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Several federal prosecutors in Minnesota were formally fired Wednesday after they gave notice that they had resigned afof internal disagreements over the Justice Department’s handling of a shooting investigation involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The DOJ, at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, terminated the employment of five prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, including Joseph Thompson, the No. 2 official there, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Their resignations and the internal disputes about the shooting probe first surfaced in The New York Times. The prosecutors were positioned to receive paid leave for months prior to their firings on Wednesday, according to the sources.
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People protest against the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a rally outside the Whipple Building Jan. 8, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
Thompson was spearheading a massive, high-profile investigation into welfare fraud in the state before he submitted his resignation. His exit came after he clashed with officials in Washington, D.C., over the investigation into the ICE shooting, which left 37-year-old Renee Good dead. Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota in an effort to reach Thompson for comment.
Thompson had expressed during a call with DOJ and FBI officials last week that he was on board with investigating the ICE shooting as an assault on or obstruction of a law enforcement officer, a source familiar with the call told Fox News Digital.
Another one of the fired prosecutors, Melinda Williams, who was also involved in the fraud work, was on the call as well, the source said.
Thompson also indicated that he believed the shooting was justified, two sources said. Prior to the shooting, he had already been discussing the possibility of resigning, the sources said.
Videos of the shooting showed an ICE agent opening fire on Good at close range after she was seen accelerating toward the agent in her vehicle while he was standing in front of it. Critics have argued that the agent improperly used deadly force against Good and that she had turned the wheels of her vehicle away from the agent before accelerating.
A crashed car where an ICE agent shot Renee Good. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
The FBI is investigating the incident and has excluded Minnesota prosecutors from the probe, which the Trump administration has said is justified because the incident involved a federal officer. Minnesota leaders have denounced that decision and launched their own parallel investigation.
While supportive of conducting the investigation as an offensive against law enforcement — rather than a civil rights matter against the agent — Thompson had reservations during last week’s call about the DOJ’s plan to also investigate Good’s widow and other possible co-conspirators, the source familiar with the call said.
The FBI had developed evidence that suggested Good and her spouse had at some point been following ICE officers on the day of the shooting, the source said.
That revelation echoes Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s allegations during a recent press conference that Good had been «stalking and impeding» ICE throughout the day of the shooting. Noem said Good «weaponized» her vehicle and that the ICE agent who fired shots feared for his life.
In a statement to Minnesota Public Radio, Good’s spouse, Becca, said that on Jan. 7, the day of the shooting, she and Renee «stopped to support [their] neighbors.»
«We had whistles. They had guns,» Becca Good said.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks to the media at City Hall Jan. 9. Frey has repeatedly called for federal immigration authorities to leave his city. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other Democrats have lauded the prosecutors who resigned, framing their departures as a valiant boycott against DOJ.
«These prosecutors are heroes, and the people pushing to prosecute Renee’s widow are monsters,» Frey wrote on X.
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At this stage, there is no sign that the DOJ is planning to bring charges against Becca Good despite the DOJ and FBI pursuing an investigation into her as part of a broader probe into any conspiracies to hinder federal law enforcement operations.
Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ for comment.
David Spunt contributed to this report.
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Modi recibió a Lula, Macron y líderes tecnológicos en India para una cumbre mundial sobre inteligencia artificial
El primer ministro de India, Narendra Modi, y destacados líderes del sector tecnológico, entre ellos Sam Altman (OpenAI), debatieron este jueves en Nueva Delhi sobre los desafíos y oportunidades de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en el marco de una cumbre mundial.
El evento contará además con la participación del presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, así como una veintena de jefes de Estado. Se prevé que, a finales de la semana, se firme una declaración orientada a regular el uso de la IA. Entre los empresarios presentes de la industria figura también Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind).
“La IA tiene que democratizarse para que los humanos no se conviertan simplemente en un punto de datos para la IA o sigan siendo una materia prima para la IA. Debemos democratizar la IA. Debe convertirse en un medio de inclusión y empoderamiento, especialmente para el Sur Global”, sostuvo el jefe de Gobierno indio en su presentación.
El evento se desarrolla en un contexto marcado por el impacto bursátil de las empresas tecnológicas y el avance acelerado de la IA. La expansión de esta tecnología genera inquietudes acerca de su impacto en el medioambiente, el empleo, la educación, la creatividad y la información.
El mercado laboral es uno de los principales focos de preocupación, especialmente en India, donde millones trabajan en centros de atención telefónica y servicios técnicos. “Creamos sistemas capaces de imitar a los humanos. Y, por supuesto, la aplicación natural de este tipo de sistemas es sustituir a los humanos”, sostuvo el investigador Stuart Russell.
