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Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, bit off the finger of a Homeland Security Investigations officer's finger before he was shot dead Saturday in Minneapolis, according to Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "In Minneapolis, these rioters attacked our law enforcement officer and one of them bit off our HSI officer's finger," she wrote on X. "He will lose his finger." Family members say Pretti was an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in his city. He had participated in protests following the killing of...

The United States announced Sunday another strike against what it called a drug-running boat, this time attacking an alleged Colombian leftist rebel vessel in an apparent expansion of a US military operation off the coasts of South America. Word of the attack from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth came as President Donald Trump said the United States is halting financial aid to Colombia, accusing its president of condoning the production of drugs. This took embattled relations between two longstanding allies to a new low. The United States has had warships deployed in the Caribbean off Venezuela since August and attacked...

Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr Turns out 'MAGA Hat dude' BREAKING CAPITOL WINDOW on J6 and INJURING COPS with Pepper Spray IS ANTIFA like Trumpers In J6 video chanted 'Antifa'! Trumpers were right: Capitol Breechers were infiltrators posing as Trumpers! He voted Obama 2x, never Trump.