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By Lex Harvey, CNN

(CNN) — Authorities in Oregon are investigating a shooting by federal agents that left a married couple wounded in Portland and sparked renewed outrage over the Trump administration’s handling of its immigration crackdown in the city and across the US.

The shooting Thursday afternoon inflamed tensions a day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, prompting protests nationwide.

After Wednesday’s killing, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told agents to “get the fuck out” of the city. After the Portland shooting, Oregon state Sen. Kayse Jama took a similar tone, telling ICE agents to “get the hell out of our community.”

The Portland shooting unfolded as US Border Patrol agents conducted a “targeted vehicle stop” and one of the agents “fired defensive shots” after the driver tried to run the agents over, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

“The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene,” she said.

The husband in the car was shot in the arm, and the wife was in the chest, a senior law enforcement source said. Their conditions were not immediately clear.

No agents were injured in the shooting, a federal law enforcement source told CNN.

McLaughlin said the driver and passenger are believed to be linked to Tren de Aragua, the notorious Venezuelan gang President Donald Trump has long targeted amid accusations of drug trafficking, murder and other violence, though she did not provide evidence.

Portland Police Chief Bob Day said local officers weren’t involved in the incident, but responded to reports of a shooting involving federal agents just after 2:15 p.m. Thursday.

Minutes later, police received a call from a different location from a man who said he’d been shot by federal officers and was requesting help, according to Day and dispatch audio.

When officers arrived, they found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds, and emergency responders transported them to a hospital, Day said.

The chief said his department didn’t know if the vehicle involved in the shooting had been weaponized against the agents.

The two pe

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Trump afirma que canceló una segunda ola de ataques contra Venezuela por la cooperación del país con EE.UU. Lo que muestran los videos sobre el momento previo a que un agente de ICE matara a una mujer en Minneapolis. ¿Cuándo comienza la declaración de impuestos 2025? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.

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El Gobierno de la presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, anunció este jueves la excarcelación de “un número importante” de presos políticos, tanto venezolanos como extranjeros, cinco días después de la captura de Nicolás Maduro y su esposa, Cilia Flores, en un operativo militar de Estados Unidos. Entre los presos políticos cuya liberación ha sido confirmada se encuentran la activista Rocío San Miguel, el periodista Miguel Moreno Dapena y los españoles Andrés Martínez y José María Basoa.

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By Lauren del Valle, Nicki Brown, CNN

New York (CNN) — Luigi Mangione is due back in federal court Friday, where his attorneys will continue to fight for the 27-year-old accused killer to avoid the death penalty in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s top executive in 2024.

Mangione allegedly shot Brian Thompson, 50, on a busy Manhattan sidewalk outside a hotel where he was set to attend an annual investors conference December 4, 2024. His arrest five days later at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, ended a multi-state manhunt.

The case generated a national debate over the American health care system that’s garnered appalled reactions to Thompson’s brutal killing but also vocal support for Mangione as he’s become a figure for larger frustrations with the industry. Donations to his legal fund surpassed $1.4 million.

On Friday, a federal judge is expected to hear arguments over a defense motion to dismiss two charges from the indictment against Mangione, including a murder charge that carries the death penalty.

Mangione’s defense team says the judge should toss one count of murder through the use of a firearm and a firearms charge over a technical legal interpretation of statutes.

The murder charge that carries the death penalty is predicated on being carried out through a violent crime that must also be charged in the indictment. The defense, however, says the two stalking charges that round out Mangione’s indictment are not violent crimes.

Prosecutors allege Mangione stalked Thompson online and in person to carry out the killing.

Mangione’s lawyers – Karen Friedman Agnifilo and her husband Marc Agnifilo – have already found success capitalizing on legal nuances for Mangione. In his state case last fall, the judge dismissed two terror-related murder charges against him – the top two charges in that indictment.

The state judge found that, “There was no evidence presented of a desire to terrorize the public, inspire widespread fear, engage in a broader campaign of violence, or to conspire with organized terrorist groups,” which was required by the statutes governing those charges.

Mangione still faces second-degree murder and eight other counts in that state case and other charges in Pennsylvania related to his arrest. He’s pleaded not guilty to all charges.

It’s unclear if federal District Judge Margaret Garnett will rule on any of the outstanding defense motions at Friday’s hearing.

Defense says AG’s conflict of interest should spare Mangione the death penalty

At a minimum, the federal judge should take the death penalty off the table over a conflict of interest with US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who announced the Justice Department would seek the death penalty last April, another defense motion says.

