Kristi Noem echoes Trump as Insurrection Act threats loom over Minneapolis When asked about the president's threat to use the Insurrection Act, the Homeland Security secretary said he "certainly has the constitutional authority" to utilize it.
President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed a health care proposal he dubbed the “Great Healthcare Plan,” outlining a set of cost-cutting ideas but stopping short of offering a detailed replacement for the Affordable Care Act. The proposal does not include new ideas to expand health coverage or simplify America’s often-byzantine health care system. “Trump’s health care plan is … a subsidy,” Grace Silva, a spokeswoman for 314 Action, a liberal advocacy group working to elect scientists and physicians to government, wrote in a statement. It should be our issue,” Trump told House Republicans at a policy session last week. Americans are more likely to trust Democrats than Republicans on health care issues, polls show.
The next day, the president is calling you terrorists and insurrectionists and threatening to turn the U.S. military on you and your kids. President Trump threatened on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act, just like he did in Los Angeles before sending in the National Guard using a lesser authority. “Minnesota insurrection is a direct result of a FAILED governor and a TERRIBLE mayor encouraging violence against law enforcement,” Deputy Atty. Just like in Minneapolis, we had some folks who used violence — even though the vast majority of protesters were peaceful. After the killing of George Floyd, Minneapolis showed it wasn’t afraid to show up for justice.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis. Trump made the threat after a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle. AdvertisementShooting followed chaseIn a statement describing the events that led to Wednesday’s shooting, Homeland Security said federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. AdvertisementLocal leaders say the government is violating free speech and other constitutional rights with the surge of law enforcement. It’s the latest step by the Trump administration to dispatch military and civilian attorneys to areas where federal immigration operations are taking place.
(Carolyn Fong for CNN via CNN Newsource)Valerie Zeko (left) and Dr. Ian Kratter in the treatment room at the Brain Stimulation Lab. (Carolyn Fong for CNN via CNN Newsource)Dr. Christopher Austelle (left) and Dr. Ian Kratter examine Valerie Zeko's brain scans in a Brain Stimulation Lab treatment room. The MRI helps identify the location of the strongest connection between the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and a deeper subregion, the subgenual cingulate, which is associated with depression, Kratter said. The placebo treatment replicates every aspect of SAINT except for the magnetic field fully entering the patient’s brain, Bentzley explained. Despite that lack of information, Willow thinks she underwent SAINT treatment due to how her mental health shifted during and after the trial.
"This was a massive scheme that enveloped the world of college basketball," Metcalf said. A year later the gamblers began targeting college players from mid-level Division I programs who weren't making much money from name, image and likeness opportunities. "They picked these men because they were well connected in the world of college basketball," Metcalf said. State, Nicholls State, Southern Mississippi, North Carolina A&T, Kennesaw State, Coppin State, New Orleans, Abilene Christian and Alabama State. "The pattern of college basketball game integrity conduct revealed by law enforcement today is not entirely new information to the NCAA," he said.
Astronauts return to Earth after first-ever medical evacuation from ISS The NASA International Space Station (ISS) crew that included a sick astronaut splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, early on Thursday morning.
Revenues raised by the CEO tax would be earmarked for specific purposes and not go directly to the city’s general fund. According to the coalition, the current city business tax is between 0.1% and 0.425% of gross receipts. If a top manager at a company makes between 50 and 100 times the median employee, the company will pay an “Overpaid CEO Tax” equal to the business tax otherwise paid by the company. If the top manager makes greater than 500 times the median employee, the business would be required to pay an additional tax of 10 times the business tax otherwise owed. “The bigger the gap, the higher the tax,” Petersen said.
By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN(CNN) — Three-quarters of Americans say they oppose the United States attempting to take control of Greenland, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, indicating that President Donald Trump’s push to expand America’s territory faces stiff headwinds with the public. The survey finds just 25% of Americans favor the US attempting to take control of the Danish territory. Americans more closely split over Venezuela military actionAll told, 52% oppose the US decision to take military action in Venezuela while 48% favor it. Partisan views on the initial military action in Venezuela are mirror images: 80% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents oppose the action while 80% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support it. A majority of Democratic-aligned Americans (58%) strongly oppose the efforts to control Venezuela’s government while just 28% of Republican-aligned Americans feel strongly in favor.
Pokémon store robbed at gunpoint in Manhattan Three men robbed a Pokémon store in Manhattan on Wednesday, stealing $1,000 in cash from a register, an unknown amount of merchandise and a cell phone, according to the New York Police Department.
Labor Department data show initial U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly fell to 198,000 for the week ended Jan. 10, a decline of 9,000 from the prior week's revised 207,000. Analysts caution that weekly claims are prone to seasonal volatility and holiday distortions, which can produce sharp swings in headline readings. Looking through the noise, we see no signs that labor market conditions are worsening. The claims data offer no reason to change our outlook for the economy or Fed policy." The claims data arrive against a backdrop of cooling payrolls and a still-elevated unemployment rate.
A federal immigration officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man in north Minneapolis during a targeted traffic stop late Wednesday, officials said, a confrontation that set off renewed protests and clashes between demonstrators and federal agents deployed to the city. Both the officer and the wounded man were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, according to statements from DHS and the City of Minneapolis. AI-generated illustrationThe incident is unfolding during an expanded federal immigration enforcement presence in Minnesota that officials have described as Operation Metro Surge. Roughly 3,000 federal officers, including personnel from ICE and Border Patrol, have been deployed in recent weeks to support targeted enforcement actions across the state. As demonstrations continue, city leaders are urging calm even as they press demands that federal immigration operations be scaled back amid growing public health, legal and social equity concerns.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGA top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who was internally mocked as a “fish cop” for her past work leading a fish and wildlife department announced Thursday she was resigning and would challenge Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) in the 2026 midterm elections. AdvertisementMadison Sheahan, a close ally of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has been the No. 2 official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement for most of President Donald Trump's second term. via Associated PressKaptur has more than $1 million in her campaign account, according to Federal Election Commission records. “Ohio neighborhoods are safer thanks to President Donald Trump and ICE,” Sheahan says.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGAttorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at six federal prosecutors who reportedly resigned after refusing to prosecute the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota woman killed last week by an ICE officer. AdvertisementOn Tuesday, The New York Times reported that six federal prosecutors resigned over pressure to investigate Good’s widow, citing sources with knowledge of the prosecutors’ decisions. Bondi ripped the prosecutors on Fox News. They’re fired from the office,” Bondi told host Sean Hannity. She also claimed the employees “had been out there interviewing at liberal law firms prior to” their resignation.
