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Politico [1/10/2026 3:20 PM, Kyle Cheney, Ben Johansen, Gregory Svirnovskiy, 13586K] reports that, a day after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quietly ordered new restrictions on congressional visits to immigration detention facilities. That order, put into effect Thursday by the Trump administration and revealed in court late Saturday, forces lawmakers to seek a week’s advance notice before conducting oversight visits to ICE facilities. That new policy appears to explain a conflict that unfolded Saturday, when three House Democrats from Minnesota were denied entry to a detention facility in the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis. Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison rebuked the agency after they were denied entry, saying their visit was intended to check on detainees amid the heightened tensions that followed Wednesday’s shooting. “The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities,” Omar wrote on X Saturday after confirming she’d been denied entry to a processing center earlier in the day. A federal judge rejected a nearly identical policy last month, noting that federal spending laws require unrestricted congressional visits to ICE detention facilities without advanced notice, a key part of congressional oversight responsibilities. In her new order, Noem said she disagreed with the decision of U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb. But she said she would work around it by using only funds from a separate law — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — to manage congressional visits, sidestepping the restrictions contained in annual spending laws. “ICE must ensure that this policy is implemented and enforced exclusively with money appropriated by OBBBA,” Noem wrote. She contended that unannounced visits created unsafe conditions for both lawmakers and ICE agents, and she accused lawmakers of creating “circus-like” publicity stunts rather than conducting “legitimate oversight.” The three lawmakers had not been informed of the new policy when they went to visit the Whipple building facility. Morrison said they were initially allowed in by local officials “and then very abruptly were told to leave.” Craig indicated that they showed Cobb’s December ruling to ICE officials but were rejected anyway because the facility’s funding was received via the One Big Beautiful Bill rather than congressional appropriations. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in a statement accused the three lawmakers of leading a group of protesters to the ICE facility “with the explicit goal of ‘hunting down’ ICE officers who they believed may have been staying there.”

NPR [1/10/2026 10:07 PM, Chandelis Duster, Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, 28013K] reports people have been taking to the streets nationwide this weekend to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics following the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week. At least 1,000 events across the U.S. were planned for Saturday and Sunday, according to Indivisible, a progressive grassroots coalition of activists helping coordinate the movement it calls "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action.” Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of Indivisible, said people are coming together to "grieve, honor those we’ve lost, and demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for far too long.” "Renee Nicole Good was a wife, a mother of three, and a member of her community. She, and the dozens of other sons, daughters, friends, siblings, parents, and community members who have been killed by ICE, should be alive today," Greenberg said in a statement on Friday. "ICE’s violence is not a statistic, it has names, families, and futures attached to it, and we refuse to look away or stay silent.” Large crowds of demonstrators carried signs and shouted "ICE out now!" as protests continued across Minneapolis on Saturday. One of those protestors, Cameron Kritikos, told NPR that he is worried that the presence of more ICE agents in the city could lead to more violence or another death. "If more ICE officers are deployed to the streets, especially a place here where there’s very clear public opposition to the terrorizing of our neighborhoods, I’m nervous that there’s going to be more violence," the 31-year grocery store worker said. "I’m nervous that there are going to be more clashes with law enforcement officials, and at the end of the day I think that’s not what anyone wants.” The night before, hundreds of city and state police officers responded to a "noise protest" in downtown Minneapolis. An estimated 1,000 people gathered Friday night, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, and 29 people were arrested. People demonstrated outside of hotels where ICE agents were believed to be staying. They chanted, played drums and banged pots. O’Hara said that a group of people split from the main protest and began damaging hotel windows. One police officer was injured from a chunk of ice that was hurled at officers, he added. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the acts of violence but praised what he said was the "vast majority" of protesters who remained peaceful, during a morning news conference. "To anyone who causes property damage or puts others in danger: you will be arrested. We are standing up to Donald Trump’s chaos not with our own brand of chaos, but with care and unity," Frey wrote on social media. Commenting on the protests, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told NPR in a statement, "the First Amendment protects speech and peaceful assembly — not rioting, assault and destruction," adding, "DHS is taking measures to uphold the rule of law and protect public safety and our officers.” The AP [1/10/2026 7:32 PM, Rebecca Santana, 31753K] reports “We’re all living in fear right now,” said Meghan Moore, a mother of two from Minneapolis who joined the protest. “ICE is creating an environment where nobody feels safe and that’s unacceptable.” On Friday night, a protest outside a Minneapolis hotel that attracted about 1,000 people turned violent as demonstrators threw ice, snow and rocks at officers, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said. One officer suffered minor injuries after being struck with a piece of ice, O’Hara said. Twenty-nine people were cited and released, he said. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stressed that while most protests have been peaceful, those who cause damage to property or put others in danger will be arrested. He faulted “agitators that are trying to rile up large crowds.” “This is what Donald Trump wants,” Frey said of the president who has demanded massive immigration enforcement efforts in several U.S. cities. “He wants us to take the bait.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz echoed the call for peace. “Trump sent thousands of armed federal officers into our state, and it took just one day for them to kill someone,” Walz said on social media. “Now he wants nothing more than to see chaos distract from that horrific action. Don’t give him what he wants.” CNN [1/11/2026 7:04 AM, Hanna Park, 18595K] reports "The response to ICE’s horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good is loud, peaceful, and inescapable," coalition member group Indivisible said in a Saturday Facebook post accompanied by images of protests in multiple cities. The demonstrations are in response to "the escalation of ICE violence in our communities," the fatal ICE shooting of Good as well as "the months-long pattern of unchecked violence and abuse in marginalized communities across America," the coalition said, noting that all gatherings are meant to be "nonviolent, lawful, and community-led" actions to honor the people who have died in ICE confrontations and demand accountability. Breitbart [1/10/2026 7:39 PM, Staff, 2416K] reports that thousands braved frigid weather and streamed toward a snow-covered park to mobilize near the scene of the shooting. They carried signs demanding “ICE OUT” of Minnesota. At the start of the protest, a voice called out, “Say her name!” The crowd shouted back: “Renee Good!” Her death has sparked strong emotions in this Democratic stronghold, and across the nation. “We got ICE shooting women in the face for self-defense. It doesn’t make any sense,” said Alex Vega, a protester in Boston. “Let them come around here with that, and let’s see what’s really going to happen to ICE.” In Philadelphia, protesters marched in the rain from City Hall to the ICE field office. Others mobilized in New York, Washington and Boston, with the gatherings drawing dozens to hundreds of demonstrators. NewsMax [1/10/2026 8:06 AM, Staff, 4109K] reports that on Friday night, throngs of demonstrators staged a "noise protest" outside a Minneapolis hotel believed to be lodging a visiting contingent of ICE agents. Video posted by activists on social media showed protesters, some wearing brightly colored inflatable costumes, creating a din by beating on drums, banging pots and pans, yelling through bullhorns and blowing on brass instruments and whistles. Others directed high-power flashlight beams at the hotel’s windows. The crowd thinned after yellow-vested state police in riot gear marched into the area and declared an unlawful ⁠assembly, CNN reported. Police were responding to "information that demonstrators were no longer peaceful and reports of damage to property," the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said on X. "Dispersal orders were given prior to arrests.". The Washington Post [1/10/2026 6:41 PM, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Angie Orellana Hernandez and Will Oremus, 24149K] reports that in Minneapolis, the demonstrations in recent days “have remained peaceful until last night,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference Saturday. O’Hara said one Friday night protest outside a hotel believed to be housing ICE agents grew tense when some individuals caused property damage and, over the course of the night, threw ice, snow and rocks at officers. Police arrested 29 people and at least one officer sustained injuries after being hit by a chunk of ice, O’Hara said. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged demonstrators to remain peaceful and to not “take the bait” into violent escalation. “We are meeting a whole lot of despair with a lot of hope,” Frey said Saturday. “We are doing right. We are being strategic. And yes, for those that aren’t being strategic … there are consequences.”

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Reuters [1/10/2026 11:59 AM, Staff, 36480K] reports that twenty-nine people were arrested overnight as police responded to protests against federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey said at a press conference on Saturday. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said one police officer was injured during the protest response.

Breitbart [1/10/2026 4:42 PM, Staff, 2416K] reports more than 1,000 protests are planned across the country following federal officer-involved shootings of a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday and two others in Portland on Thursday. The protests mostly are coordinated by the Washington, D.C.-based Indivisible Project, which largely is funded by billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, including a $3 million donation in 2023 and millions more from 2018 through at least 2022. The protests are billed as "ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action," using the acronym for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that is tasked with enforcing federal immigration laws. "This weekend, people all over are coming together, not just to mourn the lives lost to ICE violence, but to confront a pattern of harm that has torn families apart and terrorized our communities," said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, as reported by The Guardian. The protests are slated for Saturday and Sunday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, 37, who was using her SUV to block ICE officers while they worked to free their vehicles from snow while in a Minneapolis neighborhood on Wednesday. Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem afterward said Good used her vehicle as a weapon and tried to run over Ross. Protesters are demanding that Ross be arrested and charged with murder. A day later, a Border Patrol officer shot two Venezuelans during a targeted traffic stop in eastern Portland, Ore. The Venezuelans are alleged to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist organization, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

FOX News [1/10/2026 8:38 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports Fox News correspondent Matt Finn reports the latest on the escalation in Minnesota. Criminal defense attorney Donna Rotunno also shares insight on the Minneapolis ICE shooting that has sparked nationwide protests. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Daily Caller [1/10/2026 12:56 PM, Emily Kopp, 835K] reports Minneapolis law enforcement detained 30 protesters outside of two downtown hotels where they believed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were staying Friday night, local outlets reported. Video footage posted by CBS affiliate WCCO shows protesters loudly banging drums and trash cans, playing horns and clanging wooden planks against lampposts in an apparent effort to disrupt or intimidate the federal immigration agents. Law enforcement issued citations and released the protesters. The protest began at the Canopy Hotel in downtown Minneapolis at 8:00 p.m. CST Friday before moving to the Depot Renaissance Hotel where protesters damaged property, WCCO reported. A video on X posted by independent reporter Brendan Gutenschwager shows a crowd banging on a podium and chanting "no justice, no peace" in the atrium — with a glass door separating them from the lobby — while a security alarm appears to sound. By 9:45 p.m. CST the protesters had moved back to the Canopy Hotel and forced entry there as well, at which point Minneapolis PD declared an unlawful assembly and began issuing dispersal orders, according to WCCO. A video posted to X by the account shows drone footage of a large crowd outside the Canopy Hotel following officers and appearing to throw objects at them as they leave the scene. A WCCO reporter said that the protest was allowed to persist for three hours before law enforcement arrived, per the outlet’s video.

FOX News [1/10/2026 8:00 AM, Adam Sabes, 40621K] reports that the Minneapolis Police Department was absent from the block where Wednesday’s ICE shooting unfolded, allowing agitators to seize control of the street and erect makeshift barricades that kept others out of the area. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the shooting happened during an ICE enforcement operation in south Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS said agents were trying to make arrests when Renee Good allegedly used her vehicle as a weapon, which the agency said prompted a federal agent to fire shots in self-defense. Following the shooting, agitators took control of the street where the shooting took place and used makeshift barricades with chairs, trash cans, wood shipping pallets, bicycles and more. Fox News Digital went to the area surrounding the makeshift barricades and observed agitators directing traffic. No police officers were observed nearby. Minneapolis police took down the makeshift barricades early Friday morning. "F--- ICE" was spray-painted on one of the wooden shipping pallets. Another nearby sign said "ICE are terrorists.".

Daily Wire [1/10/2026 3:14 AM, Amanda Prestigiacomo, 2494K] reports Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara and other officers were reportedly chased and harassed on Friday night by expletive-hurling anti-ICE protesters. "Minneapolis Police, including Chief Brian O’Hara, were just chased down and attacked by anti-ICE rioters while escorting a squad car out of the protest area," journalist Julio Rosas posted to X on Friday night, captioning shocking FRONTLINES TPUSA video footage. One officer appears to get shoved in the back by a demonstrator before the police are showered with snowballs. The Minneapolis police run away from the protesters and don’t appear to arrest anyone. At one point, an officer is heard saying urgently, "Hey, let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!". The anti-ICE demonstrators chasing the officers can be heard yelling, "You better f*cking run!" and calling officers "p*ssies" and shouting "f*ck you!". Anti-ICE demonstrations are expected across the nation this weekend, following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good.

New York Post [1/10/2026 10:08 PM, Anna Young, 42219K] reports President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan is pleading with liberals to "tone down" their rhetoric toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good. Homan, during an interview on Dr. Phil McGraw’s podcast Friday, rushed to the federal agency’s defense after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot the 37-year-old activist mom when she drove her SUV at him during a heated confrontation at a raucous protest in Minneapolis Wednesday. Democrats and local officials have decried the deadly use of force, claiming the shooting was a "murder.” "I want everyone to step back and stop pouring gas on the fire that I truly believe is going to cause more bloodshed," he said on Friday’s episode of "The Dr. Phil Podcast.” "I’m begging, I’m begging, tone down the rhetoric. In my career, I’ve buried border patrol agents, I’ve buried ICE agents, and the saddest thing I’ve ever had to do is hand a folded flag to a spouse or a child. I don’t want to see anybody die. Anybody.” Homan pressed lawmakers to allow the investigation into the deadly encounter to unfold before they start pointing fingers, adding that Ross is now "concerned" for his own and his family’s safety. He also noted that immigration officers have since faced mounting death threats. "The people we’re looking for, even the worst of the worst. I don’t want to see anybody die," Homan urged. "So, for God’s sake, let’s tone the rhetoric down. Less blood. I don’t want to see more bloodshed. I didn’t want to see blood from day one. With the rhetoric now, comparing ICE to murders and the Chief Secret Police, I’m afraid this is not over.” Protests have erupted daily in Minneapolis in the wake of the fatal shooting, including Friday night when enraged demonstrators descended on a hotel where they believed federal agents were staying. Local police also reportedly declared an "unlawful assembly" in an attempt to ease the unrest. "We’re not going to end this mission," Homan pressed, explaining that federal officials are going to "double down" operations in Minneapolis now that they know just how "dangerous" the area really is. After the deadly confrontation, DHS released shocking data that showed car attacks on ICE officers have spiked – surging some 3,200% between Jan. 21, 2025, and Jan. 7, 2026. Officials said violent "radical rhetoric from sanctuary politicians" is to blame for rise in vehicular attacks. Federal immigration officers have also reported a 1,347% increase in assaults and a whopping 8,000% surge in death threats during the first year of Trump’s second term.

