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Trump holds 'late-night crisis' meeting with Kristi Noem as Minnesota operation unravels

President Donald Trump held a “late-night crisis” meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Monday as the situation on the ground in Minnesota amid federal immigration operations further devolved into chaos, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

According to insiders who spoke with the Times on the condition of anonymity, the meeting was held at Noem’s request and came amid growing tension between federal immigration officers and Minnesotans in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday, which itself came just weeks after the ICE killing of Minnesota resident Renee Good.

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'For God's sake, keep it up': Pete Buttigieg's impassioned plea to keep pressure on GOP

Pete Buttigieg has pleaded with members of the public to keep the pressure on the Republican Party.

In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, the former Department of Transport head said Donald Trump and his administration were feeling the effects of political pressure from a growing discontent in the public. Buttigieg's video, titled 'The Ground is Shifting', called on people to keep criticizing the government and keeping the momentum.

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Trump losing ground after 'aggressive first year back' begins to wither: analysis

Donald Trump appears to be losing ground so soon into his second year as a political analyst identifies a tough road ahead for the president.

Domestic and foreign policy trouble are at the heart of these shortcomings for Trump, with CNN's Stephen Collinson believing the fearsome first year of the president is starting to erode. He wrote, "'Sometimes you need a dictator' he said last week in Davos, Switzerland, days after suggesting to Reuters that 'we shouldn’t even have an election' ahead of November’s midterms.

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Jon Stewart rips into Trump admin and MAGA for 'giving up 2nd Amendment'

Jon Stewart has ripped into Donald Trump's administration and MAGA faithful for their comments on a recent protest against ICE agents.

Pretti was shot and killed during a protest in Minneapolis just weeks after Renee Good, 37, was shot three times by an ICE agent. Stewart has since pounced on the president and his administration for their rhetoric around the shooting of Pretti.

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Jimmy Kimmel slams 'delusional' Trump and calls for GOP to invoke 25th Amendment

Jimmy Kimmel has asked just how far gone Donald Trump needs to be before the GOP invoke the 25th Amendment.

The talk show host says the president is unfit for office and asked the Republican Party to act against Trump after ICE shootings, threats to Greenland and other NATO countries, as well as the ongoing want for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Trump just put ICE in an 'no-win situation' — and 'people are freaking out': report

President Donald Trump's immigration forces are revolting after the president put them in a "no-win situation," according to a new report.

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on Monday that immigration agents across the country are "fed up" with how they've been treated by the administration and the "information war being waged from Washington" over the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend. Klippenstein said agents he spoke with strongly disagree with the administration's "lamboyant defense" of the shooters.

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Observers roast Kash Patel's 'moonwalking' Fox News interview after latest ICE killing

Political analysts and observers roasted FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday night after he gave an interview to Fox News' Sean Hannity about the situation in Minneapolis after President Donald Trump's immigration agents killed an American citizen over the weekend.

Patel joined Hannity to discuss his agency's response to the situation in Minneapolis, where immigration agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday during a protest. Eyewitnesses say Pretti intervened after an officer shoved a woman to the ground. Pretti was sprayed with a chemical substance and taken to the ground by a swarm of officers and subdued. While on the ground, officers discovered Pretti was carrying a handgun and disarmed him. Even so, they still fired 10 shots at Pretti, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller

A massive union that represents some of President Donald Trump's immigration agents called on two of the administration's top officials to resign following the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis over the weekend.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 820,000 federal employees, called on Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to either resign or be fired following the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.

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Trump admin dealt major blow in blue state election plot

A federal court on Monday handed President Donald Trump's administration a major blow to its scheme to rig the 2026 midterm elections.

The Trump Department of Justice has sued multiple states in an effort to obtain their voter rolls. Some experts believe the administration will use the data to limit who can vote in the upcoming midterm elections, the momentum towards which currently favors the Democrats.

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Trump officials' own words thrown back at them in brutal takedown by CNN's Anderson Cooper

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper threw the Trump administration's own words back at them on Monday in a devastating takedown over a comment made following the killing of an ICU nurse at a protest in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Cooper discussed the Trump administration's justifications for the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. Pretti, 37, attended a protest of Trump's immigration tactics when he was swarmed by federal officers and shot at least 10 times, according to reports. Pretti's death was the second high-profile killing caused by federal agents in Minneapolis over the last month.

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Trump's 'nuclear bomb' comment sparks resurgence in slur usage: report

A Justice Department official's casual use of a disability slur is endemic of a broader nationwide trend that can be traced directly to President Donald Trump, who experts said dropped a "nuclear bomb" that has reverberated through kitchen tables, group chats, and social media.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general overseeing the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, ignited outrage after using a slur against people with intellectual disabilities in a casual social media post about her knitting project, The New York Times reported Monday. Dhillon posted a photo of a purple hat alongside a black-and-white dog with a caption blaming "influencer r----ds" for delaying her work.

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Trump admin's 'smearing' of slain nurse more than 'simply a rhetorical tactic': experts

The "smearing" of slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti by President Donald Trump's administration is "not simply a rhetorical tactic," but is instead part of a larger scheme, according to two legal experts.

Ryan Goodman, a law professor at NYU and editor-in-chief of Just Security, and Tom Joscelyn, a senior fellow at Just Security, argued in a new article on Monday that the administration's efforts to smear Pretti as a "domestic terrorist" were foretold in a national security document quietly released last year. The document seemed to suggest the administration would try to quell dissent by labeling oppositional voices as "domestic terrorists," a strategy they seem to be testing in Minneapolis, according to the article.

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Trump Border Patrol boss ousted after disastrous response to latest Minneapolis killing

Customs and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role as "commander at large" after his disastrous response to the latest killing of a U.S. citizen by federal immigration officers, according to a new report.

President Donald Trump's administration said on Monday that border czar Tom Homan would travel to Minneapolis and serve as the "main point of contact" for the administration's deportation operations. Initially, they indicated Bovino was being reassigned to another station. But a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Atlantic that the embattled Border Patrol boss is returning to his home in California and is expected to retire soon.

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