Indiana police released security video of the incident between Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman and a high school wrestling coach
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President Donald Trump touted the "Trump economic boom" is underway during his remarks at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan Tuesday.
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A group of at least 15 Venezuelan teenagers was slapped with dubious "treason" charges for allegedly celebrating the downfall of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the outlet Runrunes reported.
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The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday terminated Temporary Protected Status for Somalis amid ongoing investigations into pervasive welfare fraud within their community in Minnesota.
Somalis currently in the country on TPS and without other legal status could be subject to deportation efforts after March 17. The DHS encouraged those individuals to use Customs and Border Protection’s CBP Home mobile app to report their departure from the U.S., adding that it includes a free plane ticket and a $1,000 exit bonus.
'We are putting Americans first.'
Somalia was initially designated for TPS in 1991, and the status was later extended and redesignated numerous times over the decades, for reasons of “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” such as ongoing armed conflict.
An unpublished notice in the Federal Register explained that TPS was initially provided to Somali nationals after an authoritarian regime that controlled the country from the 1960s through the early 1990s collapsed. Years passed without a new central government emerging to take its place.
However, in 2013, the U.S. began formally recognizing Somalia’s new government, and in 2016, the U.S. sent an ambassador to Somalia to re-establish a diplomatic presence.
The DHS stated that Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia, told the United Nations General Assembly in September that the country had made significant progress, noting that it was confronting “the last remaining pockets of international terrorism while building a strong and sustainable national security architecture.”
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The department argued that Mohamud’s characterization underscored “that the country is no longer experiencing an ongoing armed conflict.”
“Thus, while conditions at the time of previous designations reflected an ongoing armed conflict, Somalia today shows improved national governance and security structures and now experiences localized pockets of violence rather than nationwide, generalized conflict,” the notice read.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem concluded that the country’s current conditions do not prevent Somalian nationals from safely returning home. She also argued that allowing Somalis on TPS to remain in the U.S. would be contrary to America’s national interests and present significant security risks.
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“Due to this lengthy gap in U.S. diplomatic engagement, the United States cannot adequately vet Somali nationals, particularly aliens who were approved for TPS during this period of 1991-2013, for identity, criminal history, or potential terrorist affiliations, posing an ongoing threat to public safety and national security of the United States,” the federal register notice read.
There are roughly 1,082 approved Somalian TPS beneficiaries, the DHS reported. The department estimated that, as of early December, there were another 1,383 pending applications.
“Temporary means temporary. Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” Noem said. “Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first.”
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President Donald Trump appointed 47-year-old career federal prosecutor Joseph Thompson in June to serve as the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota.
Thompson, who expressed an interest at the outset in combating "the shocking and unacceptable levels of fraud in our state government programs," prosecuted numerous cases of social services fraud even after he was relegated to the status of assistant attorney following the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Daniel Rosen as the Gopher State's top federal prosecutor.
Evidently Thompson wasn't long for the role of second fiddle.
'His prosecutorial record gives him the opportunity to take a political leap if he wants.'
Sources familiar with Thompson's decision told the New York Times that Thompson was one of several federal prosecutors who quit on Tuesday.
People supposedly familiar with Thompson's decision told the Times that he objected both to the alleged push by senior Justice Department officials for a criminal probe into anti-ICE activist Renee Good's actions as well as to the DOJ's refusal to loop state officials into its investigation into whether Good's fatal shooting was lawful.
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Thompson allegedly wanted the shooting investigated as a civil rights matter and was poised to investigate it in concert with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. His decision to work with the state agency was, however, reportedly overruled by DOJ officials.
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
While Thompson's office has told multiple outlets that he would not be commenting on his resignation Tuesday, he told the Minnesota Star Tribune, "It has been an honor and a privilege to represent the United States and this office."
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who is now facing the threat of impeachment, said in response to the news that "Joe is a principled public servant who spent more than a decade achieving justice for Minnesotans. This is a huge loss for our state."
"It’s also the latest sign Trump is pushing nonpartisan career professionals out of the justice department, replacing them with his sycophants," added Walz.
This is certainly a different tune than Walz sang last week when the failed vice presidential candidate not only accused Thompson of defamation but suggested he "would have been let go by another administration."
While Walz rushed to presume Thompson resigned on principle, there have long been rumors he has political ambitions outside the DOJ.
After being moved to the role of assistant attorney, Thompson told the Tribune in November, "I knew it was a temporary position, and at some point they would confirm my replacement, and when that happens, I’m gonna wake up the next day and figure out what to do with the rest of my life whether it’s in the office, outside the office, we’ll see."
"Whether he chooses to pursue public office is entirely up to him," David Schultz, professor of political science and legal studies at Hamline University, said at the time. "However, his prosecutorial record gives him the opportunity to take a political leap if he wants."
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday elbowed its way into the debate over President Donald Trump’s effort to acquire Greenland, slamming the U.S. for “using other countries as an excuse for pursuing its own selfish interests.”
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