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FOX News [1/10/2026 1:12 PM, Madison Colombo, 40621K] reports protests have gripped Minneapolis for days after a federal agent fatally shot a woman accused of trying to weaponize her car against the DHS official. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., said Democratic leaders are making the situation worse by fanning public anger instead of calling for peace. "You don’t have to go very far to look and see who is fomenting all of this violence," Emmer said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday. "They’re yelling, ‘Save a life, kill ICE.’ That’s not peaceful," he added, pushing back on claims from Democratic leaders that the demonstrations have been peaceful. Protests began after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on Wednesday. In response to the nightly demonstrations, an additional 1,000 Border Patrol agents have been sent to Minneapolis. Multiple videos of the incident have been shared online, fueling debate over whether the agent’s use of force was justified or necessary. The Department of Homeland Security said Good was attempting to "weaponize her vehicle" to hit law enforcement agents. Minnesota officials have disputed that account, calling for an investigation into the death. Emmer accused his colleagues of inflaming tensions, saying they rushed to anger without waiting for the investigation. "Tim Walz should have come out right away and said, ‘Everybody be calm, withhold your judgment. We know that this is a very sensitive matter. Let law enforcement do their work,’" Emmer said, arguing state leaders have failed to calm the public.

New York Post [1/10/2026 7:48 PM, Shane Galvin, 42219K] reports more than one thousand people crammed into a Minnesota church Saturday for "training" in how to deal with ICE in the wake of Renee Nicole Good’s fatal shooting — during which the radical leftist organizer urged participants to annoy the agents like "mosquitoes." Program sponsor Monarca trains so-called "upstander legal observers" to follow, track, report, and record Department of Homeland Security officers while they are in the midst of operations, and urged the mostly white, middle-aged and elderly attendees to attend protests with gas masks, sunglasses and phone chargers. "And a pencil," they said. "In Minnesota, bring a pencil; a pen will freeze." Speakers decried the ICE as a "white supremacist police force that has no oversight," urging the crowd at Roseville Lutheran Church to be persistent in their confrontations. The 12-page manual given to attendees instructs them how to use whistles to alert others to ICE activities. Short sounds are to indicate ICE is in the area while longer ones indicate ICE is actively conducting an operation. It further gives instructions on how to speak to the media, using phrases such as "I am here because I believe in keeping our families and communities together." Training sessions in other cities are scheduled through the month and are fully booked, according to the group’s website.

Wall Street Journal [1/10/2026 8:25 PM, Kris Maher, Jim Carlton, and Jennifer Calfas, 646K] reports the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement crackdown in blue cities like Los Angeles and Chicago has sparked a rolling countermovement: Neighbors armed with whistles and cameras observe ICE officers, chant at them to leave, trail their movements and warn people ahead of their arrival. That, according to some Minnesota officials, was why Renee Nicole Good was on Portland Avenue as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers conducted an operation at the start of a surge of what government officials said would be 2,000 agents into the city and surrounding areas to make immigration arrests, representing one of the largest such operations since President Trump returned to the White House. “She was a compassionate neighbor trying to be a legal observer on behalf of her immigrant neighbors,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told National Public Radio on Thursday. “That’s what she was doing at the moment of her death.” Federal and state officials sharply disagree on what led to the encounter. This rising friction between ICE and blue-city residents had potential to peak in Minneapolis, a liberal, activist enclave uniquely positioned to mobilize—and sometimes antagonize—federal officers’ growing street-level presence. The Midwestern city teems with community patrols, hyperlocal rapid-response volunteers and hundreds of informal neighborhood-text networks—part of a protest culture that swelled after George Floyd’s murder to encourage residents to be “observers” who document law-enforcement interactions or rush to unfolding scenes. In a statement Friday, Rebecca Good—whose wife was fatally shot two days earlier by an ICE agent on a residential street—said the pair had “stopped to support our neighbors” on Wednesday. They had just dropped their son off at school. “We had whistles,” Rebecca Good wrote in a statement to a local media station, describing the simple devices thousands have adopted, starting in Chicago, to alert others when immigration officers arrive. “They had guns,” she added. In videos of that incident, residents can be heard blowing whistles and be seen filming in the midst of a heavy ICE presence. Vice President JD Vance said Renee Good was “there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation” and was “part of a broader left-wing network” that is trying to “make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.” The DHS didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about ICE observers. In the past, a spokeswoman described the groups as agitators and said they weren’t deterring the agency’s work. The ICE watch groups have been crucial in letting immigrants know when they can safely go to school, church and the store, said Larry Jacobs, a University of Minnesota political-science professor.

NBC News [1/10/2026 3:00 PM, Daniella Silva and Nicole Acevedo, 34509K] reports in the months before an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on a residential street this week, residents in this south Minneapolis neighborhood had grown accustomed to the sound of car horns and shrieking whistles — alarms meant to signal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were nearby. The sounds had become a strange new normal for the diverse Central neighborhood. Across the country, similar tactics have emerged as a grassroots response to President Donald Trump’s escalation of immigration arrests and deportations. But on Wednesday, an encounter between ICE officers and Good, an American citizen, ended in gunfire, with an officer killing her in the middle of the street and sending shock waves through a city already shaped by repeated confrontations with police violence. "It’s terrifying. It’s horrible. These are the conversations that now we have to have with our children, and the anxiety that it causes them," said Ginya, 41, who lives a few houses away from where Good was killed. Ginya asked that her last name not be used out of fear for her family’s safety. "It’s heartbreaking that any of this is happening, and we just want ICE to leave.". Trump said in a social media post after the shooting that Good "violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the driver of trying to run the officer over, saying "she hit him" in "an act of domestic terrorism." The agency called her a violent rioter. All said the officer fired in self-defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sharply rejected DHS’ narrative. After viewing a video of the incident, Frey told reporters Wednesday that federal officials were attempting to "spin this as an action of self-defense." Eyewitness accounts and video reviewed by NBC News raise questions about whether the vehicle posed an immediate threat, though key details remain under investigation.

Daily Caller [1/10/2026 2:33 PM, Mark Tanos, 835K] reports federal agents swarmed the home of the ICE officer who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis this week, removing belongings as the house sits empty and the agent’s family reportedly goes into hiding. A Special Response Team arrived at Jonathan Ross’s suburban Minneapolis home Friday morning, according to the Daily Mail. Officers wearing masks and balaclavas carried out plastic crates, a computer tower and picture frames before forming a defensive formation around a vehicle that left the garage. A neighbor told the outlet she saw Ross’s wife pacing in the driveway Wednesday afternoon, hours after the shooting. The house has been empty since then.The Minnesota Star Tribune first identified Ross through court records as the ICE deportation officer who shot 37-year-old Renee Good on Wednesday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the same officer was dragged by a vehicle during an arrest last June. Court records obtained by the AP show Ross was dragged about 100 yards and received dozens of stitches after trying to apprehend an undocumented immigrant. The Trump administration defended Ross, with Noem calling Good’s actions "domestic terrorism." Vice President JD Vance said the officer "deserves a debt of gratitude." Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey disputed the self-defense claim, calling it "bullshit" after reviewing video of the shooting, according to The Intercept. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told Democracy Now that the FBI is blocking state investigators from accessing evidence in the case. Ross’s current whereabouts remain unknown. DHS declined to confirm his identity, citing safety concerns for him and his family.

CBS Boston [1/10/2026 6:46 PM, Paul Burton, 39474K] reports thousands of people rallied on the Boston Common to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents involved shootings in cities across the United States. The demonstration also targeted recent military action in Venezuela, which saw the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s announcement that he intends to sell their oil. The protest was titled "No War At Home, No War Abroad" and began at the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Street. Speakers at the event included activists, senate candidates, and Bonnie Jin, co-chair of the Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The party of Bernie Sanders and the recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. "We demand more from our elected officials, whether that is the governor, whether that is the state legislature, whether that is our Congress to do more to stop ICE from conducting this terror on our streets," Jin said. "ICE terrorizes the most vulnerable and acts with impunity, and makes our communities more dangerous, not more safe. Boston has never been new to resisting tyranny, and we will not be silent while state violence is normalized in our streets.".

FOX 61 Hartford [1/10/2026 11:34 PM, Staff, 10085K] reports DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded to an incident at an ICE protest in Hartford Thursday. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Houston Chronicle [1/10/2026 5:34 PM, Maliya Ellis, 2983K] reports a couple hundred anti-ICE demonstrators chanted in front of Houston’s City Hall on Saturday in what is at least the third protest in the city this week after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot of a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Protesters chanted anti-ICE slogans and held signs referencing Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother of three who died after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot her in the head while she was in her car. One sign read “ICE out for Good,” while another featured a picture of Good beside plastic tea lights. “She was someone’s wife, she was someone’s mother, she was someone’s daughter. It could have been my daughter. It could have been me,” said Jean Tanner, who attended the protest. “This is not what our country stands for.” Protesters have taken to the streets across the country since Good’s death, and in Houston, demonstrators gathered near the Galleria on Thursday and in a Montrose park Friday evening.

New York Post [1/10/2026 10:17 PM, Anna Young, 42219K] reports Texas police charged into a raucous crowd of anti-ICE agitators as protests entered a third day following the fatal shooting of activist mom Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, according to video. Harrowing footage from the scene captured cops in Austin rushing the screaming crowd of demonstrators on bikes and foot as the rowdy rally obstructed traffic outside the J.J. Pickle Federal Building Saturday night, according to Fox News Digital. At least three people were taken into custody, according to the outlet and video. "We’re with you," one protester could be heard shouting as another was being cuffed. Frantic unrest has erupted nationwide since ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot the 37-year-old anti-ICE "warrior" when she drove her SUV at him during a heated confrontation in Minneapolis Wednesday. Democrats and local officials have decried the deadly use of force, claiming the shooting was a "murder.” Federal officials said Good "weaponized" her car and labeled her a "domestic terrorist.”

CBS Los Angeles [1/10/2026 8:03 PM, Dean Fioresi, 39474K] reports thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon to protest federal immigration activity after agents were involved in two different shootings this week, one that left a woman dead in Minneapolis and another that wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. The gathering began at around 2 p.m. in Pershing Square before the crowd began to march through the streets. LAPD officers monitored their activity, advising drivers and the public of different road closures due to the protest. The march was one of many that took place across the United States and in Southern California on Saturday. Similar protests were held in Long Beach and Santa Ana, where two people were demonstrators passionately protested on Friday night.

New York Times [1/10/2026 7:52 PM, Chris Hippensteel, 135475K] reports mounting outrage over an ICE agent’s killing of a woman in Minneapolis spilled into streets across the country on Saturday, as crowds of protesters mobilized against what they called the excesses of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. The “Ice Out for Good” campaign held demonstrations in small towns and major cities, including some that have been central targets of President Trump’s immigration crackdown. The protests came three days after an ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen at the wheel of a car, during an encounter in South Minneapolis. Almost immediately, conflicting interpretations of the killing — which was captured in video from several angles — divided the country along ideological lines. State leaders in Minnesota described the ICE agent’s action as an unjustifiable use of lethal force against a civilian who was trying to leave the scene. For their part, Trump administration officials claimed that Ms. Good was a left-wing domestic terrorist who tried to run over the ICE agent, and that the agent acted in self-defense. In light of the killing in Minneapolis and another shooting in Portland, Ore., where Border Patrol agents shot and wounded two people in a car on Thursday, activist groups, including the organizers of the “No Kings” and “Hands Off” demonstrations last year, called for a weekend of “nationwide mobilization.” “Renée Nicole Good and the Portland victims are just the most recent victims of ICE’s reign of terror,” one of the groups, the 50501 movement, said in a news release. “ICE has brutalized communities for decades, but its violence under the Trump regime has accelerated.” The Trump administration has been mounting large enforcement operations in one city after another; in Minneapolis, the target has been primarily Somali immigrants. As has happened elsewhere, the federal agents descending on neighborhoods in Minneapolis have been met by protesters carrying cameras and whistles. In Minneapolis, the public reaction to the killing of Ms. Good has been swift and angry. Law enforcement officers have used tear gas against protesters outside a federal building near the Minneapolis airport. Gov. Tim Walz, who has urged calm while denouncing the shooting in stark terms, has alerted National Guard troops in the state to be ready in case of unrest. And President Trump has dispatched more federal agents to the city. By the weekend, demonstrations had spread to other cities.

ABC News [1/10/2026 10:48 AM, Staff, 30493K] reports Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, explains why the group is organizing nationwide protests on Saturday. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [1/10/2026 10:31 AM, Matt Brown and Lisa Mascaro, 39474K] reports that the killing of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is reverberating across Capitol Hill, where Democrats and certain Republicans are vowing an assertive response as President Trump’s aggressive deportation operations spark protests nationwide. Lawmakers are demanding a range of actions, from a full investigation into Renee Good’s shooting death and policy changes over law enforcement raids to the defunding of ICE operations and the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in what is fast becoming an inflection point. "The situation that took place in Minnesota is a complete and total disgrace," House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said as details emerged. "And in the next few days, we will be having conversations about a strong and forceful and appropriate response by House Democrats.". Yet there is almost no consensus among the political parties in the aftermath of the death of Good, who was behind the wheel of an SUV after dropping off her 6-year-old at school when she was shot and killed by an ICE officer. The killing immediately drew dueling narratives. Mr. Trump and Noem said the ICE officer acted in self-defense, while Democratic officials said the Trump administration was lying and they urged the public to see the viral videos of the shooting for themselves. Vice President JD Vance blamed Good, calling it "a tragedy of her own making," and said the ICE officer may have been "sensitive" from having been injured during an unrelated altercation last year. But Good’s killing, at least the fifth known death since the administration launched its mass deportation campaign, could change the political dynamic. Congressional Democrats saw Good’s killing as a sign of the need for aggressive action to restrain the administration’s tactics. Several Democrats joined calls to impeach Noem, who has been under fire from both parties for her lack of transparency at the department, though that step is highly unlikely with Republicans in control of Congress. Other Democrats want to restrict the funding for her department, whose budget was vastly increased as part of the Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending bill passed last summer. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, the top Democrat on the subcommittee that handles Homeland Security funding, plans to introduce legislation to rein in the agency with constraints on federal agents’ authority, including a requirement that the Border Patrol stick to the border and that DHS enforcement officers be unmasked. "More Democrats are saying today the thing that a number of us have been saying since April and May: Kristi Noem is dangerous. She should not be in office, and she should be impeached," said Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez, who represents parts of Chicago where ICE launched an enhanced immigration enforcement action last year that resulted in two deaths.

FOX News [1/10/2026 1:27 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joins ‘Fox News Live’ to respond to Democrats seeking to block DHS funding after the Minneapolis ICE shooting, how JD Vance is taking action to curb fraud and more. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

The Hill [1/10/2026 5:00 PM, Mike Lillis and Rebecca Beitsch, 12595K] reports the growing uproar over Wednesday’s fatal shooting by a U.S. immigration officer in Minneapolis is spreading quickly on Capitol Hill, where a chorus of Democrats in both chambers are launching a blitz of proposals to rein in President Trump’s surge of federal forces in blue regions around the country. Democrats are pushing a wide range of responses, including efforts to suspend all Minnesota operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately; end qualified immunity for ICE officers more broadly; and call Kristi Noem, the head of the Homeland Security Department (DHS), to testify before Congress. Still others want to go a long step further and impeach Noem, who has characterized the victim of the shooting, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good, as a domestic terrorist who sought to harm federal law enforcers in Minneapolis. “The murder of Renee Macklin Good is a tragic episode in a story of harm and destruction orchestrated by Secretary Noem and ICE that must not be tolerated anywhere,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) said Friday in a statement supporting her impeachment. Democrats have few tools at their disposal, given their minority status in both chambers. But they’ve been encouraged by a series of recent victories on other hot-button issues — including an extension of ObamaCare subsidies and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — which required a buildup of public pressure to win bipartisan support. Some Democrats are ready to launch a similar full-court press in the effort to restrain ICE.

