By Jeff Zeleny, CNN

(CNN) — Sen. Amy Klobuchar launched a Democratic bid for governor on Thursday, pledging to unify her state and move beyond a deadly battle with the federal government over immigration.

“These times call for leaders who can stand up and not be rubber stamps of this administration,” Klobuchar said in an announcement video. “But who are also willing to find common ground and fix things in our state.”

Klobuchar, who has served in Washington for two decades, is seeking to govern Minnesota during an extraordinarily fraught moment. The state has become the epicenter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, which has sparked waves of outrage and protest from residents, particularly after two fatal shootings of protesters by federal agents.

“We cannot sugarcoat how hard this is,” she said, “but in these moments of enormous difficulty, we find strength in our Minnesota values of hard work, freedom, and simple decency and good will.”

Her formal entry into the race comes after Gov. Tim Walz ended his reelection bid in the wake of a deepening federal investigation into widespread fraud of social service programs in Minnesota. Nearly a dozen Republicans were running for governor in hopes of challenging Walz, though one candidate left the race to protest what he called “retribution on the citizens of our state,” two days after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti.

Minnesota is now on the front lines of a searing debate over the politics of immigration enforcement and the exertion of federal power, emerging as a national test for whether the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration are seen as overreach or justified.

Klobuchar, 65, has long been seen as one of Minnesota’s most popular leaders in one election after another. She could face one of her biggest political tests yet in seeking to unify a state entwined in a fierce battle over immigration policy during a critical midterm election, with a race for governor, Senate and competitive House seats on the ballot in Minnesota.

In a four-minute campaign video, Klobuchar did not explicitly mention President Donald Trump by name or the broader immigration challenges facing the state, but she denounced the “3,000 ICE agents on our streets and in our towns, sent by an Administration that relishes division.”

“I’m asking Minnesotans across this state to not look down, to not look away,” Klobuchar said. “I’m asking you to look to each other.”

As she debated whether to stay in the Senate or run for governor, friends say, she often talked about the appeal of serving as a chief executive without the limitations of a dysfunctional Congress.

She joins a long list of lawmakers from both parties who are retiring or seeking an office away from Washington, though she is not planning to resign as she embarks on her campaign. If she wins in November, Klobuchar could resign and allow Walz to appoint her successor or choose her own replacement after being sworn in as governor. If she loses, she could return to the final four years of her Senate term.

‘Center of America’s heartbreak’

The politics of the state have been scrambled since Walz stepped away from his reelection bid on January 5. Two days later, an ICE agent killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman.

Klobuchar began considering jumping into the governor’s race long before unrest rocked Minnesota in the wake of Good’s death and intensified after Pretti was killed. As she weigh

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

(CNN) — Wael Tarabishi’s family had hoped his father and primary caretaker could be present as they say their final goodbyes to the 30-year-old at his funeral on Thursday.

But Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials denied the family’s request to temporarily release his father, Maher Tarabishi, for the service in Joshua, Texas, the family’s attorney said in a statement.

Now the family is preparing to bury Wael, who died last Friday, after spending his life suffering from a serious and rare inherited disorder called Pompe disease that leads to severe muscle weakness and heart problems, without Maher.

“We are profoundly disappointed with ICE’s decision to deny Maher Tarabishi the opportunity to say his final goodbye to his beloved son, Wael,” Attorney Ali Elhorr said in a statement Tuesday. “Today’s decision to keep him from saying goodbye is a reflection of the tragic lack of humanity by those in charge.”

In a separate statement, family members said preventing Maher from burying his son “would only deepen the wounds left by the pain of these past few months.”

ICE’s decision came three months after Maher was detained during a routine immigration check-in in Dallas. Since then, his family has held a news conference and publicly pleaded for federal immigration officials to temporarily release him from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas.

At first, they hoped Maher could be released to provide the 24-hour specialized care for Wael that only he was trained to do. But in Wael’s last days, they were holding hope Maher could at least say goodbye to his son in person.

On Tuesday, a day before Wael’s funeral was originally planned, Elhorr said he had discussed the funeral’s logistics and ICE’s conditions to allow Maher’s attendance with immigration officials “who had shown the willingness to facilitate Maher’s supervised release,” but ultimately, declined to do so.