The motion argues Bondi should recuse herself from any decision making related to Mangione over a conflict of interest with Ballard Partners, the lobbying firm where she worked before joining the Trump administration last year. The parent company of UnitedHealthcare is a Ballard client.

The Justice Department has pushed back on the defense suggestion that Bondi continues to profit from Ballard’s ongoing representation of UnitedHealth Group and accused Mangione’s lawyers of creating such a misimpression by cherry-picking language from her public financial disclosure report.

“She disclosed that Ballard would make no further contributions to her plan upon her confirmation by the Senate and after she left that firm,”

By Dana O’Neil, CNN

Atlanta (CNN) — Somewhere between what had been a previously unimaginable football commute from Pasadena, California, to Bloomington, Indiana, the first day of January bled into the second.

The Indiana Hoosiers, fresh off eviscerating none other than Alabama at the high holy grounds of the Rose Bowl, pulled up to the John Mellencamp Pavilion around 3:30 in the morning, the business of the 2025 season still very much in front of them.

One door had not, per the cliché, closed. Yet, as the Hoosiers flew home, another door had, in fact, opened. The transfer portal, the door to either Alice’s Wonderland or the gates of Hades, depending on your viewpoint, opened at midnight on January 2. And so while his players slept, his fanbase celebrated and a semifinal game loomed, Curt Cignetti went into the office and met with recruits to talk about the next season.

Meanwhile, in Oxford, Mississippi, an equally giddy and slightly more vindictive fanbase had all of about 30 minutes to celebrate their team’s win. Then the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day, leaving Ole Miss fans to wonder if their offensive coachmen might turn back into mice. Or, more accurately, in this case, rats.

Jilted by Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss nonetheless beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl but Pete Golding, the new man in charge, wasn’t quite sure which of his coaches would be coming with him to prep for a semifinal date with Miami and who was making the short ride across the bayou to Baton Rouge.

As it turned out, Joe Cox and George McDonald abandoned ship. The tight ends coach and wide receivers coach joined Kiffin, allowing the Rebels to go on without them.

“Do they want to be here?” Golding said of his former co-workers. “Damn right they do.’’

While all of this was going on across the country, retro recruits (also known as high school seniors) were saying goodbye to their families, their pals and their proms. Early college enrollment beckoned, even if high school graduation hadn’t yet happened. They needed to get a jump on things to stake their claim on a roster, even if the same coaches who months earlier promised them the moon and the stars were currently recruiting over them by entertaining guys in the portal.

And in ordinary academic buildings and offices tucked up in the corners of the athletic department, university registrars and academic advisors were setting their hair on fire, trying to figure out how to approve transcripts and shoehorn new students into classes that were already full.

The college football calendar is a mess. That sentiment is now universal. But rather than merely try to undo what’s been done, perhaps it’s time to figure out what the point of it all is. Not only how college football got into this quagmire, but also if anyone is actually benefiting from it all. Rather than just fix the problem, the sport might want to identify what exactly the problem is.

“What I’ll say is … it has made football teams and it’s made coaches and players better at handling chaos,’’ Oregon head coach Dan Lanning said.

And then he laughed, somewhat ruefully.

Early enrollment

The transfer portal did not start the fire; it only added the accelerant.

If you untangle the mess that is now college football’s January and try to figure out where it all got sideways, it might be wise to go back to 1991. That’s when Georgia quarterback Eric Zeier decided to

By Jack Guy, CNN

(CNN) — US President Donald Trump said that he had cancelled a “previously expected” second wave of attacks on Venezuela due to the country’s cooperation with the US.

The announcement came in a Truth Social post early Friday, in which Trump praised the actions of Venezuela’s acting government.

“Venezuela is releasing large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of ‘Seeking Peace,’” wrote Trump. “This is a very important and smart gesture.”

Trump went on say that the two nations are “working well together, especially as it pertains to rebuilding, in a much bigger, better, and more modern form, their oil and gas infrastructure.”

“Because of this cooperation, I have cancelled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks, which looks like it will not be needed, however, all ships will stay in place for safety and security purposes,” he added.

It comes as the US president is set to meet at the White House on Friday with executives from major oil companies to persuade them to increase Venezuela’s oil output and make new investments in the country.

He claimed that “at least 100 Billion Dollars will be invested by BIG OIL,” but the oil industry has expressed serious skepticism about ponying up tens of billions of dollars over a decade to restore Venezuela’s oil infrastructure.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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