MOORHEAD, Minn. — As federal ICE agents continued their crackdown and clashes with protesters in the Minneapolis area Tuesday, Jan. 27, more than 350 people crowded into a Moorhead church to be ...

Even though Angie Romero is busy running a business in the heart of Little Tokyo, she took a few hours off on Monday to get trained as a legal observer to document immigration operations throughout ...

Video taken this morning in Maine shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking pictures of a legal observer's car. When she asks why he's doing that, he says, "Because we have a ...

In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in ...

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A study led by Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D., and Rachel Burge, Ph.D., at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, reveals why a specific gene mutation behaves differently from other variants. The study, published in Cancer ...

Under the dim lights of the Lower East Side’s Maison Nur, art world luminaries gathered to celebrate Observer’s Art Power Index—and each other. From the impassioned speeches to the sharp tailoring and ...

After the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a federal officer was captured on camera by community members on the scene, the debate over the events has continued. In the wake of this, many are ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Brandon Siguenza, a U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis, according to social media posts. The posts claimed that while ...

Hundreds more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are headed to the Twin Cities, according to an announcement from U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Noem said on Fox ...

An age-old activist group popularized the protest tactic that 37-year-old Renee Good reportedly used before an immigration agent shot and killed her in Minnesota. Good belonged to an “ICE Watch” ...

It is still not clear if Renee Good was an official constitutional observer, but her death is prompting hundreds of community members to get trained to document ICE activity. The Immigrant Defense ...