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Senior Associate at Be Clear | recovering journalist @MSNBC, @Nexton9news, @newscentermaine | proud @mujschool alumna

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@NBCNews
NBC News
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Deportations, ICE street arrests are way up — and so are arrests of immigrants with no criminal convictions.
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The jump in arrests and transfers to ICE custody resulted in a sevenfold increase in arrests of people with no convictions, the analysis found.
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The Washington Post
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Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans.
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Among the national parks targeted in the new removal orders are some of the country’s most iconic: Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend and Zion.
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"I can't stress enough how on edge and in fear this city is," NBC affiliate @kare11 reporter Jane Shortal tells @yasminv on today's episode of "Here's the Scoop." Shortal, who was on the ground shortly after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal officers on
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Podcast Episode · Here's the Scoop · 01/26/2026 · 24m
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Michael Biesecker
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Full statement from Micayla Pretti, younger sister of Alex Pretti, who was killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday:
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Steve Grove
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As events in Minnesota remain in national headlines, read the latest breaking news from dozens of @StarTribune reporters who are on the ground. Outside the paywall, here:
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Federal judge acknowledges ‘extraordinary step’ of summoning top official to testify on ICE enforcement.
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@dennisjromero
Dennis Romero
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Minneapolis man says Alex Pretti aided his dying father at a VA facility. Now he's concerned the ICU nurse, fatally shot by ICE personnel, will suffer character assassination if he and others don't speak up. https://t.co/w2NQ4KCOkq via @nbcnews with key help from @jean_lee1
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A Minneapolis man said Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, aided his dying father during his last hours at a Veterans Affairs Health Care facility in Richfield, Minnesot
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Jim Sciutto
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Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:  “We are heartbroken but also very angry.    Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA
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Kyle Cheney
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MORE: Plaintiffs in the case have added a declaration from a pediatrician who sought to administer aid to Alex Pretti after he was shot. "ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds." https://t.co/2Jw11lIAvO
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@KyleClark
Kyle Clark
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Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
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@StarTribune
The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city has only had three homicides so far this year. “Two of them were ICE," he said.
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Federal judge acknowledges ‘extraordinary step’ of summoning top official to testify on ICE enforcement.
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@KyleClark
Kyle Clark
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The parents of Alex Pretti, killed today by federal agents in Minneapolis, live in Colorado, per the AP. Renee Good, killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan 7, grew up near Colorado Springs.
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Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset...
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@StarTribune
The Minnesota Star Tribune
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An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: https://t.co/s3ucA6C97y 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Kyle Clark
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Jana Shortal is one of the finest journalists and humans I know. Journalists and other citizens are putting their safety at risk to document what the government is doing. Keep filming. We need to see.
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Kyle Potter
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On Instagram, Minneapolis journalist and anchor Jana Shortal of @kare11 - clearly wearing a press credentials - says she was pepper sprayed and punched in the eye by federal agents while trying to capture the aftermath of today’s fatal shooting.
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@StarTribune
The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Hundreds have packed a Minneapolis intersection near where federal agents shot and killed U.S. citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti earlier on Saturday. 📸: Louis Krauss
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@StarTribune
The Minnesota Star Tribune
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BREAKING: Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning.
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Federal judge acknowledges ‘extraordinary step’ of summoning top official to testify on ICE enforcement.
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@StarTribune
The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: https://t.co/s3ucA6C97y
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"Federal immigration agents arrested and detained a Gresham family, including a 7-year-old child, outside a Portland hospital last week as the girl’s parents sought emergency medical care for her." https://t.co/dml5XLbkWl
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The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
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@emilybazelon
Emily Bazelon
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For the NYT, @rachelposer and I talked to 45 former and current FBI agents & analysts. Here's what they have to say about how the bureau has changed in the last year, in their own voices. For many of them, this was their dream job. (Gift link.)
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Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
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