Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre” agents  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to “massacre” them.

Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary  —  Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona  —  The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.  —  Listen to this article with a free account  —  A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol …

Bari Weiss adds new podcasters and writers as CBS contributors  —  CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss will announce a slate of new contributors for the network on Tuesday during an all-hands meeting with staff, sources told Axios. … - Many of those changes, including delaying a recent …

Alex Pretti broke rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death, sources say  —  Immigration Federal agencies Crime Gun violence  —  Federal immigration officers have been collecting personal information about protesters and agitators in Minneapolis, sources told CNN …

‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms  —  State Senator Ileana Garcia, who is Cuban American, said the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis was “abhorrent.”  —  The Trump administration's immigration crackdown …

No civil rights violation probe into latest Minnesota shooting, sources tell MS NOW  —  President Donald Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.  Instead, two units of the Department of Homeland Security …

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong  —  The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.  —  It took only a few minutes before everyone in the church knew that another person had been shot.  I was sitting with Trygve Olsen, a big man in a wool hat and puffy vest, who lifted his phone to show me a text with the news.

Trump moves to take over Los Angeles wildfire recovery from local and state authorities … The president's move is an unprecedented incursion by the federal government into disaster recovery.  Issuing permits for home rebuilding have long been under the control of individual cities and counties …

Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos … Melania Trump's new documentary, Melania, is looking like an opening-week box office flop—after Amazon's MGM studios paid tens of millions of dollars for the rights to it.  —  The documentary detailing the first lady's return …

ICE agents will have a security role at Milan Cortina Olympics  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to information shared with local media by sources at the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

I grew up with Alex Pretti … The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we're supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family.  Because it's my job to coordinate visuals for this website …

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office  —  A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies  —  Skip backwardsGo ten seconds backward Skip forwardsGo ten seconds forward  —  Audio is AI-generated.  Report an issue|

5-year-old who was detained in Minnesota can't be moved, judge rules  —  The child, who was detained alongside his father after the pair returned home from his preschool, is being held in Texas, where a judge's temporary order says he must stay for now.  — Add NBC News to Google

Families of Trinidadians Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Administration  —  Two families in Trinidad and Tobago sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, alleging the Trump administration unlawfully killed their relatives in one of its missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

Murkowski, Shaheen call for Congress to rein in Trump … One tool, they argued, is to pass their bipartisan NATO Unity Protection Act, which would block the use of taxpayer dollars to seize, blockade or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of a NATO ally without the ally's consent …

Five moments in the Alex Pretti shooting that raise red flags for policing experts  —  The tactics U.S. Border Patrol agents used against Alex Pretti in Minneapolis probably violate modern policing guidelines, several experts said, and add to a growing body of evidence that federal immigration officers …

Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity  —  Let's talk a little bit about Alex Pretti and juxtapose what we know about him with the for-the-cameras machismo that defines the men responsible for his murder.  —  The latter set have, regrettably, done a decent job over recent years …

Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million, Study Finds  —  The number of deaths, injuries and missing is approaching a grim milestone after nearly four years of fighting.  —  The number of Russian and Ukrainian troops killed, wounded or missing during nearly four years of war is on track …

Carney rolls his eyes at US Treasury secretary, telling Trump he meant what he said at Davos  —  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told U.S. President Donald Trump that he meant what he said in his speech at Davos, and told him Canada plans to diversify away from the United States with a dozen new trade deals.

Trump's acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT … Cybersecurity sensors at CISA flagged the uploads this past August, said the four officials.  One official specified there were multiple such warnings in the first week of August alone.

DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter  —  The Department of Homeland Security now says that two weeks of critical surveillance footage from within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's Broadview detention center wasn't actually lost in a …

Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center  —  The pioneering composer said “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln” slated to be performed in June by the National Symphony Orchestra.

Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today.  We used to have a name for this  —  Truly, I am the country's biggest fan.  But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here's a few things the rest of the world needs them to know

Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads  —  Users of Meta's social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.  —  Meta has started blocking its users from sharing links to ICE List …