The risk of a partial government shutdown at the end of January grew more likely Saturday after Senate Democrats vowed to block a funding package over a fatal Minneapolis shooting involving federal law enforcement authorities.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday evening said that Democrats will block a major government funding package if it includes money for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), calling the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis "appalling." "What's happening in Minnesota is appalling — and unacceptable in any American city," Schumer said in a statement.
"Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included," he warned. |
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BY RYAN MANCINI AND SARAH DAVIS |
A man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday in an incident involving federal law enforcement, who said the man was armed.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and Minneapolis resident, was shot several times in the chest before he was taken to the hospital, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told NewsNation, The Hill's cable news partner. The shooting comes weeks after a federal immigration enforcement officer shot and killed a woman, resident Renee Good, setting off widespread protests in the Twin Cities amid escalation tensions between federal and local officials. |
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A group of Minnesota residents suing over immigration officers' tactics returned to court Saturday evening after a man was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis.
The residents, whose legal team includes the state's American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) branch, are pushing to reinstate court-ordered restrictions on how federal agents respond to protests in the state. The plaintiffs wrote in a new filing that the shooting demonstrates "escalating, imminent risks." "Intervening events that post-date the parties' filings have created an urgent need for intervention to prevent irreparable injury to the named plaintiffs, protesters, and observers," the filing states. |
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Several Senate Democrats on Saturday came out against a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after another deadly shooting by federal authorities in Minneapolis earlier in the day.
"Trump's endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote on the social platform X. "This brutal crackdown has to end. I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities." |
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Texas Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico faced off on Saturday in the first debate of their closely watched Texas Senate primary.
The hourlong debate was hosted by the Texas AFL-CIO, moderated by KXAN-TV anchor Daniel Marin and Dallas Morning News political writer Gromer Jeffers, and aired on Nexstar's KXAN. During the event, the candidates made their case for why they're the best equipped to win in red Texas, where Democrats have struggled for decades to win statewide, as the party grows bullish about flipping Sen. John Cornyn's (R) seat. |
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BY SARAH DAVIS AND SOPHIE BRAMS |
The federal government is ramping up preparations ahead of a massive winter storm expected to sweep across multiple states from the Rockies to the Atlantic this weekend.
The National Weather Service's Winter Storm Severity Index on Saturday afternoon displayed expected "extreme impacts" in northern Mississippi and "major impacts" in Washington, D.C., and surrounding states. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser implemented a state of emergency for the district on Friday, which went into effect on Saturday at noon. Several state governors also issued emergency declarations at the end of the week in preparation for the winter storm. |
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Defense contractors are perplexed by President Trump administration's executive order outlining vague new rules for its weapons suppliers, unsure how to proceed and raising questions about its legality.
The executive order — echoing recent speeches delivered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — rebukes defense firms for stock buybacks, paying dividends to investors and high compensation for CEOs, rather than using profits to invest in plant capacity.
But while defense experts and company executives agree more could be done to bolster the defense supply chain, they argue the executive order is legally questionable and lacking a clear roadmap on the path forward to do so. |
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander on Saturday said the country has its "finger on the trigger" at the U.S. after President Trump said an "armada" will head toward the Middle East.
"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard and dear Iran stand more ready than ever, finger on the trigger, to execute the orders and directives of the Commander-in-Chief," Gen. Mohammad Pakpour said according to Nournews, a news outlet with ties to Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Pakpour also warned the U.S. and Israel "to avoid any miscalculation." |
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A second fatal shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday morning sparked renewed calls from lawmakers on Capitol Hill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pull its federal agents out of Minnesota.
The 37-year-old man was shot by federal agents during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown operation in the state. A few weeks earlier, an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, in her vehicle. DHS claimed its authorities acted in self defense in both instances.
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OPINION | Years ago, the great conservative economist Milton Friedman said Mexican illegal immigration across the border was a good thing. These workers, he said help the American economy.
Friedman said illegal immigration was a good thing so long as it is illegal. Illegal immigrants do not qualify for welfare benefits, Social Security, or other myriad benefits American citizens can receive. Illegal immigrants work hard, are good workers, gravitate to jobs, are better off here, and benefit the U.S. and American citizens. Illegal immigrants take jobs most Americans do not want. |
OPINION | As my old boss Lee Atwater always said, perception is reality in politics.
No matter if some in the Trump administration and greater Republican Party admit it or not, there is a growing perception that the GOP is struggling with several key issues: immigration, affordability and accountability. The first two are hurting the party with independent and minority voters. The last is an issue with some of the MAGA base. |
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BY FARNAZ FASSIHI, SANJANA VARGHESE, MALACHY BROWNE & PARIN BEHROOZ |
In Tehran, the capital of Iran, security forces opened fire at protesters from the roof of a police station. In Karaj, they fired live rounds into a march, shooting one person in the head. In Isfahan, young men barricaded themselves in an alley as gunfire and explosions rang out.
Scattered protests had percolated since late December, starting with a strike in Tehran's bazaar and fueled by a plunging economy. But by early January, Iranians had revolted en masse, and the security forces began to crack down with deadly force. |
BY KRIS MAHER, JARED MITOVICH & NEIL MEHTA |
The man fatally shot by a federal Border Patrol officer Saturday morning on a Minneapolis street was described by the Trump administration as a "domestic terrorist," but friends and family rejected that label.
They say he was merely trying to do what thousands of residents have been doing for weeks—record the actions of federal agents operating in the area as part of an unprecedented immigration enforcement action—when he was killed. |
Tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to take control of Greenland have driven a wedge in the once iron-clad link between MAGA and Europe's far-right.
The rift seems to signal that ideological alignment alone may not be enough to temper worries among European nationalists over Trump's interventionism abroad.
Far-right leaders in Germany, Italy and France have strongly criticized Trump's Greenland plans. Even Nigel Farage, a longtime ally of Trump and head of the Reform UK nationalist party, called Trump's Greenland moves "a very hostile act." |
BY LAURA WAGNER & SCOTT NOVER |
Donald Trump called the media "the enemy of the American people" in a social media post a month after he was first sworn in as president in 2017. Since then, both in his personal capacity and as president, he has taken aim at media outlets and personalities he dislikes.
The new president's pronouncement back then set off alarm bells. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), a vocal critic of Trump who didn't seek reelection in 2018, excoriated the president on the Senate floor for using a phrase "infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin." Others, including veteran CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb, drew parallels to Sen. Joseph P. McCarthy's Red Scare bombast in the 1950s.
Nine years and another election later, Trump and members of his administration have escalated their words into action, raising alarm among free press groups. After the Pentagon introduced a new press policy that press freedom groups called restrictive, journalists walked out en masse rather than comply. The Defense Department filled their seats with friendly, largely right-wing media instead. Trump and his allies in the government have also threatened to yank broadcast licenses for news outlets deemed oppositional. |
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