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Minnesota ICE Shooting, Venezuela Oil Tanker Pursuit, RFK Jr's New Dietary Guidelines
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Trump administration says the ICE agent who killed a Minneapolis woman did it in self-defense.
Chapter 2: What happened in the Minnesota ICE shooting incident?
But the city's mayor says eyewitness accounts and video footage show that's not true. This was an agent recklessly using power. I'm Laila Fadil with Michelle Martin, and this is Up First from NPR News. U.S.
Chapter 3: What are the details of the Venezuela oil tanker pursuit?
forces boarded an oil tanker that spent two weeks fleeing American ships across the Atlantic. The ship even repainted its name and raised a Russian flag mid-pursuit. How far will the conflict over Venezuela's oil industry go? And RFK Jr.
Chapter 4: How did the U.S. forces respond to the oil tanker situation?
's new dietary guidelines overhaul longstanding nutrition advice and put red meat and dairy at the top of a new food pyramid.
Chapter 5: What are RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines?
Are the recommendations backed by science?
Chapter 6: How do RFK Jr.'s dietary guidelines differ from previous recommendations?
Stay with us.
Chapter 7: What is the reaction from health experts to the new dietary guidelines?
We give you news you need to start your day.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of the new dietary guidelines on public health?
An officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, shot and killed a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday. The shooting, which was captured on video by multiple observers, immediately sparked protests as community members accused the agent of murder. Arrest the shooter! Arrest the shooter!
Minnesota state law enforcement officials say they are working with the FBI to investigate the fatal shooting, which the Trump administration says was an act of self-defense. This as the mayor demanded that ICE get out of Minneapolis and accuse the officer of recklessly using their power.
NPR criminal justice correspondent Meg Anderson was at the intersection where it happened, and she's with us now to give us the latest. Good morning, Meg. Good morning. So like a lot of people, I was watching the coverage all afternoon and it just seemed like details were coming out bit by bit. So what can you tell us now?
Yeah, so city officials have identified the woman killed as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. We don't yet know much more about her, though a witness I spoke to said she was there at the scene as a legal observer. Regarding what happened, community members have been very active here tracking a surge in ICE activity around the Twin Cities area.
And observers were called to this intersection in South Minneapolis yesterday morning. Kaitlyn Callinson was there and videotaped the shooting. She says Good was in her car and received multiple conflicting instructions from officers. She was told to get out of her car, and she was also told to get out of the road. She was told to drive away.
ice officer who ended up shooting her was in front of her vehicle. And when she tried to get away because someone was pulling at her door, the ice agent who was in front of her shot through the windshield once and then twice through the side. She says when ICE officers pulled Good from the car, she was already unresponsive.
And as I think people who have been following this have seen and heard, we've heard conflicting interpretations from federal and local officials. So what have they been saying? Yeah, so in a press conference yesterday evening, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the officer who killed the woman. She claimed he was hit by her vehicle and shot in self-defense.
In the video NPR reviewed, however, the officer does not appear to be hit and can be seen walking after he fired the shots. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry said in a press conference yesterday that the video of the shooting does not corroborate Noem's account. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is.
This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying. The city's police chief, Brian O'Hara, also spoke. He stressed that it should be very concerning whenever there's a shooting into a vehicle of someone who is not armed. And I should note, this is not the first time that ICE has shot someone inside their car.
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