By Scottie Andrew, CNN

(CNN) — The comedian Megan Stalter, who posts absurd character skits to an audience in the high hundreds of thousands across Instagram and TikTok, tried sharing a different kind of video on Saturday night. Driven by the death of Alex Pretti, the nurse shot by a federal immigration agent or agents that day, she had recorded herself urging her fellow Christians to speak out against ICE raids in Minneapolis.

“We have to abolish ICE,” Statler said in the video. “I truly, truly believe that is exactly what Jesus would do.”

On Instagram, the video was reposted more than 12,000 times. But her plea never made it to TikTok. In a follow-up post on Instagram, she said she had attempted to upload the video to TikTok several times with no success, then had given up and deleted her TikTok account entirely, believing her content was being censored because it was about ICE. (CNN has reached out to Stalter for comment.)

Other users reported the same combination of events, drawing a circumstantial connection between their efforts to make videos about ICE and the difficulties they had posting them over the weekend. The controversy caught the attention of Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, who said that among “threats to democracy,” the purported censorship on TikTok was “at the top of the list.” (CNN has reached out to Murphy’s office for comment.)

TikTok said in a statement that glitches on the app were due to a power outage at a US data center. As a result, a spokesperson for TikTok US Joint Venture told CNN, it’s taking longer for videos to be uploaded and recommended to other users. The tech issues are ongoing, TikTok said, and are “unrelated to last week’s news.”

Last week, a majority American-owned joint venture took control of TikTok’s assets in the US, in a deal shepherded by the Trump administration under a 2024 law requiring the app to move out from under its previous Chinese ownership or face a ban in the United States. Among its new investors is the tech company Oracle, whose executive chair Larry Ellison is a close affiliate of President Donald Trump. Oracle will store US TikTok users’ data in a “secure US cloud environment,” according to TikTok, and the new joint venture will “have decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and content moderation.”

As a private platform, TikTok is free to exert influence on what users can upload or see. Even if accusations of TikTok’s censorship are unprovable, it’s understandable that US users would be increasingly skeptical of the platform in this moment, said Casey Fiesler, an associate professor of technology ethics and internet law at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

“There’s not a lot of trust in the leadership of social media platforms in general,” Fiesler told CNN. “And given the connection of the new ownership of TikTok to the Trump administration, which is so wrapped up in what is happening with ICE in Minnesota, it’s not surprising that there’s a significant lack of trust.”

TikTok users are concerned

Fiesler said she was “unsurprised” about censorship concerns on TikTok, given the timing.

Almost immediately after oversight of TikTok’s US operations changed, misinformation started to spread about changes to the app’s new terms of service, including those that applied to location sharing and data collection, Fiesler said.

“A lot of TikTok users are concerned about what this new ownership means, both with respect to who has access to

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Between changing weather conditions, a tense political climate, and rising tariffs, it’s been a tough year for Uriel Hernandez.

“Things are more, more expensive, compared to other years, and, with new tariffs coming along and us using mostly equipment, that is built overseas, like the John Deere tractors,” said Hernandez, who owns Seacliff Farms.

And it’s not just equipment that’s pricey. It’s nearly everything in the farming process. 

The American Farm Bureau estimates more than $50 billion in losses across the last three crop years. 

Last year’s loss was the steepest at $28 billion, influenced by Trump’s tariffs.

But Hernandez says he can’t pass along the cost, because he’d then be out of business. 

“We can't increase our prices because then, the consumers won't go out there and, you know, buy expensive stuff, but, we'll usually just cut people, the staff…Instead of doing it with three people, we do it with two. We just try to maximize as much as we can.” said Hernandez.

Local Congressman Salud Carbajal has joined other Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee to introduce the Farm And Family Relief Act, which would help farmers like Hernandez. 

“Farmers are hurting and they are on the verge, many of them, of going bankrupt. And this would provide assistance to those farmers that are having trouble in light of the tariffs, the taxes that this president has imposed on our farmers,” said Congressman Carbajal.

If passed, the legislation would provide more than $16 billion dollars in supplemental payments to growers, helping cover losses due to market conditions the past two years.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) A vigil got underway at Stearns Wharf at dusk Monday.

Organizers said the goal was to honor the victims of ice violence.

They gathered by the Dolphin Fountain off Cabrillo Blvd.

Shelley and Mark Sherman from Goleta said they have family in Minnesota.

"We are from Minnesota and we were there last week and so Minneapolis means a lot to us, the fact that man was killed in cold blood on the street by border patrol agents is really horrible it breaks my heart that the people in Minnesota are going through this attack and so we came to mourn and say that they need to get out of Minnesota right away," said Shelley Sherman.

"We were just in Minnesota our family is there are niece i spent a lot of time on the corner where he was killed we know it really well Minnesotans have decided to stand up to other people, it is hard to talk about it is close to my heart," Mark Sherman.

Many drivers honked their horns as they passed by.

Santa Barbara City Council Member and mayoral candidate Eric Friedman took part in the vigil.

Former California State Assembly Member Hannah-Beth Jackson was also on hand.

Larry Behrendt of Indivisible Santa Barbara said the group helped organize this this vigil and the No Kings Protests last year.

This isn't first vigil related to what is happening in Minneapolis.

There have been two similar vigils at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse following shootings.

Those vigil included projections of some members of the Trump Administration on the courthouse wall.

People holding candles sand lights said they want people to remember Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who died Saturday and Renee Good who died almost three weeks ago.

This is there way of protesting the Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement that has been criticized for its handling of protesters and people videoing their actions.

Some call it "President Trump's war on immigrant families."

