Somali community hesitantly hopeful amid news of ICE drawdown
Karmel Mall has been mostly silent, with shops closed at the building on East Lake Street. Operation Metro Surge has caused many Somalis to stay home.
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Karmel Mall has been mostly silent, with shops closed at the building on East Lake Street. Operation Metro Surge has caused many Somalis to stay home.
A business owner said her exteriors company will be lucky to survive until summer, and a recent detention of one of her critical and trusted subcontractors has put everyone on high alert.
In an interview Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation," White House border czar Tom Homan said more than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota since he announced the end of Operation Metro Surge last week.
Border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota is concluding, with a drawdown of federal immigration officers set to occur over the course of next week.
Demonstrators with the group ICE Out Now Minnesota Coalition spread across the Twin Cities on Wednesday evening, gathering outside Target stores.
For the past year, an artificial intelligence camera has captured images of people driving distracted on Highway 7 in Minnesota between St. Louis Park and St. Bonifacius. In 2024, there were five fatalities on Highway 7 alone, one of the deadliest years on record, but since the AI technology was added, there have been zero.
A group of Dakota County residents are pushing back on plans for a massive data center, and it's one of many such campaigns in communities across Minnesota.
A Brooklyn Park police SUV rolled over in a crash that officials said sent four people to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
A prayer camp is now set up at Fort Snelling near Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where Indigenous activists say they're praying for families impacted by immigration detentions.
One Minnesota group has been leading the charge to train legal observers and document tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Dr. Michael Osterholm and Dr. Emil Lou, faculty members with the University of Minnesota, have been recognized by TIME as two of the 100 most influential people in health in 2026.
Minnesota is in the midst of what state health officials call the nation's "largest known outbreak" of TMVII, a sexually transmitted fungal skin infection that can cause severe ringworm.
"We definitely have a little more buzz around us and more people at our games and stuff," said senior Vienna Murray. "People are taking notice thankfully which is more fun for us."
A man was injured Wednesday morning after federal immigration agents pursued him, leading to a crash in St. Paul, authorities say.
At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020, and their documented wrongdoing includes patterns of physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other abuses of authority, a review by The Associated Press found.
