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Investigators say a shooting outside a church building in Salt Lake City that killed two people and injured six others grew out of a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral. No arrests have been made in Wednesday’s shooting in the parking lot of a house of worship for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. Authorities say they do not know whether the shooting was gang-related and that they are having trouble getting witnesses to cooperate. Five people remained hospitalized Thursday, with police protection at those facilities.…

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak outside the U.S. Capitol in October after the Supreme Court heard arguments about the Voting Rights Act. Matt Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Brown/AP The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress, depending on how the Supreme Court rules in a closely watched redistricting case about the Voting Rights Act. For decades, the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement has protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn. Its provisions have also boosted the…

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, a federal agent fatally shot a motorist, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. Trump administration officials said these were “defensive shots” fired because the officer was being run over. But our analysis of bystander footage, filmed from different angles, appears to show the agent was not in the path of the victim’s SUV when he fired three shots at close range. Here’s how events unfolded. Moments before the shooting, the victim’s maroon SUV is stopped in the middle of the street. Multiple unmarked federal vehicles are idling nearby. Secretary Noem alleged the motorist “was blocking the officers in.”…

The U.S. Capitol is seen on Jan. 5. The House is set to vote Thursday on a bill to renew enhanced health insurance subsidies. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Against the wishes of House Speaker Mike Johnson, the House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on a measure that would renew enhanced health insurance subsidies that expired at the end of last year. The three-year extension is expected to pass the House, but it may not go far in the Senate, where a similar measure failed in December. A bipartisan…

Politics / January 7, 2026 Can Trump and Kristi Noem maintain their blatant lies in the face of multiple videos that show the victim was trying to drive away when she was shot three times by an ICE agent? Ad Policy Law enforcement and a protester on the scene after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on January 7.(Stephen Maturen / Getty Images) Sometimes reality is over-scripted. But the victim’s name turned out to be Good.  Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis Wednesday morning. She seemed to be trying to turn…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses supporters in a rally he called to protest comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. Santiago Saldarriaga/AP hide caption toggle caption Santiago Saldarriaga/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump abruptly changed his tone Wednesday about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, saying they had exchanged a friendly phone call and he’d even invited the leader of the South American country to the White House. “It was a Great Honor to speak with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: the VA must end homelessness among disabled vets, by providing housing: that’s what the 9th circuit court of appeals ordered in a historic ruling.  Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel will explain.  But first: Trump, Venezuela, and American politics: John Nichols has our analysis – in a minute.[BREAK]We’ve been saying for months that, as Trump’s support shrinks, and his mental state deteriorates, he would become more dangerous. We saw the first fruits of that over the weekend when he sent 150 planes to…

Homes covered by snow are seen from the sea in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 6, 2025. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption toggle caption Evgeniy Maloletka/AP The White House is standing by President Trump’s interest in Greenland, saying “all options” are on the table as the administration weighs a potential acquisition of the territory that’s controlled by Denmark. “All options are always on the table for President Trump as he examines what’s in the best interest of the United States, but I will just say that the president’s first option always has been diplomacy,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters…

Politics / January 7, 2026 The pundits straining to seek coherence in the new interventionist “Donroe doctrine” would do well to look back to Trump’s roots in New York real estate Ad Policy Donald Trump surveys the Manhattan skyline in 1987.(Joe McNally / Getty Images) In 2018, an unnamed staffer in the first Trump administration shot down the notion that anything Trump did was strategic or sophisticated in a quote that has circulated prolifically since. Trump was not playing “the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to [his] decisions,” the aide said. “More often than not he’s just eating the…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to reporters Wednesday following a closed door briefing with senators on the U.S. the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Heather Dieh/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Heather Dieh/Getty Images North America Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters on Capitol Hill that they briefed senators on a process of “stabilization”, “recovery ” and “transition.” Rubio said step one will involve “quarantine” for Venezuela, a process that will include selling sanctioned oil and distributing the profits.…