There has been ICE activity locally up and down the coast this month.

Some of it is reported online.

There are organization and nonprofits trying to help immigrant families including those who were in the process of getting their citizenship without records that include crimes.

Budget Chairman of the California Republican Party Greg Gandrud has been seeing rallies and vigils on social media.

"Over 55 percent of Americans actually support removing all illegal aliens from the United States and Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey have been encouraging people in Minnesota to interfere with the lawful operations of Federal agents in Minnesota," said Gandrud, " Pretti brought a handgun and two high capacity magazine and interfered with the arrest of a criminal illegal alien in Minneapolis and the result was absolutely tragic."

Your News Channel will have more reaction tonight on the news.

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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Thomas Syslo of Torrance is facing a charge of second-degree murder as well as narcotics and money laundering charges after an investigation into a 2023 fatal overdose in a Thousand Oaks hotel room.

On Aug. 4, 2023, deputies were called to the scene of an overdose at a hotel in Thousand Oaks where they seized drug paraphernalia and other evidence during an investigation into the death of the 30-year-old man stated the Ventura County Sheriff's Office in a press release Monday.

The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office later determined that the cause of the Thousand Oaks man's death was a lethal combination of fentanyl, gabapentin, and diphenhydramine and the Ventura County Fentanyl and Overdose Crimes Unit took over the case shared the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

According to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, detectives identified Thomas Syslo, a 33-year-old living in Torrance, as the one who sold fentanyl to the victim and numerous search warrants were executed that provided additional evidence of the fatal drug deal.

Part of the evidence collected included information from ride share company Uber noted the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

On Sep. 8, 2023, detectives served a search warrant at Syslo's home were evidence of fentanyl sales, 28 grams of fentanyl packaged for sale, a digital scale, and over $12,000 in cash were seized detailed the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Additionally, investigators found 383 Pokemon cards inside protective cases with professional authentification and grading labels attached were located at the home added the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Those cards were later valued around $130,000 and deemed likely to have been purchased using proceeds from narcotics sales explained the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Following the search of his home, the 33-year-old Torrance man was arrested and booked into the Ventura County Pre-Trial Detention Facility on violation of Health and Safety Code 11351-Possession for Sale of a Controlled Substance shared the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

The investigation continued to analyze Syslo's financial records, resulting in evidence that the Torrance man had been involved in laundering money from narcotics sales for several years and additional search warrants were served as part of the continued investigation stated the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Prosecutors with the Ventura County District Attorney's Office agreed to file a homicide charge against Syslo and on Jan. 22, 2026, detectives arrested the 33-year-old and booked him on charges of second-degree murder, possession for sale of a controlled substance, and money laundering detailed the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Syslo was booked into the Ventura County Pre-Trial Detention Facility where he currently remains with bail set at $1,000,000.

He made his first court appearance on an arraignment on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, where he entered a plea of not guilty to all charged counts and he is currently scheduled for an early disposition conference hearing on March 5, 2026.

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Por Elisabeth Buchwald

El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, anunció este lunes que está aumentando los aranceles sobre los productos de Corea del Sur de 15 % a 25 %.

“Debido a que la Legislatura coreana no ha promulgado nuestro Histórico Acuerdo Comercial, lo cual es su prerrogativa, por la presente estoy aumentando los ARANCELES de Corea del Sur sobre autos, madera, productos farmacéuticos y todos los demás aranceles recíprocos, del 15 % al 25 %”, escribió Trump en una publicación en Truth Social.

No está claro si el cambio ya ha entrado en vigor. La Casa Blanca no respondió de inmediato a la solicitud de comentarios de CNN.

En un comunicado, la Casa Azul de Corea del Sur dijo que hasta el momento “no hay aviso oficial ni explicación sobre los detalles” por parte del Gobierno de EE.UU.

Tras el anuncio, el ministro de Comercio de Corea del Sur, quien está visitando Canadá, viajará a Estados Unidos para reunirse con el secretario de Comercio, Howard Lutnick, para tratar el asunto, informó la Casa Azul.

El índice de referencia de Corea del Sur, Kospi, cayó más del 1 % antes de recuperarse en las primeras horas de negociación del martes. Hyundai, el gigante automovilístico del país, se desplomó más del 2,2 % a las 9:47 am hora local.

Corea del Sur es una de las principales fuentes de bienes extranjeros para Estados Unidos, enviando bienes por un valor de US$ 132.000 millones al país en 2024, según datos del Departamento de Comercio. Las principales exportaciones a EE.UU. incluyen autos y autopartes, así como semiconductores y electrónicos. Estos bienes corren el riesgo de encarecerse por los aranceles más altos.

Trump anunció un acuerdo comercial con Corea del Sur en julio que evitó que los aranceles sobre los bienes del país pasaran del 10 % al 25 %. El acuerdo también contemplaba tasas preferenciales para autos importados, entre otros bienes.

La capacidad de Trump para aumentar de manera generalizada los aranceles sobre bienes provenientes de Corea del Sur u otros países podría verse obstaculizada por el resultado de un caso histórico sobre aranceles que actualmente está ante la Corte Suprema.

El caso determinará si Trump tenía la autoridad legal para imponer aranceles generales específicos por país. Si los jueces fallan en contra del Gobierno, es probable que Trump no pueda cambiar de inmediato las tasas arancelarias para todos los bienes provenientes de países específicos.

El anuncio de Trump sigue a una serie de amenazas arancelarias recientes, incluido un arancel del 100 % a productos canadienses y un gravamen adicional del 10 % a países opuestos a sus ambiciones sobre Groenlandia, este último del que luego se retractó.

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