Politico [1/10/2026 5:59 PM, Myah Ward, 13586K] reports the Trump administration’s rapid and aggressive response to the Minnesota shooting has prompted quiet concern among some administration allies, as well as former and current Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Particular anguish centers around how quickly Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in public remarks from Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday insisted that Renee Good, the 37-year old woman killed by an ICE officer, had committed an act of “domestic terrorism” and tried to “ram them with her vehicle.” Even supporters of the president fear that the administration’s approach — within hours the White House deputy chief of staff had also deemed this a case of “domestic terrorism” — risks undermining public confidence in the ongoing investigation and expanding the credibility gap between the public and the immigration agency patrolling dozens of American cities. “Do I think it’s domestic terrorism? Yeah, I do,” said a person close to the White House, who, like others in the story, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the sensitive situation and ongoing investigation. “But it might not have been wise to say that at the outset, how [Noem] said it.” Within 48 hours, another shooting, this time in Portland, Oregon, by a Customs and Border Protection officer, further inflamed outrage as protesters, Democrats and top administration officials accused each other of fascism and terrorism. The shootings — and the eye witness videos circulating on the internet — come amid heightened tensions between Americans and the thousands of federal agents deployed in U.S. cities. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday lamented the threats and attacks ICE agents are under. On Friday, he shared a new video that he implied vindicated the officer in Minnesota by showing his “life was endangered and he fired in self defense.” Still, the administration’s aggressive tactics, aimed at ramping up arrests and deportations, have brought widespread condemnation and a growing number of confrontations between protesters and immigration officials, who are deployed for crowd control and other tasks the agencies historically don’t perform. It has left ICE as the latest and most prominent example of an ongoing national Rorschach test in which Republicans and Democrats watch the same video and claim to see wildly different truths, and some inside the agency worry that the administration’s rhetoric will only widen political fractures. “I don’t know how we recover from this,” said an administration official.

CNN [1/10/2026 4:15 PM, Ray Sanchez, 18595K] reports Renee Nicole Good’s final moments were spent in her maroon Honda Pilot, her son’s stuffed animals peeking out from the glove compartment. She had stopped in the middle of a tree-lined south Minneapolis street and motioned for unmarked government vehicles to drive past. Whistle blasts pierced the early January chill in a now-familiar community response employed by activists in US cities to alert neighbors to the presence of immigration officers. For several minutes, Good partially blocked traffic on the street. Some unmarked government vehicles idled; others drove around. "Go home," a bystander yelled. On a snowy residential street Wednesday morning, Good crossed paths with a 10-year Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and Iraq War veteran named Jonathan Ross, who was dragged about 100 yards six months prior by a driver during an immigration operation in a Minneapolis suburb. Good and Ross – whose brief confrontation Wednesday ended with him firing his weapon at least three times as she attempted to drive away – are now at the center of furious debate over the Trump administration’s building immigration crackdown, each side angrily assigning blame to the other. Videos of the incident are still emerging, and there’s more to be learned. Federal officials, including Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, quickly accused Good of trying to use her vehicle to kill or harm ICE agents. She called it an "act of domestic terrorism." But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and state officials pushed back, blasting the actions of the officers. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the shooting "totally predictable" and "totally avoidable." "This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying," Frey said. He demanded ICE "get the fuck out of Minneapolis." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Post [1/11/2026 5:00 AM, Anna Liss-Roy, 24149K] reports Eric Swalwell was certain: “I saw a murder.” The Democratic representative from California had just watched a video of an ICE officer shooting a woman dead in her car. Standing on the House steps after a vote 57 minutes later, Republican Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska watched the same footage. He said he could not be sure of what he saw. “I couldn’t really see what was happening there,” Flood said. When a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renée Good in her Honda Pilot on Wednesday in Minneapolis, bystanders were filming from several angles. So was the ICE officer, who held a phone in one hand and a gun in the other. Video taken before, during and after the gunshots has become ubiquitous online in the days since Good was killed. Many Democrats have condemned the ICE officer, who has not been charged with a crime. Some are calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem. The Trump administration has blamed Good: President Donald Trump said she “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer,” though none of the videos show Good running him over. Vice President JD Vance said Good’s death was “a tragedy of her own making.” Noem accused Good of trying to run over the officers and called her actions “an act of domestic terrorism.” Many Republicans have echoed the administration’s claims, while other have been more circumspect. Like their representatives, Americans are divided on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the surge of federal law enforcement, which has mostly targeted blue cities such as Minneapolis. A YouGov poll published the same day Good was killed found 52 percent of Americans disapprove of how ICE is doing its job, while 39 percent approve. On Capitol Hill, a day after the shooting, two congressmen watching the same video clip came to different conclusions. But they also noticed different details, appearing to have different perceptions of what they were seeing on the screen in front of them.

CBS News [1/9/2026 8:37 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports cellphone video taken by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent involved in Wednesday’s fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Good shows a different view of the incident and the moments leading up to it. To better analyze what’s happening in the video, WCCO spoke with a use-of-force expert and a defense attorney. Peter Johnson is the founder of Archway Defense, a company that has trained state, local and federal law enforcement in firearms for the past decade. He’s also a former federal air marshal. Johnson said his biggest takeaway from the video was a crunching sound he heard immediately before the gunshots, which he believes is the sound of the SUV hitting the ICE agent. "That data point for me shows that there was contact made with the agent, who is now in reasonable fear, who could clearly articulate being hit with an SUV as reasonable fear of great bodily harm or death. And then the shots were fired," said Johnson. According to Homeland Security’s policy, deadly force cannot be used to stop someone who is fleeing, though it is authorized when an officer believes that someone who’s trying to escape poses a serious threat to the officer or others. The two narrow circumstances outlined in the policy are: When a person in the vehicle is using or imminently threatening deadly force by means other than the vehicle. When the vehicle itself is being operated in a manner that poses an imminent threat and no other objectively reasonable defensive option exists — explicitly including "moving out of the path of the vehicle.". Another point that stood out to Johnson is the face-to-face interaction the ICE agent has with Good, 37, as he walks by her window. Johnson said it proves that Good was aware of the agent’s presence, whereas other videos could make it seem as if the agent suddenly appeared from out of view. Other videos show the angle of the tires on Good’s SUV when she accelerates forward, with some arguing the tires are in a direction indicating she was trying to drive away from the ICE agents. To those dissecting the videos, Johnson referenced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Graham vs. Connor. He summarized it by saying, "In a tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving situation, law enforcement officers are not to be judged in hindsight 20/20, but a reasonable officer’s perception.". Rob Doar is a local defense attorney. He said the video both helps and hurts Homeland Security’s stance that the ICE agent fired in self-defense. As for helping, Doar said it shows how quickly things unfolded leading up to the shooting. "I myself have questioned the second and third shots," said Doar. "I think from that firsthand perspective, it makes it look like he may not have had the mental time to actually appreciate that the threat had passed.". He too pointed out the angle of the tires, stating that the video shows there’s no way the ICE agent could have seen the direction they were pointing. "Though he may have seen some direction of the steering wheel, but it’s, again, it’s not clear whether he would have appreciated that," said Doar. As for hurting the agent’s case, Doar said it shows Good had a pleasant demeanor while also saying to the agents that she wasn’t mad at them. "That lessens the indication that he is posing a serious threat to law enforcement," said Doar. He questioned the positioning the ICE agent took in front of the SUV, saying courts could analyze whether that was a reasonable spot to place himself. Lastly, Doar noted the expletives it appears the ICE agent said toward Good after the shooting. It sounds like the agent said, "F****** b****.". Pertaining to the vulgar comment, Doar said, "Self-defense is an affirmative defense where you’re saying that you’re fearful for your life. Courts could interpret that, or a jury could interpret as a mindset of trying to compel control or dominance over the situation rather than a sincere fear for his life.".

NewsMax [1/10/2026 2:09 PM, Jim Thomas, 4109K] reports that retired New Jersey police officer and public safety consultant David Berez said Saturday on Newsmax that video from the Minneapolis ICE shooting shows Renee Nicole Macklin Good accelerating with her vehicle "aimed right at" the officer, with "tires spinning," a detail he argued undercuts claims the SUV was trying to avoid contact with the officer. Berez said on Newsmax’s "America Right Now" that the video of the deadly Minneapolis encounter ending in the death of ICE agitator Good shows her vehicle accelerating directly toward ICE officer Jonathan Ross, not easing away from the scene. Berez described officers issuing repeated, clear commands for the driver to stop and exit, then pointed to the vehicle’s position as officers clustered around the driver’s side. He said the SUV was "aimed right at him as she accelerates," adding that "in the video you can see the tires spinning," which he said meant "we’re not talking about a soft acceleration here.". A 47-second cellphone video recorded by Ross and published online showed Good appearing to start driving away as Ross stood at or near the front driver-side corner of the SUV, then firing as the vehicle moves. The Washington Post reported that in the video, a woman identified as Good’s wife can be heard saying, "Drive, baby, drive," just before the SUV surged forward. "It’s disgusting behavior. It’s irrational behavior. And why would you direct that to the other person. And again, she’s now left hanging for better lack of better words, as this other person was going to drive away and flee the scene. So what’s the intent here? I just think it’s irrational behavior that’s almost unexplainable, that led them to the circumstance that they were in," Berez said.

FOX News [1/10/2026 11:58 AM, Rachel Wolf Fox, 40621K] reports that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good was dragged by an illegal immigrant sex offender’s vehicle in June, reports indicate. The June incident resulted in the arrest of Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as "a serial criminal illegal alien.". Munoz-Guatemala allegedly dragged the ICE officer 50 yards with his car in Bloomington, Minnesota, while trying to evade arrest. During a traffic stop, Munoz-Guatemala refused to exit his vehicle and tried to flee law enforcement, according to DHS. The department said the ICE officer still had his arm inside Munoz-Guatemala’s vehicle as the illegal immigrant tried to drive away. The officer was hospitalized due to his injuries. At the time, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Munoz-Guatemala is an illegal alien who "has been committing violent crimes in the U.S. for nearly 15 years." She said Munoz-Guatemala "is a convicted child sex offender who has a rap sheet that includes an arrest for domestic assault and multiple driving offenses.". "Under Governor Tim Walz, this sicko was living in Minnesota without consequence," McLaughlin said in June. "Instead of comparing ICE law enforcement to the Gestapo, Governor Walz should be thanking our brave law enforcement for arresting these violent criminals.". DHS said it was unknown when Munoz-Guatemala entered the country from Mexico, but the department added that his rap sheet in the U.S. dated back to 2010. The department said Munoz-Guatemala had previously been arrested for domestic assault and was convicted of sex crimes against an underage victim. Munoz-Guatemala was also convicted of driving without a valid license and was charged multiple times for driving illegally. DHS said ICE first lodged a detainer on him in 2013. On Thursday, when speaking to reporters at the White House, Vice President JD Vance scolded the media for not mentioning that the same ICE officer who shot Good was previously seriously injured during the car-dragging incident. "The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace. And it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day," Vance said. "What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?". The vice president was referring specifically to a CNN headline on the shooting in Minneapolis that said, "Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.".

Breitbart [1/10/2026 10:09 AM, Amy Furr, 2416K] reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) is claiming the federal agent hit by a vehicle before fatally shooting Renee Good "walked away with a hop in his step.". His statement came after the agent’s cellphone footage was released, showing a different angle of the incident that happened on Wednesday which has resulted in leftist groups protesting. Frey told ABC News, "He walked away with a hop in his step from the incident. There’s another person that’s dead. He held out his cellphone. I think that speaks for itself.". The agent shot and killed the woman who allegedly "weaponized her vehicle" as leftists were blocking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during their targeted operations in Minneapolis, per Breitbart News. In a statement posted on X, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the ICE officer feared for his life, his fellow officer’s lives, and anyone else who might be put in danger by the driver. Therefore, he fired defensive shots. "This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats," the agency stated.

New York Times [1/10/2026 7:58 PM, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Ann Hinga Klein and Dan Simmons, 135475K] reports that, in her final moments, Renee Good was in the driver’s seat of her maroon Honda Pilot, wearing a light blue flannel over a red hoodie and speaking to an immigration agent who was recording her on his phone. “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad,” she said as the agent circled her car, which was blocking part of a road. He was using a cellphone to record Ms. Good and her wife, Becca, who prodded him: “You wanna come at us?” Moments later, Ms. Good was dead, shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Jonathan Ross, on Wednesday morning. The agent was near the front of her car and fired his gun after she drove toward him and then turned to the right on a snowy Minneapolis street. Amid ongoing debate about whether the shooting was justified and the overall tactics employed by the deportation operations of the Trump administration, thousands in Minneapolis and across the country have been mourning Ms. Good, 37, who had only recently moved to Minneapolis with her wife and 6-year-old son. This weekend, protests against ICE took place in cities and towns across the country. When she was killed, Ms. Good and her wife had been participating in a protest in response to ICE agents who had been spotted in the neighborhood, one of whom had gotten a vehicle stuck in the snow. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, has said that Ms. Good was one of several “agitators” who were trying to block the agents from leaving. In a chat called Central Rapid Response on Signal, the encrypted app, Ms. Good’s wife was described by another member as a “helper” in Wednesday’s action. Becca Good, in a statement to Minnesota Public Radio, described her wife as a Christian woman who believed in loving others, as well as finding and nurturing kindness in people. She was “made of sunshine,” Becca Good said. Ms. Good, a poet and a mother of three, was born in Colorado Springs, Colo., and grew up in the state. Later in life, she moved to Virginia and Kansas City, Mo., before arriving in Minneapolis sometime last year. She attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., where she won a prize in 2020 for a poem entitled “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” before graduating with an English degree in December of that year. Ms. Good moved to Kansas City, Mo., sometime after college, and, in October 2023, successfully sought to change her name to Renee N. Macklin Good, writing in a court petition that she wanted “to share a name with my partner.” (She was born Renee Nicole Ganger.) In the court filing, she said that her two older children lived in Colorado at the time. In Kansas City, neighbors recalled a happy family of three — the Goods and their exuberant son, now 6 years old — who lived in a small home with a gay pride flag in a quiet neighborhood on the south side of the city. [Editorial note: consult source link for extended commentary]

USA Today [1/10/2026 11:14 AM, Mike Snider, 67103K] reports that a GoFundMe campaign to support the family of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed in a Jan. 7 shooting by an ICE agent, has closed after raising more than $1.5 million. The campaign was started hours after Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot while in her Honda Pilot SUV at an immigration enforcement operation on a residential street near her Minneapolis home. After the campaign collected $1,503,533 from more than 38,500 donations, the organizers posted a note thanking contributors for their generosity. "We’ve closed this GoFundMe and will place the funds in a trust for the family," the note said. "If you’re looking to donate, we encourage you to support others in need. We’re truly grateful.". The GoFundMe page has also been updated with a statement Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, had given to Minnesota Public Radio in which she said the two found themselves at the operation because they "stopped to support our neighbors" before Renee Good was fatally shot. "We had whistles. They had guns," Rebecca Good said.

