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Illinois and the City of Chicago filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday, alleging unlawful activity and rights violations by agencies pursuing an immigration campaign in the city.
The lawsuit challenges ICE and CBP practices of making warrantless arrests and trespassing on private and government property. It alleges the use of tear gas and other less-lethal methods "without warning against persons who are not resisting."
Minnesota filed a similar suit against the Trump administration on the same day, asking a court to halt a massive federal immigration operation they claim is unconstitutional, politically motivated and endangering public safety.
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Minnesota sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a court to halt a massive federal immigration operation they claim is unconstitutional, politically motivated and endangering public safety.
The lawsuit takes aim at “Operation Metro Surge,” an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that officials say has sparked racial profiling, arrests and disruptions to public life.
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Multiple monkeys -- and possibly a goat -- are on the loose in St. Louis, and AI-generated images are complicating the effort to find them.
The Vervet monkeys were first spotted Thursday near a park in the northern part of the city, prompting "rumor after rumor," said city Department of Health spokesperson Willie Springer. It's unclear who owns the monkeys, how they got loose or exactly how many there are.
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An additional 1,000 Border Patrol officers are heading to Minneapolis, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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An arson fire over the weekend that badly damaged the historic synagogue's library and administrative offices made it much harder and harkened back to an era more than a half-century earlier, when the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Jackson, Mississippi, synagogue because of its rabbi's support for civil rights.
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The Smithsonian has removed details about President Donald Trump's impeachments from a portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
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Thousands of nurses went on strike at some of New York City's top hospitals, targeting major medical centers and demanding better working conditions.
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) filed a federal civil lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday, saying the Defense Department's retaliation against him for a video message to U.S. service members is unconstitutional.
Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy Captain and a former astronaut, was one of several lawmakers who appeared in a video released in November of 2025.
"Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders," Kelly says in the video.
The new lawsuit alleges Hegseth said the Defense Department would cut Kelly's retirement pay in response to the video.
"The First Amendment forbids the government and its officials from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech," the new lawsuit states. "That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy."
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Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.
The FBI’s Portland office said it was investigating an “agent involved shooting” that happened around 2:15 p.m. “involving Customs and Border Patrol Agents in which 2 individuals were wounded.”
The Portland Police Bureau said its officers responded and found a man and woman with apparent gunshot wounds. They were transported to a hospital and their conditions are unknown, the bureau said in a statement.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday designated Venezuela's government a foreign terror organization and announced a blockade of sanctioned oil tanker traffic to and from the country.
U.S. naval vessels have surrounded Venezuela, President Trump said, and would increase their presence "Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
The escalation comes less than a week after the U.S. Coast Guard, with support from the U.S. Navy, boarded and seized a Venezuelan tanker.
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