https://www.scmp.com/rss/288076/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Associated Press Associated Press A man who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah and had sought to inflict as much damage as possible, the FBI said on Monday. Ayman Ghazali made a video before the attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, saying he wanted to “kill as many of them as I possibly can”, said Jennifer Runyan, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Detroit, who announced new information more... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348458/fbi-says-man-who-crashed-his-truck-michigan-synagogue-was-inspired-hezbollah?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348458/fbi-says-man-who-crashed-his-truck-michigan-synagogue-was-inspired-hezbollah?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:00:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The woman alleged to have shot up Rihanna’s luxury Los Angeles home pleaded not guilty to attempted murder when she appeared in court on Wednesday, as details emerged of a near miss for the global megastar. The “Umbrella” singer and her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, were in an Airstream trailer on the sprawling property when 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz is alleged to have opened fire. Rihanna told police she heard the sound of several rounds hitting the trailer, and opened the curtains to find... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347911/woman-pleads-not-guilty-attempted-murder-rihanna-and-assaulting-singers-family?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347911/woman-pleads-not-guilty-attempted-murder-rihanna-and-assaulting-singers-family?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:41:14 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The brother of the man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week, who was killed earlier this month in an Israeli air strike, was a Hezbollah commander, Israel’s military claimed on Sunday. Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in Lebanon along with three other of the attacker’s relatives on March 5 - a week before authorities allege Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into a major synagogue outside Detroit and killed himself after security fired at him. The FBI’s Detroit office, which is investigating... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346686/brother-michigan-synagogue-attacker-was-hezbollah-commander-israeli-military-claims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346686/brother-michigan-synagogue-attacker-was-hezbollah-commander-israeli-military-claims?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:12:51 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) students in an Old Dominion University classroom subdued and killed the shooter who killed one person and wounded two others, the FBI announced on Thursday. Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Norfolk field office, said at a news conference that the suspect identified by authorities as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh shouted “Allahu akbar” before the shooting. Then the ROTC students stopped him, showing “extreme... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346418/gunman-who-injured-2-people-virginias-old-dominion-university-dead-college-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346418/gunman-who-injured-2-people-virginias-old-dominion-university-dead-college-says?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:05:45 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A 41-year-old man was killed Thursday after ramming his pickup truck into a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, causing a blaze and triggering a huge police response. US media reported the assailant had recently lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, as part of the ongoing Middle East war. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security identified the assailant as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon, came to Detroit in 2011 on a visa granted to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346417/police-respond-report-active-shooter-michigan-synagogue?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346417/police-respond-report-active-shooter-michigan-synagogue?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:13:44 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse From school shootings to synagogue bombings, leading AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks, according to a study published on Wednesday that highlighted the technology’s potential for real-world harm. Researchers from the non-profit watchdog Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and CNN posed as 13-year-old boys in the United States and Ireland to test 10 chatbots, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Meta AI. Testing showed that eight of those chatbots... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346276/ai-chatbots-help-plot-attacks-study-shows-happy-and-safe-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346276/ai-chatbots-help-plot-attacks-study-shows-happy-and-safe-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:25:47 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump ⁠fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday after months of controversy, including the fatal ⁠shootings of two US citizens by federal officers in Minneapolis and lawmakers’ questions over a US$220 million advertising contract. The Republican president will tap Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace her by the end of the month, he said on his Truth Social platform on Thursday. The appointment would require US Senate confirmation. “Kristi Noem, who... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345631/trump-says-kristi-noem-out-homeland-security-chief-amid-immigration-uproar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345631/trump-says-kristi-noem-out-homeland-security-chief-amid-immigration-uproar?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:04:24 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A US man who gave his teenage son the gun he is accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday. Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray is one of a number of parents prosecuted after their children were accused in fatal shootings across the country. Colin Gray... