Frustrations from judge, prosecutor in Minnesota boil over amid Trump’s ICE surge

Washington — A federal court hearing in Minneapolis on Tuesday provided an extraordinary window into the volume of immigration-related cases overwhelming federal prosecutors in Minnesota amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigration agents to the Twin Cities, and the frustrations of exasperated judges who have said their orders are repeatedly ignored. The hearing before U.S.

Poll: Fewer feel prices rising, but most see a gap between richest, middle class

Following years of negativity about the economy, most Americans feel there are increasing opportunities for the wealthy today, but decreasing opportunities for the middle class. Big majorities feel it’s harder today to buy a house, get a good job, or raise a family than it was for previous generations — including for today’s young people.

“Tsunami” of immigration cases strains U.S. Attorney’s offices across America

As immigration sweeps and detentions have expanded in Minnesota and around the country, the work of justifying those detentions is overwhelming federal prosecutors, who are being forced to sideline a range of other criminal and civil cases in order to keep pace. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota declared in a new brief

Maryland man faces attempted murder charges for targeting OMB director

A Maryland man who said he feared that President Trump’s reelection would lead to a “fascist takeover” is facing attempted murder charges, after he showed up at  Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s Northern Virginia home, wearing a surgical mask and gloves, according to court documents and sources familiar with the matter. Colin

Who entered Epstein’s jail tier the night of his death? Files raise new questions.

Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019. That entry in an observation log of the video from

Spokesperson says both Trump and Bondi asked Gabbard to be at FBI search

Washington — A spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says both President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi asked Gabbard to be present for an FBI search of the elections headquarters in Fulton County, Georgia, last week, after Gabbard and Mr. Trump offered seemingly conflicting explanations for her presence.  “As the president said,

U.S. and Russia agree to resume military-to-military communication

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level military-to-military communication that was suspended in the fall of 2021 before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. military’s European Command announced on Thursday.  The agreement was made while the head of U.S. European Command, Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, was in Abu Dhabi, the capital of