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Twelve people were arrested Tuesday as part of a sweeping federal indictment targeting Direct Action Minnesota, a Minneapolis-based coalition accused of organizing blockades, surveilling ICE agents and physically confronting federal immigration officers. Protesters who gathered outside the St. Paul federal courthouse clashed with U.S. Marshals as defendants made their first court appearances. Defense attorneys and legal experts say the government faces an uphill climb.
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The FBI foiled an alleged plot to bomb and kill attendees at UFC Freedom 250 at the White House last Sunday, arresting five men across four states who allegedly planned to use explosive drones to force a mass evacuation and then open fire on escaping government officials.
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The city's updated toll from Operation Metro Surge has reached nearly $700 million in lost economic activity. The assessment lands the same day Congress sent President Trump a $70 billion bill to fund the very agencies that caused it.
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The United States and Iran met face-to-face in Pakistan for the first time since the Islamic Revolution — 21 hours of negotiations, no deal, and a stalemate over the Strait of Hormuz.
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The ceasefire came roughly 90 minutes before Trump's self-imposed 8 p.m. deadline — and hours after he warned that "a whole civilization will die tonight."
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Cleveland City Council voted Monday to designate April 18 as Superman Day — the date the Man of Steel first appeared in print in 1938 — cementing the Ohio city's claim as the official birthplace of one of the world's most enduring pop culture icons.
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City-released footage from a traffic camera undermines the federal government's account of a January shooting that wounded a Venezuelan man and set off a night of chaos on the city's north side.
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Pam Bondi is out as attorney general after more than a year of mounting pressure over her handling of the Epstein files and the Justice Department’s failure to aggressively pursue Trump’s political opponents.
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In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a Christian therapist who argued Colorado's conversion therapy ban improperly restricted her speech based on viewpoint — a decision with sweeping national implications.
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Springsteen played, Sanders spoke and hundreds of thousands marched through St. Paul on Saturday, making Minnesota the epicenter of what organizers are calling the largest single-day demonstration in American history.
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