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345323/dad-who-gave-gun-us-school-shooting-suspect-found-guilty-second-degree-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345323/dad-who-gave-gun-us-school-shooting-suspect-found-guilty-second-degree-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:26:57 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words “Property of Allah” killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told Associated Press. The FBI is investigating the shooting, which erupted a day after the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran, as a potential act of terrorism. Police in Austin shot and killed the gunman, who used both a pistol and a rifle to carry out the attack, police said. The shooting happened outside Buford’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345055/3-dead-14-injured-texas-bar-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345055/3-dead-14-injured-texas-bar-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:31:49 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, US President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the US Secret Service. Although Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House when the breach occurred around 1.30am. The man had a fuel can and a shotgun, authorities said. Investigators identified him as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina, according to a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344275/us-secret-service-kills-armed-man-entering-trumps-mar-lago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344275/us-secret-service-kills-armed-man-entering-trumps-mar-lago?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:03:48 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Capitol Police in Washington arrested an 18-year-old man on Tuesday after he ran from his vehicle toward the west side of the Capitol Building armed with a shotgun. Capital Police Chief Michael Sullivan said the unidentified man parked a Mercedes SUV near the Capitol, got out and ran “several hundred yards (metres)” toward the building before officers intercepted him and ordered him to the ground. Speaking at a press conference following the arrest, Sullivan said the gunman was wearing a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343853/police-arrest-man-running-towards-us-capitol-shotgun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343853/police-arrest-man-running-towards-us-capitol-shotgun?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:52:39 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Three people, including the suspect, were fatally shot during a Rhode Island youth hockey game on Monday, authorities said. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that three other victims are hospitalised in critical condition. “We have three deceased. The suspect, and then we have two victims, and then we have three at the hospital,” said Goncalves. “It appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute,” she said. Goncalves did not provide details about the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343779/3-killed-including-suspect-shooting-during-rhode-island-youth-hockey-game?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343779/3-killed-including-suspect-shooting-during-rhode-island-youth-hockey-game?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:54:30 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press White House border tsar Tom Homan said on Sunday that more than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge. A “small” security force will stay for a short period to protect remaining immigration agents and will respond “when our agents are out and they get surrounded by agitators and things got out of control”, Homan told CBS’ Face the Nation.... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343653/trumps-border-tsar-homan-says-small-security-force-will-remain-minnesota?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343653/trumps-border-tsar-homan-says-small-security-force-will-remain-minnesota?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:00:33 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s main opposition leader held hands Friday as they paid tribute to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history at a vigil in a devastated British Columbia town. Carney and Pierre Poilievre, leader of the opposition Conservative Party, joined hands as an Indigenous leader sang a prayer outside the town hall in Tumbler Ridge. Carney and Poilievre also spoke. The Prime Minister named each of the six people killed at... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343578/canadas-carney-opposition-leader-hold-hands-during-school-shooting-vigil?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343578/canadas-carney-opposition-leader-hold-hands-during-school-shooting-vigil?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:32:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump’s point man on Thursday announced the end of an aggressive immigration operation in Minnesota that triggered large protests and nationwide outrage following the killing of two US citizens. Thousands of federal agents including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducted weeks of sweeping raids and arrests in what the administration claims were targeted missions against criminals. “I have proposed and President Trump has concurred that this surge... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343372/trump-end-minnesota-immigration-crackdown-border-tsar-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343372/trump-end-minnesota-immigration-crackdown-border-tsar-says?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:09:26 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A man convicted of trying to assassinate US President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in 2024 was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison. US District Judge Aileen Cannon pronounced Ryan Routh’s fate in the same Fort Pierce courtroom that erupted into chaos in September when he tried to stab himself shortly after jurors found him guilty on all counts. Prosecutors had asked for life without parole, saying Routh was unrepentant and had never apologised. A defence lawyer brought in for his... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342430/ryan-routh-who-tried-shoot-trump-florida-golf-course-gets-life-prison?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342430/ryan-routh-who-tried-shoot-trump-florida-golf-course-gets-life-prison?