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Minnesota activist releases video of arrest after manipulated White House version

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church released her own video of her arrest Friday after the White House posted a manipulated image online. The White House on Thursday posted a picture on its X page of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong crying with her hands behind her back as she was escorted by a blurred person wearing a badge. The photo was captioned in all caps: “Arrested far-left agitator Nekima Levy Armstrong for orchestrating church riots in Minnesota." A photo posted by Homeland Se

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A preschooler was taken away by ICE, but officials say they had no choice. Here’s what we know

Bundled up in his tiny plaid coat and blue knit bunny hat, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos looks terrified as strangers take him away from his home in Minnesota.A masked federal agent walks behind the preschooler, holding the handle of his Spiderman backpack as Liam gets into a snow-streaked black SUV – and later, on a plane with his father to a family detention facility in Texas.What exactly led Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take Liam and his dad away from their suburban Minneapolis driveway remains in dispute.But the boy’s plight – and his uncertain future – sparked renewed out

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German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump. Oke Göttlich, the president of Bundesliga club St. Pauli and one of the German federation’s 10 vice presidents, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper in an interview on Friday that “the time has come” to “seriously consider and discuss this.” Trump has sowed discord in Europe with his takeover bid for Greenland — a semiautonomous territory of NATO member Denmark — and his subsequent threat to

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Review confirms journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 2005 death was a suicide

A review of the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson has confirmed authorities' original finding that his death was a suicide, Colorado investigators said Friday. The review by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was announced in September after Thompson's wife, Anita Thompson, contacted authorities with “new concerns and potential information regarding the investigation" into Thompson's death, the agency said in a news release. In a statement included in the announcement, she thanked the bureau for its “kind and thorough work." �

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FACT FOCUS: White House shares altered image showing arrest of civil rights attorney in Minnesota

The Trump administration on Thursday misrepresented the arrest of a prominent civil rights attorney for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church. On its official X page, the White House shared an image of Nekima Levy Armstrong that showed her in tears with, her arms behind her back, standing in front of someone wearing a badge around their neck. The problem? Levy Armstrong wasn’t actually crying. The image was manipulated to make the moment more dramatic than it actually was. He

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Several people were arrested for protesting at a St. Paul church. Here’s what we know

Three people who denounced federal immigration agents in a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday were arrested on federal charges and kept in custody Wednesday — and more arrests could be coming.The protesters were charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, according to the Department of Homeland Security, after they and several others disrupted a Sunday service with chants denouncing Immigrations and Custom Enforcement over a pastor’s apparent role at the agency.“They are trying to turn a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration into a crime,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the protest

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How a Minneapolis federal building’s namesake is inspiring resistance to the ICE actions happening inside

Federal officers in tactical gear line up at the driveway of a large block-shaped building wedged between the city limits of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Across from them, a crowd of protesters yell at the officers and sometimes try to block cars driving in and out.The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building has served as the backdrop for the ongoing tense dance in the Twin Cities since federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good earlier this month. Its stark brick structure is home base for the immigration proceedings at the heart of the crackdown in the state, prompting fear an

Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of long-standing slavery exhibit from historic park

Brendan Banfield expected to testify in his own defense in au pair affair double-murder trial

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What is the Donbas, the piece of Ukrainian land that Putin wants so badly?

The United States, Russia and Ukraine rarely agree on anything. But as their delegations meet in Abu Dhabi for their first trilateral meeting since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the three parties seem to have come to the same conclusion: Only one issue remains to be resolved.That issue is territory, namely the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas. And based on their comments coming into the meeting, it is unlikely to be resolved.“It’s all about the eastern part of our country, it’s all about the land,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said, pointin

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Trump angers allies with claim NATO troops ‘stayed a little back’ from frontlines in Afghanistan

US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the frontlines in Afghanistan.“I’ve always said, ‘Will they be there, if we ever needed them?’ And that’s really the ultimate test. And I’m not sure of that. I know that we would have been there, or we would be there, but will they be there?” Trump said Thursday in an interview with Fox News in Davos, Switzerland.In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US be

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‘Mr. President, it’s now time’: Social conservatives beg Trump for abortion pill crackdown

As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that would achieve a key goal of its allies in the anti-abortion movement by ending the availability of abortion pills by mail.The lawsuit, brought by Louisiana against the President Donald Trump-appointed health officials, is one of several pressure points the anti-abortion movement is pressing to push the administration to limit access to medication abortion, which now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in t

Police arrest protesters at airport as Minnesota gears up for anti-immigration enforcement protest

Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota's largest airport Friday, organizers estimated, as thousands gathered, despite Arctic temperatures, in downtown Minneapolis to protest the Trump administration's crackdown. Friday's protests are part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump's increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops in Minneapolis and St. Paul. “Roughly 100 clergy

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Police arrest protesters at airport as Minnesota gears up for anti-immigration enforcement protest

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Trump administration halts use of human fetal tissue in NIH-funded research

The Trump administration is ending the use of abortion-derived fetal tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of Health

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Pastor and friend of family whose 5-year-old was detained by ICE speaks out: 'ICE is acting worse than the cartels in Mexico'

Pastor Sergio Amezcua, a family friend of a 5-year-old detained by ICE, says agents used the child to draw his pregnant mother out of the house so they could arrest her. He denounces the tactic, drawing comparisons between ICE’s actions in Minnesota and cartels in Mexico. “Cartels don’t target kids or pregnant women,” Amezcua says.

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