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Ilhan Omar says ‘death threats skyrocket’ every time Trump attacks her but ‘fear and intimidation doesn’t work on me’

By Michael Biesecker, Farnoush Amiri, and others

People gather at the site where a federal officer shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

‘Reprehensible and disgusting’: Another grieving family in Minneapolis rips Trump White House, decrying ‘sickening lies told about our son’

By Jack Brook, Steve Karnowski, and others

A boy sits on the couch of a Minneapolis safe house Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, as his younger siblings and niece play on the floor beside him after they fled their home because they were sought by federal immigration enforcement agents. (AP Photo/Jack Brook)

Feliza Martinez is a mother of 5 who voted for Trump. Now she’s part of a Minneapolis underground railroad for immigrants’ kids

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

Federal agents stand near the site of a shooting Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Federal agents shoot and kill another person in Minneapolis. One officer tells bystanders ‘Boo hoo’

By Jack Brook, Steve Karnowski, and others

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Minnesota activist released after she catches White House manipulating images of her arrest

By Jack Brook, Sarah Raza, and others

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Minneapolis’ icy ICE rally sees 100 clergy arrested as thousands protest ‘federal occupation’

By Giovanna Dell'Orto, Sarah Raza, and others

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The curious case of the ICE pastor as Minnesota protesters disrupt church services and DOJ launches investigation

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

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Minneapolis mayor defiant over prospect of troopers in the street: ‘It is not fair, it’s not just, and it’s completely unconstitutional’

By Jack Brook, Sarah Raza, and others

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen Walz, attend a vigil honoring Renee Good on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn., outside the Minnesota State Capitol. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Justice Department investigates Minnesota’s Walz and Frey, who call it a bullying tactic meant to threaten political opposition

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, and others

Federal immigration officers prepare to enter a home to make an arrest after an officer used a battering ram to break down a door Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump doesn’t think there’s any reason ‘right now’ to use Insurrection Act in Minn., while Native Americans urged to carry ID due to ICE threat

By Jack Brook, Steve Karnowski, and others

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13-year-old girl attacked a boy showing an AI-generated nude image of her. She was expelled

By Heather Hollingsworth, Jack Brook, and others

A view of a DC Comics, Superman No. 1 issue is shown Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, in Irving, Texas.

Arts & Entertainment

Three brothers cleaned out their mom’s attic — and found a $9 million Superman that just became the most expensive comic ever sold

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

FILE – Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media outside Manhattan federal court in New York, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Rudy Giuliani suffers fractured vertebra in car crash after being ‘flagged down’ by domestic violence victim

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

New Orleans fire chiefs Zachary Gremillion, left, Ray Casey, and Byron Casey, right, stand at attention in an emotional moment.

Two decades after Katrina, New Orleans remembers the hurricane that wiped the city with the ‘hand of God’

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

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New Orleans ‘Trash King’ faces a fight to keep cleaning Bourbon Street

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press