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Yes. The National Rifle Association publicly weighed in on the : the NRA posted on X condemning comments by a federal prosecutor and separately blamed Democratic leaders in for “incit[ing] violence” a...
is generally lawful with a state permit, but the picture at protests is more complicated: federal and state actors can and have asserted limits, and Minnesota law includes provisions that allow author...
Reporting is conflicted: federal authorities say “approached” agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and distributed a photo of a firearm, while multiple bystander videos and at least one independen...
The central fact is undisputed: was legally married to from 2009 to 2017, a marriage recorded in documents . The persistent allegation that Elmi was Omar’s biological brother and that the marriage was...
Reporting shows hexachloroethane (HC) is a chlorinated compound long used in white smoke compositions for military and some law‑enforcement smoke grenades and pots, and federal and public‑health sourc...
Public reporting establishes that was a with a permit to carry, a fact repeated by local police and family members , while federal officials publicly asserted that he was found without identification ...
Federal prosecutors have charged scores of people in multiple Minnesota fraud cases that involve programs such as Feeding Our Future, Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), and autism services...
Multiple independent news outlets, the federal employees’ union representing VA staff, and licensing records indicate was employed as an intensive care nurse at the up to the time of his death; his wa...
Federal officials and local outlets report widely differing tallies of immigration arrests in since the Trump administration launched a high‑profile enforcement push late in 2025; official spokespeopl...
in this month involved hundreds of arrests, heightened federal coordination, and at least one deadly confrontation that drew an criminal probe; reporting does not corroborate a separate, large-scale “...
ICE and DHS reporting and independent trackers show deportations in 2025 have surged: DHS has announced figures ranging from “more than 400,000” to 527,000 removals in under a year, while the Departme...
A large, multi-year investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social-services programs has resulted in scores of charges concentrated in the Somali diaspora and prompted an aggressive federal enforcemen...
Federal prosecutors and reporters describe a sprawling set of frauds tied to Minnesota social‑services programs that prosecutors say involved dozens of defendants and more than $1 billion in alleged l...
The narrative of drug bust that involved underground tunnels, large quantities of drugs and 96 arrests is not supported by the reporting provided: the only subterranean narcotics tunnel described in t...
Two leading, recent estimates put ’s undocumented (unauthorized) population between roughly 95,000 and 130,000 people, with analysts and advocates citing older or narrower estimates as low as about 81...
Video and multiple news reports document law‑enforcement deployment of tear gas/ in protests and near schools, and at least one circulating clip shows agents launching canisters while bystanders shout...
Available reporting does not show a reliable national percentage of Somali Americans on welfare; advocates say “most Somalis are not on welfare” , while some critics point to concentrated poverty and ...
Signal chats organized to track agents have included claims that local Democratic officials and campaign staff were “admins” or “dispatchers” in groups that doxxed and impeded federal immigration oper...
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ICE detained two people at the Target in Richfield, Minnesota on January 8, an event captured on video and reported by multiple outlets . Multipl...
The simple numeric claim — 2.1 million, 1.6 million, 130,000 — matches reputable state estimates published by Pew and summarized in contemporary fact-checks, but those figures reflect the 2023 unautho...