(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s $10 million forgivable loan plan for businesses purportedly affected by ICE operations sparked immediate criticism and comparisons to Minnesota’s pandemic-era fraud scandal.
Walz announced the program during a Thursday press conference in response to the Trump administration’s withdrawal of federal agents from the state.
Critics, including...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A member of the Trump administration’s “Commission on Religious Liberty” has been removed after a hearing turned contentious over her objection to the idea that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
Carrie Prejean Boller, a Catholic conservative activist and model, took issue with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition...
(Headline USA) Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon is set to be arraigned in federal court in Minnesota on Friday along with four other defendants who were indicted for their alleged roles in disrupting a service at a church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official was...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi took heated questions from lawmakers in a combative congressional hearing over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims despite redaction efforts.
Bondi tried to turn the page from persistent criticism of the Justice...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In 2017, Oklahoma man Jerry Drake Varnell was the target of a sting operation to bomb a bank.
In that case, the FBI initially determined that Varnell, who is schizophrenic, “does not appear to have the means to actually commit this act." Nevertheless, the FBI had...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Eric Burlison is one of the House Oversight Committee members investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs. As such, he is trying to visit Area 51 and other military bases that may hold UFOs or other secretive technologies.
According to Burilson, the Trump...
(Headline USA) On Friday, Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, requested records related to firms partially owned by the husband of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The scrutiny of Omar's finances comes from a required financial disclosure statement she filed in May last...
(Headline USA) A Minneapolis man was arrested Thursday on charges of cyberstalking and threatening to kill or assault Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers involved in the crackdown in Minnesota.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement that Kyle Wagner, 37, of Minneapolis, was charged by complaint, and that a decision to...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump administration said Tuesday that ICE agents detained an alleged illegal alien who had been enrolled as a police recruit by the New Orleans Police Department.
ICE identified the suspected illegal alien as Larry Temah, a 46-year-old Cameroonian national who was just one week from graduating as an...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Two masked individuals violently confronted a journalist Monday in South Minneapolis while he was documenting anti-ICE agitators blocking federal agents.
The journalist, Jorge Ventura, said the men attempted to stop him from recording the scene.
In one instance, a masked man pushed Ventura toward his Uber, shouting, “Get in the fucking car,” while...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US and Israel on Monday announced that their militaries held joint naval drills a day earlier, exercises that come amid a major US military buildup in the region to prepare for a potential attack on Iran.
US Naval Forces Central Command/5th Fleet announced the drills and...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) First Lady Melania Trump’s documentary shattered box office expectations during its debut weekend, stunning Hollywood critics who had dismissed the Amazon-produced film as a flop.
The film pulled in $7 million domestically over the weekend, making Melania the highest-selling non-music documentary in more than a decade, according to media...