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Tim Walz compares Minnesota ICE actions to Holocaust and Anne Frank: ‘Hiding in their houses’
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Sunday likened federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota to the Holocaust and «The Diary of a Young Girl» by Anne Frank following the second fatal shooting involving federal officers in Minneapolis.
The incident on Saturday left 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ICU nurse, dead during an encounter with immigration agents. Federal officials initially stated that Pretti was armed and resisted agents, while local accounts indicate Pretti was disarmed before he was fatally shot.
During a press briefing, Walz claimed that some children in Minnesota now feel fear or uncertainty about going outside due to aggressive federal immigration operations.
«We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank,» Walz said, referring to the German-Jewish teenager who documented her life in hiding during the Nazi persecution in World War II.
NARRATIVES CLASH AFTER TRUMP AND VICTIM’S FAMILY REACT TO SECOND MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING
This undated photo provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the man who was shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Michael Pretti via AP)
«Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota, and there’s one person who can end this now,» he said, referring to President Donald Trump.
Walz further criticized Trump, saying the president smeared the victim, gaslit the entire country and sought to conceal evidence related to the killing.
«This family has gone through enough,» Walz said of Pretti’s relatives. «And to have the most powerful man in the world drag their dead son with absolutely no evidence and gaslight the entire country.»
«Sitting behind a keyboard at 2 a.m. and besmirching a VA nurse and a son and a coworker and a friend is despicable beyond all description,» he added.
TODD BLANCHE WARNS AMERICANS ‘SHOULD BE WORRIED’ ABOUT MINNESOTA PROTESTS AFTER CHURCH DISRUPTION
A screengrab from a video shows a law enforcement officer spraying irritants at Alex Pretti before he was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 24, 2026. (Reuters)
Trump and senior White House officials defended the federal response after Saturday’s fatal shooting. Trump previously noted that Pretti was armed and carrying two extra magazines during the confrontation, while White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called Pretti a «would-be assassin» and «domestic terrorist» who «tried to murder federal law enforcement.» Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem also noted that the victim «violently resisted» arrest, saying that the federal agent fired his weapon «fearing for his life.»
Following Walz’s remarks, Trump urged the governor in a post on Truth Social to stop «encouraging Leftwing Agitators to unlawfully obstruct their operations,» warning that sanctuary city rhetoric has «created dangerous circumstances for EVERYONE involved.»
«Tragically, two American Citizens have lost their lives as a result of this Democrat ensued chaos,» he wrote.
DHS SLAMS DEMS FOR COMPLAINING ABOUT IMMIGRATION LAW: ‘IT IS QUITE LITERALLY THEIR JOB TO CHANGE IT’
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks beside a screen showing an image of a handgun during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, 2026. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)
Walz continued to describe Pretti as a modest American, emphasizing that he held a legally licensed concealed-carry permit, and blasted federal officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, for unfairly portraying Pretti as a «crazed domestic terrorist.»
«Beloved by his family, accomplished ICU nurse, skillful in ability to work with veterans, someone who is beloved by the community, no criminal record, lawful firearms owner,» Walz said. «And then you heard the most powerful people in the world, certainly in this country — president, vice president, Gregory Bovino, Kristi Noem — narrate to you what you were looking at, that this was a domestic terrorist, crazed, running at law enforcement with the intent to kill massive numbers of that, sullying his name within minutes of this event happening.»
ANTI-ICE AGITATOR ALLEGEDLY BITES OFF FEDERAL OFFICER’S FINGER DURING MINNEAPOLIS ATTACK
Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks to reporters at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. January 5, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
Walz also alleged that federal officials blocked state investigators from accessing the scene and sought to destroy or alter evidence related to the shooting.
«Then closing the crime scene, sweeping away the evidence, defying a court order and not allowing anyone to look at it,» he said. «I don’t care if you are conservative and you are flying a Donald Trump flag… If we cannot all agree that the smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw, I don’t know what else to tell you.»
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The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension filed a lawsuit Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota seeking to prevent the destruction or alteration of evidence related to the shooting. The lawsuit names the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol, as well as Attorney General Pam Bondi as defendants.
Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
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Battleground GOP lawmaker moves to block what he calls Democratic redistricting ‘power grab’
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FIRST ON FOX: A battleground district House Republican is wading into the redistricting war that has seized the U.S. with his own new proposal to crack down on «partisan gamesmanship.»
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., has introduced a bill called the Fair Apportionment and Independent Redistricting for Maps that Avoid Partisanship (FAIR MAP) Act, which would impose new guardrails on the process of changing congressional districts across all 50 states.
The bill would bar states from drawing districts for or against a specific political party or candidate and ban the creation of new congressional maps more than once a decade following the U.S. census.
It comes as election watchers eye Virginia and Maryland as the latest states whose Democrat-led legislatures could move to redraw their congressional boundaries ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
REDISTRICTING BATTLES BREWING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS PARTIES COMPETE FOR POWER AHEAD OF 2026 MIDTERMS
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, July 15, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Earlier this month, a state Supreme Court judge in Lawler’s own home turf of New York ruled that New York City’s lone Republican-held district is unconstitutional and must be redrawn — handing potentially a consequential win to Democrats.
Lawler said of Democrats’ push in his state, «[Gov. Kathy Hochul] and [House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’] scheme to redraw New York’s congressional districts months before an election is a blatant power grab and misuse of public office.»
The growing redistricting war was kicked off last year when Texas’ GOP-led legislature approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans as many as five new seats in the House of Representatives come the November elections.
Redistricting normally occurs every 10 years after the U.S. census is taken to ensure that seats in the House are reflective of each state’s population. And while there’s a patchwork of state laws aimed at blocking those districts from being redrawn along partisan lines, there is no current federal standard.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a press conference, July 31, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo)
In addition to banning mid-decade redistricting in most cases and creating a federal gerrymandering standard, Lawler’s bill would also create a host of new provisions dictating how those populations are ultimately counted and how disputes can be resolved.
The bill would block state and local courts from legal redistricting fights, for example, leaving it to federal judges to weigh in on those fights.
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It would also mandate that just U.S. citizens are counted toward state populations when creating new maps — something that could take a significant amount of power away from sanctuary jurisdictions that can currently factor numbers of illegal immigrants who cannot vote when apportioning districts.
The legislation also includes new electoral provisions like barring ranked-choice voting in federal elections, requiring photo ID for voting in those elections, and banning same-day registration in federal elections.
Lawler was among the House Republicans who forcefully came out against the growing redistricting war last summer, when leaders in Texas and California were going toe-to-toe with threats to redraw their maps.
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But it does not appear likely as of now that his bill will get taken up for a House-wide vote, given House GOP leaders’ prior insistence that redistricting is a states’ issue.
«Voting rights and equal representation only work if the system itself is fair, transparent, and trusted. My FAIR MAP Act puts clear guardrails around congressional redistricting, ends mid-decade political map rigging, and ensures that federal elections reflect the voices of lawful voters, not partisan gamesmanship,» Lawler told Fox News Digital. «Every voter deserves confidence that the system is fair and that their vote counts the same as anyone else’s.»
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Israel on Monday confirmed that the remains of Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza, have been recovered and returned home.
Gvili, a 24-year-old Israel Police officer from Meitar at the time of his death, was killed during fighting on Oct. 7, 2023, after confronting Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Alumim and was later abducted to Gaza, according to a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
«Ran, with his broad shoulders and radiant smile, was all heart. A true friend, loved by everyone. He loved life, was a young man of deep values, always spoke at eye level, and carried a powerful yet calm presence,» the group said.
Gvili is survived by his parents, Talik and Itzik, his brother Omri, and his sister Shira, and extended family.
AMERICAN-ISRAELI IDF PLATOON COMMANDER KILLED IN BATTLE, BODY HELD IN GAZA, IDF SAYS
People hold signs with a photo of Ran Gvili, who was killed while fighting Hamas militants during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack and whose body has been held in Gaza ever since, during a rally calling for his return in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said following the completion of an identification process conducted by Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine, in coordination with police and military authorities, officials informed the Gvili family that their loved one’s remains had been identified and would be returned for burial.
The IDF expressed condolences to the family and said all hostages have now been returned from Gaza to Israel.
This is a breaking news story; check back for updates.
