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An F.B.I. agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis this month has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross, according to one of the people. Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings.

The account 'Blue Lives Matter' has been working very hard to fight back against the Left, specifically the Leftists following ICE agents around and making their jobs very difficult. They started by having retired law enforcement and military drive around and appear to be ICE. Then, the Leftists follow the decoys and leave the real agents alone to do their job. Recently, they came up with this new plan. -snip Leftists started publishing phone numbers people could call and report 'ICE activity'. When activity was reported, a whole bunch of protestors would descend and harass the ICE officers. 'Blue Lives...

General Motors has announced that production of the newly updated 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV will end after approximately 18 months to make way for a gas-powered Buick crossover at its Kansas manufacturing facility. Inside EVs reports that General Motors has confirmed plans to discontinue production of the heavily updated 2027 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle after a limited production run of about one and a half years. The decision will allow the automaker to repurpose its Fairfax, Kansas, factory for manufacturing the Buick Envision, a gas-powered crossover currently built in China that will be reshored to the United States. A Chevrolet...

Donald Trump’s strangely artificial Board of Peace event in Davos on Thursday looked like a Hollywood rendering of an international summit. Everything was too slick, faintly uncanny. Like an AI-generated image, it was photo-real yet failed the most basic human glance test. Too perfect. No wabi-sabi. The first tell was visual: the set, complete with a crisp new institutional logo: a globe on a shield, flanked by olive branches. It carried the unmistakable whiff of Grok or ChatGPT, but the strangeness went deeper than design. The speeches themselves were weirdly messianic and utopian. The most peculiar part was the show-within-a-show:...

The ‘nothing ever happens’ people seem to be, sadly, correct about Iran thus far, although one hopes that the brutal Islamic Republic might still be overthrown. It’s hard to know what to think, and at times like this we all turn to the experts to give their analysis of what might happen and what might follow. Foreign policy expertise is hard work, because it requires both a specific knowledge of the national culture and the relative strength of personalities. Because there are so many factors involved, analysts frequently get things completely wrong, the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles being the notorious...

Keir Starmer has tonight been forced to stall the Bill which would hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius. The legislation enabling the deal was expected to be debated in the Lords on Monday. But this evening, it was revealed that the votes have been delayed amid parliamentary ping-pong and a backlash from the Americans. Both the Conservatives and Reform UK are keen to take credit for the pause in the bill, under which Britain would give up the archipelago and lease back the Diego Garcia base. The Conservative case for credit is on the legislative front. Peers like Lord...

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump's Navy Under Secretary Hung Cao moves to welcome back and correct the records of sailors and Marines discharged for REFUSING the COVID vaccine LONG OVERDUE! These patriots deserve it! "To the sailors and Marines who were wrongfully discharged during COVID, we failed you. We will never allow this to happen again, not on my watch. We are ready for you to come back, and we want to correct your records." "You are warriors of conscience, and we need people like you back in the force to accomplish peace through strength. We are righting this wrong, and...

Protesters barricaded themselves in San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria's office, demanding police policies to shield the community from federal immigration agents. The group had barricaded themselves in the mayor's office for hours today, chanting for the cameras "Hey Todd, listen to your people". The San Diego police moved in and hauled the protestors away in handcuffs.

🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis PUMMELS Gavin Newsom as a traitor to America "He's frolicking in Davos attacking the president, URGING foreign leaders to rally against Trump while he's on FOREIGN SOIL!" 💯 "That picture of him with Alex Soros, I thought was very fitting because this governor has Soros'd California!" "It used to be the place everyone wanted to go, and now they're losing population and continue to do so because they have enacted those left-wing policies that have FAILED." Gavin is a national EMBARRASSMENT!

🚨 BREAKING: AG Bondi just went HARD after Don Lemon, promising she’s “COMING AFTER” him LOCK HIM UP, @AGPamBondi! 🔥 “Don Lemon is an ONLINE AGITATOR... We are coming after you if you participated in that. I don't care If you're a failed CNN journalist, you have no right to do that in this country. We don't live in a third world country,” Bondi said

Maine is a 90% white state, and only about 2% black. Yet somehow, from 2021 through 2024, at least 90% of new Medicaid agencies in Maine were created by people with African or Arabic names. They collected more than $190 million. What are the odds that even half of this is legitimate?

