Live updates: This is not the first time federal agents have shot someone in recent months during immigration enforcement. The news outlet The Trace counted 14 shootings since late July.

"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.

It took hours and pressure from local officials before David Leussler's friend was found and released from ICE detention.

"But it will take pressure from those that believe in free speech, and the rule of law, before the release of our beloved country," Leussler writes.

"For more than three decades, I put in my eight hours per day but couldn’t buy birthday presents for my kids," writes Derrick Dukes.

Let’s talk about AI art.

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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

"Fox host Greg Gutfeld cast decency aside with a profane rant minimizing Melissa Hortman's assassination. But he isn’t alone," writes the Editorial Board.

Gift link: The second installment of A Season of Uncertainty, a series that follows a Minnesota farm family through historic trade and tariff upheaval. www.startribune.com/china-tariff...

I’ve known the author of this op-ed since the day she was born. It’s so awful that she had to write this, that she has to keep living through this.

as someone who danced competitively my entire childhood and teen years, boys have.... always been dancers. the outrage is so performative

"[Gerika] Mudra’s experience — and the transphobic microaggressions or even outright assaults others have been put through — represent years of hateful rhetoric reaching their natural conclusion. We must do better," writes Opinion audience editor Noor Adwan.

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