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A man charged at Democratic U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar and sprayed a foul-smelling liquid on her during a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday as she condemned the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota.

Department of Homeland Security officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July, and as in the recent shootings in Minneapolis, in each case the Trump administration has publicly declared their actions justified before waiting for investigations to be completed.

The Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to ignore warnings about close calls between aircraft a year after a deadly collision above Reagan National Airport between a commercial jet and a U.S. Army helicopter, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was looking to “de-escalate” in Minnesota with a reshuffle of the leadership running his deportation effort in the state following widespread outcry over the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents. Still, the president denied he was pulling back his immigration crackdown and said that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would remain in ...

Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans in a renewed push to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order on “restoring truth and sanity to American history.”

MINNEAPOLIS — In an escalating confrontation between the federal judiciary and immigration authorities, Minnesota’s Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz ordered the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear personally in court, accusing the agency of repeatedly defying court orders and declaring that the court’s “patience is at an end.” In a sharply worded order ...

DALLAS — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that his office is suing a Delaware-based nurse practitioner who is accused of mailing abortion pills into Texas. Paxton’s office is suing Debra Lynch, who operates an organization called Her Safe Harbor. The organization, according to its website, prescribes and mails medication abortion to all 50 states, including Texas. The ...

 President Donald Trump said he still has confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and won't ask her to step down from her position following his reshuffling of federal presence in Minnesota.

 President Donald Trump and his administration are trying a new approach to immigration enforcement following the second fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal agents on a snow-covered Minneapolis street.

President Donald Trump has announced an executive order to allow victims of the Los Angeles wildfires to rebuild without dealing with "unnecessary, dupicative, or obstructive" permitting requirements.

TikTok agreed to settle a landmark lawsuit on social media addiction on Tuesday, according to one of the plaintiff's lawyers, the same day the trial was due to start against two remaining companies.

A deep freeze is gripping the U.S. in the wake of the worst storm so far this season, leaving the country’s biggest electric grid in emergency status and bracing for record wintertime demand.

MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for the Justice Department and Minnesota squared off in federal court on Monday over the continued presence of immigration agents as part of Operation Metro Surge. The high-stakes hearing in Minneapolis centered on Minnesota’s bid to halt the surge of federal immigration agents to the state — described by the Trump administration as the largest immigration enforcement ...

Nearly a hundred people gathered at Riverfront Park’s Rotary Fountain Monday evening, most standing silent, holding a candle and looking toward a photograph in the center of the fountain.

A deep freeze is gripping the U.S. as the worst storm so far this season winds down, leaving the country’s biggest electric grid in emergency status and bracing for record wintertime demand. PJM Interconnection LLC, which serves 67 million people from New Jersey to Chicago, issued a grid emergency for Tuesday and warned demand will exceed 147 gigawatts, an all-time high for winter. With ...

MINNEAPOLIS – President Donald Trump and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz each struck a conciliatory tone on Monday after a private phone call in a sign the two sides were seeking to defuse a crisis over the Trump-ordered deportation drive that has claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke to President Donald Trump by phone Monday, a conversation both parties hailed as productive and signaling a possible path toward de-escalating the tense immigration standoff in the state. It was the first call in more than a year between Walz and Trump, who have become bitter political foes since the governor’s failed run for vice president, and came ...

The Buddhist monks who began their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace in October are still heading toward Washington, despite the severe winter storm.