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6:50 AM ET, January 25, 2026

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Associated Press:
The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says  —  Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people …
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M. Gessen / New York Times:
State Terror Has Arrived  —  After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation.  It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
The Colorado Sun:
Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests  —  The Colorado parents of a man killed Saturday morning by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis said they told their son recently to be careful when protesting.  —  Family members say Alex Jeffrey Pretti …
Discussion: Washington Post and Times Now
Jack Brook / Associated Press:
Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid immigration crackdown, governor says
Curtis Yee / Associated Press:
Live updates: Federal officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis
New York Times:
Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis  —  Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun.  But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.  —  Videos on social media …
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Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’  —  As Donald Trump's administration leads a smear campaign against Alex Pretti, the latest fatality in Trump's invasion of Minneapolis, Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.
David Gilbert / Wired:
The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti  —  Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaged the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.  —  Within minutes of Alex Pretti …
Torey Van Oot / Axios:
Minnesota Gov. Walz vows state investigation into DHS “lies” about shooting
The Intercept:
Man Feds Killed in Minneapolis Was an Observer, Eyewitnesses Say
Politico:
Trump and Democrats harden their stances after Minneapolis shooting
Sophie Brams / The Hill:
Trump connects latest Minneapolis shooting with ‘cover up’ for ‘theft and fraud’ in state
Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Breaking: Federal Agents Shot and Killed a Man in Minneapolis This Morning
MPR News:   O'Hara calls for calm and for protesters to leave scene of fatal shooting by federal agent
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Frey calls on Trump to ‘put America first’ and withdraw federal officers after new Minneapolis shooting
Associated Press:
Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun  —  Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting.  The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.  —  Minneapolis
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Associated Press:
Live Updates: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man  —  The shooting two weeks after an ICE agent's killing of Renee Good prompted escalating clashes between law enforcement and protesters.  “How many more Americans need to die?”  Mayor Jacob Frey demanded of the Trump administration.
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Shutdown risk grows as Democrats revolt after Minneapolis shooting … Senate Democrats are expected to discuss a path forward on a conference call Sunday morning, according to a Democratic aide granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting.  —  “I am voting against any funding for DHS until …
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Axios:
Minneapolis shooting hardens Democrats on government shutdown  —  The odds of a partial government shutdown are dramatically increasing after another U.S. citizen was killed by federal agents on Saturday in Minneapolis. … But three of the eight Senate Democrats who voted to end the last shutdown …
Brent Lang / Variety:
Man Arrested at Sundance For Racially Motivated Incident at CAA Party; Victim Was Florida Congressman  —  A party crasher was arrested at Park City's High West Saloon on Friday during CAA's Sundance Film Festival celebration.  —  A source at the talent agency's party said the man …
Seth Moulton / YouTube:
ICE is full of COWARDS.  They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS.  DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.  —  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump's sudden retreat on Greenland shows that limits still exist  —  It remains to be seen what lasting damage the episode has done, particularly to how other members of NATO regard and trust the United States.  —  President Donald Trump's spectacular back-down from his demand …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Appeals Court Rejects Justice Dept. Push for Arrest Warrant for Don Lemon  —  The department had made an extraordinary request for the appeals court to force a judge to issue warrants for Mr. Lemon and four other people in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis.
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New York Times:
Trump Pushes A.I. Data Centers, but the G.O.P. Is Cool to One in Alabama  —  Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said.  —  Kenneth E. Gulley, the mayor of Bessemer, Ala. …
Ken White / The Popehat Report:
We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence  —  What Are The Best Moral Arguments Against It?  —  Advocating the moral propriety or even moral necessity of a resort to force and violence is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
 
 
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Discussion: Mediaite
Kate Connolly / The Guardian:
‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Chelsea Cirruzzo / STAT:
CDC pauses, then unpauses billions in public health infrastructure grants to states
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Shane Galvin / New York Post:
Iran's supreme leader retreats underground, warned of likelihood of US airstrikes: report
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