Con mil millones de internautas, India es el primer país en desarrollo en organizar una cumbre de este tipo, la cuarta dedicada a la IA. El ministro indio de Tecnologías de la Información, Ashwini Vaishnaw, anunció que el país aspira a atraer USD 200.000 millones en inversiones tecnológicas en dos años, incluidos 90.000 millones ya comprometidos para la construcción de centros de datos por parte de empresas como Google y Microsoft.
Sundar Pichai, director general de Alphabet y oriundo de India, destacó la transformación del país y anunció la construcción de cables submarinos para potenciar la capacidad en inteligencia artificial.
Este proyecto se enmarca en una inversión de USD 15.000 millones en cinco años anunciada en octubre por Google, que incluye la apertura de su mayor centro de datos fuera de Estados Unidos en Visakhapatnam.
Nvidia, líder global en semiconductores para inteligencia artificial, presentó una alianza con la empresa india L&T para crear “la mayor fábrica de IA de India”. En 2023, India ocupó el tercer lugar en la clasificación mundial de competitividad en IA elaborada por la Universidad de Stanford.
El secretario general de la ONU, Antonio Guterres, instó a los principales empresarios del sector a respaldar la creación de un fondo global de USD 3.000 millones para garantizar que la inteligencia artificial sea accesible para todos.
Durante la cumbre, el titular de Naciones Unidas advirtió a los líderes del sector sobre los riesgos asociados a esta tecnología y subrayó que su futuro no debe quedar “al capricho de unos pocos multimillonarios”.
“El futuro de la IA no puede ser decidido por un puñado de países ni dejarse en manos de los caprichos de unos pocos multimillonarios”, añadió.
Macron remarcó la importancia de colocar un trazado de normas al avance de la IA: “Estamos decididos a seguir dando forma a las reglas del juego… con nuestros aliados como la India”. “Europa no se centra ciegamente en la regulación: Europa es un espacio para la innovación y la inversión, pero es un espacio seguro”, sostuvo.
En particular, el presidente galo remarcó que Francia está “duplicando el número de científicos e ingenieros de IA capacitados”, y que nuevas empresas en el sector están creando “docenas de miles” de empleos.
En su presentación, Demis Hassabis, CEO de Google Deep Mind, expresó el miércoles que bajo su mirada “en los próximos 10 años probablemente entraremos en una nueva era dorada para el descubrimiento científico, casi un nuevo renacimiento utilizando estas herramientas, herramientas increíbles como AlphaFold».
Y señaló: “Espero que sea la primera de muchas que puedan acelerar enormemente nuestra investigación y acelerar el descubrimiento científico en casi cualquier área temática”.
Hassabis utilizó su espacio en la cumbre para remarcar que el mundo está “a punto de una transformación absolutamente increíble que traerá beneficios en la ciencia y la medicina específicamente”.
Por otra parte, el asesor de IA de la Casa Blanca, Sriram Krishnan, mencionó que Estados Unidos recibirá una inversión mínima de USD 600.000 millones en hiperescaladores el próximo año. “Esto impulsará el entrenamiento de IA, los centros de datos y la computación. Creemos que todos nuestros aliados, e India es un aliado clave, deberían aprovechar esta infraestructura y desarrollarla”, sumó.
(Con información de AFP y Reuters)
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Philanthropy group ripped for bankrolling ‘radical’ defund the police, anti-ICE groups: ‘Less safe’
Former progressive makes STUNNING admission on BLM
Former progressive Xaviaer DuRousseau said his shift to conservatism began after he questioned the finances of Black Lives Matter and grew frustrated with what he viewed as a lack of transparency and support for victims’ families.
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A philanthropic organization known as Coefficient Giving, which is mainly funded by liberal billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, is being knocked for quietly funding a slate of «radical projects» and donating millions to defund the police groups, anti-ICE initiatives and other progressive causes over the course of several years.
Before changing its name from Open Philanthropy to Coefficient Giving and divesting from its «criminal justice reform» initiatives to a split-off group called «Just Impact,» Open Philanthropy awarded hundreds of grants to primarily far-left groups in that category over six years.
Among the groups that Open Philanthropy donated to were JustLeadershipUSA, a group that compares the criminal justice system to slavery, Color of Change, a staunch defund the police advocate, People’s Action, which has claimed law enforcement was waging a «war against Black people,» and Fair and Just Prosecution, an advocate for eliminating cash bail.
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Coefficient Giving is being knocked for funding a slate of «radical projects» by donating millions to defund the police groups, anti-ICE initiatives and other progressive causes over the course of several years. (Getty)
The group also made donations to the Free Migration Project, which has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the National Bail Fund Network, a coalition of groups that helped bail participants of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After Minnesota activist Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent earlier this year, Free Migration Project posted on their Instagram that «ICE and Border Patrol cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.»
