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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Two days after Department of Homeland Security officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a confused investigation is unfurling. The Justice Department has not opened a civil rights investigation, a crisis coordination center was erected in Minneapolis to investigate protesters and senior administration officials won’t definitively say whether Pretti had

CNN By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Two days after Department of Homeland Security officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a confused investigation is unfurling. The Justice Department has not opened a civil rights investigation, a crisis coordination center was erected in Minneapolis to investigate protesters and senior administration officials won’t definitively say whether Pretti

CNN By Tricia Escobedo, CNN A week after a US-owned joint venture took control of TikTok, some users are accusing the app of censorship after failing to upload videos about ICE. TikTok says the ongoing glitches are related to a power outage. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussions, sidelining a key player in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The move

By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The White House border czar who President Donald Trump is dispatching to Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of two US citizens is a longtime law enforcement official who has pushed for some of the Trump administration’s controversial immigration-related policies. Trump said Monday he was sending

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration sent about a dozen Iranians back on a deportation flight Sunday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. It was the first known deportation flight since sweeping anti-government protests broke out in Iran, in which thousands have been killed. President Donald Trump has threatened retaliation

By Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats and Republicans are weighing how to move forward on funding the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies after another deadly shooting by a federal officer in Minneapolis, according to sources familiar with the matter. The options include potentially having the House

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Chris Madel, a Minneapolis lawyer who represented the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good, said Monday that he was ending his Republican campaign for governor of Minnesota after a second protester was killed by federal authorities. “I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of

By Devan Cole, Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Claims by Trump administration officials that the man fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis lacked a right to possess a firearm and that his killing was justified are being dismissed by legal experts and assailed by gun rights groups ordinarily aligned with the president. The

By Betsy Klein, Alayna Treene, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and his top lieutenants are doubling down on their hardline immigration policies and rhetoric following the shooting of a US citizen by a federal officer in Minneapolis — even as the incident has revealed cracks in the president’s coalition. A

By Alison Main, Aileen Graef, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The chance of a partial government shutdown by week’s end is growing, as the fate of funding for the Department of Homeland Security and other key government agencies hangs in the balance. In the wake of another deadly shooting by a federal officer in Minneapolis,

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have responded to the killing of Alex Pretti by the Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday with a torrent of claims that are either contradicted by video footage or unsupported by any evidence presented so far. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed

By Aileen Graef, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Eleanor Holmes Norton, the longtime nonvoting delegate for Washington, DC, moved Sunday to end her House reelection campaign as the 88-year-old Democrat faces questions about her fitness for office. Norton’s campaign filed a notice of termination to the Federal Election Commission on Sunday. CNN has reached out

CNN By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — A year ago, few Americans knew Gregory Bovino’s name. Now he’s the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. And everything from the Border Patrol commander-at-large’s tactics in the field to his wardrobe choices have become lightning rods in a storm with no end in sight. On

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — From UFC matches to the US Open, President Donald Trump has had box seats at some of the most high-profile sporting events in the country during his second term. But the president won’t be attending football’s biggest night: the Super Bowl. “It’s just too far away. I would. I’ve

By Kaanita Iyer, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said the US used a weapon he referred to as a “discombobulator” to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this month, but a senior US official said he’s likely conflating tools used by the US military. “The discombobulator, I’m not allowed to talk about it,”

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — A year ago, few Americans knew Gregory Bovino’s name. Now he’s the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. And everything from the Border Patrol commander-at-large’s tactics in the field to his wardrobe choices have become lightning rods in a storm with no end in sight. On the

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump and Amazon MGM Studios face a high-stakes test this week with the release of the “Melania” documentary: Will the multimillion-dollar investment pay off? Approximately $35 million has been spent on marketing “Melania,” a film documenting the 20 days around Trump’s return to the White House,

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Utah police arrested a man who allegedly shouted that Rep. Maxwell Frost would be deported before punching him in the face at a Sundance Film Festival event, the Florida Democrat said. The Park City Police Department said the suspect, Christian Young, entered the private party after previously being turned

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Democrats will block a government spending bill following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man by a Border Patrol agent, the Senate minority leader said Saturday – dramatically increasing the chances of a partial government shutdown next week. “Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The first debate in the Texas Senate Democratic primary on Saturday revealed few policy differences between US Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico. The contrast was instead between their styles and the approaches each would take to try to flip a Republican-held seat. No Democrat has won

By Jeremy Herb, Phil Mattingly, Matt Egan, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Scott Bessent was everywhere in Davos. At one press conference during the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps, the Treasury Secretary dismissed Denmark as “irrelevant” amid President Donald Trump’s demands that the country sell Greenland. He mocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom,

By Jake Tapper, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Newly unsealed court documents show the Trump administration did not have evidence that Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk was supporting terrorist activity when she was arrested and her visa was revoked, and the action was taken because of an opinion article she wrote that contained criticisms

By Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was

By Clay Voytek, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing two people with one survivor, according to US Southern Command. “On Jan. 23, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal

By Alayna Treene, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the chaotic scenes unfolding in the state. President Donald Trump has expressed frustration behind closed doors

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance on Friday said the Trump administration is expanding the so-called Mexico City Policy, to not only bar US government funding for organizations that perform and promote abortions, but also to those the administration says promote diversity, equity and inclusion and “gender ideology.” His

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling toward much of the United States, according to two sources familiar with the directive. The concern is that the word

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — For Zohran Mamdani, nearly a month into the job as mayor of New York City, this weekend’s snowstorm is a challenge he’s been anticipating for a while. Over the next three days, Mamdani will face the most crucial moment of his nascent administration, with a series of

By Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee voted Friday to move forward with holding a midterm political convention, an unusual GOP festival that President Donald Trump would headline in hopes of rallying supporters to focus on the critical fall fight for control of Congress. To fulfill Trump’s wish of staging