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Trump plans to use Venezuela's huge crude reserves 'to cut US oil price to $50 a barrel'

Thu 8 Jan 2026 07.00 EST First published on Thu 8 Jan 2026 06.07 EST Donald Trump plans to use Venezuela’s vast crude reserves to establish control of most of the western hemisphere’s oil in an attempt to drive the market price down to about $50 (£37) a barrel, according to reports. The US president has repeatedly raised the prospect of producing enough crude from Venezuela’s oilfields to drive down the US oil price from more than $56 a barrel today to about $50 in an effort to cut energy cos ...

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ICE agent in Minneapolis killing identified as 10-year law enforcement veteran

The ICE agent involved in the lethal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good during an immigration sweep in Minneapolis on Wednesday is Jonathan David Ross, according to court records that closely match the description of a June 2025 incident involving the agent in Bloomington, Minnesota, cited by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance. Ross is a Minneapolis resident and 10-year veteran of the special response team of ICE’s enforcement and removal operation. The death of G ...

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Donald Trump Says He'd Denaturalize US Citizens 'In a Heartbeat'

Published Jan 08, 2026 at 02:07 PM EST updated Jan 08, 2026 at 02:57 PM EST President Donald Trump said he'd be willing to denaturalize some United States citizens "in a heartbeat." The president's remarks came in a wide-ranging two-hour interview with The New York Times on Wednesday. He made the initial remark specifically referencing Somali-Americans. “I would do it in a heartbeat if they were dishonest,” Trump told The Times. “I think that many of the people that came in from Som ...

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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by 'My Own Morality'

President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world. Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” “I don’t need ...

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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis

Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents. Little public information is available about Ross, described only by federal offic ...

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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt

(MPR News) Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.” The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

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Jeffries calls Noem a liar: 'No evidence' to justify Minneapolis ICE shooting

(The Hill) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis. “There’s no evidence that has been presented to justify the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis. The so-called Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has zero credibility,” Jeffries told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. “She’s a stone-cold liar. We’ve got to make sure that the rogue ICE agent who pulled the trigger resulting in the death of an American citizen is criminally investigated to the full extent of the law,” he added.

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Congressman Dan Goldman: "It was outright murder".

(Rep. Dan Goldman) "Invading our cities, using excessive force, lawlessly, with new agents, without proper training, and sadly this was not unexpected. But it was egregious. It was an outright murder. And the fact that the administration is trying to defend the ICE officer ... the fact that they are arguing that somehow this is domestic terrorism, much less an attack on ICE, is preposterous."

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Witness reveals disturbing new details about ICE shooting: 'They seemed like children'

(Raw Story) A witness who saw an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shoot a woman dead in South Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday morning revealed disturbing new details about the event in an interview with CNN. "They seemed like children," Heller said. "They seem like untrained people. And so that agent was obviously spooked because he had just killed someone, and it was very obvious to everyone who had witnessed it all that she would not make it."

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Almost anyone can be an ICE agent now. That's a problem.

(USA Today) Traditionally, ICE recruits deploy after a four-month training course covering immigration and constitutional law, firearms and driving. But these protocols are changing amid a historic deportation surge and scramble to hire officers. Authorities have also cut academy time for recruits without prior law enforcement experience, from 16 to eight weeks. Among other changes, ICE scrapped a requirement that recruits complete a five-week basic Spanish course, even though at least two-thirds of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States are from Spanish-speaking countries.

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