage about President Trump and J6. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday held its first hearing on the widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs. At least $9 BILLION has been stolen from Minnesota taxpayers under the watch...

"When it comes down to it, my life belongs to me," says Timothy Sandefur, author of the new book, You Don't Own Me.Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In The Pursuit of Happyness, a struggling father tells his son, "Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do something." The movie is a true story about a man who overcomes homelessness and gets his dream job. In Rocky Balboa, Rocky says, "It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get...

A woke aide to New York City's new socialist mayor burst out crying when confronted over her assertion that it is racist for white people to own homes - despite her own mother owning a $1.4m Craftsman house. Cea Weaver, who runs Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Office to Protect Tenants, was overcome with emotion when confronted outside her apartment in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning. The 37-year-old began running down the street after seeing a Daily Mail reporter outside her home, then said 'No' through tears when asked if she wanted to comment on her professor mother Celia Appleton's ownership of the...

A young female manatee washed up alone on a beach in Tortuguero National Park early on January 5, sparking a coordinated effort by local authorities to save the animal. The calf, identified as a Caribbean manatee, appeared separated from its mother, with no immediate signs of her in the area. Park rangers received the first alert around 8 a.m. from visitors who spotted the stranded calf. Staff from the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) quickly arrived on site. They secured the animal to prevent further harm and began searching nearby waters and canals for the mother. Despite hours of...

The recent U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro echoes a chapter from Latin American history: the 1989 invasion of Panama and the arrest of General Manuel Noriega. Both events unfolded on January 3, separated by 36 years, and highlight Washington’s approach to removing leaders it deems threats. In 1989, U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who had served as CIA director, authorized the invasion of Panama to apprehend Noriega, the nation’s de facto ruler. Noriega, once a U.S. intelligence collaborator, faced charges in American courts for drug trafficking. The action marked the final major...

1. The left is positively turgid about this INCIDENT. They wanted a shooting and did everything they could to set the conditions that made it inevitable, from the rhetoric of the Democrat politicians to the provocations on the street. One leftist white lady dead is a small price to pay for the martyr they wanted. 2. Note that yesterday (1/6/26), the Democrats changed from “The feds are the Gestapo” to “A zillion federal officers died defending Our Democracy, and we support these heroes- here’s a plaque!” back to “The feds are the Gestapo” the very next day. 3. The law...

Sidney Kibrick, who portrayed the bad boy known as “Woim” in Our Gang comedy film shorts in the 1930s, has died. He was 97. Kibrick died Saturday at a hospital in Northridge, his daughter, Jane Lipsic, told The Hollywood Reporter. Kibrick appeared in about two dozen Our Gang/Little Rascals films, made at Hal Roach Studios and/or MGM, from 1935-39. As Woim — that’s Brooklynese for “worm” — he was the henchkid for the neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond). It was a grind making those shorts, he told Nick Thomas in a 2023 interview. “We’d have two hours of schooling in...

Is The Atlantic magazine trying to send its readers a not so secret message? Although it's profile of California Governor Gavin Newsom by Helen Lewis on Tuesday, "The Front-Runner," was generally positive it was also chock full of Gettys as in the oil fortune family of patriarch J. Paul Getty.In fact the name "Getty" was so important in Newsom's personal, business, and political background that it appeared a total of 22 times in the article (including the Getty Images attributions of five of the photos used). Although a Republican presidential hopeful so attached to a family whose fortune was based...

A 30-year-old man was slashed in the face and stabbed in the back during an early-morning attack in Times Square on Wednesday, according to the New York Police Department, as investigators continued searching for multiple suspects involved in the assault, as reported by The New York Post. Police said the attack occurred around 1:50 a.m. near the intersection of West 40th Street and Seventh Avenue, an area heavily trafficked by pedestrians even during overnight hours. Officers responding to the scene found the victim suffering from a slash wound to his face and a stab wound to his back. Authorities said...

Iranian protesters intensified nationwide demonstrations over the past 24 hours, directly appealing to President Donald Trump while chanting anti-regime slogans. Footage published Wednesday showed a protester in Tehran symbolically renaming a street after Trump, while other videos captured handwritten appeals reading, "Don’t let them kill us," Iran International reported. Holly Dagres, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute, posted the video on X stating, "Since Trump's comments about the Iran protests, I've seen numbers videos of Iranian protesters either thanking him or, in this case, renaming streets after the US president." The appeals came as demonstrators faced a widening security...

A woman claiming to be the wife of a protester shot dead in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent screamed in anguish moments after watching her die. The 37-year-old woman was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis on Wednesday after she ignored ICE agents' demands to get out of her car, reversed it and tried to drive off. ICE claimed she deliberately drove her burgundy SUV at agents but witnesses dispute that and Mayor Jacob Frey called it 'bulls**t'. Video shared online captured a witness speaking to a woman who claimed she...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Union Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a Marion woman accused of attacking a deputy. UPSO responded to a home in the Linville community after a caller stated their neighbor was trespassing on their property. Officials say the caller stated the neighbor was standing in their driveway screaming after being told to not trespass on their property on previous occasions. UPSO says when they arrived, the woman was found swimming nude in a pond on the caller’s property. According to officials, 41-year-old Erin Elizabeth Sutton initially refused to get out of the pond and speak to deputies,...

Explanation: Its popular nickname is the Spaghetti Nebula. Officially cataloged as Simeis 147 and Sharpless 2-240, it is easy to get lost following the looping and twisting filaments of this intricate supernova remnant. Seen toward the boundary of the constellations of the Bull (Taurus) and the Charioteer (Auriga), the impressive gas structure covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky, equivalent to 6 full moons. That's about 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from this powerful stellar explosion first reached the Earth...

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....