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León XIV, entre la preocupación por el pueblo ucraniano y los planes para viajar a la Argentina
Por iniciativa del Papa, nuevos grupos de camiones están siendo alistados en Roma para partir hacia el este con ayuda de primera necesidad para Ucrania, cuya población está sufriendo duros ataques por parte de Rusia. Por otro lado, en el Vaticano se consolida la impresión de que el Papa viajará en el segundo semestre del año a Sudamérica, agregando al Perú como última etapa de una gira por Argentina y Uruguay.
Se informó que la ayuda consiste esta vez en ropa térmica, mantas y barras de alimentos concentrados en la Basílica de Santa Sofía, la iglesia ucraniana en Roma.
Desde el inicio de la guerra, 260 camiones y ambulancias guiados por conductores valientes, como los llamó el cardenal limosnero del Papa, el polaco Konrad Krajewski, han llevado asistencia. El cardenal había lanzado un pedido de nueva ayuda extraordinaria difundida por los medios católicos y elogió a los que guían camiones, ambulancias y otros vehículos hacia Ucrania.
El presidente ucraniano Volodimir Zelenski condecoró al cardenal Krajewski, quien dijo que la medalla no es para el Limosnero sino para las personas de buena voluntad, como las que desde Roma donan ropa y alimentos, o aportan dinero para comprar ecógrafos, generadores y ocho ambulancias que han sido llevadas a Ucrania.
Todo se hace de acuerdo con la lógica del Evangelio, dijo el cardenal. La ayuda es más imprescindible hoy no solo por los tremendos daños que están sufriendo los ucranianos, sino por el intenso frío.
El Papa hizo un nuevo llamado cuando la guerra parece no tener fin y sufren millones de ucranianos. En el Ángelus, el pontífice denunció que incluso en estos días, Ucrania está siendo objeto de ataques continuos que dejan a poblaciones enteras expuestas al frío del invierno. Sigo con dolor lo que ocurre, estoy cerca y rezo por quienes sufren.
La prolongación de las hostilidades, con consecuencias cada vez más graves para los civiles, amplía la fractura entre los pueblos y aleja una paz justa y duradera, señaló León XIV. El pontífice pidió a los habitantes de todo el mundo orar por la paz en Ucrania, en Medio Oriente y en cada región donde, lamentablemente, se lucha por intereses que no son los de los pueblos. La paz se construye en el respeto de los pueblos.
En otra intervención, el Papa elogió los esfuerzos diplomáticos que se realizan para lograr un alto el fuego. Gracias a Dios están trabajando, gracias a Dios parece que nos vamos acercando. En el diálogo hay diversos problemas, pero quiero invitar a todos a un cese del fuego, porque aún tantos están muriendo. El Papa insistió en mantener el diálogo para buscar una solución.
El Papa León XIV cree que debe llevar sus mensajes por el mundo para lograr, en primer lugar, una conciencia colectiva contra las guerras que se siguen difundiendo. En el Vaticano aumentan los preparativos para el viaje que, en el primer semestre de 2026, el Papa proyecta realizar a países africanos.
En cuanto al viaje que nunca se concreta a Sudamérica, el cardenal arzobispo de Montevideo, Daniel Fernando Sturla, dijo que el Papa se despidió de él, tras el reciente Consistorio al que asistieron los cardenales de todo el mundo en el Vaticano, con un: «Nos veremos en Montevideo».
Esta vez, varias versiones coinciden en que el Papa quiere hacer el viaje y que se concretaría en el segundo semestre de 2026. Serían tres los países elegidos: Argentina, Uruguay y Perú.
El Papa Robert Francis Prevost vivió muchos años como misionero en Perú y fue obispo de Chiclayo, elegido para aquel cargo en su momento por el Papa argentino Jorge Bergoglio. En principio, la gira concluiría en Perú tras las etapas en nuestro país y Uruguay.
Como este viaje ha sufrido varias postergaciones desde que el Papa Francisco dijo que proyectaba hacerlo, tras 12 años sin volver a su patria, las versiones sobre la visita del actual Pontífice a Argentina sufren idas y vueltas. Pero esta vez parece que la inclusión de Perú en la gira fortalece la versión de que el periplo sudamericano se concretará en el segundo semestre de este año.
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