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:16:54 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration officers in Minnesota but will continue its enforcement operation that has sparked weeks of tensions and deadly confrontations, border tsar Tom Homan said on Wednesday. About 700 federal officers – roughly a quarter of the total deployed to Minnesota – will be withdrawn immediately after state and local officials agreed over the past week to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, Homan said. But he did not provide a timeline... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342419/trump-border-tsar-says-700-immigration-officers-leave-minnesota-immediately?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342419/trump-border-tsar-says-700-immigration-officers-leave-minnesota-immediately?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:49:45 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers on January 24, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Friday. “We’re looking at everything that would shed light on what happened that day and in the days and weeks leading up to what happened,” Blanche said during a news conference. Blanche did not explain why the DOJ decided to open an investigation into Pretti’s killing,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341904/us-justice-department-opens-civil-rights-probe-killing-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341904/us-justice-department-opens-civil-rights-probe-killing-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:38:32 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Federal prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge ruled on Friday, foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America”. US District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment, finding that it was technically flawed. She wrote that she did so to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341899/luigi-mangione-wont-face-death-penalty-after-us-judge-dismisses-murder-charge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341899/luigi-mangione-wont-face-death-penalty-after-us-judge-dismisses-murder-charge?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:13:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested after he entered a Minnesota church and recorded anti-immigration enforcement protesters who disrupted a service in an incident that increased tensions between residents and the Trump administration, his lawyer said on Friday. Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he had been covering the Grammy Awards, Abbe Lowell said. It is unclear what charge or charges Lemon is facing in the January 18 protest. The arrest came... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341887/trump-doj-arrests-ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-after-judge-initially-rejected-church-protest-charges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341887/trump-doj-arrests-ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-after-judge-initially-rejected-church-protest-charges?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:30:02 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said. He is now locked up there too. Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old Minnesota native who has a history of drug and other arrests and disclosed last year in court papers that he suffered from mental illness, was arrested and charged with impersonating a federal officer in a foiled bid to free Mangione from the Metropolitan... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341746/man-posing-fbi-agent-tried-free-luigi-mangione?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341746/man-posing-fbi-agent-tried-free-luigi-mangione?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:16:59 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota could be reduced, but only if state and local officials cooperate, US President Donald Trump’s border tsar said on Thursday, noting he had “zero tolerance” for protesters who assault federal officers or impede the ongoing operation in the Twin Cities. Tom Homan addressed reporters for the first time since the president sent him to Minneapolis following last weekend’s fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti. The news conference comes... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341736/trumps-border-tsar-links-minnesota-ice-drawdown-state-cooperation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341736/trumps-border-tsar-links-minnesota-ice-drawdown-state-cooperation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:17:40 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, releasing tracks featuring searing criticism of Donald Trump and paying homage to Minneapolis residents killed this month by federal immigration agents. More than 80 years after folk icon Guthrie scrawled “This Machine Kills Fascists” on his guitar, his musical heirs are savaging President Donald Trump on his immigration crackdown, his renamed Department of War, the United... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3341677/how-ice-agents-are-facing-musical-backlash-new-generation-protest-singers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3341677/how-ice-agents-are-facing-musical-backlash-new-generation-protest-singers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:15:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Senator Amy Klobuchar said on Thursday she is running for governor of Minnesota, promising to take on US President Donald Trump while unifying a state that has endured a series of challenges even before the federal government’s immigration crackdown. Klobuchar’s decision gives Democrats a high-profile candidate and proven statewide winner as their party tries to hold onto the office occupied by Governor Tim Walz. The 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Walz abandoned his campaign for a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341729/trump-critic-klobuchar-enters-minnesota-governor-race-amid-ice-crackdown-fraud-scandals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341729/trump-critic-klobuchar-enters-minnesota-governor-race-amid-ice-crackdown-fraud-scandals?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:57:01 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press No longer confined to the partisans and activists, the fierce backlash against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has begun to break out across American culture, spanning the worlds of business, sports and entertainment. Bruce Springsteen released a new song on Wednesday that slammed “Trump’s federal thugs”. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told employees that “what’s happening with ICE is going too far”, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And lifestyle icon Martha Stewart... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341657/ice-cracks-down-some-americas-biggest-names-are-speaking-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341657/ice-cracks-down-some-americas-biggest-names-are-speaking-out?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:02:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, criticising US President Donald Trump’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city. The lyrics of “Streets of Minneapolis”, released Wednesday, describe how “a city aflame fought fire and ice ’neath an occupier’s boots”, which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army”. Springsteen in a statement said he wrote and recorded the song over the weekend and released it in response to a second deadly shooting by... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341609/bruce-springsteen-sings-out-against-king-trumps-private-army-new-song?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341609/bruce-springsteen-sings-out-against-king-trumps-private-army-new-song?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:23:24 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The Trump administration said on Wednesday that two immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of a civilian in Minneapolis had been placed on leave, as the US president slammed the city’s mayor despite a promise to de-escalate the situation. The officers have been on leave - a move US officials said was “standard protocol” - since Saturday, when Alex Pretti was shot multiple times after being forced to the ground by camouflaged officers in a scuffle captured on video. US President Donald... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341597/us-agents-who-shot-minneapolis-man-alex-pretti-placed-leave?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341597/us-agents-who-shot-minneapolis-man-alex-pretti-placed-leave?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:11:40 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Two federal officers fired their weapons during the fatal weekend shooting of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report to Congress published on Tuesday by US media. The shooting sparked bipartisan condemnation and fresh protests in Minneapolis, and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for an “honourable and honest investigation” into the matter. He also suggested he would “de-escalate a little bit” the administration’s immigration... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341559/alex-pretti-shot-2-different-federal-agents-minnesota-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341559/alex-pretti-shot-2-different-federal-agents-minnesota-report?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:17:36 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A man identified as Anthony Kazmierczak was arrested by police after an attack on Democratic US congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Tuesday saw her sprayed with an unknown substance. The incident came during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions with the federal government have come to a head after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deployed by US President Donald Trump fatally shot both an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month. Footage from the town hall incident... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341477/us-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-sprayed-unknown-substance-minneapolis-town-hall?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341477/us-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-sprayed-unknown-substance-minneapolis-town-hall?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:12:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, met with the Minneapolis mayor and the Minnesota governor on Tuesday in a show of detente, as the ‌White House sought to ease unrest gripping the city after two US citizens were shot dead by federal agents. Homan was put in charge of the Minneapolis immigration enforcement drive to replace US Border Patrol “commander at large” ‍Gregory Bovino, who sources said was being demoted and removed after having overseen most of Trump’s crackdowns in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341470/trump-says-will-de-escalate-little-bit-minneapolis-amid-outcry-over-killings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341470/trump-says-will-de-escalate-little-bit-minneapolis-amid-outcry-over-killings?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:30:58 +0000 Reuters Reuters A US Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a human trafficking suspect who fired on a federal government helicopter in Arizona ‍on Tuesday and later engaged in a shoot-out with the agent, officials said. The suspect, a fugitive who had escaped from a halfway house related to a previous smuggling conviction, was in a serious but stable condition after undergoing surgery, the Pima County sheriff and FBI told a news conference. The incident near the Mexican border occurred ⁠amid heightened tensions... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341468/person-critical-after-being-shot-border-patrol-incident-arizona?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341468/person-critical-after-being-shot-border-patrol-incident-arizona?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:34:45 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The chief federal judge in Minnesota says the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to appear before him on Friday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt. In an order dated Monday, Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz said Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, must appear personally in court. Schlitz took the administration to task over its handling of bond hearings for... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341457/judge-orders-ice-chief-minnesota-court-over-trumps-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341457/judge-orders-ice-chief-minnesota-court-over-trumps-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:20:52 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A branch of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will help with security for the Winter Olympics in Italy, it confirmed on Tuesday, sparking anger and warnings they were not welcome. Reports had been circulating for days that the agency embroiled in an often brutal immigration crackdown in the United States could be involved in US security measures for the February 6-22 Games in northern Italy. In a statement overnight, ICE said: “At the Olympics, ICE’s Homeland Security... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341436/ice-agents-get-security-role-2026-winter-olympics-sparking-outrage-after-deadly-shootings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341436/ice-agents-get-security-role-2026-winter-olympics-sparking-outrage-after-deadly-shootings?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:40:40 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterisation of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon. The death produced no clear shifts in US gun politics or policies, even as US President Donald Trump shuffles the lieutenants in charge of his militarised immigration crackdown. But... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341413/trump-faces-second-amendment-backlash-over-ice-shooting-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341413/trump-faces-second-amendment-backlash-over-ice-shooting-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:35:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump’s Republican Party. Trump said Tom Homan, his point... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:52:40 +0000 Reuters Reuters The White House said on Monday that US President Donald Trump does not ‌want to see people getting hurt or killed on the streets ‍of the United States but will not back down from efforts to deport “violent criminal illegal aliens” from Minnesota. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed journalists after the killing of 37-year-old nurse Alex ⁠Pretti on Saturday by federal officers drew outrage from Americans. It was the second fatal shooting of a US citizen in Minnesota this... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341312/trump-does-not-want-see-people-killed-us-streets-white-house-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341312/trump-does-not-want-see-people-killed-us-streets-white-house-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:30:45 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump announced on Monday he is sending a top official to Minnesota as outrage grew over his administration’s militarised immigration raids and the shooting dead of a second protester in Minneapolis. Trump said that Tom Homan, his point man for border security, would arrive in the state later and “will report directly to me”. The high-profile assignment suggested that the 79-year-old Republican president is seeking to regain control over a rapidly deteriorating political and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341302/trump-sends-border-tsar-homan-minnesota-after-second-fatal-ice-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341302/trump-sends-border-tsar-homan-minnesota-after-second-fatal-ice-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:51:25 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton issued pointed calls on Sunday for America to stand up and defend their values after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by immigration agents that Donald Trump blamed on Democratic “chaos”. The Trump administration has faced intensifying pressure over its mass immigration crackdown, particularly after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, Saturday while scuffling with him on an icy roadway. That... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341185/minneapolis-killing-wake-call-us-values-are-under-assault-says-obama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341185/minneapolis-killing-wake-call-us-values-are-under-assault-says-obama?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:59:22 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A US immigration officer shot and killed a man on Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier. Family members identified the man who was killed as Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who had protested against US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city. After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and protesters clashed with federal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341132/us-federal-officers-shot-another-person-minneapolis-amid-trump-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341132/us-federal-officers-shot-another-person-minneapolis-amid-trump-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:50:59 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Minneapolis was on edge as US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to the city to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown. The threat came a day after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a shovel and broom handle. That shooting further heightened the fear and anger that has radiated across the city since an Immigration and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340060/trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act-end-protests-minneapolis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340060/trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act-end-protests-minneapolis?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:52:10 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg A federal officer shot a man in the leg on Wednesday night in Minneapolis, a week after the fatal shooting of a local woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent touched off angry protests and an intensifying clash between state leaders and the Trump administration. The shooting followed a targeted traffic stop shortly before 7pm Central Time, when the man fled in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car, according to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339969/man-shot-federal-officer-minneapolis-tensions-flare-over-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339969/man-shot-federal-officer-minneapolis-tensions-flare-over-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:30:34 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Roughly half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned and several supervisors in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have given notice of their departures amid turmoil over the federal investigation into the killing of a woman by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, according to people familiar with the matter. The resignations follow growing tensions over a decision by the Trump administration to block the state out of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339795/ice-shooting-us-prosecutors-quit-over-handling-probe-renee-goods-killing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339795/ice-shooting-us-prosecutors-quit-over-handling-probe-renee-goods-killing?