Friday, January 16, 2026
Target’s Stores Become an ICE Battleground in Hometown Minneapolis
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/target-ice-minneapolis-minnesota-1f39bb7b
The federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota has descended on the stores and parking lots of Target, putting the hometown retailer in a tough political spot as it faces pressure from some locals to keep border protection agents out.
That pressure came to a head after immigration officials detained two Target employees inside the vestibule of a suburban store late last week after what appeared to be some verbal sparring in the parking lot. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
Both are American citizens and were later released, local officials say. In a social-media post on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said an individual in the video had been “arrested for assaulting a federal law enforcement offers [sic].”
Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis
A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.
That video is the latest in a deluge of online content that documents an intensifying immigration crackdown across the midwestern city, as thousands of federal agents execute arrests amid protests in what local officials have likened to a “federal invasion.”
In the video, one masked agent smashes Rahman’s passenger side window while others cut her seatbelt and drag her out of the car through the driver’s side door. Numerous guards then carried her by her arms and legs towards an ICE vehicle.
Maria Machado Says She ‘Presented’ Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.newsweek.com/maria-machado-presented-trump-nobel-peace-prize-11369261
Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says that she "presented" U.S. President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during a meeting the two had on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
What’s Wrong with Intermarriage?
If establishing a Jewish family and raising Jewish children with strong Jewish values are core values that you hold dear, then the decision to marry a Jew (whether a Jew by birth or a Jew by choice) is the natural outcome.