David Edwards

Kyle Rittenhouse, a conservative acquitted of murdering two protesters, blamed violence during anti-ICE protests in Minnesota on "drinking too much fluoride."

During a Friday interview, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told Rittenhouse that liberals were threatening violence after Renee Nicole Good was shot to death by agent Jonathan Ross.

"Honestly, I just think it's all the hormones," Rittenhouse insisted. "Them drinking too much fluoride in their water. And to be completely honest, it's like you see the gay-trans-Antifa movement pushing against people like this."

"And then you see them. They're the first ones to scream. We don't need guns. We're going to take your guns. We don't need a Second Amendment, but they're the ones saying, we're going to use our Second Amendment rights. It's just so hypocritical of them," he continued. "And I encourage every single ICE officer out there, every single American, right? If somebody threatens to kill you, be prepared to defend yourself because they are serious."

Rittenhouse called on Jones' viewers to protect the ICE agent "at all costs." He also spread rumors about Good despite admitting that he wasn't sure they were true.

"And now I'm seeing reports of this lady who, that was killed yesterday, Renee Good, who was burning cigarettes, light her stuff onto her kids, and had her kids taken away," he said. "So I saw reports on X. I haven't verified it completely yet, but I'm sure it's true just based on these type of people and their character."

President Donald Trump apologized to the world's oil companies because he did not yet have a ballroom to host them at the White House.

"The largest Oil Companies in the World are coming to the White House at 2:30 P.M. Everybody wants to be there," Trump wrote on Friday in a Truth Social post. "It's too bad that the Ballroom hasn't completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED. We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today, but Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, will see them over the next week. Everyone is in daily contact."

"Today's meeting will almost exclusively be a discussion on Venezuelan Oil, and our longterm [sic] relationship with Venezuela, its Security, and People," he added. "A very big factor in this involvement will be the reduction of Oil Prices for the American People. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly of all, will be the stoppage of Drugs and Criminals coming into the United States of America."

Vice President J.D. Vance used body camera footage leaked from his administration to justify the killing of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jonathan Ross.

On Friday, Vance shared the leaked video from Alpha News, which appeared to be taken from the perspective of Ross's body camera.

Although the video does not show Ross shooting Good, the vice president insisted it was proof that the killing was done in self-defense.

"Watch this, as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn't hit by a car, wasn't being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman," Vance ranted. "The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense."

Becca Good, the wife of Renee Nicole Good, released a statement following her killing at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jonathan Ross.

In remarks to MPR News, Becca Good described her wife as "made of sunshine."

"On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns," she wrote.

Read the entire statement from Friday below:

First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.

This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.

Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.

Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.

Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles.

What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.

We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.

On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.

Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.

We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.

MAGA influencers Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon called for the arrests of Democrats after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good to death.

"These people are Bolsheviks," Bannon told Posobiec on his Friday War Room broadcast. "We've got to take a stand now. We got to lance the boil. I mean, start, [Gov. Tim] Waltz, why is Waltz not under arrest? Why is [Mayor Jacob] Frey not under arrest? Why is [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani not under arrest? Roll them up."

Posobiec, speaking from Minneapolis, insisted that "Bolsheviks" were "radicalizing the moms out in the suburbs, out in middle America."

"Think about these two women who showed up yesterday," he said of Good and her wife, Rebecca Brown Good. "One is dead. One, by the way, I would argue, is complicit in the killing, is complicit in the killing of Renee Good."

"It's complicit in the death, by the way, because she says... I urged her to come here. I wanted her to come here. This was a planned operation under the felony murder rule," he added. "You are also liable for that death. There's no question about it. She should be brought up on federal charges. But Steve, they've radicalized massive swaths of this country."

"How could it be that some mom from Middle America with a couple of kids is ramming an ICE agent the same way that you would see ISIS, an ISIS radical running over people?"

Pope Leo XIV condemned the use of force by world leaders like President Donald Trump after the U.S. carried out a military strike on Venezuela.

Just days following the invasion to capture President Nicolás Maduro, the pope released a statement on X without mentioning Trump by name.

"War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading," the Catholic leader wrote on Friday. "The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined."

"Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself," he added. "Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one's own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence."

Brandon Phillips, a congressional aide to Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), was accused of punching a man in the face. Collins and Phillips were both facing a House ethics investigation for unrelated controversies.

A video obtained by Daily Mail correspondent Jon Michael Raasch appears to show Phillips attacking a man at a Washington, D.C. bar.