Washington Post [1/11/2026 6:00 AM, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Patrick Marley, 24149K] reports Jacob Frey was minutes from briefing the public on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer killing a Minneapolis woman when two things infuriated him. He had just seen video of the fatal shooting for the first time. Then, seconds before he went out, Frey learned that Trump administration officials were characterizing the shooting as a necessary act of self-defense. The Democratic mayor of Minneapolis walked to a lectern Wednesday and delivered a blunt retort: Trump officials’ account of what happened was “bull----.” “To ICE, get the f--- out of Minneapolis,” Frey added later in his news conference. “We do not want you here.” Frey, who recounted his experience in an interview with The Washington Post, has emerged as a singular figure in the aftermath of Renée Good’s death. For days, he has aggressively countered the Trump administration’s portrayal of the shooting, becoming one of the most prominent critics of the way the president and his team have depicted the situation. While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have defended the officer and promised sweeping protections for federal agents, Frey has argued that available footage shows Good was not a threat and the officer acted recklessly. He penned a New York Times op-ed with the headline stating “Trump Is Lying to You” and lambasted the FBI for seizing control of the post-shooting investigation, cutting out local officials. “This is not a time to hide from the facts,” he said Friday. Frey’s posture has divided elected officials and other political leaders along party lines. Republicans have accused him of inflaming a volatile situation, while Democrats have praised him for forcefully challenging claims from Trump and others that have been called into question by close examinations of the incident as captured on video. When asked during a CNN interview to respond to GOP criticism, Frey was unapologetic: “I’m so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears.”

FOX News [1/10/2026 2:47 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports OutKick founder Clay Travis joins ‘Fox News Live’ to discuss new video evidence from the deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting and Democrats’ messaging on federal immigration enforcement. [Editorial note: consult video at source

NBC News [1/11/2026 6:00 AM, David Ingram and Tyler Kingkade, 43603K] reports on Wednesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security posted on X, “GOOD MORNING MINNEAPOLIS!” Rep. Tom Emmer, a House Republican leader who represents Minneapolis suburbs, commented with encouragement: “Go out there and get ‘em.” The Trump administration has surged thousands of immigration agents into the Twin Cities in what it has called the largest DHS operation ever. While the administration often frames its deportation operations as efforts to keep Americans safe, it has added another angle to its Minnesota campaign: eradicating fraud. In 2022, during the Biden administration, federal prosecutors uncovered an enormous scheme to defraud a pandemic meals program in Minnesota’s Somali community, leading to charges against dozens of defendants and a growing number of convictions. In the weeks leading up to the DHS deployment, conservative commentators had elevated that years-old scandal, suggesting that fraud was a reason to target East African migrants in the Minneapolis area. And within days of the story taking hold in conservative social media circles, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X that agents were “on the ground” in response. More than 2,000 agents and officers from DHS have descended on the Twin Cities, and tensions are running high after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom. DHS has said the incident was an act of self-defense, while some witnesses and Minneapolis’ mayor have challenged that explanation. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has attacked the Somali community as “garbage,” and right-wing influencers have filled X with videos purporting to investigate day cares connected to immigrants in an effort, they claim, to uncover ongoing fraud.

FOX News [1/10/2026 10:23 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports the Department of Homeland Security released the identities of two Venezuelan migrants with alleged Tren de Aragua ties shot by federal agents in Portland. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [1/10/2026 10:57 AM, Michael Dorgan Fox, 40621K] reports Portland Police Chief Bob Day wiped away tears Friday as he addressed new information showing that two illegal immigrants shot during a federal immigration enforcement encounter had ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). Day confirmed a Department of Homeland Security statement identifying the two individuals — Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras — as Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens with suspected ties to TdA. Both were shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent after Moncada, the driver of the vehicle, allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to run over agents, prompting an agent to fire in self-defense, according to DHS. "They do have some nexus to involvement with TDA. We can confirm that," Day said, pausing and choking up. Day said he initially hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection, citing what he described as the "historic injustice of victim blaming" by law enforcement, including within his own agency. "I want to speak for just a moment, specifically to my Latino community," Day said. "It saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger," Day said, removing his glasses mid-sentence and wiping tears from his eyes. "This information, in no way, is meant to disparage or to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday," the chief added. Day emphasized that he was disclosing the suspected gang ties for transparency only and that the information should not be interpreted as excusing or justifying the shooting, which remains under investigation. "But it is important that we stay committed to the rule of law, that we stay committed to the facts, that we stay a trustworthy and legitimate police department for all Portlanders," he said. Day said both suspects remain hospitalized in stable condition and are in federal custody.

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FOX News [1/10/2026 5:00 PM, Jasmine Baehr, 40621K] reports the U.S. government issued a new security alert Saturday urging Americans in Venezuela to leave the country immediately, citing security concerns and the U.S. government’s inability to provide emergency assistance, according to the U.S. Embassy Caracas. "U.S. citizens in Venezuela should leave the country immediately," the embassy said in a Jan. 10 security alert. The warning cited reports of armed groups operating on Venezuelan roads. "There are reports of groups of armed militias, known as ‘colectivos,’ setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of U.S. citizenship or support for the United States," the U.S. Embassy Caracas said. The alert comes as international travel options have reopened. "As international flights have resumed, U.S. citizens in Venezuela should leave the country immediately," the embassy said. The U.S. Department of State continues to list Venezuela at its highest travel warning level. "Venezuela has the highest Travel Advisory level – Level 4: Do Not Travel – due to severe risks to Americans," the State Department said. Those risks include "wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure," according to the State Department. The embassy said Americans in Venezuela should not expect consular assistance.

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Reuters [1/10/2026 4:34 PM, David Lawder, 36480K] reports U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Reuters that additional U.S. sanctions on Venezuela could be lifted as soon as next week to facilitate oil sales, and that he will also meet next week with the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on their re-engagement with Venezuela. Bessent said in an interview late on Friday that almost $5 billion worth of Venezuela’s currently frozen IMF Special Drawing Rights monetary assets could be deployed to help rebuild the country’s economy. "We’re de-sanctioning the oil that’s going to be sold," Bessent said during a visit to a Winnebago Industries engineering facility. The Treasury was examining changes that would facilitate the repatriation of sale proceeds of the oil stored largely on ships back to Venezuela. "How can we help that get back into Venezuela, to run the government, run the security services and get it to the Venezuelan people?" he said of the Treasury’s sanctions analysis. Asked when more sanctions could be removed from Venezuela, Bessent said, "It could be as soon as next week," but did not identify which ones. The moves are part of the Trump administration’s effort to stabilize Venezuela and encourage the return of U.S. oil producers to the country a week after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in Caracas and brought him to New York to face drug trafficking charges. FOX Business [1/10/2026 9:15 PM, Sophia Compton, 10085K] reports that the potential sanctions relief comes as part of a broader Trump administration effort to stabilize Venezuela and encourage U.S. investment in its oil sector following the capture of ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro. On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking U.S. courts from seizing Venezuelan oil revenues held in American Treasury accounts. The order, "Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People," states that any attempt through the courts to seize the funds would pose an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to U.S. national security and foreign policy. The U.S. Treasury did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NBC News [1/10/2026 11:22 PM, Staff, 34509K] reports that, one week after United States special forces captured Venezuela’s strongman leader Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump declared on social media Saturday the country "rich and safe again," and praised what he called the success of the operation. On the ground, however, few things are certain, including basic questions of daily security, whether Venezuela’s autocratic government will stay in place, the fate of political prisoners, who will ultimately revitalize its vast and decrepit oil industry, and whether the once-rich country will ever prosper again. On Friday afternoon at an eastern Caracas social club — one of many private organizations resembling small country clubs — three mothers watched their children play, and discussed whether they should send them to school on Monday when they are due to reopen after the Christmas break. Two of them said they would and a third that she didn’t dare. The three as well as other residents NBC News spoke with asked that their names not be used for fear of reprisals. As darkness fell, one of them, a 34-year-old publicist, asked if they should get something to eat with the children. "I live on the other side of the city, I better get going because the situation isn’t safe enough to be out so late," the 38-year-old lawyer said. Throughout Caracas, state security forces and colectivos — groups of armed civilians supportive of the Venezuelan regime — roam the streets checking people’s telephones for signs of anti-government sentiments and support of the United States raid that resulted in Maduro’s capture. This is especially true in the working-class areas. "Here we see a bit of everything," said a 30-year-old motorcycle taxi driver who lives in the working-class Petare neighborhood. "There are military, police and colectivos.” During a Friday nighttime tour of the capital, powerful and feared Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello declared that the country was at peace because the state still "has the monopoly and full control of weapons.” "Having possession of the weapons has allowed us to maintain control, so that no group can claim responsibility for acts of violence other than those perpetrated by the United States in the early morning of January 3rd," said Cabello, who oversees police, counterintelligence forces and the colectivos. On Saturday, the U.S. State Department issued an updated travel advisory urging Americans to leave Venezuela immediately now that international flights have resumed. The advisory also warned of armed militia groups setting up roadblocks and looking for evidence of U.S. citizenship or support for the United States.

FOX News [1/10/2026 2:44 PM, Rachel Wolf, 40621K] reports four tankers that left Venezuela in early January with their transponders off, also known as "dark mode," have reportedly returned to the country’s waters. The news comes after several U.S. tanker seizures and amid the Trump administration’s push to acquire Venezuelan oil after the arrest of dictator Nicolás Maduro. Most of the four tankers were loaded, according to Reuters, which noted that Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), a state-owned company, and monitoring service TankerTrackers.com had reported the vessels’ return. A flotilla of approximately one dozen loaded vessels and at least three empty ships left Venezuelan waters last month despite a U.S. blockade that has been imposed since mid-December, according to Reuters. One of the vessels, the supertanker M Sophia, which had the Panamanian flag, was intercepted by the U.S. earlier this week, as was the Olina, which had the flag of São Tomé and Príncipe, according to Reuters. The outlet reported that the Olina was released to Venezuela on Friday, citing PDVSA. The Olina had been seized by U.S. forces in a predawn mission Friday. The U.S. Southern Command said Marines and sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear worked on the mission in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security. "Apprehensions like this are backed by the full power of the U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Ready Group, including the ready and lethal platforms of the USS Iwo Jima, USS San Antonio, and USS Fort Lauderdale," the U.S. Southern Command wrote in a post on X. "The Department of War’s Operation Southern Spear is unwavering in its mission to defend our homeland by ending illicit activity and restoring security in the Western Hemisphere." The Olina, previously named the Minerva M, was sanctioned by the United States for its role in transporting Russian oil, according to The Wall Street Journal. Three other vessels that departed Venezuela in the flotilla, the Panama-flagged Merope, Cook Islands-flagged Min Hang and Panama-flagged Thalia III, were spotted late Friday in Venezuelan waters by TankerTrackers.com, Reuters reported.

AP [1/11/2026 12:02 AM, Franklin Briceño, María Verza and Nayara Batschke, 30493K] reports that, almost immediately after U.S. forces deposed Venezuela’s president, officials from Washington to Lima, Peru, began encouraging some of the 8 million Venezuelans who have scattered themselves across the Americas over more than a decade to go home. But that idea had not even crossed the mind of Yanelis Torres. The 22-year-old graphic designer was too busy printing T-shirts with images of captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro overlaid with phrases like "Game Over." Her clients in Lima’s largest textile market were snatching them up within hours of the news of Maduro’s downfall. Settled or undocumented, many of the millions of Venezuelans spread across Latin America received news of Maduro’s capture with joy but also caution, especially after hearing U.S. President Donald Trump say that he would work with Maduro’s vice president, now interim President Delcy Rodríguez, rather than the opposition. Despite leaders in Peru and Chile echoing U.S. suggestions to return to Venezuela, the diaspora does not appear ready to do so. Venezuela’s economy remains a shambles and with the exception of Maduro and his wife, the government remains in place. "I have a lot of things here," Torres said from her shop in a bustling Lima neighborhood, adding it would take time for things to change in Venezuela. "You’ve got to keep an eye on it, know what’s going on, but not lose hope.” There are nearly 7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Latin America. Colombia tops the list with 2.8 million, followed by Peru with 1.5 million. A further estimated 1 million are in the United States, according to the most recent data from R4V, a network tracking the diaspora and coordinated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. They were driven out by compounding political and economic crises. An estimated 8 in 10 people in Venezuela live in poverty in a country that was once one of Latin America’s wealthiest, with the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Some have found work or started small businesses, while others tried to the reach the U.S. or bounced from country to country. Over the past year, thousands have been deported to Venezuela or third countries and many more could be near the end of their protected status in the U.S. Their prospects are not looking good. In Chile, ultra-conservative President-elect José Antonio Kast, who will take office in March, made deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants central to his campaign. This week, Kast said "they have 63 days left to leave our country and to have the possibility of returning with all of their papers in order.” Peru and Colombia are also scheduled to elect new presidents this year, and immigration will be a focus.

NewsMax [1/10/2026 4:01 PM, Nicole Wells, 4109K] reports New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reportedly moved to limit federal agents’ ability to monitor Tren de Aragua and other gangs inside the Rikers Island prison complex. Mamdani revoked Executive Order 50 on his first day in office, which had allowed federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to monitor members of the notorious Venezuelan gang inside the city jail, according to a New York Post report. The mayor, a democratic socialist, eliminated the initiative as part of a sweeping directive repealing all executive orders issued by his predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, between Sept. 26 and Dec. 31. Federal officials now fear the gang could ramp up its operations behind bars, a source told the Post. "The federal government has long been worried about Tren de Aragua in Rikers Island because they have a more robust communication system to get information to the outside world," the source said. According to the source, the gang relies on corrupt prison guards, released inmates and visitors to shuttle messages in and out of the prison. Federal agents are especially concerned because, for the first time, the gang’s operatives in the U.S. are located just 15 miles from their leader — Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro — who is being held in a federal jail in Brooklyn, the source said.

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New York Post [1/10/2026 4:41 PM, Geoff Earle, 42219K] reports the Biden administration put in a good word for accused National Guard murderer Rahmanullah Lakanwal four years before the horrific DC slaying, insisting he was "no threat" to national security, a jarring letter of recommendation obtained by The Post reveals. The shooting before Thanksgiving led to the death of Specialist Sarah Bekstrom, 20, and wounding of fellow Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, who has been making a "miraculous" recovery. "I am confident that Rahmanullah poses no threat to the national security of the United States," according to the letter, which was unearthed by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and has spent years overseeing the chaotic US evacuation from the country following the two-decade war. The letter from the Kabul Annex to Customs officials includes laudatory language officials used to push Lakanwal through the immigration system and into the US, while formally establishing his service to the CIA in Afghanistan during the US war there. An HR rep at the annex promoted Lakanwal for a Special Immigrant Visa that allowed entry into the country. The letter is dated Oct. 14, 2021 – almost exactly two months after Taliban forces retook Kabul and the last US troops left the country. It said Lakanwal had worked as a "security officer" at a State Department Annex since 2011, serving alongside US and Afghan forces for a decade. Lakanwal provided "faithful and valuable service" to the US, and "has faced significant threat to himself and his family as a result of his dedication to DOS Annex and the U.S. Government’s mission in Afghanistan. His contributions to the mission have no doubt benefited U.S. Government interests and national security,". "Unfortunately, we have recently seen that the Biden administration’s vetting failures continue to pose serious consequences for the American people," Grassley wrote CIA Director John Ratcliffe. He cited Ratcliffe’s own public comments about his work for the CIA and press reports that he fought as part of an Afghan "Zero Unit" paramilitary force. Grassley, in a series of letters this week pressed the CIA and other agencies to disclose more about the roles three arrested Afghans played for the US government. The lawmaker told the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Customs and Border Protection, to provide similar information.