Remarking on the donations, Curtis Schube, director of research and policy at the Center to Advance Security in America, slammed Open Philanthropy, saying the group «quietly funds all kinds of radical projects, including those that eliminate bail demands for criminals and that seek to defund the police.»
«These aims are the opposite of social welfare,» said Schube. «They make society less safe and harm the very communities they claim to be concerned about.»
The group that Open Philanthropy awarded the highest amount of money to was the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a progressive organization that advocates for replacing incarceration with community-led safety strategies and trauma recovery services. The group received a total of $11,750,000.00 from Open Philanthropy through just three donations between 2016 and 2018.
Open Philanthropy gave $4,440,000.00 to JustLeadershipUSA, whose president, DeAnna Hoskins, previously emphasized the need to defund the police, framing it as a «divestment from law and order to an investment in protection in thriving communities.»
A spokesperson for Coefficient Giving clarified that the group’s donations «supported a variety of projects designed to improve public safety, reduce government spending, and keep families together.» The spokesperson said the group ceased these types of donations in 2021.
The group’s website states that the criminal legal system is «part of a much larger system of oppression that disproportionately plagues Black, Brown, and poor communities.» Further, JustLeadershipUSA’s website states that the carceral system «is in fact a dumping ground for the country’s other failed systems» and «contains strong remnants of slavery.»
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A rally to defund police in Chicago, July 24, 2020. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The website states the group is committed to «disrupting» the carceral system that it says, «like slavery, is based on the subjugation of those under its control.»
Open Philanthropy gave $3,259,100 to Color of Change and its affiliated entities. In 2021, a Color of Change campaign director advocated for «no more police and no more mass incarceration,» and pressed New York City to cut $1 billion from the police. The group has advocated to «defund the police,» also supporting diverting police funds in Minneapolis. In 2021, the Color of Change also released a statement urging Facebook to «permanently ban» President Donald Trump from the platform and to «take action against his enablers.»
People’s Action, meanwhile, received $1,927,640 from Open Philanthropy. In 2020, People’s Action declared its endorsement of the Movement for Black Lives, a self-proclaimed «anti-capitalist» group. In its statement announcing the endorsement, People’s Action called for «an end to the war against Black people» and demanded schools, colleges, universities and «all public institutions cut ties with the police.»
The group wrote that «police do not keep us safe, and incremental reforms cannot change a pervasive culture of police violence against Black people.»
In Jan. 2026, the People’s Action sent out a press release urging «immediate action to defund ICE & border patrol and get ICE & border patrol out of Minnesota, Maine, and communities across the country.»
Open Philanthropy donated $3 million to Fair And Just Prosecution, a criminal justice reform group that in 2018 co-developed a training model geared towards the offices of newly elected prosecutors that is said was «committed to a justice system that moves away from past incarceration-driven practices and towards principles of equity, fairness, and compassion.»
The group has praised state legislation ending cash bail. In 2021, the group lauded an Illinois bill ending cash bail as a «necessary and long overdue» change.
A spokesperson for Fair and Just Prosecution told Fox News Digital that the group «supports a peer-driven community of local elected prosecutors working toward a justice system that prioritizes public safety grounded in fairness, equity, fiscal responsibility, and humanity.»
Open Philanthropy also seeded the National Bail Fund Network with a $404,800 grant. The network went on to raise millions after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in 2023 that some of the defendants helped by bail funds from the group went on to commit violent crimes.
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Signage hangs during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Getty Images)
Open Philanthropy donated $24,000 to the Free Migration Project, a group whose executive director, David Bennion, has previously stated that «ICE should not only be abolished, but its core function of imprisoning and deporting non-citizens must also be eliminated.»
Bennion has argued that deportation is «not just cruel and economically counterproductive,» but also claimed it is «inconsistent with basic justice and has no place in a legal system predicated on coherent moral principles.»
Though the $130 million donated by Open Philanthropy for criminal justice reform was primarily awarded to progressive groups, the amount includes several donations to conservative groups as well, including the American Conservative Union, which received a total of $612,000.00.
In 2021, Open Philanthropy divested its criminal justice reform program into a split-off group called Just Impact. Open Philanthropy gave Just Impact a seed funding of $50 million spread over three and a half years.
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A spokesperson for Coefficient Giving told Fox News Digital that «until late 2021, Open Philanthropy supported a variety of projects designed to improve public safety, reduce government spending, and keep families together, including funding the American Conservative Union, host of CPAC, to run its Center for Criminal Justice Reform, headed by Pat Nolan.»
The spokesperson said that «among the reforms enacted while Open Philanthropy was funding this work was 2018’s First Step Act, first introduced by then-Congressman and current Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, passed with bipartisan support, and signed into law by President Trump.»
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