The Headlines
Minnesota Sues to Stop Federal ‘Invasion,’ and Iranians Describe a ‘Blood Bath’
13 Jan 2026
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From The New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Tuesday, January 13th. Here's what we're covering.
The deployment of thousands of armed mass DHS agents to Minnesota has done our state serious harm. This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities, and it must stop.
The state of Minnesota is suing the Trump administration over the mass deployment of ICE agents there, claiming it has violated the U.S. Constitution and infringed on the state's rights. It comes as the administration has announced it's sending 1,000 more immigration officers to the state, on top of the roughly 2,000 other federal agents who are already there.
The lawsuit asks the federal judge to block the deployments. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said that even before the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent last week escalated tensions there, residents had already been racially profiled, harassed, terrorized and assaulted.
Schools have gone on to lockdown and some retail stores, daycares and restaurants have actually closed because people are afraid to go out and to do their shopping, whether they're immigrants or whether they are citizens of many generations.
Over the last month, across the Twin Cities, armed agents have marched through apartment complexes, demanding to see documents and handcuffing people. They've targeted construction workers at job sites and tackled a man on his lunch break near downtown as he repeatedly screamed he was a U.S. citizen.
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Chapter 2: What lawsuit is Minnesota filing against the Trump administration?
And The Times has learned that the U.S. used a secret plane painted to look like a civilian aircraft and armed with hidden weapons when it carried out its first strike on a boat carrying alleged drug traffickers back in September. Trump has claimed the U.S. is in an armed conflict with drug cartels, justifying the strikes. But use of that plane could constitute a war crime.
Under the laws of war, combatants are prohibited from pretending to be civilians to trick adversaries into dropping their guard, a crime known as perfidy. The U.S. military also killed two survivors of that initial strike in what military law experts say could be another war crime. In a statement, the White House said the strike was, quote, "...fully consistent with the law of armed conflict."
In Iran, witnesses say the government is carrying out a brutal crackdown on the protests that have been rocking the country. Authorities there spent the last five days shutting down the Internet and many phone lines to try and impose an information blackout. But The Times has been able to reach people over satellite Internet connections who describe scenes of intense violence.
They said they've seen snipers on rooftops in downtown Tehran shooting into crowds and security forces opening fire with machine guns. Hospital workers say protesters are coming in with skull fractures and gunshot wounds. One ER had 19 shooting victims in an hour. A businessman told The Times, I managed to get connected for a few minutes just to say it's a bloodbath here.
One Iranian government official said he'd seen an internal report referring to at least 3,000 dead, civilians and security forces. My God, this is it! Last night, undeterred by the crackdown, a large crowd gathered in Tehran once again. Footage from the BBC captured people chanting, death to the dictator, with gunfire in the background.
Iranian officials have started claiming that the protests, which began late last month over economic woes, have been taken over by terrorists, and they are blaming the U.S. and Israel for fueling the unrest.
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