ICE detention standards allow for detainees to “maintain ties with their families through emergency staff-escorted trips into the community to visit critically ill members of the immediate family or to attend their funerals,” according to its website.

CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment about the decision.

His health declined without his father’s care

Shahd Arnaout, Wael’s sister-in-law, told CNN the family struggled to care for Wael with his father in ICE custody.

Maher was the one who bathed Wael, changed his clothing, and helped administer food and medication through a tube, Arnaout said.

“He was the one who knew, when his fever went up, what to give him right away,” Arnaout told CNN. “We had to ask multiple doctors to come and see what (medicines) to give Wael because Maher was not there to react quickly.”

At a December news conference, a statement from Wael was read aloud in which he described the relationship with his father.

“He’s the one who keeps me alive when I’m at my weakest,” Wael said in the statement, CNN affiliate WFAA reported. “Without him, I am nothing. Without him, I cannot survive.”

In the weeks following Maher’s detention, Arnaout said Wael’s health significantly declined as he developed life-threatening health complications.

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By Karina Tsui, Sarah Dewberry, John Miller, Diego Mendoza, CNN

(CNN) — A driver rammed a car repeatedly into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters building in Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday, prompting a hate crime investigation and additional security at places of worship throughout the city, officials said.

The driver was quickly arrested and there were no reported injuries, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.

Shortly before 9 p.m., a grey Honda sedan entered the driveway of the Hasidic Jewish site in the Crown Heights neighborhood, crashed into the doorway, backed up and crashed into it again several times, a law enforcement official told CNN.

Video from the scene shows the car crashing into a set of doors at the end of the driveway. As bystanders watched the incident unfold, the car rammed the doors repeatedly until one came off its hinges.

As two people cautiously approached the car, the suspect emerged dressed in a jacket, shorts and boots, the video shows. At one point he yells to a person in the crowd, “It slipped!” Two officers then arrive and take the man into custody.

The driver, who has not been identified, has been cooperating with police and told officers it was not an attack, the law enforcement official said.

The NYPD bomb squad did a sweep of the vehicle and no explosive devices were found, Tisch said. She added that she wasn’t aware of any weapons recovered at the scene.

The car ramming comes amid a succession of attacks on members of the Jewish community–– in Brooklyn and across the world.

In December, a man was charged with a hate crime after police said he made antisemitic remarks and stabbed a man in Crown Heights, CNN affiliate WABC reported. And earlier this month, two teenagers were arrested for allegedly spray painting swastikas at a playground in Brooklyn.

The incidents in predominantly Jewish areas of New York came after 15 people were killed in a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach during a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah in December.

The Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters was established in 1940 and is considered one of the most well-known Jewish buildings in the world, according to Chabad.org. Replicas of the red-brick synagogue with its distinctive facade can be found across the world.

Wednesday marked the 75th anniversar

Análisis por Bryan Mena, CNN

El presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, se negó a responder tres preguntas seguidas sobre política durante su conferencia de prensa del miércoles. Esto es típico de la imagen de “simplemente los hechos” que se ha forjado a lo largo de los años. Pero casi al final de su larga sesión de preguntas y respuestas, Powell reflexionó y reveló el secreto.

Cuando Matt Egan de CNN le preguntó qué palabras de sabiduría le daría Powell a su sucesor, quien asumirá el cargo cuando el mandato de Powell termine a mediados de mayo, el presidente de la Fed hizo una pausa por un momento, se rió entre dientes y dijo que tenía tres consejos.

1. Manténgase fuera de la política electa.
2. Rendir cuentas ante el Congreso y trabajar diligentemente para construir relaciones con los supervisores de la Reserva Federal.
3. Respete a los profesionales dedicados que trabajan duro todos los días para promover la misión independiente de la Reserva Federal.

Fue una respuesta conmovedora, humana y reflexiva. Y dijo mucho sobre el legado que Powell planea dejar en la institución que ha servido durante 14 años, nueve de ellos como presidente. El miércoles, lo resumió como su compromiso con el bienestar público y su alejamiento de la política.

La cruzada de la administración Trump contra la Reserva Federal ha amenazado la independencia de la institución, tan preciada por Powell. Ha afirmado que la Fed debe mantener su independencia para preservar la credibilidad que le permite servir al público, trabajando para mantener bajos el desempleo y la inflación.

