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Marc Caputo / Axios:
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.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is Frightened — The media verdict is in: President Trump has “softened” his stance on his paramilitary war on Minneapolis. He struck a “cooperative tone” in a call with Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz. The administration hopes to “shift its strategy” on its ICE raids.
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Kristen Holmes / CNN:
Top White House aide Stephen Miller acknowledges possible breach of protocol before Alex Pretti's shooting — Gun violence Donald Trump National security — Top White House aide Stephen Miller said Tuesday that officials were evaluating why Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis …
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Vic Verbalaitis / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus to Save Her Job — BYE BYE, FALL GUY — A civil war appears to be breaking out in the Trump administration. — ICE Barbie has passed the blame to Stephen Miller after she received calls to be fired in response to immigration officials …
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masslive.com, Raw Story, New Republic and Esquire
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
‘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 …
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Forbes, NOTUS, The Hill and NewsMax.com
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
The Two Big Decisions Facing Democrats Ahead of a Shutdown
The Two Big Decisions Facing Democrats Ahead of a Shutdown
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France 24 and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Dems Can Tame ICE
How Dems Can Tame ICE
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The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Politico
New York Times:
Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis
Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis
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BusinessDay and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Can Be Stopped
Donald Trump Can Be Stopped
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and MS NOW
Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Stephen Miller admits border agents who killed Alex Pretti ‘may not have been’ following ‘protocol’
Stephen Miller admits border agents who killed Alex Pretti ‘may not have been’ following ‘protocol’
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Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com, Raw Story and Breitbart
Christian Paz / Vox:
The White House's shocking lies about Minneapolis
The White House's shocking lies about Minneapolis
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FactCheck.org, Washington Post, Slate, Associated Press, The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump is dealing with an immigration mess of his own making
Trump is dealing with an immigration mess of his own making
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Associated Press:
Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis town hall — A man wearing a black jacket was tackled to the ground after spraying an unknown substance on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall she was hosting in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
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Niha Masih / Washington Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked during town hall meeting in Minneapolis
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Ilhan Omar sprayed with liquid at Minneapolis town hall
Ilhan Omar sprayed with liquid at Minneapolis town hall
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Politico:
European leader spoke of shock at Trump's state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting — BRUSSELS ― Slovakia's prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president's state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said.
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ally Shocked at President's ‘Psychological State’ in Private Meeting
Trump Ally Shocked at President's ‘Psychological State’ in Private Meeting
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The European Conservative
Reuters:
Ecuador says ICE agent was blocked from entering its Minneapolis consulate — The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said it had issued “a note of protest” to the U.S. embassy in Ecuador. — Listen to this article with a free account — Ecuador's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says an Immigration …
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Ecuador says ICE agent tried to enter its Minneapolis consulate
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Martin Holmes / Yahoo Entertainment:
‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom — After CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said she and her team would put a “huge emphasis on scoops,” CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil responded by... interviewing his own mother.
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New York Times:
D.H.S. Review Does Not Say Pretti Brandished Gun, As Noem Claimed — An initial report from an internal agency watchdog says the Minneapolis man was shot by law enforcement after resisting arrest, but makes no mention of the allegations leveled by a Trump administration official.
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Wall Street Journal, Reason, The Independent, NPR and New York Post
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
2 federal agents fired their weapons during Alex Pretti shooting, government report to Congress says
2 federal agents fired their weapons during Alex Pretti shooting, government report to Congress says
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Next ‘No Kings’ march on the horizon with flagship event in the Twin Cities — The liberal grassroots group Indivisible simultaneously announced nationwide “Eye on ICE” trainings in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. — Listen to this article with a free account
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
‘No Kings 3’ nationwide protest planned for March
‘No Kings 3’ nationwide protest planned for March
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Associated Press
NBC News:
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
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Terry Collins / USA Today:
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank … Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing strong criticism for his recent comments equating the experiences of children dealing with immigration enforcement to the struggles of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
In Minneapolis, far-right influencers frame ICE resistance as terrorism — Over the weekend on X, conservative influencer Cameron Higby began posting screen recordings from the encrypted messaging app Signal showing a list of hundreds of usernames in one massive group chat in Minnesota.
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Townhall, Fox News, New York Sun and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’ — The editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press. — Bari Weiss has two jobs.
Punchbowl News:
AIPAC makes first big 2026 move … The move has sent shockwaves through New Jersey political circles ahead of the Feb. 5 primary, mostly because AIPAC backed Malinowski in past campaigns. Now it's running attack ads against him. — United Democracy Project, the AIPAC-affiliated super PAC …
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
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 …
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New York Post, Raw Story, HuffPost, Mediaite, Forbes, New York Magazine and Rolling Stone
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules — The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by NPR.
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Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Revives Wind Farm That Trump Halted Off Martha's Vineyard — The project, known as Vineyard Wind, was already 95 percent complete when the Trump administration ordered construction to stop. — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that construction could continue on a $4.5 billion wind farm off …
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WBUR, Raw Story, Boston.com, The Hill and Bloomberg
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
US state lawmakers push to allow lawsuits against ICE agents — Several Democratic-led states are pursuing laws trying to enable people to sue federal agents deployed to their communities for civil rights abuses, a push that has gained steam amid protests over tactics used …
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Mother Jones, Los Angeles Times and The Marshall Project
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
North Carolina cut voting sites at nation's largest HBCU. Students are suing — A group of North Carolina students sued Republican state officials Tuesday to restore early voting sites on three college campuses across the state, including at the United States' largest historically Black college.
Omar Wasow / New York Times:
ICE's Brutality Is Its Weakness — I study the political consequences of protest and state violence. So when federal immigration agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this month, I was reminded of Jimmie Lee Jackson. — On the night of Feb. 18, 1965 …
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New Republic
Janelle Griffith / People:
ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says — Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease — Maher Tarabishi was detained on Oct. 28 …
Tiago Rogero / The Guardian:
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown — Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative — Claudia Mendoza in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Honduras, and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro


