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“Given the option of being able to kidnap any world leader, U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey told the Kyiv Independent he would "take (Russian President Vladimir) Putin into custody and hold him account for war crimes.”

WASHINGTON — The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary. In a jaw-dropping interview, the guard described how American forces wiped out hundreds of fighters without losing a single soldier, using technology unlike anything he has ever seen — or heard. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation,” the guard said. “The next thing we...

The left's "Minneapolis mom" narrative is fading fast as more information about Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed Wednesday after she used her vehicle as a weapon against federal law enforcement officers, comes to light. Far from being a new-in-town gentle soul, Good was reportedly a rabidly anti-Trump radical who had been trained as an "ICE Watch warrior," and presumably knew what she was doing when she behaved aggressively toward the officers. Democrats and their leftist foot soldiers have spent the last day tying themselves into knots trying to cast blame for Good's death on the ICE agent...

The same party that brought you the “Maryland Dad” narrative for Kilmar Abrego Garcia now wants to sell you the narrative of the innocent “Minnesota Mom" for Renee Nicole Good. Good is not a MS-13 gang member or a human trafficker like Abrego Garcia, but she’s not the scared and confused mom who just happened to find herself caught up in an ICE operation that she didn't understand and panicked. According to a new report, she was “an anti-ICE ‘warrior’ and was part of a group of activists who worked to ‘document and resist’ the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.”(snip)...

Yesterday, several videos went viral of Renee Nicole Macklin Good blocking ICE from driving down a neighborhood street in Minneapolis with a vehicle during an ICE raid. In one of the videos, several ICE agents are seen approaching the vehicle where Good was sitting in the driver’s seat. Her Honda SUV was parked perpendicular to traffic. Two ICE agents approach the window of the vehicle and demand that she move. She backs up, repositions her tires so she is aiming directly at the ICE agent standing to her right, and points her vehicle at the ICE agent in front of...

Details are scarce at this hour, but local media outlets are reporting that two people were shot by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents earlier in the day on Thursday in Portland, Oregon.From KATU:U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.[...]Portland police said at a 2:24 p.m., they had learned that a man who had been shot called to request help near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside. Arriving officers found a man and a woman wounded from apparent gunshot wounds. Police confirmed federal agents...

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A blood-covered woman who identified herself as the wife of Renee Nicole Good hysterically blamed herself for her partner’s killing at the hands of ICE agents, gut-wrenching footage shows. The woman was filmed distraught and sobbing just steps from Good’s wrecked car in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, as a neighbor who heard the commotion asked her what happened. “I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” the woman said through sobs. “They just shot my wife.”

The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities, city leaders have said. But the Trump administration has called her a "domestic terrorist". Good's death has sparked protests across the country, with many people holding signs that read "Justice for Renee". ... A fundraiser for Good's family, which was set up with a target of $50,000...

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump has filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court asking to be reimbursed for more than $6.2 million in attorneys’ fees from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Prosecutor Pete Skandalakis announced in November that he would not pursue charges against the president or more than a dozen of his allies. Skandalakis, who heads the state’s non-partisan Prosecuting Attorneys Council, took charge of the case on Nov. 14. Willis was removed from the case after a romantic relationship with her special prosecutor was revealed.

The grieving wife of a woman shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota broke down in tears and blamed herself for the tragedy. Harrowing footage from the scene showed the unidentified woman in tears over the shooting death of 37-year-old poet Renee Nicole Good, as she admitted encouraging Good to confront agents. 'I made her come down here, it’s my fault,' she could be heard saying at one point, through tears. 'They just shot my wife.' Witnesses have claimed Good and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot three...

Furious protesters burned the American flag on the streets of Minneapolis as the city descended into chaos after a woman was shot dead by an ICE agent. Shocking footage showed the Stars and Stripes being set aflame as hordes took to the streets on Wednesday. The protesters shouted anti-ICE chants as they burned the flag, while others threw snowballs at and physically confronted agents. The chaotic scenes came after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot in the head by an ICE agent. Tensions have reached fever pitch in the city as the Department of Homeland Security conducts its biggest...

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...

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...

Object lesson: When a corrupt government falls, every remaining aspect of that government has to be pulled out, root and branch, and every member of that illegitimate government, at the minimum, removed from any government role. And there just aren't many governments more illegitimate than the rule of Venezuela by the thug-dictator Nicolás Maduro. Now the top man and his wife are facing federal charges in the United States, but his illegal junta is still in charge of the South American nation, and already, they are seeking reprisals against anyone in Venezuela who may have supported the American raid. Venezuelan...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov Hey @HiltonHotels — why did your team in Minneapolis cancel our federal law enforcement officer and agents' reservations?

🇺🇸🇻🇪 REMINDER: SCHUMER MOCKED TRUMP IN 2020 FOR NOT REMOVING MADURO "He brags about all these things he wants to do or is doing, but his actions belie his words. Maybe the best metaphor was his claim to bring democracy to Venezuela. There was a big policy there. It flopped. If the policy was working, Juan Guaido wouldn't be in the balcony here, he'd be in Venezuela. He'd be sitting in the president's palace or at least waging a fight to win. He's here. And the president brags about his Venezuela policy? Give us a break. He hasn't brought an...

A top Venezuelan official said Sunday that the South American country’s government remains united behind ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro. “Here, the unity of the revolutionary force is more than guaranteed, and here there is only one president, whose name is Nicolas Maduro Moros,” Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said in a recording released by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. "Let no one fall for the enemy’s provocations.” Officials in Maduro's government have denounced Saturday's seizure of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as a kidnapping, Reuters reported. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has assumed interim leadership of the country but has...

Venezuela's interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, has hurled threats at Donald Trump after the capture of the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, who is now languishing in a New York federal jail. 'Never again will we be slaves, never again will we be a colony of any empire,' Rodriguez said. 'We're ready to defend Venezuela.'