Hay tanto en juego que el líder de la Fed consideró apropiado asistir a los argumentos orales en el caso ante la Corte Suprema de la gobernadora de la Fed, Lisa Cook, quien impugna el intento de Trump de destituirla. Para Powell, nada de esto es político, sino una lucha por la independencia de la Fed.

Durante el último año, el presidente Donald Trump y sus aliados han lanzado una lluvia incesante de ataques contra la Reserva Federal, alegando que ha sido demasiado lenta para reducir los costos de los préstamos.

Pero no se han limitado a insultos: la administración está argumentando activamente ante el máximo tribunal del país por qué Cook, nombrada por el entonces presidente Joe Biden, debe ser destituida.

La reflexión de Powell, aunque nunca mencionó a Trump ni sus acciones, parecía dirigida directamente al presidente. Si se pasara por un motor de traducción de “Fedspeak”, podría ser algo así:

1. La Reserva Federal no puede convertirse en una herramienta para que los políticos que buscan poder interfieran con ella.
2. La Reserva Federal rinde cuentas a quienes la sirven, a través del Congreso, no del presidente. Y fomentar las relaciones con los congresistas puede ser beneficioso cuando la Reserva Federal se ve atacada.
3. Quienes trabajan en la Reserva Federal se preocupan por el bienestar del pueblo estadounidense. No permitan que la política los menoscabe.

Debido a la labor crucial de Powell para mantener la independencia de la Reserva Federal, los ataques de Trump contra la entidad ahora están resultando contraproducentes.

En cambio, han generado apoyo a la independencia política de la institución, que el presidente ha buscado socavar durante mucho tiempo.

La campaña de Trump contra la Reserva Federal dio un giro impactante a principios de este mes, cuando los fiscales federales investigaron parte del testimonio de Powell ante el Congreso el año pasado que se refería a una renovación en curso de la sede del banco central en Washington.

El jefe de la Reserva Federal respondió a la administración en un sorprendente video publicado el 12 de enero, describiendo la investigación federal como un “pretexto” para destruir la independencia de la Reserva Federal y marcar el comienzo de un mundo donde “la política

Por Chris Lau, CNN

Un tribunal federal de apelaciones dictaminó el miércoles que la administración Trump actuó ilegalmente al terminar las protecciones legales para cientos de miles de venezolanos y haitianos que trabajan y viven en Estados Unidos, aludiendo a “consecuencias reales y significativas”.

Tres jueces del Tribunal de Apelaciones del 9º Circuito de Estados Unidos dictaminaron que la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, había excedido su autoridad cuando puso fin al Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS, por sus siglas) para las personas que huyeron de los dos países hacia Estados Unidos, confirmando un fallo de un tribunal inferior.

“Las acciones de la secretaria contradicen fundamentalmente el diseño estatutario del Congreso, y su pretensión de ejercer un poder absoluto e ilimitado para anular el TPS de un país es irreconciliable con el lenguaje claro del estatuto”, escribieron los jueces Kim Wardlaw, Salvador Mendoza y Anthony Johnstone.

Luego explicaron el impacto en cientos de miles de venezolanos y haitianos que dependen de este estatus para permanecer en Estados Unidos, diciendo que “las acciones ilegales de la secretaria han tenido consecuencias reales y significativas”.

“Las acciones de la secretaria han dejado a cientos de miles de personas en un estado constante de temor de ser deportadas, detenidas, separadas de sus familias y devueltas a un país en el que fueron sometidas a violencia o cualquier otro tipo de daño”, dijeron.

CNN se ha comunicado con el DHS para solicitar comentarios.

Millones de venezolanos han huido del país sumido en una profunda crisis económica, política y social.

Los haitianos fueron incluidos por primera vez en el TPS en 2010, tras un catastrófico terremoto de magnitud 7,0 que causó la muerte y heridas a cientos de miles de personas. El primer gobierno de Trump intentó eliminar las protecciones en 2018, pero las impugnaciones legales lo mantuvieron vigente.

Poco después de asumir el cargo, Noem puso fin al estatus otorgado por la administración anterior, alegando que las condiciones han mejorado en Venezuela y Haití, lo que dio origen a la demanda actual.

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