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FOX 24 US In Ward 10, the Minneapolis neighborhood where ICU nurse Alex Pretti was gunned down by federal agents, neighbors are turning to each other for everything from groceries to school dropoffs. “We have people who are, every single day, taking their vulnerable neighbors’ kids to school for them; taking them to work; taking them to do their laundry; bringing groceries to folks so they can be safe in their homes,” Aisha Chughtai, the Minneapolis council member representing Ward 10, told Talking Points Memo.  “This is the most Minnesotan thing I know. This is the most compassion-for-neighbors thing I…

FOX 24 US Secretaries of State across the country are denouncing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent demand for access to Minnesota voter rolls — an attempt to tie the Trump administration’s months-long crusade to obtain personal voter information from various states with the recent killing of 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. In a letter to Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz following Pretti’s killing by federal immigration officers, Bondi described the ways in which Walz could end the “chaos” in Minnesota and “restore the rule of law.” One of those things being, as outlined by Bondi,…

FOX 24 US Attorney General Pam Bondi is using the killing of 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement as an opportunity to again demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls — all part of the Justice Department’s months-long crusade to try to compel states to hand over sensitive voter information.  In response to Bondi’s latest request for access to the state’s voter rolls, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon simply said “no,” describing the attempt to tie the voter data request to an end to “the chaos” in Minnesota as “an apparent ransom to pay for our…

FOX 24 US Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery was packed with a standing-room only crowd of well over a hundred people. It was Jan. 12, a cold Monday evening and not a typical night for services, but the crowd was gathered for a special vigil announced on short notice. They were there to honor a woman the White House has branded a “deranged lunatic” and a domestic terrorist.  “Welcome again friends to this time of prayer, reflection, lament, and singing in response to the death of Renée Nicole Good and all those whose lives have been broken or harmed by…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers. The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s“potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,” agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues.The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI tools available to DOT rule writers to help us…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Amanda Nataro was getting ready to travel to Liberia for a work trip when notice came that all travel was suspended. She was locked out of her emails and the building. In a matter of days, her job of nine years at the U.S. Agency for International Development was gone.  As a single mother, her thoughts turned to her elementary school-age children. They turned to the people she was supporting in Liberia as…

FOX 24 US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday evening that Democrats would “not provide the votes” for a government funding bill this week if appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security are included without new guidelines for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The statement comes after federal agents earlier in the day shot and killed a Minneapolis man, identified as 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was filming their activities. “What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling — and unacceptable in any American city,” he said in a statement. “Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill,…

FOX 24 US If you read mainstream coverage of Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Minneapolis this week, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he went there as an eyelinered MAGA Mahatma Gandhi, asking the city a simple question: How about we just give peace a chance? CBS News, a network whose bosses have made elaborate contortions to please the president, portrayed Vance as calling on local officials to “lower the temperature.” ABC, NBC, and PBS all had similar headlines. But how did the temperature get so high? Per lawsuits, affidavits, and reporting from the scene, it’s mostly responsive to…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. Meet Amanda and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. A transgender worker is repeatedly and intentionally misgendered by their coworker. A workplace bars an employee from using facilities that match their gender identity. A supervisor suggests a transgender subordinate shouldn’t be in public-facing work.  Going forward, it will be more difficult, timely and costly for LGBTQ+ workers to seek justice for these and other workplace harassment issues related to their gender identities and sexualities.  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC,…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Days into President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, a cryptocurrency billionaire posted a video on X to his hundreds of thousands of followers. “Please Donald Trump, I need your help,” he said, wearing a flag pin askew and seated awkwardly in an armchair. “I am an American. … Help me come home.”  The speaker, 46-year-old Roger Ver, was in fact no longer a U.S. citizen. Nicknamed “Bitcoin Jesus” for his early evangelism for digital currency, Ver had…