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A couple views a memorial site for George Floyd at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue on June 18

‘It’s not because we have bigger guns’: Minneapolis’ poet laureate tells why ICE found itself in trouble

By Leah Asmelash, CNN MINNEAPOLIS (CNN) — In January 2025, Junauda Petrus warned, in her inaugural poem as poet laureate of Minneapolis, of residents “getting snatched in the night,” and celebrated a city of “neighbors who traded plates of food….so we could all taste where each other was from.” The poem, “Ritual on How to

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Demonstrators participate in a protest at the Whipple federal building organized by religious leaders calling for an end to ICE operations in Minnesota on Friday

More anti-ICE protests underway nationwide after judge declines to immediately halt Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Massive crowds of protesters are marching across the nation to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown Saturday — the same day a judge handed the federal government a win by denying a request to halt an operation that has seen thousands of agents dispatched to Minnesota’s Twin

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CPS, charter schools ask to pause hearing after charter applications expected to be resubmitted in March

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Both parties in a lawsuit over charter school applications in Boone County asked a judge on Friday to vacate a hearing next week after Saint Louis University rescinded its application for Frontier Schools. Columbia Public Schools filed a lawsuit last month, claiming the establishment of charter schools in Boone County is unconstitutional.

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