Por Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN

Las mesas de los restaurantes estaban vacías, los escaparates de los negocios quedaron apagados y los escritorios de los estudiantes permanecieron abandonados en varias ciudades de todo EE.UU. este viernes, en medio de una huelga nacional en protesta contra la ofensiva federal de inmigración en Minnesota.

“Sin trabajo, sin escuela, sin compras” fue el grito de guerra de los organizadores, lo que provocó huelgas escolares, clases canceladas y marchas en lugares tan distantes del Medio Oeste como California, Carolina del Norte y Maine.

En Minnesota, oleadas de manifestantes salieron a las calles por segunda semana consecutiva.

Lo hicieron luego de un anuncio del Departamento de Justicia de que abriría una investigación de derechos civiles por el tiroteo fatal de Alex Pretti, el segundo ciudadano que muere a manos de agentes federales en el estado este año.

Las muertes de Pretti y Renee Good han transformado la conversación nacional sobre la aplicación de la ley inmigratoria y parecen haber impulsado un cambio de tono en la Casa Blanca en los últimos días.

Pero incluso después de que el zar fronterizo de la Casa Blanca, Tom Homan, anunció la posibilidad de una reducción de agentes en Minneapolis, los funcionarios federales y locales no parecen poder ponerse de acuerdo sobre cómo debería ser el compromiso.

El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, publicó el viernes en las redes sociales: “Las acciones hablan más que las palabras”, y agregó que los habitantes de Minnesota “aún no han visto un cambio significativo”.

Mientras la administración Trump trabaja para contener la reacción por los tiroteos en Minnesota, ha creado una nueva ola de indignación por parte de los defensores de la libertad de expresión y de la libertad de prensa por los arrestos este viernes del expresentador de CNN Don Lemon y la periodista independiente Georgia Fort por cargos relacionados con su cobertura de una protesta en una iglesia.

Aquí está lo último:

• El Departamento de Justicia investigará la muerte de Pretti: El subsecreatrio de Justicia adjunto de EE. UU., Todd Blanche, anunció que la agencia ha abierto una investigación de derechos civiles sobre el tiroteo fatal de Pretti, que indagará si los agentes federales violaron la ley al desarmarlo y dispararle varias veces. El FBI está liderando las indagaciones, según informó CNN. Aun así, Blanche señaló que no quería “exagerar” la investigación. “No quiero que la conclusión sea que se está llevando a cabo una investigación masiva de derechos civiles”, indicó, señalando que es una “investigación estándar del FBI”.
• Expresentador de CNN promete luchar contra los cargos: Lemon y Read more

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN

(CNN) — Restaurant tables sat empty, business windows went dark and students’ desks were abandoned in several cities across the country Friday amid a nationwide strike in protest of the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

“No work, no school, no shopping” was the organizers’ rally cry, leading to school walkouts, canceled classes and marches in places as distant from the Midwest as California, North Carolina and Maine.

In Minnesota, waves of demonstrators spilled into the streets for the second week in a row following an announcement from the Justice Department saying it would open a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti – the second Minnesotan to be killed by federal agents in the state this year.

The deaths of Pretti and Renee Good have transformed the national conversation on immigration enforcement and appear to have driven a tone shift from the White House in recent days.

But even after White House border czar Tom Homan announced the possibility of a drawdown of agents in Minneapolis, federal and local officials cannot seem to agree on what compromise might look like.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz posted on social media Friday, “Actions speak louder than words,” adding Minnesotans have “yet to see meaningful change.”

Even as the Trump administration works to contain backlash over the shootings in Minnesota, it has created a fresh wave of outrage from free speech and press freedom advocates over the Friday arrests of former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort on charges related to their coverage of a church protest.

Here’s the latest:

• Justice Department to investigate Pretti killing: US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the agency has opened a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Pretti, which will probe whether federal officers violated the law when they disarmed and shot him multiple times. The FBI is taking the lead on the investigation, CNN has reported. Still, Blanche said he did not want to “overstate” the probe. “I don’t want the takeaway to be that there’s some massive civil rights investigation that’s happening,” he said, noting it is a “standard investigation by the FBI.”
• Former CNN anchor vows to fight charges: Lemon and Fort were arrested Friday in connection with their coverage of a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. An Read more

By CNN staff

(CNN) — The Justice Department on Friday released more than 3 million pages of files related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after Congress passed a law last year forcing the Trump administration to do so.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference the Justice Department has now completed its review of the files and that the White House had “no oversight” of the process. The documents released Friday contain references to President Donald Trump and other powerful figures, including Elon Musk, Bill Clinton and a former Obama White House counsel.

CNN reporters have been going through the documents, and you can read highlights below:

Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual violence.

Trump’s DOJ compiled list in 2025 of tips that made allegations against Trump

From CNN’s Jeremy Herb

Officials at the FBI compiled a list of sexual assault allegations related to President Donald Trump this past August — many of which appear to have come from unverified tips — and the list was included as part of the millions of documents in the new Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Justice Department on Friday.

It’s not clear why the FBI officials created the list of allegations related to Trump last year. The document was included in emails that were sent by officials in the FBI’s New York field office on the Child Exploitation & Human Trafficking Task Force. Trump has long denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein.

There are more than a dozen allegations included in the document. “Yellow highlighting is for the salacious piece,” one official writes to explain how the allegations were being sorted.

Two versions of the document appeared to have been removed from the Justice Department’s website for a time Friday afternoon before they were restored without any apparent changes. A DOJ official said the document was down “due to overload” and was back online.

The allegations appear to be unverified, and the officials note that some are secondhand information. They appear to have been allegations that were received through the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, which takes tips by phone and electronically. The document notes that in many instances, there was no contact made with the individuals who sent in the allegations, or no contact information was provided.

Some of the allegations were followed up on. One was sent to the FBI’s Washington field office to conduct an interview, and another was deemed not credible, according to the document.

“Was there anything in the file re follow up with the below individuals? 302s. etc?” one official writes.

There are also allegations made in the document against former President Bill Clinton, who has denied wrongdoing related to Epstein.

Asked for comment on allegations against Trump in the documents, the White House referred a reporter to the Justice Department press release, which says, “This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos, as e

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