Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday the Trump administration's lies about Saturday's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man by ICE agents should send shock waves across the nation.
The Border Patrol official leading President Trump's immigration-enforcement surge in Minnesota is framing Saturday's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old ICU nurse as a tragic but unavoidable consequence of a man who was "actively impeding and assaulting law enforcement."
Videos quickly emerged showing the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a Border Patrol agent that has been widely denounced as a case of excessive force carried out by untrained federal officers. The administration says it was a case of an armed man provoking violence.
Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino said Sunday that the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis will likely be assigned to administrative duties. “These Border Patrol agents are going to more than likely be on administrative duty, but they will remain Border Patrol agents,” Bovino told...
Oscar-winning director James Cameron was candid during a recent interview about why he chose to leave the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic and permanently relocate to his 12,000-acre New Zealand farm, saying he wanted to live in a place that “believes in science.” “Five or six months after the pandemic hit … [New Zealand] had...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story California sticks with WHO as US exits Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) affirmed his state’s continued departure from current federal health policy by announcing Friday that California will be the first state to join a World Health Organization (WHO)...
Vice President Vance and conservative influencer Laura Loomer traded jabs on social media Friday after Loomer questioned why Republicans were “pushing more abortion messaging” ahead of the November midterms. “Why is the GOP pushing more abortion messaging in a midterm election year? Didn’t they learn their lesson in 2018? Loomer wrote Friday afternoon on social...
Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist recently appointed as chair of a highly influential federal vaccine committee, questioned the need for immunizing against illnesses like polio in a podcast interview released Thursday. He argued that public health is not the "first order" of his group. Last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
With dangerously-cold arctic air already settling over a large swath of the U.S. Friday, at least 177 million people are under watches or warnings for ice and snow.
The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two “narco-terrorists,” but one person survived the operation. The vessel, operated by a designated terrorist organization, was transiting along “known narco-trafficking routes” in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in “narco-trafficking operations,” according to the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom). ...
Tensions between the United States and Canada have rapidly escalated this week after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, declaring a "rupture" in the old world order and calling on "middle powers" to unite. The once jovial public relationship between Carney and...
A nurse at a South Florida hospital has been fired for a social media post in which she appeared to make profane remarks about White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s pregnancy. A spokesperson for Baptist Health South Florida confirmed in a Friday statement that a “nurse at one of [their] facilities” had been terminated for...
The massive measles outbreaks of 2025 are officially spilling over into the new year. Fourteen states have reported new cases of the virus since the start of 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