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NewsMax [1/10/2026 9:13 AM, Jim Thomas, 4109K] reports Senate Republicans’ campaign committee escalated its 2026 messaging against Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on Saturday, tying the anniversary of Laken Riley’s death to the border debate and casting Ossoff as weak on immigration enforcement at a moment when President Donald Trump is pressing a heightened crackdown, and Washington is consumed by a fast-moving Venezuela predicament. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) told Newsmax in an emailed statement Saturday that "today would have been" Riley’s 24th birthday, and argued her killing should be viewed through the lens of immigration policy and Senate votes. "Jon Ossoff supported Joe Biden’s open borders, refused to champion the Laken Riley Act, and then flip-flopped on the life-saving legislation. Now, he won’t recognize the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, whose regime sent Laken Riley’s killer to Georgia. Georgians know Ossoff is a spineless political hack they can’t trust, and they’ll reject him in 2026," said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia. Riley, a Georgia nursing student, was killed Feb. 22, 2024, in Athens, Ga. Federal prosecutors said Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan citizen, was later convicted in a bench trial and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The political fight the NRSC is anplifying centers on the Laken Riley Act, which became the first bill Trump signed in his second term. The law requires the Department of Homeland Security to take into custody certain non-U.S. nationals who are charged with specified offenses, including theft-related crimes, and it also authorizes states to sue the federal government over certain immigration enforcement decisions. Ossoff voted "yea" when the Senate passed S. 5 on Jan. 20, 2025, according to the official roll call. The NRSC said that Ossoff previously opposed "a version" of the bill. The NRSC statement also referenced the U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro this month, after President Trump announced a military operation in Caracas. Supporters of the Laken Riley Act, including Trump and Republicans who pushed it early in the new Congress, have framed it as a public safety measure aimed at preventing repeat tragedies by tightening mandatory detention rules. Opponents, including immigrant rights advocates and some Democrats, warned during the 2025 debate that the bill could expand detention even before a conviction and strain immigration enforcement resources, raising due process concerns.

Chicago Tribune [1/11/2026 6:00 AM, Staff, 4829K] reports on Thursday night, various left-wing activists and elected officials demanded the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and Chicago’s Office of Inspector General investigate the actions of the Chicago Police Department while agents from U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement were causing havoc on the streets of Chicago. We understand the boiling frustration following the fatal shooting on Wednesday of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent. These activists know they would not be taken seriously by the feds, so they are channeling their anger into a potentially more productive lane in a deep blue city: going after local cops, alleging cooperation with the hated federal agents. Understandable, yes. Helpful, not at all. Anyone who has watched the videos of the Minneapolis shooting with a clear head can see not just what happened but what did not happen: the intervention in, or at least the monitoring of, a dangerous situation by local police officers whose superior training and knowledge of their surrounding communities might well have prevented that killing from happening in the first place. Minneapolis cops, who’ve suffered through all kinds of ill treatment from activists, were nowhere to be seen. Had they been the ones getting that vehicle to move, not the hyped-up paramilitary crew escalating everything, a person might still be alive and an agent might not have a shooting on his conscience. There was at least a chance of that. We’ve said several times before that cops are in a near-impossible position when it comes to this wildly dysfunctional war between the federal government and local and state officials in Democratic cities. They’re typically prohibited from aiding in immigration enforcements by local and state laws and there are good reasons for that. But what has transpired in practice is that cops are sorely missed during ICE incursions. That was the case on Wednesday, where the fatal shooting began as someone blocking a public road, generally an infraction of interest to police officers, who are trained to know the difference between impeding something and vociferously protesting against it.

New York Times [1/10/2026 9:19 AM, Jessica Grose, 153395K] reports the one group in the United States most interested in leaving the country and permanently living somewhere else is American women ages 15 to 44. According to Gallup, 40 percent of women polled in my age bracket expressed this desire, double the rate of all U.S. adults. That tells me that the women who are building their lives and the lives of the next generation are looking for the exit. Women in other, similar nations do not share this desire to relocate. In November, I asked readers who were considering moving what was driving them out. While the responses were varied (the rollback of rights for women, immigrants and L.G.B.T.Q.+ people was mentioned by several), the most common reason cited was gun violence in the United States. Whether at the hands of fellow citizens or militarized law enforcement officers, this particular form of violence and its unremitting nature is just not a significant problem in our peer nations.

FOX News [1/10/2026 7:00 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz pulled out the smears last May at a law-school graduation. The agents of Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) were "Trump’s modern-day Gestapo," "scooping folks up off the streets." It had been Joe Biden’s ICE just four months earlier. How quickly can an agency descend into fascism? The national broadcast networks never found that objectionable or newsworthy. The "independent fact-checkers" yawned. Comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler is 24/7 Democrat messaging. Comparing law-enforcement agencies to storm troopers is perfectly fine – when the Democrats aren’t in charge of them. It’s become clear that Democrats from Walz on down don’t just oppose mass deportation. They oppose any deportations. They don’t welcome cooperation with ICE. They push resistance against ICE. Because ICE is now relentlessly demonized, it shouldn’t be surprising that they’ve been on the receiving end of violence. The broadcast networks yawn. In September in Chicago, an illegal alien ran over and dragged an ICE agent in Chicago until the alien was shot dead. But there was no sympathy for the dragged agent on ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS. Last December in St. Paul, Minn., an illegal alien allegedly ran over an ICE agent and bit another agent when he was apprehended. The national networks showed they don’t care. They didn’t bring that up after the latest incident. The death of Renee Nicole Good when she threatened to drive into an ICE agent is a tragedy. If activists like Good wanted to protest ICE by showing up wherever they seek to enforce the law and film it on their phones, that’s in our First Amendment tradition. But it’s a crime to get involved in trying to impede law enforcement activity. We can guess the elitist media would say these murders were atypical for illegal immigrants. But using that logic, apparently ICE shooting a protester is typical for them?

New York Times [1/10/2026 11:22 AM, Jamelle Bouie, 135475K] reports that eight years ago, I wrote an article for Slate arguing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was an out-of-control agency that had become a “sinister” and “draconian” force “harassing and detaining people who pose no threat to the United States or its citizens.” The American people, I contended, needed “an honest discussion about whether ICE can be effectively reformed or if it must be abolished and replaced by an agency that can carry out its mission in a more effective and humane way.” Now, however, we are past the point of conversation. In the hands of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, ICE is a virtual secret police. Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed “enemies” of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents’ first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence. According to The Trace, a newsroom dedicated to reporting on gun violence, immigration agents have opened fire in 16 separate incidents since last June: “At least three people have been shot observing or documenting immigration raids, and five people have been shot while driving away from traffic stops or evading an enforcement action.” This week, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old resident of Minneapolis. She was sitting in her S.U.V. when agents ran up and demanded she exit the vehicle, pulling on the door in an effort to compel compliance. Soon after, three shots rang out. An analysis of video footage by The Times strongly suggests that Good had been moving away from the agent in question when he fired, killing her and causing the vehicle to crash nearby. Since then, the Trump administration has been engaged in a relentless effort to tar Good as a dangerous militant who was using her S.U.V. to attack ICE agents, an act of “domestic terrorism,” according to the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem. “This was an attack on law and order, this was an attack on the American people,” said Vice President JD Vance. Good can be seen in a different video telling her eventual killer, “I’m not mad at you dude.” Immigration enforcement seems to have ramped up its efforts even further in the wake of Good’s death. On Thursday, during an operation in Portland, Ore., Border Patrol agents shot and wounded two people. The administration, as it did with Good, immediately accused the victims of being dangerous threats to the nation.

Wahington Post [1/11/2026 6:31 AM, Jason Willick, 24149K] reports as the United States built up a naval armada off the coast of Venezuela last year, the worry on many minds was that military intervention would destabilize the country and draw the U.S. into a quagmire. But now that the military has struck — raiding Caracas and seizing ruler Nicolás Maduro — the main concern seems to come from the other direction: that the U.S. is legitimizing Maduro’s cronies rather than demanding a more decent government. “What we need in Venezuela is a peaceful transition to democracy,” said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. New York Times columnist Bret Stephens was incredulous that the U.S. would leave “what’s left of Maduro’s odious regime in place.” Yet the Maduro raid was never billed as a democracy-promotion operation, and for good reason. Regenerating constitutional democracy in Venezuela would probably require far more intensive U.S. military involvement than the Jan. 3 in-and-out Delta Force attack. After all, Maduro’s autocratic regime controlled Venezuela’s security forces — that’s how he was able to steal the country’s 2024 election — and there’s no indication that this has changed. The two rationales the Trump administration has most clearly communicated for the raid are, first, the instability brought by the country’s drug trade and the violent gangs it supports, and second, Venezuela’s coziness with countries and organizations hostile to the U.S. (such as Cuba, Russia, China and Hezbollah). Successive administrations have tried to change Venezuela’s behavior, including its human-rights violations, through sanctions and other diplomatic tools. President Donald Trump’s administration has now introduced limited military operations to the equation by blockading Venezuela’s oil and seizing Maduro. It seems prudent to wait and see whether and how much this new leverage can change the regime’s behavior on issues that matter to the U.S. before trying to push it out altogether, with even more military force. Interim president Delcy Rodríguez, a Maduro henchwoman sanctioned by the U.S., doesn’t have to be a democrat to recognize that it might be in her interests to take Trump’s demands more seriously than did her former boss.

Washington Post [1/10/2026 1:11 PM, Mark Berman, Maria Sacchetti, Derek Hawkins, David Ovalle, 24149K] reports The fatal shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday has prompted new scrutiny of the tactics and training for the thousands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deployed across the country as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. Administration officials have defended the ICE officer who shot Good as she pulled away in her SUV, saying multiple videos of the incident show that he acted in self-defense. But several former law enforcement officials who reviewed the footage and spoke to The Washington Post faulted the officer’s actions. They said the officer — identified through court records as Jonathan Ross, an employee of the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division — placed himself at needless risk, escalated the situation and went against best law enforcement practices during the incident. Law enforcement officers should not position themselves in front of vehicles, and they need to try to de-escalate confrontations and must generally avoid shooting into moving vehicles, these officials said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the ICE officer “followed his training” and accused Good of trying to run him over. The SUV did move toward Ross as he stood in front of it, according to a Post analysis of video footage. But he moved out of the way and fired at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, the analysis found. Available videos of the incident reviewed by The Post do not show clearly if Good’s SUV made contact with Ross. “It was really an unnecessary shooting,” said Dennis Kenney, a former Florida police officer and a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. “If you’ve got time to shoot, you’ve got time to get out of the way, which we saw in this case. The guy was clearly able to avoid being impacted by the car.” James F. Pastor, a former Chicago police officer and an expert in how and when police use their weapons, said lethal force might not be warranted if the threat is dissipated by a car driving away. But in many situations, he said, officers have split-seconds to make decisions and have been trained that cars are deadly weapons no different from a firearm. “When you’re the one experiencing it, your vantage point is different and your emotion — and even at some level your decision-making process — is affected,” said Pastor, a former police union attorney. Law enforcement officers generally have broad legal protections to use deadly force if they perceive a legitimate threat. At the same time, experts who spoke to The Post said many police agencies advise against shooting at moving vehicles because of the risks it creates, particularly if a driver is struck and loses control of their vehicle. “You shoot at a car, you shoot at a driver, and the car goes out of control,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which works with law enforcement agencies on safety and other issues. “You don’t know where it’s going to go … What you have is almost like an unguided missile.” Since the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown began last year, federal authorities have sent thousands of federal immigration officers into cities and states across the country. In some areas, including Minneapolis, local officials and residents have vocally opposed the administration’s push, and citizen groups have formed to monitor ICE activity and alert immigrants when federal officers are nearby. Immigration officers and Border Patrol agents have in some cases used aggressive tactics to take people into custody or repel protesters, including smashing car windows or reaching into vehicles. The Department of Homeland Security has said officers are facing a surge in threats and assaults, including with vehicles used as weapons, and blamed “sanctuary politicians and the media.” Officials have vowed to prosecute “rioters” and warned that demonstrations will not stop their immigration enforcement efforts.

Wall Street Journal [1/10/2026 8:00 AM, Brenna T. Smith, Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky, and Hannah Critchfield, 646K] reports a killing in Minneapolis and the shooting of two people in Portland, Ore., this week are the latest in a string of incidents involving immigration agents firing at civilian vehicles. The Wall Street Journal has identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles since July, leaving at least eight people shot with two confirmed dead. According to court records and lawyers, only one civilian was armed—with a concealed weapon that was never drawn—and at least five of those shot were U.S. citizens. Several federal officers reported injuries, including bruised ribs, a dislocated finger and a bite wound. The Journal reviewed public records—court documents, agency press releases and gun-violence databases—of vehicle shootings involving immigration agents, though video is only publicly available for four of them. Videos for some of the other shootings remain under protective order or footage hasn’t been released by the relevant agency, despite requests from the Journal. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees federal immigration agents, said use of force was justified in the 13 cases and charged at least six people with assaulting a federal officer. Charges were later dismissed in three of the cases. “When faced with dangerous circumstances, DHS law enforcement used their training to protect themselves, their fellow officers, and the public,” said Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin after receiving a list of the incidents the Journal reviewed. The shootings coincide with a surge in street-level enforcement including incidents involving vehicles, from routine traffic stops to high-risk operations tied to President Trump’s immigration crackdown. DHS officials say vehicle attacks against their agents more than doubled in 2025. A White House spokesperson said in recent weeks there have been over 100 car rammings against federal agents.

