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What happened during the recent confrontation in Minneapolis?
Anger and confrontations in Minneapolis. On Lisa Brady, Fox News. After a woman was shot and killed as an immigration enforcement agent opened fire during what federal officials say was an attack with her vehicle on officers. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem calls it an act of domestic terrorism. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him. President Trump echoing that after watching a video of the incident. But Minneapolis officials say the woman was driving away from officers.
What are the implications of the shooting incident involving immigration agents?
What I can tell you is the narrative that this was just done in self-defense is a garbage narrative. That is not true.
Mayor Jacob Fry accusing ICE of sowing chaos and calling on agents to get out of the city. Fox's Mike Tobin in Minneapolis.
Since January of 2025, there have been 100 vehicular attacks while the agents are responding to different scenes and conducting their operations. Having done ride-alongs with the agents, I can tell you that the vehicular aggression is pretty frequent. And the feeling of the agents is it was just a matter of time before someone got hurt.
Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walz urging protesters to remain peaceful while also criticizing what he calls propaganda. President Trump is calling for a $1.5 trillion defense budget, up from a trillion dollars, just posting that it would allow the U.S. to build a dream military for safety and security. This is the White House faces questions about foreign policy after last weekend's military capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
All options are always on the table for President Trump as he examines what's in the best interest of the United States. But I will just say that the president's first option always has been diplomacy.
White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt says it's premature to talk about elections in Venezuela. She also says the U.S. made a deal with interim Venezuelan authorities to sell Venezuelan oil. America is listening to Fox News.
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Multiple wrongful death lawsuits over suicides that parents linked to chatbots may be settled. Court filings show Google and artificial intelligence startup Character AI have agreed in principle to settle suits in states including Florida, Colorado, Texas, and New York. No word on the terms. Lawsuits accuse the companies of failing to protect children. The defense attorney for Nick Reiner withdraws from the case.
I'm legally and I'm ethically prohibited from explaining all the reasons why.
Though Alan Jackson also tells reporters that Reiner is not guilty of murder. But prosecutors say they're confident a jury will convict the 32-year-old in the deaths of his parents, famed director Rob Reiner and wife Michelle, who were stabbed in their California home last month. Nick Reiner remains held without bail, the judge postponing today's arraignment to next month after the defense attorney was replaced with a public defender. A year after deadly fires destroyed thousands of homes in L.A., survivors remain on a long road to recovery with some challenging insurance delays and denials.
Claire Thompson, one of several Eaton Fire survivors, alleging illegal insurance conduct. This is a report from a certified industrial hygienist documenting lead in our home at more than 800 times the EPA limit, along with beryllium, arsenic, and cyanide. Our insurance company paid for this testing and then ignored it. Eaton Fire Survivors Network Executive Director Joy Chen.
We are owed still tens of billions of dollars from insurance.
And without that money, this recovery will not be able to be complete. LA County Board of Supervisors Chair Catherine Barger.
I look forward to working with my colleagues in Washington, D.C., if you're listening, to bring supplemental disaster aid to Los Angeles County.
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