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Jose Huerta Chuma, an illegal alien, was targeted in a Border Patrol operation in Minneapolis that resulted in the shooting ...

Senate Democrats are threatening to hold up critical funding bills, which could lead to a federal government shutdown, if DHS ...

President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal that Alex Pretti was carrying a “very dangerous gun." ...

Protester shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis was an ‘American citizen’ and licensed gun owner, city officials say - ...

A woman told the Bridgeport Police Department she was allegedly attacked by him while she was driving her car, and that he allegedly fired a gun during the attack.

The illegal immigrant who federal agents was searching for during the deadly shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday is still on ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called Alex Pretti “inherently stupid” for wearing a holstered gun during his encounter with federal agents in Minneapolis.

The second fatal shooting this month of an American citizen in Minneapolis by at the hands of a federal agent has ratcheted ...

Prediction markets are assigning a moderately high possibility that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will leave the Trump administration this year. Bets Are On: Noem’s Departure Gains Momentum ...

Alex Pretti was killed over the weekend after he was shot multiple times by a Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital who the Minneapolis police chief said was licensed to carry a concealed weapon, was fatally shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protec ...