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David Keene (Associated Press) **FILE**

David Keene, maestro of the conservative movement, dead at 80

David Keene, a towering figure in the growth of the modern conservative movement who was equally comfortable in the weeds of grassroots politics and in the corridors of power in Washington, died Sunday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 80.

March 9, 2026
Federal immigration officers look on during a protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

ICE down to just 47 extra deportation officers in Minnesota

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has cut its deployment in Minnesota down to just 47 deportation officers and they are focused on picking up deportation targets from prisons and jails, the agency told a federal judge Friday.

March 7, 2026
A man walks out of a vaccination bus at a mobile vaccine clinic in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

Rights groups push Congress to rebuff COVID overreach

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began to rip through the U.S., spreading death and sparking draconian shutdowns, the country still has not had a full accounting of the dystopian restrictions the government imposed to try to control the virus -- and the public.

March 6, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Noem: No ICE at election polls this year; DHS doesn’t use deportation quotas

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem decried the use of deportation quotas, told Congress she has no plans to deploy ICE officers to the polls for this year's elections, and took a conciliatory approach to angry lawmakers Tuesday by tacitly acknowledging her overzealous denunciations of Americans killed by her agents in Minneapolis.

March 3, 2026