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MINNEAPOLIS — The head of a major Twin Cities police union slammed local officials for blocking cooperation between local cops and ICE and Border Patrol agents – saying if they had been involved, “there would be no loss of life.”It comes as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz agreed to have his top cop work with President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan after he rushed to Minneapolis Monday — after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was sidelined.St. Paul Police Federation President Mark Ross blamed state and local officials for the anti-ICE protest violence — saying that if highly trained cops were allowed...

Teenage victims of a sicko teacher at the progressive Saint Ann’s School say he used school resources to obtain nude photographs of the two teens — and sent them across the school during class in an act of “revenge porn,” a new federal lawsuit claims. The two teens — both 13 at the time — bring new details about the convicted sexual predator and former “Jeopardy!” star, Winston Nguyen, who was sentenced to seven years in prison last spring. The lawsuit also claims the school and specific employees failed to investigate Nguyen before his hiring, and retaliated against those who...

Following a month where the trade deficit hit its lowest level since early 2009, it shot up to $56.8 billion, an increase of 94.6% from October...On a year-over-year basis, the deficit through November stood at $839.5 billion, or about 4% higher than the same period in 2024.

Wild video shows a wheel falling off a British Airways flight just after it took off from a Las Vegas airport. Flight BA274 had just taken off from Harry Reid International Airport en route to the UK at around 8:45 p.m. Monday when sparks could be seen flying out of the right landing gear. As the plane started to ascend, it retracted its landing gear — just for one of the wheels to fall off and onto the runway. Despite the scare, the flight continued and “landed safely” at London Heathrow Airport nine hours later, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

In this exciting episode, Pastor Jack simplifies how we are to view the book of Revelation and how you can’t fully understand the Old Testament without this special and unique book. Revelation unveils how the promises, patterns, and prophecies of the Old Testament find their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus and God’s final restoration of all things. Tune in to this beginner's guide as we look forward to diving deeper into the book of Revelation moving forward. Video is 31:15 long.

Brothers Hamid and Vahid Arzanlou were two well-known entrepreneurs in Iran’s furniture industry who despite their wealth still chose to raise their voices in anti-government protests this month and paid with their lives. During mass killings by security forces in the Tehranpars area east of Tehran on January 9, Hamid Arzanlou was shot in the head and Vahid was shot twice in the neck while trying to save him, according to sources close to the family. Both brothers later died from their wounds. At their funeral, a third brother Kiomars Arzanlou asked mourners to clap if they believed his brothers...

SPOKANE, Wash. - 18-year-old Brenna Doyle, accused of sending threatening voicemails to a Minneapolis FBI Agent, appeared in Federal Court Wednesday for a detention hearing. (snip) According to court documents, on January 14 FBI agents in Minneapolis were called to a shooting scene. While investigating, a large group of protestors entered the area, prompting FBI agents to leave on foot and abandon two vehicles. Court documents allege these vehicles were later vandalized, and personal information of several FBI agents was discovered inside. Court documents state that this information was posted on social media. Doyle, a Spokane resident, allegedly accessed this...

New video appears to show Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

In a Jan. 28 announcement on Truth Social, Trump named Colin McDonald as the first-ever Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement, a brand-new division at the Department of Justice created to hunt down, expose, and prosecute the fraud networks that have been bleeding American taxpayers dry for years. “I created this Division to catch and stop FRAUDSTERS that have been STEALING from the American People,” Trump wrote, pointing to massive schemes recently uncovered in states like Minnesota and California that he says have siphoned off hundreds of billions of dollars from public programs. This is not another symbolic task...

The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building. Video shared by Danish media outlet TV2 showed a security guard removing the flags honoring the 44 Danish soldiers who died in the conflict from planters located outside the embassy on Tuesday. The Danish Veteran Association slammed the move as “unnecessary and insensitive” in a statement on social media Wednesday. Carsten Rasmussen, national chairman of the association, said he understood the angry reaction but urged a measured response. “When they go low, we go high — and...

