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ICE Agents Want Out of Minnesota: Trump's 'Battle Is Lost'

Updated Jan. 27 2026 7:36AM EST Published Jan. 27 2026 7:24AM EST Experienced federal immigration agents in Minneapolis are privately raging about the killing of nurse Alex Pretti and want out of the mission they now see as “lost,” according to a new report. ICE and Border Patrol agents are said to have turned on the operation—and on their colleagues who blasted Pretti. The 37-year-old VA ICU nurse was shot multiple times in the back in a confrontation captured on video last Saturday. The d ...

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CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path

Addressing her staff three months into her job as CBS News boss, Bari Weiss on Tuesday invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking and said that if the network continues with its current strategy, “we're toast.” -snip- No CBS News figure is revered quite as much as Cronkite, the “CBS Evening News” anchor dubbed “the most trusted man in America” during the 1960s and 1970s. Weiss said she understood the nostalgia. “We can't reverse time's arrow,” she said, according to ...

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Noem Says 'Everything I've Done' Has Been Directed by Trump and Stephen Miller: Report

Jan 27th, 2026, 5:50 pm Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is chalking up her actions in office to the direction of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. Noem, Miller, and others in the administration have faced backlash over their description of the circumstances surrounding federal agents shooting and killing 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. Noem and others claimed Pretti wanted to “massacre” agents before the confrontation. Administra ...

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US 'ties security guarantees to Ukraine giving up Donbas'

The White House has told Ukraine it must cede the Donbas before the US will provide security guarantees, according to reports. -snip- Now, President Zelensky has been told by the White House that he must reach an agreement with Russia that involves surrendering the Donbas before he can sign documents on US security guarantees, according to the Financial Times. -snip- Anna Kelly, the deputy White House press secretary, told the FT: “This is totally false — the US’s only role in the peacemakin ...

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WATCH: 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns,' Trump says of Alex Pretti killing

Jan 27, 2026 1:44 PM EST President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he did not think Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen to be killed by federal forces in Minnesota this month, was acting as an assassin. "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns," the president said in response to a question from PBS News' Liz Landers, reiterating a talking point from the administration that Pretti should not have brought a legally carried handgun to the scene — a position that has infuriate ...

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Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence

(Chicago Sun-Times) The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share evidence that shows how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.” Marimar Martinez’s lawyer argued Monday that top Trump administration officials continue to smear her name, and that the White House’s false narrative about her arrest has even seeped into writings by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

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Major news outlets under fire for 'tiptoeing' around Trump admin lies after Pretti killing

(Raw Story) Two prominent critics warned on Monday that the US corporate media is not being aggressive enough in calling out the Trump administration’s lies about Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident who was slain by federal immigration agents over the weekend. Writing on her Substack page, former New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan expressed concern that many mainstream media publications were taking a wait-and-see approach in the wake of Pretti’s shooting, even as the Trump administration, Fox News, and other right-wing media websites were pumping out false claims about Pretti brandishing a weapon at federal officials and being a “domestic terrorist.”

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Jon Stewart perfectly sums up the Administration's lies after the shooting of Alex Pretti

(Huff Post) Stewart called the administration’s attempt to claim Pretti was a threat despite all the footage showing otherwise to be “the denial of the reality that we all witnessed.” “They’re lying,” Stewart said. “We saw it. And that’s how brazen they lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. That’s how they lie when they know we know. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

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Organized Labor Escalates Against ICE Summary Executions

(American Prospect) Unions in Minnesota and across the country are gearing up for new mass actions after the public execution of one of their own, ICU nurse and American Federation of Government Employees Local 3669 member Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Federal immigration agents shot Pretti in the back ten times in five seconds on Saturday as he attempted to help a woman they had thrown to the ground. His last words were to her: “Are you OK?”

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US Consumer Confidence Fell Sharply in January

(Conference Board) The Present Situation Index—based on consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions—dropped by 9.9 points to 113.7 in January. The Expectations Index—based on consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions—fell by 9.5 points to 65.1, well below the threshold of 80 that usually signals a recession ahead. The cutoff for preliminary results was January 16, 2026.

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