Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, suffered a broken rib during a confrontation with federal immigration officers a week before his death, CNN reported Tuesday. Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot and killed in Minneapolis by a Border Patrol agent. An intensive care nurse at the Department...
Former senior director of the National Security Council Michael Allen said Monday that President Trump will “have to do something militarily” in Iran as the scope and scale of the regime’s bloody crackdown on protests has begun to emerge. More than 6,000 people, mostly protestors, have been killed since mass demonstrations erupted across the country...
The Consumer Confidence Index fell in January to 84.5, its lowest level in more than a decade, reflecting Americans’ persistent concerns about the U.S. economy. The index — which measures how Americans feel about current and future economic conditions — fell 9.7 points this month from the upwardly revised 94.2 recorded in December. Both components...
A growing number of journalists and supporters of the Washington Post are imploring Jeff Bezos, the outlet's billionaire owner, to stop massive layoffs that are expected to hit the news organization next month. The Post, according to multiple reports, is planning to dramatically reduce the size of its staff in the coming weeks and is...
The U.S. is officially out of the Paris Agreement, a global climate pact that seeks to limit the Earth’s rising temperatures. Trump moved to pull the U.S. from the global agreement on his first day in office. However, the withdrawal takes a year to go into effect and the United Nations said last year that the move would take...
A House Republican who recently worked on appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said immigration enforcement is “not in a good place right now.” “It’s not an open and shut issue. Not that there’s anything good coming out of this, but I’m looking forward to some facts instead of, ‘Well, I saw it...
President Trump said Tuesday that Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, should not have carried a firearm on him. “You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns,” Trump told reporters before departing the White House for Iowa. The president went on to call the incident “very...
One person is in critical condition on Tuesday after a shooting involving the U.S. Border Patrol in Arivaca, Ariz., according to local authorities. "Upon arrival, crews found one patient in custody and in critical condition," the Santa Rita Fire District's public information officer said in a statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill's sister network. "SRFD...
Fox News host Dana Perino on Tuesday pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on labeling Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident shot and killed by federal immigration enforcement officers this month, as a "domestic terrorist" after administration officials differed on using the term. Perino played a clip of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) threatened to lead impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem if President Trump does not fire her amid turmoil over immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota. “Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately,” Jeffries wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “Or Democrats...
Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez expressed concerns Tuesday that the Trump administration’s tactics in its hard-line immigration crackdown could hurt the GOP heading into the midterm elections. “Politically, it’s hurting our chances at the midterms — and I’m just being frank about it,” Gimenez told Newsmax. “And the most important thing we have to do...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney doubled down on his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, during which he backed Greenland’s sovereignty and pushed back on President Trump’s tariff agenda. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney told reporters...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said he met with Border Czar Tom Homan on Tuesday and tha tthe two agree to an "ongoing dialogue" after two residents of Minneapolis were killed over the last month in separate altercations with federal law enforcement officials sent to the state as part of President Trump's deportation crackdown. “Governor...
Neil Young says he's giving Greenlanders free access to his music to help alleviate "unwarranted stress and threats" they may be experiencing due to President Trump's desire to gain sovereignty over the island. "I'm honored to give a free year's access to neilyoungarchives.com to all of our friends in Greenland," the "Heart of Gold" singer...
President Trump on Tuesday voiced support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid increased pressure lobbed by Democrats and Republicans over her initial response to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. While on his way to Iowa to deliver a speech on the economy, Trump plainly said “no” when asked if Noem would step...
Whether this was a technical failure, algorithmic chaos or something more intentional, the damage is the same. People don’t trust what they’re seeing — or not seeing.
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly on Monday said she doesn’t feel sorry for Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minnesota on Saturday. “I know I'm supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don't. I don't. Do you know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because...
Renowned composer Philip Glass has withdrawn his newest symphony from the Kennedy Center, becoming the latest artist step away from the venue in protest of President Trump’s takeover of the performing arts center. The National Symphony Orchestra was set to premiere Glass’s Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln”, a 40-minute work based on former President Abraham Lincoln’s...
The U.S. Census Bureau found that a "historic" decline in international migration has contributed greatly to slower population growth in the U.S., according to new data released Tuesday. Census data shows that population growth increased by 1.8 million, or 0.5 percent, between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. This makes it the slowest population...
The Trump administration is considering mining off Alaska’s coast, which has never been done before. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of the Interior Department, announced Tuesday that it would issue a Request for Information to gauge corporate interest and collect public input on the idea. It said that the request is not...
Rapper Kanye West said his apology for previous anti-semetic remarks, published in a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, was motivated by "remorseful feelings" that were "weighing on my spirit," in an interview published Tuesday in Vanity Fair. West, who goes by Ye, pushed back on suggestions that the apology was a...
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TikTok has settled a lawsuit accusing it and several other social media companies of designing addictive platforms shortly before the landmark case headed to trial Tuesday, according to an attorney for the plaintiffs. It is the latest company to settle the case and avoid trial, after Snapchat’s parent company similarly reached a settlement last week....
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Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis should be put on administrative leave immediately. “Local police routinely put officers involved in deadly shootings on administrative leave until an independent investigation is concluded. That should happen immediately,” Paul...