CNN [1/11/2026 4:00 AM, Eric Bradner, Michael Williams, 18595K] reports that, in every city where President Donald Trump’s immigration agents have arrived in force, they’ve been trailed by people who seek to monitor or protest their activities, often in close quarters. At times, those two groups have collided with tragic results — including an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday morning, as she appeared to attempt to drive away from ICE agents ordering her out of her vehicle on a Minneapolis street. Video obtained by CNN on Friday shows Good’s wife and Jonathan Ross, the officer who fired the fatal shots, recording each other with their cellphones before Good tries to drive off. Good’s last words to Ross were: "I’m not mad at you.” In the Trump administration’s telling, those protesters, including Good, are "agitators" or even "domestic terrorists." Vice President JD Vance described Good as part of a "left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job." FBI director Kash Patel has suggested federal law enforcement will investigate leaders and funders of the loosely organized groups which have followed and documented immigration enforcement efforts. People who track ICE scoffed at the notion that they are terrorists or part of any organized cell. "I mean, gosh, we’re like, moms in Toyota Corollas," said one Minneapolis-area activist who participates in anti-ICE patrols and declined to give her name because she feared retribution from the administration. "We’re mental health workers, we’re teachers, we’re people that are connected to our communities in such a way that we see there’s harm being done," she said. "There’s nobody in my contact group who are professional agitators.” The moments which led to the encounter that ended in Good’s death on that icy Minneapolis street are still unclear. While Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has accused Good of "stalking agents all day long," her ex-husband told the Associated Press that she had just dropped her 6-year-old son off at school and was headed home before she noticed a group of ICE agents in the street. Good’s wife, Becca Good, said in a statement to MPR News that on Wednesday morning, they "stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns." She did not further address the lead-up to the shooting. In the days after Good’s shooting, a number of anti-ICE activists drew comparisons to an incident in Chicago last year. Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, was shot five times by a Customs and Border Protection agent in Chicago who accused her of ramming her vehicle into his SUV. Martinez survived, and Martinez’s defense attorney alleged it was actually the agent who sideswiped Martinez. The Justice Department later dropped its charges against Martinez. Good’s death appears to have hardened protesters’ resolve in Minneapolis, leading to tense standoffs. For people who take it upon themselves to track ICE’s movements and warn neighbors about their presence, the killing has crystallized their worries about following a law enforcement agency that has used increasingly harsh tactics to deliver on the Trump administration’s mass-deportation promise.

Breibart [1/11/2026 6:53 AM, Simon Kent, 2416K] reports rocker Dave Matthews tried to eviscerate President Donald Trump and his administration Friday in the wake of Renee Good’s fatal shooting by an immigration officer in Minnesota, declaring she was “murdered in cold blood” before adding “fuck ICE.” “I don’t want my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart,” Matthews said in a video posted on his birthday. “We should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other. We should be housing the homeless. We shouldn’t be, you know, throwing people to the ground.” In the video, the DMB frontman also sought to belittle the military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of its President Nicolas Maduro along with warnings to other countries, broader involvement in the war in Gaza and ICE operations. “Which brings me to Renee Nicole Good, murdered in front of her fellow citizens in Minneapolis, murdered in the streets, and no matter what narrative this administration is trying to sell us, we can see the videos,” Matthews said. Matthews disputed the administration’s claims ICE acted in self defense by alleging Good was “murdered in cold blood.” “To Trump, to Kristi Noem, to Stephen Miller, to Pete Hegseth, to [Kash] Patel to [Pam] Bondi to all of them, just deeply, deeply dishonest people. Just cowardly, shameful, dishonest people,” he continued. “Fuck them. They are revolting.” The singer-songwriter despaired that he’s “deeply ashamed of this government, the way they’re treating our neighbors, outside and inside this country.” “Fuck ICE. Yeah. If that language offends you … Come on. We all heard it before. I hope you know where my heart is,” Matthews said. “I don’t like these monsters that are running the show right now. They are ungrateful, greedy monsters. I don’t like it. I don’t like it one bit.”

Breitbart [1/11/2026 6:25 AM, Lowell Cauffiel, 2416K] reports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) hit back at Billie Eilish Friday, saying the pop singer was spreading “garbage rhetoric” with Instagram reposts that labeled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a “federally funded terrorist group” that has “done nothing to make our streets safer.” The reposts followed an immigration agent’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis Wednesday in what the DHS has said was an act of self defense when the woman allegedly accelerated toward him with her SUV while another agent was ordering her to step out of the vehicle. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded by firing off a statement to the music trade publication Billboard magazine late Friday. “Clearly, Billie Eilish has not seen the newly released footage, which corroborates what DHS has stated all along — that this individual was impeding law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to federal law enforcement,” it read.

FOX News [1/10/2026 2:34 PM, Ryan Morik Fox, 40621K] reports actor and Monty Python alum John Cleese questioned whether the World Cup should be held in the U.S. after an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota. Renee Good was killed while operating a vehicle that agents ordered her to exit, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Good, according to Noem, refused and "attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.". Cleese, however, disagreed with Noem’s version of events. Cleese shared a post that showed ICE arresting a woman in Minneapolis in the aftermath of Good’s death. The actor suggested that FIFA may want to reconsider holding games in the United States. "Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists," Cleese asked in an X post. President Donald Trump has threatened to keep games out of American cities he deems unsafe. Cleese’s post was shared by tennis legend Martina Navratilova among dozens of other anti-ICE posts.

Univision [1/10/2026 4:53 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports the death of a Haitian immigrant just 24 hours after being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Jersey adds to a series of recent deaths recorded in immigration detention centers in the United States. ICE reported that Jean Wilson Brutus , 41, died on December 12, 2025, after suffering a medical emergency at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark. According to the federal agency, staff at the facility requested emergency assistance, and the detainee was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The preliminary cause of death was described by ICE as “natural,” with no further details released. The death occurred just one day after Brutus was detained by immigration authorities. His case was reported amid a series of deaths of immigrants in ICE custody in recent weeks , some of them in facilities run by private companies contracted by the federal government. During December 2025, at least four migrants died within a few days of each other while in ICE custody in various states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey, according to news reports and civil society organizations. In several of these cases, ICE cited medical causes as the reason for death, while activists questioned possible delays in emergency care or deficiencies in access to healthcare. Several reports indicate that 2025 ended as one of the deadliest years for immigrants in ICE custody in over two decades , with approximately 30 deaths documented nationwide. Human rights organizations have warned that increased detentions and overcrowding in some facilities may be contributing to these outcomes.

Washington Post [1/10/2026 5:05 PM, Juan Benn Jr., 24149K] reports the Department of Homeland Security has changed its account of an immigration enforcement-related shooting in Maryland that left two men injured on Christmas Eve, a move prompted by a local police account that contradicted the federal agency’s initial statement. In the department’s announcement of the shooting on X, officials said officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were executing a “targeted immigration enforcement operation” in Glen Burnie when they approached a vehicle and told the driver, Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, to turn off the engine. In the passenger seat of Sousa-Martins’ van, the department said, was Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel. Officers “defensively fired” their guns at the vehicle, striking Sousa-Martins after he allegedly refused to power off his van and attempted to flee, ramming it into “several ICE vehicles” before driving in the officers’ direction, DHS said in its initial account. In that account, Serrano-Esquivel suffered whiplash when Sousa-Martins’ van crashed between two buildings. But the Anne Arundel County Police Department issued a statement Friday that offered a counter narrative. One of the men was an ICE detainee and already in the agency’s custody when the incident occurred, police said. The other was injured by gunfire “while operating a separate vehicle.” DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday about the discrepancy in accounts and the status of the two men’s injuries. In a statement provided to the Baltimore Sun, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed Serrano-Esquivel was inside “one of the ICE vehicles that was rammed.”

Washington Post [1/11/2026 5:00 AM, Erin Cox, 24149K] reports outraged by the Trump administration’s escalating immigration enforcement tactics, a Maryland lawmaker proposed banning agents recruited and hired to carry out the president’s mass deportations from ever working in state public safety jobs. “It says something about the morals of the person — the character of the person — if they see what’s happening on TV, they see what happening in the streets and say, ‘You know what? I want to join that,’ “ said Del. Adrian Boafo (D-Prince George’s), the bill’s sponsor. “Something’s off about that,” he said. Boafo announced his “ICE Breaker Act of 2026” hours before a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, which sparked protests and renewed accusations that President Donald Trump unleashed a reckless force into communities. Across the country, Democrats have been grappling with how to respond to ramped up immigration enforcement that they say has terrorized communities and is often carried out by agents wearing masks. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), for example, signed a law banning masked agents; the Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block it. Boafo’s legislation would specifically ban ICE enforcement agents hired after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 of last year from holding jobs in state law enforcement. He conceived it after The Washington Post reported on the Trump administration’s planned $100 million “wartime recruitment” strategy, he said. The push to attract thousands of new agents targets military enthusiasts and people interested in gun culture, using rhetoric that emphasizes messages such as “destroy the flood” and “the enemies are at the gates.” “These are the type of folks that were recruited, quite literally, to just wreak havoc,” Boafo said.

Breitbart [1/10/2026 10:56 AM, John Binder, 2416K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien convicted of raping a child, among other crimes against children, after having first illegally crossed the southern border in 1998, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. On January 2, ICE agents in Wilmington, North Carolina, arrested illegal alien Moises Guizar Alvarado of Mexico after he served 15 years and six months in a state prison for first-degree rape of a child, committing sex offenses as a parent, and taking indecent liberties with a child, all of which he was convicted of in 2010. At the time of his conviction, Guizar Alvarado was sentenced to 20 years and nine months in prison. The child rapist served about 75 percent of his initial sentence before being released, and subsequently, taken into ICE custody. "Guizar committed disgusting crimes," ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement. "He was convicted of eight counts of sex offense in a parental role, seven counts of first-degree sex offenses with a child, seven counts of indecent liberties with a child, and one count of first-degree rape of a child," Lyons said. "When we say we’re out there arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, this is who we mean.". Guizar Alvarado first crossed the United States-Mexico border almost 30 years ago and was first arrested in June 2009 on sexual assault of a child charges in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Guizar Alvarado remains in ICE custody pending deportation to Mexico.

FOX News [1/10/2026 5:59 PM, Alexandra Koch and Bill Melugin, 40621K] reports ICE officials on Saturday released a shocking list of the "worst of the worst" criminal illegal immigrants arrested during their recent surge in the sanctuary state of Minnesota, including child rapists and nearly a dozen killers. ICE told Fox News the criminal illegal immigrants were roaming freely in Minnesota prior to their recent arrest, and that they are the type of people Democratic politicians and activists are referring to as their "neighbors," as they attempt to interfere with ICE. "Regardless of staged political theatrics, ICE is going to continue to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota and elsewhere," ICE director Todd M. Lyons wrote in a statement. "Some of these criminal aliens have had final orders of removal for 30 years, but they’ve been free to terrorize Minnesotans." "ICE’s arrests prevent recidivism and make communities safer, but it feels like local politicians want to ignore that part and drum up discontent rather than protect their own constituents," he continued. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reacted to the arrests on X Saturday, calling the convicts "sick people.". "This is why we have ICE Agents," Leavitt wrote in the post. "May God Bless them for their thankless work to protect American communities from these sick people.". The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a photo of a plane on X Saturday captioned, "Lawbreakers going wheels up in Minneapolis."

CBS News [1/10/2026 5:26 PM, Adam Duxter and Nick Lentz, 39474K] reports three Democratic congressional lawmakers who represent Minnesota said they were denied access to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Saturday. Reps. Angie Craig, Ilhan Omar and Kelly Morrison told reporters that they were initially allowed into the building, but then informed they must leave. "Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said that they received a message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building, and that they were rescinding the invitation to come in and declining any further access from the building," Omar told reporters while standing outside the facility. Added Craig, "The response was that, since the funding for this center came from the one ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ not the congressional appropriations bill, that they were denying our access." Morrrison said in her own social media post that conducting oversight of "American taxpayer-funded facilities is not only our legal right, but our constitutional duty.". Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement provided to CBS News Minnesota that lawmakers are required to provide seven days notice of congressional visits. "For the safety of detainees and staff, and in compliance with the agency’s mandate, the Members of Congress were notified that their visit was improper and out of compliance with existing court orders and policies which mandate that members of Congress must notify ICE at least seven days in advance of Congressional visits," McLaughlin wrote. "Because they were out of compliance with this mandate, Representative Omar and her colleagues were denied entry to the facility." McLaughlin added that Omar, Craig and Morrison "must follow the proper guidelines" if they want to tour the facility. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Breitbart [1/10/2026 11:47 AM, Ian Hanchett, 2416K] reports Editor’s Note: A previous version of the headline incorrectly attributed the statement to the Council as a whole rather than one member. We regret the error. On Friday’s "CNN News Central," Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley responded to a question on what should replace ICE if it is abolished as she wants by stating that "This was used as a wedge issue to divide Americans, thinking that these immigrant — law enforcement agents are going to go out and get the bad guys off the streets. No, they are the bad guys.". Co-host Sara Sidner asked, "[Y]ou have called for abolishing ICE entirely. But we have seen polling from the American people who have said, look, they did put Donald Trump in office, in part, because they were concerned about immigration, they wanted better immigration enforcement. Immigration consistently polled as the second most important issue behind the economy. So, if you want to abolish ICE, what should replace it, in your mind?". Wonsley responded, "We have not always had ICE. And, in fact, the billions of dollars that [are] going to ICE right now absolutely [need] to be rerouted towards supporting our communities. Right now, we have working-class families who are struggling to make rent, who have lost their jobs since this administration has taken power. We have residents who’ve lost access to critical social services that have been defunded in the efforts to uphold this violent agency that’s separating families and that’s also doing it indiscriminately. Let’s make it very clear, this has nothing to do about immigration. This was used as a wedge issue to divide Americans, thinking that these immigrant — law enforcement agents are going to go out and get the bad guys off the streets. No, they are the bad guys. And they are targeting residents indiscriminately. It does not matter if you’re an immigrant. It does not matter if you’re a U.S. citizen. You can be shot, killed in a residential area on a random weekday morning, as what took place here. So, I’m really hoping that this incident and the many other incidents that [have] transpired since ICE agents have continued to wage this work of cruelty across various cities, I’m hoping Americans and residents of different cities are seeing that this was a blatant lie sold to the American people to distract us from the fact that they are depriving us of the resources that we need to cover our basic necessities, to make sure that we have a standard quality of life that’s accessible to everyone. That is what they’re trying to distract us away from with this whole illusion of them using immigration as a tool to remove criminals off the streets. They are the criminals. They are the ones murdering civilians. And they should be held responsible, traditionally and nothing less.".

