• 15 Charged Over Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
  • Minnesota Lawmaker Killer to Change Plea
  • Minnesotans Condemn GOP Praying for Derek Chauvin
  • Trump Deepens Dustup with Italy's Meloni
  • Iran Closes The Strait Over Lebanon Fighting
ICE protesters who interrupted Minnesota church service won't face state charges

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Dozens of anti-immigration enforcement protesters who face federal criminal charges after they interrupted a Minnesota church service in January, accompanied by former CNN journalist Don Lemon, will not additionally face state charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

United Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis is diverted because of an unruly passenger

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A United Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis was diverted to Wisconsin on Friday night to remove and unruly passenger, officials said. “United flight 2005 from Chicago to Minneapolis landed safely in Madison, Wisconsin to address a security concern with an unruly passenger,” an airlines spokesperson wrote in an email.

ICE officer wanted for shooting is arrested in Texas

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A federal immigration officer wanted for shooting a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown was arrested Friday in Texas, authorities said.

Warsh's gamble: A quieter Federal Reserve could mean volatile markets, higher rates

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy.

Cuba pushes through sweeping free-market reforms

HAVANA (AP) – Observers on Friday called Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Raúl Castro said in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward.

Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach found guilty of sexual assault

TORONTO (AP) – Austrian-Canadian billionaire and automotive business founder Frank Stronach was found guilty Friday of sexual assault and indecent assault of two woman decades ago.

US-Iran talks begin Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran closes the strait over Lebanon fighting

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) – Iran on Saturday said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon and warned that while negotiators were going to Switzerland for talks with the United States on their interim agreement, not much likely will happen if the fighting doesn’t stop.

Trump deepens dustup with Italy's Meloni, who says his 'unprovoked attacks are senseless'

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.

Russia strikes an apartment building in the Ukraine and 1 person is killed

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian bombs struck an apartment building on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a 6-year-old child, authorities said. A body was pulled from the rubble hours after the attack, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram.

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