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The Department of Justice moved to seal FBI evidence concerning the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by citing an unrelated Jan. 6 rioter who had threatened agents.

In a motion filed on Monday, the DOJ moved to seal an FBI agent's declaration against a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Homeland Security from destroying evidence related to Pretti's death in Minnesota.

President Donald Trump's infamous Border Patrol enforcer is set to withdraw from Minneapolis, according to a new report.

According to CNN's Priscilla Alvarez, "Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis and return to their respective sectors."

Muslim Americans have emerged as the go-to target for Republican candidates in a red state's 2026 primary elections, with one GOP consultant openly admitting that Muslims had become the “boogeyman for this cycle,” Politico reported Monday.

“One hundred percent this message works – there’s no question about it,” said Texas Republican consultant Vinny Minchillo, speaking with Politico. “This has been polled up one side and down the other, and with Texas Republican primary voters, it works. It is a thing they are legitimately scared of.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been one of President Donald Trump's closest allies on immigration policy, working hand in hand with him, giving Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement all the state support they ask for, and even building his own mini-border patrol operation under former President Joe Biden called Operation Lone Star.

But after weeks of brutal and sometimes deadly ICE operations that have clashed with state governments around the country and caused unrest in Minneapolis, even he is now distancing himself from ICE's actions — and saying Trump needs a new strategy.

A panel of judges — including two of President Donald Trump's appointees — refused to hear an appeal on a lower court's ruling that found Alina Habba had been unlawfully appointed as U.S. Attorney.

Last year, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann found that the Trump administration's "novel series of legal and personnel moves" to have Habba remain in office after her term expired broke federal law.

The Department of Justice may have suffered a major setback in a hearing on Monday morning, as lawyers for the Donald Trump administration opposed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order that would severely curtail ICE activities in Minnesota.

According to MS NOW’s Lisa Rubin, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave every indication that she might not rule entirely the way the state of Minnesota seeks.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to defend aide Stephen Miller after he described Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse gunned down by Border Patrol, as an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents."

During Monday's White House briefing, one reporter noted that the Department of Homeland Security had accused Pretti of wanting to do "maximum damage" and "massacre law enforcement."

As ticket sales plummet and performances get canceled at the Kennedy Center following Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution earlier this year, the president took to social media Monday to shift blame for the venue’s financial troubles to past administrations.

“People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits for many years and, like everything else, I merely came in to save it and, if possible, make it far better than ever before!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Attorney and political commentator David French issued a stark warning Monday that, outside of a major course correction, the United State’s constitutional republic was headed toward collapse under the Trump administration.

“The Trump administration breaks the law, and also ruthlessly exploits all the immunities it’s granted by law,” French said as part of an online conversation with two other opinion columnists, as reported by The New York Times Monday. “The situation is unsustainable for a constitutional republic.”

Current and former immigration officers spoke out against President Donald Trump's crackdown in Minnesota Monday.

A Customs and Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti over the weekend, less than three weeks after a veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good. Current and former officials say the operation is undermining public support and department morale, reported the New York Times.