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Multiple news outlets report that a Minneapolis family says federal agents deployed tear gas and flash‑bang grenades near their van during clashes on January 14, and three children—including a 6‑month...
Officially released, verifiable medical documentation confirming that ICE agent Jonathan Ross suffered internal bleeding after the Jan. 7 Minneapolis shooting does not exist in the public record; repo...
Tim Walz’s approval has generally hovered in the mid‑50s at several points but has shown meaningful variation after high‑profile events: Morning Consult found him at 56% in Q1 2025, slipping to 53% by...
Multiple news outlets report that a Minneapolis family says federal agents deployed tear gas and stun/flash grenades at their vehicle, leading to three children — including a 6‑month‑old infant — bein...
The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s president first reported that four enrolled tribal members were detained in Minneapolis and later said three of those men had been transferred to ICE custody at Fort Snelling,...
Minnesota hosts the nation’s largest Somali community, concentrated in Minneapolis–Saint Paul and surrounding suburbs; most Somalis in the state are U.S. citizens and among the foreign‑born, roughly 8...
Media outlets and researchers disagree sharply about Somali Minnesotans’ net economic role: local reporting cites a Concordia economist estimating Somali annual income at “at least $500 million” and $...
Available reporting and policy summaries show no clear, consistent decade-long, national comparison of SNAP, TANF and Medicaid enrollment specifically for Somali immigrants versus other immigrant grou...
Minneapolis saw a sharp, sustained exodus of officers beginning in 2020 that translated into rising vacancy rates and a dramatically smaller sworn force through 2023; quantified measures in city and m...
Multiple national polls taken in the wake of the ICE shooting and subsequent federal deployments to Minnesota show that roughly four in ten Americans approve of President Trump’s handling of the Minne...
Somali Minnesotans number roughly 100,000–107,000 and represent about 2% of the state’s population, a community that both contributes taxes and faces concentrated poverty and welfare use, according to...
A 2019 state review found that Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) likely suffered several million dollars in fraudulent billing, while prosecutions up to that point had documented about ...
KSTP and other local outlets report an estimate that Somali Minnesotans generate about $500 million in annual income and pay roughly $67 million in state and local taxes, figures attributed to economi...
Ice and DHS have publicly released counts, named lists and individualized criminal-history summaries as the centerpiece of their communications about Operation Metro Surge — touting thousands of arres...
Somali neighborhoods in Minnesota show large, documented socioeconomic gaps compared with the state average: a Center for Immigration Studies analysis reports about 81% of Somali-headed households use...
Public records show multiple congressional subpoenas seeking documents from Gov. Tim Walz and his administration over the Feeding Our Future pandemic fraud; House Education and the Workforce Chair Rep...
Federal and state authorities responded rapidly after Nick Shirley’s viral videos: the Department of Health and Human Services froze child-care payments to Minnesota and federal law‑enforcement agenci...
A discrete, high‑profile federal prosecution in Minnesota produced local reporting that labeled defendant Michael Lazzaro “Minnesota’s Jeffrey Epstein” after his conviction on sex‑trafficking and rela...
Available reporting offers conflicting pictures: conservative-leaning local analysis and KSTP cite Somali Minnesotans paying roughly $67 million annually in state and local taxes based on median-house...
Multiple news reports describe federal agents deploying chemical irritants during the chaotic federal operation in Minneapolis, and a Roosevelt High School student told KSTP that “some students were p...