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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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New York Times:
Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis — The White House has been met with broad outcry over the killing of Alex Pretti, as well as pushback from Congress. — The intense fallout from Alex Pretti's death has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Kristen Holmes / CNN:
Top White House aide Stephen Miller acknowledges possible breach of protocol before Alex Pretti's shooting
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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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Vic Verbalaitis / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus to Save Her Job
ICE Barbie Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus to Save Her Job
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How legacy media fell for Trump's fake “pivot” in Minnesota
How legacy media fell for Trump's fake “pivot” in Minnesota
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms
‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms
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Christian Paz / Vox:
The White House's shocking lies about Minneapolis
The White House's shocking lies about Minneapolis
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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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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Dems Can Tame ICE — A crazed man sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar with a liquid from a syringe during a constituent event last night. The congresswoman has been the bête noire of the right for some time now. But President Donald Trump has ramped up his vilification of her in recent weeks …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
The Two Big Decisions Facing Democrats Ahead of a Shutdown
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump's Response to Ilhan Omar Attack Is as Ugly as It Gets — President Trump used the Tuesday night spray attack against Representative Ilhan Omar to further berate the congresswoman—accusing her of spraying herself, although video of the incident clearly shows the contrary. — “No. I don't think about her.
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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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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Ilhan Omar sprayed with liquid at Minneapolis town hall
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Niha Masih / Washington Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked during town hall meeting in Minneapolis
Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked during town hall meeting in Minneapolis
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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 — FRESH CONCERN — European leader came out of a meeting with the U.S. president “traumatized” by his state of mind. — A key European ally of Donald Trump said he was “traumatized” by a meeting where the U.S. president's …
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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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NBC News:
Questions swirl around federal government's plan to investigate DHS shootings
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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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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Ecuador says ICE agent tried to enter its Minneapolis consulate — An ICE agent on Tuesday attempted to forcibly enter Ecuador's consulate in Minneapolis, according to the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry. … - The ministry said on X that consular staff prevented the officer from entering …
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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 … Nationwide protests have become a staple of both of President Donald Trump's terms. Indivisible estimated 3 million protesters turned out for its “Hands Off” rally in April 2025, while 5 million showed up in June as part of the first …
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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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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL — In a study, the Anti-Defamation League fed Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and extremist inputs and measured how each responded. … Across six top large language models …
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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.
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
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
Democrats' immigration policies have caused much more death and violence than ICE — The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have led to increased calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other illegal immigration enforcement operations.
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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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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.
Sophie Brams / The Hill:
Border Patrol shoots human trafficking suspect in Arizona — A man accused of being involved in a human trafficking operation was shot and injured by a U.S. Border Patrol agent Tuesday near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, according to authorities. — Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos …
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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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CNN:
South Carolina measles outbreak is largest in US since measles was declared eliminated — Vaccines Children's health Federal agencies — The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago.
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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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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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