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Welcome to The Local: Twin Cities

17 août 2026 à 17:21
We’ll be sharing neighborhood news and, today, talking with Hope Walz. We’ll also be revealing what Wirecutter is reviewing at the State Fair.

Justice Dept. Dismisses Threats Case in Minnesota Days Before Trial

14 août 2026 à 20:40
The government said it could not prove that a man accused of threatening federal agents had committed a crime, adding to the scores of cases in the administration’s deportation efforts that have unraveled.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

On Jan. 14, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a Venezuelan migrant following a high-speed chase in Minneapolis, protesters broke into a couple of vehicles that belonged to F.B.I. agents.

Apparent Murder-Suicide at Minnesota Day Care Center Leaves 3 Dead

12 août 2026 à 19:10
A husband stabbed his wife and daughter in Hopkins, Minn., before shooting himself, officials said. The authorities also were investigating the killing of another relative in a nearby suburb.

© Mark Vancleave/Associated Press

Law enforcement responded to a call at a home day care in Hopkins, Minn.

New Evidence Shows Federal Agents Using Racial Slurs During Immigration Sweeps

11 août 2026 à 09:14
Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles

© David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

Federal agents making an arrest in Minneapolis in January.

Don Lemon Accuses Justice Dept. of Vindictive Prosecution in Church Protest Case

7 août 2026 à 12:40
Lawyers for the former CNN anchor asked a judge to throw out the case, saying prosecutors had “acted on the president’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job.”

© Tom Baker/Associated Press

Don Lemon, center, outside court in St. Paul, Minn., in February. “The record could not be more clear that Mr. Lemon has been a persistent target of President Trump’s ire before the events in Minnesota,” his lawyers wrote.

ICE Threatens Sheriffs In Chicago and Minneapolis With Prosecution Over Access to Inmates

5 août 2026 à 12:38
In a new tactic, federal immigration officials recently started saying they would criminally charge the elected county sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago.

© Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press, Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Tom Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, Ill., left, and Dawanna S. Witt, sheriff of Hennepin County, Minn., have both been given warnings, conveyed in a series of letters that federal agents began hand-delivering in early July.
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