Politico [1/10/2026 6:03 PM, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, 2100K] reports a federal judge has frozen a Trump administration plan to strip more than 10,000 immigrants of their legal status next week. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a temporary restraining order Saturday that extends the “family reunification parole” status of immigrants who were set to see it expire on Wednesday as part of the administration’s broad crackdown on immigration. Talwani, an Obama appointee based in Boston, said immigration officials failed to properly notify those who might lose their legal authorization to remain in the United States, despite a requirement that they receive direct notification. Publishing the decision on Dec. 15 in the Federal Register — a government database — did not satisfy the requirement, Talwani ruled. The Trump administration said it planned to provide the required “written notice” to affected immigrants through online accounts, but the judge said some immigrants with “parole” status got electronic notice weeks after the announcement last month, while others claim to have never been notified. “Nothing in the record before the court suggests that most, let alone all, parolees do in fact have such accounts or when notice via such accounts was provided to the parolees,” Talwani wrote in her five-page order Saturday. The revocation of family reunification parole comes amid a broader mass deportation campaign that has included the elimination of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have fled countries facing economic strife, war and natural disasters. It also comes amid broader legal pushback against the administration’s abrupt efforts to effect mass deportations, which judges have routinely said has failed to provide adequate due process. When the Trump administration ordered an end to the family reunification parole programs last month, it said about 15,000 people currently have such status. Not all would be immediately impacted by the cancellation since it does not cover those who had pending applications for a different immigration status when the termination was announced. Immigrant rights advocates said they expected 10,000 to 12,000 immigrants would lose legal status this week without action by the court. Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

New York Times [1/10/2026 9:46 PM, Adam Sella, 135475K] reports a federal judge on Saturday paused a Trump administration policy halting an immigration program that allowed migrants from some Central and South American countries to reunite with their family members in the United States while awaiting visas. In a five-page order, Judge Indira Talwani of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts granted a 14-day stay of the Trump administration’s decision last month to cancel the immigration program, known as the Family Reunification Parole Program, while legal challenges continue. The order is the latest rebuke in a protracted battle between the Trump administration and the courts over a series of Biden-era immigration policies that Mr. Trump has attempted to cancel. In a statement on Dec. 12, the Department of Homeland Security said it would end family reunification parole programs for migrants from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. The agency said the programs had “security gaps caused by insufficient vetting that malicious and fraudulent actors could exploit to enter the United States.” It added that migrants currently enrolled in an F.R.P. program who did not have a pending permanent residence application would lose their legal status on Jan. 14. On Dec. 29, a group of migrants challenged the Department of Homeland Security over the programs’ termination. They argued that D.H.S. “fell well short of satisfying their most basic obligations” of due process when it canceled the programs. In the challenge, lawyers representing the migrants estimated that more than 10,000 migrants, more than a quarter of whom are children, would lose their legal status in the U.S. as a result of the administration’s decision. In Judge Talwani’s order, she said that the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the programs, failed to provide adequate written notice to the affected migrants after the administration tried to cancel them. The department had claimed in a Dec. 15 Federal Register notice, which explained how the programs’ termination would be administered, that the notice itself “satisfies the requirement that DHS provide written notice upon the termination of parole.” But Judge Talwani said that “D.H.S. is mistaken.” Judge Talwani, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, added that the administration’s actions would “pose irreparable harm” to the migrants who had entered the U.S. through the programs and had not yet received permanent legal status.

Los Angeles Times [1/11/2026 6:00 AM, Andrea Castillo, 14672K] reports after President Trump ordered strikes that led to the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, celebrations erupted in Venezuelan communities across the U.S. But for many of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants facing possible deportation, their relief and joy were cut by the fear about what comes next from an administration that has zeroed in on Venezuelans as a target. “Many of us asked ourselves, ‘What’s going to happen with us now?’” said A.G., a 39-year-old in Tennessee who asked to be identified by her initials because she lacks legal status. Even so, Maduro’s ouster gave her a lot of hope for her mother country. Venezuelans began fleeing in droves in 2014 as economic collapse led to widespread food and medicine shortages, as well as political repression. Nearly 8 million Venezuelans are now living outside the country — including 1.2 million in the U.S. A.G. and her now-18-year-old son arrived at the southern border in 2019. Since then, she said, they have built a good life — they own a transport company with delivery trucks, pay taxes and follow the law. Maduro’s fall left her with mixed feelings. “He’s obviously a dictator, many people have died because of him and he refused to give up power, but the reason that they entered Venezuela, for me what President Trump did was illegal,” she said. “Innocent people died because of the bombs. I’m asking God that it all be for good reason.” Dozens of Venezuelans and others were killed in the U.S. invasion — more than 100, a government official said — including civilians. The Trump administration is framing its Venezuela operation as an opportunity for Venezuelans like A.G. “Now, they can return to the country they love and rebuild its future,” said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew Tragesser. Katie Blankenship, a Miami-based attorney with Sanctuary of the South who has represented many Venezuelans facing deportation, sees a less promising future. “We’re going to see increased targeting of Venezuelans to force them to leave the U.S. into a political and socioeconomic environment that’s likely only more destabilized and subject to more abuse,” she said. The Venezuelan community in the U.S. swelled, in part, because the Biden administration expanded pathways for them to enter the country.

New York Post [1/10/2026 12:48 PM, Jeanne Erickson, 42219K] reports builders contracted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are installing roughly 50 "doggie doors" in sections of the US-Mexico border wall along Arizona and California. And, as if on cue, wildlife experts are up in arms. They argue the openings — about the size of an 8-by-10-inch piece of paper — are too small and will prevent larger animals from moving in their natural migratory patterns while also disrupting ecosystems. Experts fret population declines and even starvation. Animals like skunks, badgers, foxes, opossums, weasels, rabbits, snakes, and desert tortoises can get through. But larger creatures — including mountain lions, jaguars, deer, and bighorn sheep — will be affected by their inability to move to the other side, according to National Geographic Magazine. They’re also concerned about the low number of "doors" for such a long, sprawling fence. The southern US border with Mexico is roughly 1,933 miles long, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the tip of South Texas. Some 700 miles already have fencing in place, according to CNN, and the rest are undergoing the lengthy process of being contracted and built. "This has got to be an obscene joke," said Laiken Jordahl, an advocate for public lands and wildlife with the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity, bemoaning that only there’s "only fifty of these tiny openings.". Christina Aiello and Miles Traphagen, two of the researchers for Wildlands Network, went to the wall to see the conditions up close and came away shaking their heads. "We came out to look at the condition of the border where they plan on building a border wall," Traphagen told KTSM El Paso news in a Border Report. "We can’t simply be throwing away all of our biodiversity and our natural history heritage to solve a problem we could do more constructively, with, you know, overhauling our immigration programs.". To keep building the wall, the DHS is waiving several environmental laws to expedite the work. "This is necessary to ensure the expeditious construction of physical barriers and roads. Projects executed under a waiver are critical steps to secure the southern border and reinforce our commitment to border security," the agency said in a statement. In response to the criticism, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson Matthew Dyman said the agency worked closely with the National Park Service and other federal agencies to pick the best placements for the passages, relying on existing data about the distribution of species and migration routes.

Latin Times [1/10/2026 9:42 AM, Héctor Ríos Morales] reports in its latest effort to deter illegal crossings in Southeast Texas, the Department of Homeland Security this week unveiled new water buoy barriers that are already being installed along the Rio Grande near Brownsville, with officials revealing the system is designed to span as much as 500 miles of the border. During a Jan. 7 news conference, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the purpose of the barriers is to make it significantly more difficult for undocumented migrants, as well as drug and human traffickers, to cross the river into the United States. "Those barriers, and these ones behind me, are going to save our lives and going to save illegal alien lives," Noem said. "It will help stop the drug trafficking that’s devastating our next generation of Americans, and it will also make sure that we’re stopping the human trafficking that we’ve seen for so many years." Noem was joined by U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks during her one day visit to Brownsville. The officials held a roundtable discussion with local ranchers to gather feedback on border security and toured the site where the barriers are being deployed. "What you are seeing today are border buoy barriers placed directly along the international boundary line to reduce illegal crossings," Banks said. "We tested these systems in Texas and found them to be effective. What is being installed now is an updated version of what the state previously used." According to Border Report, the updated buoys offer improved flotation and are equipped with fiber optic sensors capable of detecting attempts to climb over them. Noem said the installation of the barriers is necessary and described them as a long term investment. She said the 15 foot long buoys are expected to remain in place for many years. "These barriers will make it far more difficult for illegal aliens, drug smugglers and human traffickers to cross the river and other waterways where they are deployed," Noem said. "Securing these waterways protects Americans and also saves lives by discouraging dangerous river crossings." The buoy expansion is funded through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which included more than $46 billion for border barriers, though DHS has not specified how much of that funding will be allocated to buoy systems.

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Breitbart [1/10/2026 8:25 AM, Randy Clark, 2416K] reports that a 17‑year‑old Mexican national triggered a massive law‑enforcement scramble in Laredo, Texas, on Thursday, leaving two suspected illegal aliens dead and stealing two vehicles, including a marked Texas Highway Patrol unit. Police eventually captured the alleged human smuggler by pulling him from the Rio Grande during a final attempt to escape into Mexico. A Mexican teen is in custody after an hours-long ordeal to secure his capture after a daring escape attempt in Laredo. The incident began early Thursday morning after law enforcement officers attempted to stop a suspicious vehicle just south of the city. The incident evolved into a vehicle pursuit, the death of two suspected illegal aliens, an escape attempt by the suspect, two vehicle thefts, and an officer-involved shooting before the day’s end. According to a law enforcement source, 17-year-old Saul Garcia-Rodriguez, triggered a day‑long law‑enforcement scramble in Laredo on Thursday, leaving two suspected illegal aliens dead and stealing two vehicles — including a marked Texas Highway Patrol unit — before being pulled from the Rio Grande during a final attempt to escape into Mexico is believed to have been the driver of the suspicious white Toyota sport utility vehicle first encountered by authorities on Mines Road just south of Laredo. After eluding authorities briefly, a Texas Highway Patrol trooper observed the vehicle on Interstate 35, and it later fled after the driver refused to stop for the trooper. The vehicle pursuit ended after the vehicle allegedly driven by Garcia-Rodriguez crashed into a utility pole on the 4700 block of San Bernardo Avenue, according to the source. Six suspected illegal aliens were in the vehicle with the suspected human smuggler at the time of the accident. Two suspected male illegal aliens died upon impact. None of the occupants was wearing a seatbelt, according to authorities. According to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation into the deadly smuggling scheme, the suspected driver was taken to a local hospital for examination after the accident. Later in the morning, after his release, Garcia-Rodriguez was placed in handcuffs to be transported to a law enforcement facility in Laredo by a Texas DPS Highway Patrol Trooper.

ABC News [1/10/2026 11:42 AM, Staff, 30493K] reports Multiple tornadoes already tore through several states this week. A severe weather threat continues over the Deep South on Saturday with tornadoes and flash flooding possible. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for more than 8 million Americans in parts of Alabama and Georgia until Saturday evening. Early Saturday morning, there were already active storms over parts of the South, primarily in Mississippi. The main threat will be in the morning into the afternoon hours where conditions will be more favorable for severe development. These storms will continue into the afternoon from New Orleans to Clemson, South Carolina -- including cities like Atlanta and Pensacola. Damaging wind, tornadoes, and some large hail are the primary threats Saturday morning and into the day. The threat will die down later in the afternoon and into the early evening but rain continues to push east and northeast from the late evening into the overnight hours.

Washington Post [1/11/2026 6:00 AM, Matthew Cappucci, 24149K] reports the morning began with sirens in the Oklahoma City metro area. The National Weather Service offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa issued seven tornado warnings during Thursday morning’s commute, and confirmed that at least four tornadoes touched down. Tornadoes in January are not unheard of — but in Oklahoma and Kansas? That’s pretty bizarre. Nationwide, the U.S. averages about 40 tornadoes each January. But most are relegated to the Deep South — like in Mississippi and Alabama, in closer proximity to the warmth and humidity of the Gulf. There had only previously been 30 January tornadoes total confirmed in Oklahoma since 1950, coming to an average of just 0.4 per year. Of the ones that were confirmed this week, three of them were rated EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which assigns damage ratings on a scale from 0 (weakest) to 5 (strongest). EF-1 tornadoes have winds between 86 mph and 110 mph. There was also a straight-line wind gust to 88 mph at the Wynona, Oklahoma, mesonet weather station, and a gust to 81 mph at the Independence Airport in Montgomery, Kansas. The strongest of Thursday’s hit Purcell, Oklahoma, about 20 miles south of the Oklahoma City metro area on Interstate 35. It’s the seat of McLain County. It touched down at 7:24 a.m. and covered 9.4 miles in just 10 minutes, meaning it had a forward speed of 56 mph. That’s the equivalent of highway speeds!

Military.com [1/10/2026 6:00 AM, Nick Mordowanec, 2700K] reports the United States Coast Guard saw big results in 2025, highlighted by a record-high number of narcotics-related seizures. USCG forces operating in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean last year achieved the largest annual maritime drug interdiction results in service history, seizing more than 511,000 pounds of narcotics valued at more than $3.8 billion. Officials said the seizures prevented more than 193 million potentially lethal doses from reaching the U.S., adding that counter-drug and law enforcement operations saved American taxpayers over $10 billion in avoided costs—including over $2.3 billion in health care costs just from cocaine interdictions. A USCG spokesperson told Military.com that the service’s average annual seizure weight prior to 2025 was 167,000 pounds, with one kilo of cocaine worth $16,588. “The men and women of the Coast Guard delivered extraordinary results for our Nation in 2025,” said Adm. Kevin E. Lunday, acting commandant, in a statement on Friday. “From securing the border and interdicting illegal drugs to facilitating maritime commerce and responding rapidly to crises, their success is driving the momentum we carry into 2026.” USCG officials credit different operations and vessels that resulted in a record-setting year of maritime accomplishments

CNN [1/11/2026 7:04 AM, Michelle Krupa, 18595K] reports in four short videos on an electronic device found with his body, the suspect in last month’s fatal shootings at Brown University and of an MIT professor laid out a patchwork of details about the attacks. Woven among his confessions to the crimes and winding related thoughts, several nuggets match facts that emerged as authorities were identifying Claudio Neves Valente, 48, as wanted in the killings of students Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, and Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro. As the videos’ transcripts – translated from Portuguese and released this week by the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts – raise fresh questions, they also intersect with key known elements of the case. Here’s how some of the suspect’s own words flesh out – or further blur – the crimes that rocked Greater Boston and a manhunt that captured national attention. As he’ll more clearly explain, Neves Valente was hurt during one of the shootings. His eye injury was not shared publicly, if known at all, by law enforcement between the Brown attack on December 13 and the discovery five days later of the suspect dead by suicide at a storage facility. The suspect seems to reveal how long he planned at least one of the attacks. But even as he speaks of "final conclusions" and his "only objective," he offers no motive for the shootings at this or at any point in the videos; it’s a critical element of the case still under scrutiny by federal investigators. In the shortest of the four videos, the suspect focuses on his regrets amid his intercontinental life. His first stint at Brown was brief, "attending for only three semesters as a graduate student until taking a leave in 2001 and formally withdrawing effective July 31, 2003," the school’s president wrote after his death. The suspect reentered the US in 2017 via the diversity visa program, where a specified number of applicants from designated countries are admitted through a lottery system, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He got permanent legal US residency, known as a green card, and, at some point later, a Florida driver’s license. Meanwhile, Neves Valente had not spoken with his parents in years, a former neighbor told CNN. At one point, his mother confided to the neighbor her fear he would sell his Lisbon apartment and disappear, which the neighbor says eventually happened.

FOX News [1/10/2026 10:00 AM, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, 40621K] Video: HERE reports federal investigators are continuing to piece together the December shootings that killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor, leaving nine others wounded, authorities said. Authorities on Tuesday released transcripts of videos they say were recorded by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man responsible for the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT physicist. Two Brown students, Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed in the Dec. 13 shooting on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, and nine other people were wounded, authorities said. Just two days later, Nuno Loureiro, a professor at MIT, was killed in Brookline, Massachusetts. As of the latest update, eight of the students injured at Brown had been released from the hospital, while one remained hospitalized. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [1/10/2026 6:01 PM, Staff, 31753K] reports a 24-year-old Mississippi man killed six people — his father, brother, uncle, 7-year-old cousin, a church pastor and the pastor’s brother — at three locations during a Friday night rampage in a rural area, authorities said. Daricka M. Moore was arrested at a police roadblock in Cedarbluff just before midnight after dozens of local, state and federal officers flooded the northeast Mississippi area. Moore was being held without bail Saturday at the Clay County jail in West Point on murder charges and ahead of an expected initial appearance Monday before a judge. Clay County District Attorney Scott Colom, who said he expects to pursue the death penalty, told The Associated Press that Moore would likely be appointed a public defender at that time. If charges are upgraded to capital murder before then, Moore will be ineligible for bail under state law. Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said at a Saturday news conference that evidence and witnesses indicate that Moore was the only shooter and no other injuries have been reported. Investigators were continuing to interview Moore but do not currently know what may have motivated him, he added.