CBS News’ marquee morning and evening shows — including the network’s “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” — are heading for record-low ratings this month, The Post has learned.“CBS Evening News,” hosted by newly-minted anchor Tony Dokoupil, is on pace for its lowest-rated January since at least 2000, according to Nielsen data. The show has averaged 4.3 million viewers, with 560,000 of them in the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographicBy comparison, the program got a massive ratings spike back in 2006 when Katie Couric debuted as anchor, drawing 14 million viewers just that night.Dokoupil’s low monthly average comes despite posting a...

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop demanding medical records that identify young patients who received gender-affirming care from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, ending a legal standoff with families who sued to block a subpoena that some feared would be used to criminally prosecute the parents of transgender kids.The agreement, filed in federal court Thursday, allows the hospital to withhold certain records and redact personal information from others who underwent gender-affirming treatments, which Trump administration officials have compared to child mutilation despite support for such care by the nation’s major medical associations.Several parents of CHLA patients expressed profound...

St. Paul, Minnesota — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison accused the Trump administration of turning immigration enforcement into "politics and retribution," describing what he called a "surge" of federal agents in the Twin Cities as a constitutional crisis, and said he has seen "no evidence" of a federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier this month. "In fact, I have evidence to the contrary that the federal government is investigating the death of Renee Good at all," Ellison told CBS News in an interview Friday. He added, "Todd Blanche, who...

Canada's Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory - but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York."You can take a map of continental Europe, put it on the Canadian Arctic, and there's room to spare," Pierre Leblanc, the former commander of the Canadian Forces Northern Area told the BBC. "And that environment is extremely dangerous."Standing at the defence of that massive landmass is an aging string of early warning radars, eight staffed military bases and about 100 full-time Coast Guard personnel...

"I think we should let them come down into the US" US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant...oil pipeline from Alberta... Russian attacks across Ukraine late tonight... Another deadly US attack on a boat... The threat of Iran being attacked this weekend high...killing Iran's religious and political leadersship would be a likely scenario... Multiple airlines cancelling flights in the Middle East... Thousands marched in Minneapolis today protesting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan acknowledging Israel..."is looking for an opportunity to strike Iran"... In Spain the Public Prosecutor's Office declining to prosecute singer Julio Iglesias... The United States adding...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China.The 34-page document, the first since 2022, was highly political for a military blueprint, criticizing partners from Europe to Asia for relying on previous U.S. administrations to subsidize their defense. It called for “a sharp shift — in approach, focus, and tone.” That translated to a blunt assessment that allies would take on more of the burden countering...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church released her own video of her arrest Friday after the White House posted a manipulated image online.The White House on Thursday posted a picture on its X page of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong crying with her hands behind her back as she was escorted by a blurred person wearing a badge. The photo was captioned in all caps: “Arrested far-left agitator Nekima Levy Armstrong for orchestrating church riots in Minnesota.”A photo posted by Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem’s...

ice President JD Vance and conservative influencer Laura Loomer traded jabs on social media Friday after Loomer questioned why Republicans were “pushing more abortion messaging” ahead of the November midterms. “Why is the GOP pushing more abortion messaging in a midterm election year? Didn’t they learn their lesson in 2018? Loomer wrote on the social platform X on Friday afternoon. “Trump doesn’t like it when the GOP focuses on abortion,” she added. “How many times does he have to say this?” “Trump gets it,” Loomer concluded, predicting that the GOP “will blow the midterms.”

Politico, leaning entirely on the results of a focus group consisting of nine (count 'em, NINE) people has been able to somehow determine what they see as a big political trend out there reflected in the title of this story on Friday by Samuel Benson, "These Gen-Z Trump voters don’t want JD Vance in 2028."The subtitle reinforces what looks to be a dire (as projected by Politico based on the focus group NINE) political future for Vance: "A recent focus group of 18- to 24-year-old Trump voters suggests weaknesses for Vance among young Republicans."