News From Around the Web
#1 NRA Responds to Donald Trump Saying “You Can’t Have Guns” - Jordan King for Newsweek, Conservative, Seamus Murphy, Stu_Pendisdick, Spencer Hakimian, Toxic Guy, and Republicans Against Trump/The Bruce St. James on X
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has responded after President Donald Trump said “you can’t have guns” while discussing the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Pretti, an intensive care nurse, was shot dead by a federal immigration agent on Saturday during an enforcement operation. Responding to the incident, Trump said on Tuesday: “You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns. It’s a very unfortunate thing.” The NRA later posted on X: “The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be.” Pretti was shot while filming an operation by federal agents last week. Homeland Security officials said he had a firearm and resisted attempts to be disarmed. However, eyewitnesses and Pretti’s family have challenged the claims...
#2 Fed on Track to Defy Trump, Keep Rates Steady Despite Criminal Probe - Sylvan Lane for The Hill, Viking Resistance, CryptosRus, Peter Dugas, Bloomberg, Dr. Oddman, and Kyle Chassé on X
The Federal Reserve is on track to keep interest rates steady Wednesday and defy the Trump administration’s controversial efforts to reshape the independent central bank. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to leave its baseline borrowing rate unchanged, a move likely to infuriate President Trump as he faces increasing backlash from the American public. Trump’s anger with the Fed and its chair, Jerome Powell, has grown as the president faces dismal approval ratings on the economy and historically bad consumer confidence. With less than a year until the midterm elections, Trump is scrambling to pull any lever he can to ease financial pressure on American households. But the Fed is unlikely to follow his lead Wednesday, as bank officials grow concerned with the stubbornness of inflation, which has changed little since Trump took office...
#3 Man Arrested After Ilhan Omar Attacked During Town Hall Meeting in Minneapolis - Raquel Coronell Uribe for NBC News, Ron Lewis, Soutarou Nagase,
THESKY973DOTCOM, and LynneP on X
A man who confronted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. at a Minneapolis town hall meeting on Tuesday and tried to spray her with a substance was arrested and placed in police custody. Omar, who has faced a barrage of near-daily attacks from President Donald Trump, had called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment moments before the man lunged toward her. The suspect, named in the Hennepin County Jail roster as Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, was arrested on suspicion of assault but has yet to be formally charged...
#4 Minn Anti-Border Patrol Riot Backfires as Agitators Allegedly Hurl Objects at Cops, Arrests Expose Rap Sheets - Adam Sabes for Fox News, antoinette, Adam Schiff/Stan Gilmore, Joshua Burr, RealHardPolitics, Homeland Security, and Mario Nawfal on X
Several of the agitators arrested outside a Minnesota hotel where they believed Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was staying have criminal records, with one arrestee openly embracing a "disrupt disturb resist" slogan on Instagram. The agitators were outside the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Maple Grove, Minnesota, on Monday night, where they had thought Bovino was staying. Arrests were made after authorities said the demonstration was "no longer considered peaceful," and declared it an unlawful assembly. Maple Grove police said its officers were responding to reports of a protest at the hotel, adding that it escalated when agitators allegedly began damaging property and throwing objects at officers...
#5 Rubio to Testify About Venezuela at Senate Hearing Today - Caitlin Yilek for CBS News, PiQ Newswire, Firstpost, Crisis Monitor, Massbear01, and El Espectador on X
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the U.S. policy toward Venezuela on Wednesday, answering questions from lawmakers for the first time since U.S. forces ousted former President Nicolás Maduro. In the wake of the Maduro operation, several Republicans expressed concern about U.S. involvement in Venezuela and helped advance a war powers resolution in the Senate to rein in President Trump's authority to carry out further military strikes. But some were swayed to ultimately back down after Rubio vowed the U.S. would not put ground troops in Venezuela. Mr. Trump's comments about "running" Venezuela and controlling its oil have since raised questions about his administration's plans for the country...#6 Florida Senate Advances Bill to Rename Airport After Trump - Sam Barron for Newsmax, Elena, Cloud/The Fab 450s/SFD, Rik, Off the Press, and Tropic Press on X
The Florida Senate Committee on Transportation unanimously advanced legislation that would rename Palm Beach International Airport "Donald J. Trump International Airport." Three Democrats voted with six Republicans to advance the bill. "President [Donald] Trump is the first president that Florida has had in our history, and I think it's very appropriate for us to be naming one of the other icons in Palm Beach after him," the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Melbourne, told Politico...
#7 Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis: Arsenic Detected in 26 Candy Brands - FOX35 Orlando, Day Williams, toni mccoy, Ulysse Repars./Florida Voice, and WPEC CBS12 News on X
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis voiced concerns over traditional candy brands containing levels of arsenic. Over time, exposure to can increase to levels above safe arsenic levels, Casey DeSantis said. Consuming more than 96 nerds in a year exceeds safe arsenic exposure for children, she said...
#8 Detainees to Testify About Legal Access at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' - Gisela Salomon and Mike Schneider for AP/ABC News, THESKY973DOTCOM, @laurielamay/WarMonitor,
LongTime FirstTime, and tampahoy.com on X
Former detainees planned to testify Wednesday about conditions at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” as a federal judge considers during a two-day hearing whether they are getting sufficient access to the legal system. Civil rights attorneys representing the detainees were seeking a temporary injunction from U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell in Fort Myers that would ensure detainees at the state-run Everglades facility have the same access to their attorneys as they do at federally run detention centers. The Everglades facility was built last summer at a remote airstrip by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration...
#9 Nearly 800 Cases in South Carolina’s Record-Breaking Measles Outbreak - Youri Benadjaoud for ABC News, Tracy Solomon, John Gilbert Randal Wilson, The Peninsula Qatar, Simon Williams, and John Stepek/Henry Dodds on X
The record-breaking measles outbreak in South Carolina continues to grow with 89 new cases reported since the last update on Friday. This brings the total number of cases in the outbreak to 789. At least 557 people are currently in quarantine across the state, including students from various schools. This is South Carolina's largest measles outbreak in over 30 years, a spokesperson for the state’s health department told ABC News. There have been at least 416 confirmed measles cases across the United States so far this year, the latest CDC data shows...
#10 Ron Desantis Slams Sanctuary Jurisdictions Like Minnesota for Inciting Violence, Thwarting Immigration Law - A.G. Gancarski for Florida Politics, Eric Daugherty, Laura Ingraham, MJTruthUltra, and Remarks on X
Gov. Ron DeSantis says leaders who aren’t doing their part to stop citizen protests from impacting immigration enforcement are guilty of “interposition,” effectively subverting the legitimate efforts of the federal government. He told the Florida Sheriffs Association that “sanctuary jurisdictions openly, proudly … say, you know, we are not going to cooperate with any type of immigration enforcement.” DeSantis singled out Minnesota, which has been in the news for the recent death of an armed protester in Minneapolis, for specific criticism. “You have somebody in a jail or in prison and they’re getting out. Why would you not honor a detainer request from the Department of Homeland Security to turn over the illegal criminal alien over to immigration so that they can be repatriated? But they don’t do that. They don’t help with data. They don’t help with all these other things,” DeSantis said...
And Now for Something Special 
Signs your dog is living it's best life...
and dogs helping you to live your best life...
