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Judge Orders Video and Texts Unsealed in Case of Chicago Woman Shot 5 Times by Border PatrolA federal judge in Chicago today ordered evidence unsealed in the case of Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen who was shot five times by a Customs and Border Protection officer last October. U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois Georgia Alexakis ruled that Martinez had shown good cause for the release of text messages and body camera footage from the officer who shot her, while the government had shown “zero concern” for Martinez’s reputation. Martinez’s attorneys have been pressing to unseal the evidence because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refuses to retract its previous statements calling Martinez a “domestic terrorist,” despite federal prosecutors dropping the charges against her. If the government won’t correct the record, they argued, Martinez should have the opportunity to do it herself. Alexakis agreed. “Ms. Martinez is…

Luigi Mangione Escorted Away in Wild Courtroom Outburst: ‘Double Jeopardy By Any Common Sense!’AP Photo/Seth Wenig Luigi Mangione reportedly had an outburst in the courtroom on Friday after learning he’d be facing a state trial in addition to a federal one. In December 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a Hilton hotel in New York City. A little over a week after the shooting, police identified and located Mangione before bringing him in. The 27-year-old has remained in police custody as he awaits trial for Thompson’s murder. Last week, it was reported that Mangione would avoid the death penalty if convicted after a judge dropped one of the major charges against him. On Friday, Mangione was in court again due to an unexpected summons from Manhattan state Judge Gregory Carro. It was at this hearing that Carro set a state trial date of June 8. Mangione…

Ukraine war briefing: Russia launches ‘massive attack’ on energy sites, triggering widespread bl…Energy minister says power plants hit after Zelenskyy calls for faster action to boost Ukrainian air defences. What we know on day 1,445A “massive attack” by Russian forces on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Saturday caused power outages across the country, the state grid operator said. Energy minister Denys Shmygal said Kyiv had requested emergency assistance from Poland after Russia hit the Burshtynska and Dobrotvirska power plants in western Ukraine overnight. “Russian criminals carried out another massive attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities. The attack continues,” Shmyhal said on Telegram. “Energy workers are ready to start repair works as soon as the security situation allows.” Due to the damage, emergency outages had been applied in most Ukrainian regions, grid operator Ukrenergo said.Two airports in Poland were suspended from operations as a precaution due to the Russian strikes on nearby Ukraine…

What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second AmendmentOn January 23, 2016, Donald Trump notoriously declared, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” That statement was understood at the time as a metaphorical expression of the depth of Republican voters’ commitment to him. Ten years and one day later, his administration’s agents shot a disarmed man on the street in full view of the public. Perhaps we should have taken him not only seriously but also literally.The dynamic Trump observed is that he had created a bond with his supporters that no outside facts could break, even something as blatant as a cold-blooded killing on an American street. And that is the nub of the crisis into which we have plunged over the past decade. All politicians spin and distort to some extent, of course. Trump’s innovation was to grasp…

Battles Are Raging Inside the Department of Homeland SecurityHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night to blame the man who had been shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis that morning for his own death, claiming without evidence that he had intended “to kill law enforcement” and had been “brandishing” a weapon. Behind her stood the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, sending a silent message of unity.But behind the scenes, the senior ranks of the Department of Homeland Security were divided. Until minutes before they walked in front of the cameras, Noem and Scott had not spoken to each other that day, even as Noem took charge of her department’s response to the shooting and coordinated with the White House and other officials in Scott’s agency, two people familiar with their interactions told us.Donald Trump…

Trump’s New Method of HumiliationWhen a conspicuous presidential project goes awry—in this case, federal immigration agents killing two protesters in Minnesota—someone typically loses their job. And for much of this week, Kristi Noem’s deportation from the Trump administration seemed imminent.Public confidence in the president’s handling of immigration has been plummeting. And as the secretary of Homeland Security—and the ostentatious face of President Trump’s high-profile ICE and Customs and Border Protection dragnets—Noem has seemed the logical sacrifice. Washington loves a good Cabinet deathwatch, just as Trump loves a good public expulsion. Or at least he used to. By this point in his first term, his “You’re fired” bit had migrated seamlessly from TV to politics: His White House had already bled out a national security adviser (Michael Flynn), press secretary (Sean Spicer), chief of staff (Reince Priebus), chief strategist (Steve Bannon), and secretary of Health and Human Services (Tom Price).But in…