FBI agents executed a court-authorized search warrant on Wednesday at a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility, investigating a state that was at the center of voter fraud complaints and election litigation following the 2020 presidential election. Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center at 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road in southwest Atlanta. The facility, which opened in 2023, was designed to consolidate and streamline the county’s election operations. “Yes, I can confirm FBI Atlanta is executing a court-authorized law enforcement action at 5600 Campleton Fairburn Rd.,” an FBI Atlanta spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Our investigation...

The U visa was designed to help law enforcement agencies detect, investigate, and prosecute crimes by offering legal status to unlawfully present victims of serious crimes who might otherwise be reluctant to have contact with authorities, in exchange for their cooperation.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — If there’s been a soundtrack to life in Minneapolis in recent weeks, it’s the shrieking whistles and honking horns of thousands of people following immigration agents across the city. They are the ever-moving shadow of the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge. They are teachers, scientists and stay-at-home parents. They own small businesses and wait tables. Their network is sprawling, often anonymous and with few overall objectives beyond helping immigrants, warning of approaching agents or filming videos to show the world what is happening. And it’s clear they will continue despite the White House striking a more conciliatory...

The last decade or so of American politics has inspired a lot of political statements from the people of Hollywood, who are pretty clearly as freaked out by what feel like ongoing and inexorable shifts toward both national and global authoritarianism as the rest of us. But few have been as blunt about it as Giancarlo Esposito was this week, stepping up on his soapbox at the Sundance Film Festival and declaring, “This is time for a revolution—and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting.” Esposito, at the festival to promote his new Jon Turturro movie The Only Living...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. border czar Tom Homan, newly installed as commander of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, said on Thursday that federal agents would focus on "targeted, strategic enforcement operations," marking a shift in the aggressive tactics that have drawn national outrage. Homan also said he intended to reduce the 3,000-strong force of agents deployed to the city after what he said were productive meetings with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other local leaders. "We can do better," he said. "We made some significant gains, significant coordination and cooperation, and...

Actor Giancarlo Esposito crystallized today’s Democrat Party by admitting he is willing to see people die to fulfill his revolution. This is a direct quote, per the far-left Variety, and these are the words of a narcissistic sociopath. Block quotes are Variety’s… This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting. We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of...

A Somali American woman who went viral for describing her identity as "bananas and rice" was one of 16 people arrested in Minneapolis and accused of participating in a riot as federal authorities escalated enforcement after clashes with protesters. The woman, Nasra Ahmed, 23, of Minnesota, rose to national prominence after remarks she made during a Jan. 21 news conference comparing Somali American identity to a cultural mix she described as "bananas and rice," a phrase that quickly spread across social media. "It’s kind of like bananas and rice," Ahmed said. "People don’t think you can eat bananas with rice,...

The federal government has arrested 16 people for allegedly assaulting or impeding federal officers, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday. Those arrested allegedly assaulted, resisted, or impeded federal officers, the attorney general posted on social media. One notable arrest was the “bananas and rice” woman, Nasra Ahmed. The arrests follow an immigration blitz in Minneapolis that has targeted violent illegal immigrants. Ahmed had previously claimed that she was attacked by federal agents.

As Britain national identity has been eroded under leftist Labour party rule, other institutions like the ultra-woke Church of England (CoE) are helping speed up the collapse process. Today (28), Sarah Mullally was confirmed as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to spiritually lead the CoE. In the video below, as the female speaker says ‘no person has appeared in opposition to the confirmation’, a furious male voice shouts ‘I did!’, and goes on a rant until security removes the person. The images show that not even half the seats in the Cathedral are taken in this...

Good news, everybody: We’ve figured out why Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois is very concerned about AI deepfakes. It’s not because he believes that fake images generated by ChatGPT or Grok are going to confuse smart people, or even the average person. He’s like your dim, aged Uncle Dick from Springfield, who wants to ban high-speed internet because he doesn’t get why we can’t just stick to AOL after he spent long learning it. He doesn’t understand these socials medians things with the Facebookers and the Instantgrammars and whatnot. Why can’t he just stick to “Keyword: PBS?” On Wednesday,...