It was not immediately clear when the video was recorded.

In a report released earlier this week, the Office of Congressional Conduct concluded that there was enough evidence to investigate Phillips after he allegedly used taxpayer funds to pay his girlfriend to do work for the congressman. The report did not find evidence that the woman completed any of the work she was paid for.

“The OCC received multiple submissions of information alleging that an individual paid by Rep. Collins’s office as a district intern did no work for the member’s district office,” the report noted.

Phillips faced battery and felony charges in 2008, as well as an animal cruelty charge in 2022.

President Donald Trump's White House architects revealed that a lavish ballroom being constructed may also require adding a story to the building's main West Wing.

"I did mention the potential for a future addition, a one-story addition to the West Wing. And that would occur right here," one architect explained during a presentation on Thursday. "And you can see that the reason to think that is so that we would reinstate the symmetry along, around the central pavilion of the White House. We haven't looked at, we haven't looked at that at all yet, but hope to do so in the future."

In December, Trump replaced McCrery Architects with Shalom Baranes Associates. Some estimates suggest the ballroom project could cost more than $300 million. The president has vowed to pay for the project with donations.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had agreed to hang a plaque honoring the officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, Tillis joined with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) to obtain unanimous consent to pass a resolution in favor of hanging the plaque after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refused to display it throughout 2025.

"I also want to thank the Republican leader, Sen. Thune, because he has agreed that we will be able to display this until the final location is in place, and I appreciate his help in doing that," Tillis said in his floor speech.

CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane called the move a "big defection by Senate Republicans against Trump, who spread more lies about January 6th this week through the White House's new web page."

Vice President JD Vance excused an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who killed a 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by noting the officer was "sensitive" because he had been dragged by a car months before.

During a White House briefing on Thursday, Vance pointed to a CNN headline: "Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis."

"That's one way to put it, and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours," he complained. "And I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement, this was an attack on law and order, this was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day."

"What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs," he continued. "So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?"

"If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working, tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws."

Vance insisted that the officer "defended himself" and that "everybody who's been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourselves."

"Every single one of you!" he exclaimed.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said he had placed a hold on all Department of Homeland Security nominees after Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to testify before the Senate.

"I'd simply like the Homeland Security Secretary to respond to what are now two requests by the chairman to come before the committee," Tillis told Semafor correspondent Burgess Everett, "and that's the reason why I placed the blanket hold before the shooting yesterday on anything related to Homeland Security until such time as she does that."

Tillis' decision to block DHS nominees apparently came before an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Noem suggested that Good was a domestic terrorist just hours after she was shot to death in her car.

Tillis has long been critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) lack of action in his home state.

"I know that we're going through a transformation at Homeland Security and in FEMA, but right now, we're behind the eight ball on past storms, and we need to get their attention and cut through the red tape, get it done," the senator said in October.

President Donald Trump lashed out at five Republican senators who voted to rein in his power to wage military strikes on Venezuela.

"Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America," Trump ranted after the Senate moved a War Powers resolution forward on Thursday.

"Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again," he insisted. This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President's Authority as Commander in Chief. In any event, and despite their 'stupidity,' the War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me. Nevertheless, a more important Senate Vote will be taking place next week on this very subject."

Reporters pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about why she had jumped to the conclusion that Renee Nicole Good was a domestic terrorist after she was shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

During a Thursday press conference in New York, a reporter noted that a discreet operation there contrasted with the chaos surrounding the Minneapolis shooting.

"Because of the protesters and the violent criminals that were attacking our law enforcement!" Noem interrupted. "If you remember in that operation, what happened was our officers were out trying to get a car stuck out of the snow when they were surrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protesters that were inciting."

The reporter pointed out that the officer "fired point-blank into a driver."

"Is that part of the training?" he asked. "How is that self-defense?"

"This is an experienced officer who followed his training, and we will continue to let the investigation unfold into the individual and continue to follow the procedures and policies that happen in these use-of-force cases," Noem remarked. "But let's remember the events that surrounded what happened yesterday on that tragic situation was that these individuals had followed our officers all day, had harassed them, had blocked them in. They were impeding our law enforcement operations, which is against the law, and when they demanded and commanded her to get out of her vehicle several times, she did not."

"You called her a domestic terrorist, though!" the reporter exclaimed. "Without knowing who she was or what she was about."

"This was an act of domestic terrorism," Noem claimed. "So this is standard operating procedure after every use of force situation is that we followed these procedures and protocols."