‘We have our own medics,’ bystanders were told after ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis

A report from the Heritage Foundation, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family,” urges President Donald Trump and lawmakers “to save and restore the American family” through massive tax credits for families with more children while capping alimony payments, enacting strict work requirements on social benefit programs, discouraging online dating, creating marriage “bootcamp” classes and more.

Four people held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody died within a four-day span, according to agency press releases, adding to what advocates say is one of the deadliest years on record for deaths in ICE detention. At least 32 individuals died in ICE custody in 2025, according to records compiled by researchers and advocacy groups, raising renewed concerns about medical care, oversight and detention conditions as immigration arrests have increased nationwide.

Two people were injured in a shooting involving a federal agent in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges

Abandoning checks on staff and officers was ‘a dereliction of the Met’s duty to keep London safe’, says home secretary

Yoon Jong-gye, the founder of Mexican Chicken and widely regarded as the creator of Korea’s signature sweet-and-spicy fried chicken, has died after a long illne

The company’s Mogul app will introduce pop-culture heads to the wonderful world of sports betting.

President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

Ever since the final episode of Stranger Things streamed on Netflix on New Year’s Eve, a fan theory dubbed “Conformity Gate” has been circulating on social media.

Let’s be honest with ourselves: if a broadcaster or newspaper had started publishing thousands of non-consensual, sexually explicit images of women or — even worse — of children, politicians and regulators would be out for blood. It would be a front-page, ongoing scandal and the organization responsible would be quickly brought to heel because it would be so outrageous. But when Elon Musk and his chatbot Grok do it, there’s somehow little more than crickets. Politicians are alarmed and say something needs to be done, but can’t quite say what that something is. Regulators say they’re investigating, as thousands more women and children are victimized while the richest man in the world continues treating the whole situation like a big game — or simulation. Since Musk took over Twitter and mutated it into X back in 2022, the platform has taken a hard turn to the right, blasting conspiratorial and right-wing opinions into its users feed and encouraging the kind of vile discourses Musk seems to delight in consuming and engaging with. It has restored far-right accounts and sought to explicitly shape the narratives on issues to align with Musk’s increasingly extreme political positions. There has been reason to take action against X for a long time. But if spinning up a chatbot that enables the creation of child pornography and for any user to undress any woman on the platform at their whim isn’t enough to finally ban it, what will ever force regulators and political leaders to take action?

Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.” The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents. Little public information is available about Ross, described only by federal officials as “an experienced” officer. On Wednesday morning, Ross was embedded with a group of federal agents on a targeted crackdown in south Minneapolis when Renee Nicole Good was shot. ICE has not reported the identity of the shooter and did not respond to request for comment for this story.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

The New York Times published a story covering the death of trans athlete, Lia Smith, but takes no responsibility for the ways their coverage of trans issues has fed the moral panic that caused it.

Federal authorities say an ICE agent, “fearing for his his life” killed a protester during a confrontation Wednesday in south Minneapolis. City officials are expected to speak at 12:15 p.m. A witness to Wednesday’s shooting in south Minneapolis told MPR News that she saw a federal agent shoot a woman several times. Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

The U.S. Department of Justice has suffered another setback in its efforts to subpoena providers of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in order to obtain patient information and details about the treatments they were provided. U.S. Magistrate Judge Cyrus Chung in Denver on Monday recommended that an administrative subpoena the Justice Department served on Children’s Hospital Colorado in July be quashed because it was issued for the improper purpose of pressuring the pediatric hospital into ending transgender care. "The Executive Branch cannot engage in new lawmaking on its own and, thus, until and unless Congress creates a statute justifying it, a purpose of investigating the legal activity of gender-affirming care — let alone ending it — cannot ground a legitimate investigation," he wrote. Chung said he was joining a "chorus" of judges nationally who have blocked the Justice Department's efforts to subpoena providers of gender-affirming care, after at least five other judges in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington state ruled against it in similar cases.

Austin Peay State University will pay one of its professors $500,000 after initially firing him for a social media post made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death.

If you made a million dollars robbing a bank, and were caught by the police, would you get away with merely promising never to do it again? Forget about how you would probably have to spend time in jail: Would you be able to keep the million dollars? Unfortunately for you, intrepid bank robber, you are not a corporation with a phalanx of lobbyists and a law enforcement adversary that doesn’t want to crimp your style. On Monday, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division issued a holiday news dump, settling with algorithmic price-setting company RealPage, which was accused of colluding with landlords to raise rents. None of the nearly dozen states that have sued RealPage agreed to the settlement, and for good reason: It does not ask for any disgorgement (a fancy term for giving back ill-gotten gains), nor does it include an admission of guilt. The settlement superficially adds restrictions to RealPage’s use of nonpublic information to raise prices. But again, this is the bank robber promising not to do it again, rather than returning the loot. And RealPage has already explored new horizons in creative price-setting maneuvers. In fact, RealPage’s attorney said that the settlement “bless[es] the legality of RealPage’s prior and planned product changes.”