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FOX News [1/10/2026 6:00 PM, Julia Bonavita, 40621K] reports a sprawling prison in a quaint Venezuelan town served as the birthplace of one of the most notorious gangs within the region, with its infamous leader escaping his life behind bars under the nose of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – leading to the newly-minted band of criminals wreaking havoc on American cities. Tocorón, located in a town of the same name, once mirrored a luxury living community – outfitted with swimming pools, a nightclub and even a zoo – for some of the country’s most dangerous criminals. For years on Maduro’s watch, the Aragua jail operated under the control of its own inmates. Kidnappings, extortions and countless other violent crimes were planned and orchestrated from the confines of Tocorón, according to The Associated Press. Shortly after Maduro’s presidential election win in 2013, notorious criminal Héctor "Niño" Guerrero returned to Tocorón to serve time behind bars for the murder of a police officer, along with several other convictions. Guerrero seized on the widespread corruption within the prison to expand on his up-and-coming gang – Tren de Aragua, now designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States. "When a country undergoes a sort of economic whiplash or a sort of economic negative indicator, it can lead groups to come together – especially in places like jails or prisons where you have a collection of people with criminal records [and] violent histories who are competing for control over contraband markets and other things behind bars," David Pyrooz, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Fox News Digital. Inmates were expected to pay weekly dues to the leaders, amounting to $3.5 million flowing into the new gang annually – with money also streaming in from crimes committed outside the prison’s walls. "What happens in prison, influences what happens on the street, and what happens on the street, influences what happens in prisons," Pyrooz said. "So those walls are pretty porous between prisons and the communities.".

The AP [1/10/2026 5:05 PM, Staff, 31753K] reports Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry said Saturday the country would release dozens of prisoners, as the United States ramped up pressure on leftist President Daniel Ortegaa week after it ousted former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. On Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua said Venezuela had taken an important step toward peace by releasing what it described as “political prisoners.” But it lamented that in Nicaragua, “more than 60 people remain unjustly detained or disappeared, including pastors, religious workers, the sick, and the elderly.” On Saturday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement that “dozens of people who were in the National Penitentiary System are returning to their homes and families.” It wasn’t immediately clear who was freed and under what conditions. Nicaragua’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. FOX News [1/10/2026 9:56 PM, Jasmine Baehr, 40621K] reports President Donald Trump said Saturday that Venezuela has begun releasing political prisoners "in a BIG WAY," crediting U.S. intervention for the move following last week’s American military operation in the country. "Venezuela has started the process, in a BIG WAY, of releasing their political prisoners," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Thank you! I hope those prisoners will remember how lucky they got that the USA came along and did what had to be done.” He added a warning directed at those being released: "I HOPE THEY NEVER FORGET! If they do, it will not be good for them.” The president’s comments come one week after the United States launched Operation Absolute Resolve, a strike on Venezuela and capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro as well as his wife Cilia Flores, transporting them to the United States to face federal drug trafficking charges. Following the military operation, Trump said the U.S. intends to temporarily oversee Venezuela’s transition of power, asserting American involvement "until such time as a safe, proper and judicious transition" can take place and warning that U.S. forces stand ready to escalate if necessary. At least 18 political prisoners were reported freed as of Saturday and there is no comprehensive public list of all expected releases, Reuters reported. Maduro and Flores were transported to New York after their capture to face charges in U.S. federal court. The Pentagon has said that Operation Absolute Resolve involved more than 150 aircraft and months of planning. Trump has said the U.S. intends to remain actively involved in Venezuela’s security, political transition and reconstruction of its oil infrastructure. The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips and Greg Norman-Diamond contributed to this reporting.

Washington Examiner [1/10/2026 9:34 PM, Zach LaChance, 1394K] reports President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday blocking courts and creditors from seizing Venezuelan oil revenue that is currently being held in U.S. Treasury accounts. The order, titled "Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People," states that the oil money belongs to the Venezuelan government and is not the "property of any private party," including major energy companies doing business with Venezuela. Trump further deemed the possibility of legal action to seize the oil revenue an "unusual and extraordinary" national security threat, saying it would "materially harm the national security and foreign policy" of the United States." He declared a national emergency in response. The order comes as Trump is looking to rebuild Venezuela’s energy sector after the U.S. military’s stunning capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro last weekend. Part of that effort came on Friday, when Trump met with multiple oil executives at the White House. Those included the CEOs of Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and ConocoPhillips, among others. At the meeting, Trump guaranteed security and direct dealings with the U.S. government to the companies if they choose to do business in Venezuela. While receptive, the oil executives were skeptical of Trump’s timeline, specifically his vow to increase oil production there "almost immediately." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Breitbart [1/10/2026 6:45 PM, Sen. Bill Cassidy, 2416K] reports on January 3, 2026, U.S. armed forces and law enforcement extracted Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela. I join President Trump in praising the men and women who led "Operation Absolute Resolve" and brought Maduro back to the United States to stand trial—all without the loss of American life. Maduro is an indicted narco-terrorist who poisoned over 100,000 Americans. His "rap" sheet also includes involvement with transnational criminal organizations and befriending our foreign enemies like China, Iran, and Russia. President Trump wants to fight this corruption, as do I. Operation Absolute Resolve made real progress on that front. Now people are asking, "How do we move forward?" My bill, the Americas Act, gives us that path forward. The U.S. needs a clear plan for the Western Hemisphere that supports U.S. manufacturing, ends corruption, and counters foreign powers trying to muscle their way into our neighborhood. Look at Venezuela. Under Maduro, China was moving in fast, locking in influence while the country fell apart. If we don’t get a unified strategy together, we risk letting the Chinese Communist Party shape the future of our hemisphere instead of us.

FOX News [1/10/2026 12:51 PM, Rachel Wolf Fox, 40621K] reports Greenland’s leadership is pushing back on President Donald Trump as he and his administration call for the U.S. to take control of the island. Several Trump administration officials have backed the president’s calls for a takeover of Greenland, with many citing national security reasons. "We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders," Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said in a statement Friday night, according to The Associated Press. Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory and a longtime U.S. ally, has repeatedly rejected Trump’s statements about U.S. acquiring the island. Greenland’s party leaders reiterated that the island’s "future must be decided by the Greenlandic people.". "As Greenlandic party leaders, we would like to emphasize once again our wish that the United States’ contempt for our country ends," the statement said. Trump was asked about the push to acquire Greenland on Friday during a roundtable with oil executives. The president, who has maintained that Greenland is vital to U.S. security, said it was important for the country to make the move so it could beat its adversaries to the punch.

New York Times [1/10/2026 6:39 PM, Eric Schmitt, 153395K] reports the United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday, following up on even larger retaliatory attacks last month to avenge the deaths of two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter killed in a terrorist attack in the country. About 20 Air Force attack planes, including F-15Es, A-10s and AC-130J gunships, as well as MQ-9 Reaper drones and Jordanian F-16 fighter jets fired more than 90 bombs and missiles toward at least 35 targets on Saturday, according to Capt. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the military’s Central Command. The targets included weapons caches, supply routes and other infrastructure used by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, Captain Hawkins said in an email. “The strikes today targeted ISIS throughout Syria as part of our ongoing commitment to root out Islamic terrorism against our warfighters, prevent future attacks, and protect American and partner forces in the region,” Central Command said in a statement. The strikes on Saturday came after American fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery fired more than 100 munitions at more than 70 suspected Islamic State targets across central Syria, including weapons storage areas and other operational-support buildings, on Dec. 19. The earlier strikes sought to fulfill a promise that President Trump made after the two soldiers from the Iowa National Guard and an American interpreter were killed last month in an incident that U.S. counterterrorism officials blamed on the Islamic State. The Americans were supporting counterterrorism operations against the Islamic State in Palmyra, a city in central Syria, when they came under fire from a lone gunman. Those soldiers were the first American military casualties in the country since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Since then, U.S. troops, working with Syrian government forces and the Jordanian military, have redoubled efforts to root out the remnants of the Islamic State.

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FOX News [1/10/2026 8:51 PM, Emma Bussey, 40621K] reports the Iranian regime triggered an internet "kill switch" in an apparent effort to hide alleged abuses by security forces and as protests against it surged nationwide, a cybersecurity expert has claimed. The blackout slashed internet access to a fraction of normal levels on the 13th day of the protests as rights groups, including Amensty International, accused the regime of using lethal force against protesters. "This is Iran’s war against its own population using digital means," NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker told Fox News Digital. "This was a piecemeal measure that eventually encompassed the entire country, with the government willing to use this kind of measure for an extended period of time," he said. "There would be an attempt by the regime to cover up crimes that it may have committed, so this blackout could potentially last for days or weeks," Toker added. At least 65 people have been killed in the protests, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, which said late Friday that the death toll had more than doubled since earlier in the week. The group also reported that more than 2,300 people have been arrested and that demonstrations have spread to at least 180 cities nationwide. Most of those killed were protesters, the group said. "People in Iran daring to express their anger at decades of repression and demand fundamental change are once again being met with a deadly pattern of security forces unlawfully firing at, chasing, arresting and beating protesters," Amnesty International also said in a statement Thursday. "The single kill switch is the censorship mechanism that is centrally controlled by the regime, so there are no legal procedures or mechanisms for people to push back," Toker said. "We know now that they’ve centralized all of this into a one-step operation," he explained, calling it "very much a top-down mechanism.” "It’s been in development since the Cold War, and it means they are able to triangulate the ground terminal in satellite transmissions. Some governments implement this kind of kill switch in their cyber operations rooms," he said. "We know that in 2019, for example, it used to be a painstaking measure when the government had to switch off businesses one by one, city by city.” NetBlocks said the current blackout is among the most severe it has ever recorded in Iran. "We are tracking near-total disconnection of internet service across Iran right now, and connectivity is below 2% of ordinary levels," Toker said. "This is a nationwide disruption that is impacting almost all services, all connectivity and all avenues of life, extending beyond just mobile phones and computers," he said. "It’s impacting banks, essential services, and there’s very little communication within the country, so people are unable to reach the outside world and nobody has the ability to communicate.” [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Wall Street Journal [1/10/2026 9:54 PM, Benoit Faucon, Alexander Ward, and Lara Seligman, 646K] reports Iran’s army vowed Saturday to join the crackdown on protesters, one of a number of stepped-up warnings from the country’s security services as demonstrations against the regime continue to grow and the death toll mounts. The army said Saturday it would “firmly safeguard national interests, strategic infrastructure, and public property,” blaming Israel and what it called terrorist groups for the unrest and vowing to “thwart the enemy’s plots.” President Trump has threatened repeatedly to intervene in the event of a bloody crackdown, and administration officials have had preliminary discussions about how to carry out an attack on Iran, if needed, to follow through on the threats, U.S. officials said. The discussions include what sites might be targeted. One option being discussed is a large-scale aerial strike on multiple Iranian military targets, one of the officials said. Another official said there was no consensus on the course of action, and no military equipment or personnel has been moved in preparation for a strike. The officials cautioned the conversations are part of the normal planning. There is no sign of an imminent attack on Iran, they said. “Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” Trump said Saturday on social media. “The USA stands ready to help!!!” The Iranian military’s pledge to get involved represented an escalation by authorities that had initially taken a more conciliatory tone with protesters. The early demonstrations mainly aired complaints about the country’s economic crisis but are now demanding an end to Iran’s theocratic system itself. Until now, only the police and paramilitary security forces had been involved in cracking down on the protests. The regime faces a difficult calculation in responding to their growing intensity. It has little ability to address an economic crisis brought on by crippling sanctions, but now have to consider the U.S. reaction if they launch a heavier widespread crackdown.

CBS News [1/11/2026 3:57 AM, Staff, 39474K] reports nationwide unrest challenging Iran’s theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country’s capital and its second-largest city Saturday night and into Sunday morning, crossing the two-week mark as an outside monitoring group said at least 116 people had been killed. With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult. But according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which relies on a network of contacts inside the country, the death toll from clashes between protests and Iran’s security forces has climbed steadily, and more than 2,600 others have been detained over the last two weeks. Faced with its most significant challenge in years, Iran’s theocratic rulers have issued increasingly stern threats to what it claims are agitators being influenced by the U.S. and Israel — and answered threats of a U.S. intervention by President Trump with corresponding threats of their own. Iran’s parliament speaker warned the U.S. military and Israel would be "legitimate targets" if America strikes the Islamic Republic, as threatened by President Trump. Qalibaf made the threat as lawmakers rushed the dais in the Iranian parliament, shouting: "Death to America!". Those abroad fear the information blackout will embolden hard-liners within Iran’s security services to launch a bloody crackdown, despite warnings from Mr. Trump that he’s willing to strike the Islamic Republic if demonstrators are killed. On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!". "I’m sure that has really scared many Iranian officials and may have affected their actions in terms of how to confront the protestors, but at the same time, it has inspired many protesters to come out because they know that the leader of the world’s main superpower is supporting their cause," Maziar Bahari, the editor of the IranWire news website told CBS News. New York Times and Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous U.S. officials, said on Saturday night that Mr. Trump had been given military options for a strike on Iran, but hadn’t made a final decision. Iran lawmaker says "signs of a threat" could trigger attacks on U.S. troops.

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FOX News [1/11/2026 4:32 AM, Michael Sinkewicz, 40621K] reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the possibility of U.S. intervention in Iran, according to a report. The two leaders spoke by phone Saturday as Israel is on "high alert," preparing for the possibility of U.S. military intervention in Iran, according to Reuters, citing multiple Israeli sources. The report comes as nationwide anti-regime demonstrations across Iran hit the two-week mark. On Saturday, the Iranian regime triggered an internet "kill switch" in an apparent effort to conceal alleged abuses by security forces and as protests against it surged nationwide, according to a cybersecurity expert. The blackout reduced internet access to a fraction of normal levels. On Sunday, Iran’s parliament speaker warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be "legitimate targets" if America strikes the Islamic Republic. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf issued the threat as lawmakers rushed the dais in the Iranian parliament, shouting, "Death to America!" according to The Associated Press. President Donald Trump offered support for the protesters on Saturday, writing on Truth Social that "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!". At a news conference Friday, Trump said Iran was facing mounting pressure as unrest spreads across the country. "Iran’s in big trouble," he said. "It looks to me that the people are taking over certain cities that nobody thought were really possible just a few weeks ago. We’re watching the situation very carefully.” The president said the U.S. would respond forcefully if the regime resorts to mass violence. "We’ll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. And that doesn’t mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts," he said. Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department and White House for comment.

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