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:11:00 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hundreds more federal agents were heading to Minneapolis, the US homeland security chief said on Sunday, brushing aside demands by the Midwestern city’s Democratic leaders to leave after an immigration officer fatally shot a woman protester. In multiple TV interviews, Kristi Noem defended the actions of the officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, whose death has sparked renewed protests nationwide against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Homeland Security... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339548/us-surges-hundreds-more-agents-minneapolis-amid-furore-over-ice-killing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339548/us-surges-hundreds-more-agents-minneapolis-amid-furore-over-ice-killing?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:07:27 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on a Minneapolis street served in a multitude of law enforcement roles during a two-decade career that also included military service. Federal court records show Jonathan Ross’ career includes US military experience and mostly high-level federal law enforcement positions. The details of his tenure are revealed in a federal criminal case against a driver who seriously injured Ross after dragging him 100 metres... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339466/who-jonathan-ross-ice-agent-who-killed-us-woman-renee-nicole-good?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339466/who-jonathan-ross-ice-agent-who-killed-us-woman-renee-nicole-good?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:33:56 +0000 Reuters Reuters Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Saturday urged demonstrators protesting the fatal shooting of a ‍motorist by a US immigration agent to stay peaceful, saying that any unlawful actions would play into US President Donald Trump’s hands. Frey, a Democrat, cautioned them as civil liberties and migrant rights groups prepared nationwide rallies to protest the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday. Minnesota and US officials have offered... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339462/minneapolis-ice-shooting-mayor-urges-activists-avoid-trumps-bait?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339462/minneapolis-ice-shooting-mayor-urges-activists-avoid-trumps-bait?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:11:35 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people – including a child – were killed in a series of shootings in northeast Mississippi. Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said the victims – four family members related to the suspect and two other adults – were shot at three separate locations late on Friday. The youngest victim was a cousin of the suspect. “I don’t know what kind of motive you could have to kill a seven-year-old,” Scott said at a press conference on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339459/suspect-custody-after-6-killed-us-state-mississippi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339459/suspect-custody-after-6-killed-us-state-mississippi?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:28:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown increasingly is sparking violent confrontations with both migrants and American citizens, a development grimly underscored by an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman this week. Under ‌Trump’s orders to ramp up deportations, masked immigration officers have surged into Democratic-led cities, sprayed tear gas in residential streets, tackled people in car parks and pointed guns at bystanders trying to film them. A federal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339453/trumps-immigration-crackdown-invites-danger-sparking-violent-confrontations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339453/trumps-immigration-crackdown-invites-danger-sparking-violent-confrontations?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:05:55 +0000 Reuters Reuters The White House on Friday reposted on social media a new video taken ‌from the cellphone of the immigration officer who fatally shot a Minnesota woman in her car this week, adding to the documentation of an incident that has sparked days of nationwide protests. The 47-second video shows 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good ‍telling the officer, “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,” moments before he opens fire after Good puts the car in gear in an apparent effort to pull back into the street. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339411/video-shot-ice-agent-he-killed-minnesota-woman-emerges-further-inflaming-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339411/video-shot-ice-agent-he-killed-minnesota-woman-emerges-further-inflaming-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:06:27 +0000 Reuters Reuters Tensions over US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown ‌rose across the United States on Thursday after the second shooting involving immigration officers in two days, deepening rifts between state and federal officials over how and why the shootings occurred. Protests intensified in Minnesota following Wednesday’s fatal ‍shooting of a 37-year-old mother by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Minnesota and US officials offered starkly different accounts of the shooting, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339253/us-border-agent-shoots-and-wounds-2-portland-national-tensions-rise?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339253/us-border-agent-shoots-and-wounds-2-portland-national-tensions-rise?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:14:22 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg The investigation into the killing of a US citizen by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this week is being complicated by clashes between federal and local officials, with the FBI taking control over the objections of Governor Tim Walz. State authorities questioned whether a federal probe could be trusted, especially given comments by Trump administration officials that seemed to exonerate the officer. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said that after it was invited to participate in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339241/minnesota-investigators-barred-probe-womans-killing-ice-officer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339241/minnesota-investigators-barred-probe-womans-killing-ice-officer?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:55:51 +0000