A suspected member of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua attempted to run over federal immigration officers in Portland, according to the Department of Homeland Security. One Border Patrol officer pulled a gun and fired a “defensive shot” at the vehicle. The suspected gang member and his passenger, also suspected of gang ties, sped off. “At 2:19 PST, US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon. The passenger of the vehicle and target is a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting in Portland,” Homeland Security said. “The vehicle driver is believed to be a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents.” “Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene,” the statement continued. At 2:19 PST, US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon. The passenger of the vehicle and target is a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting in… — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 9, 2026 The department released the statement after reports began to circulate that federal immigration agents shot and wounded two people in Portland. It was not immediately clear if the reports and the statement from Homeland Security are related. The shooting in Portland comes a day after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. The woman had blocked a road with her vehicle. As federal officers exited their vehicles and approached her vehicle, requesting she exit hers, the woman backed up before pulling her car forward. One officer in front of the car then fired a fatal shot at the woman. The Department of Homeland Security defended the ICE agents’ conduct, calling the incident “an act of domestic terrorism.” “This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats,” the agency said. The event sparked mass demonstrations in Minneapolis. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz threatened to call in the National Guard and called for mass protests across the United States against immigration officers.

More information has emerged about the woman shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis Wednesday that gives a glimpse into the anti-ICE activism she apparently participated in. Renee Nicole Good, 37, was identified by family who said she didn’t have any involvement with ant-ICE activities. The Trump administration identified her as a “domestic terrorist.” Some local residents attending a vigil for Good, however, identified her as a “warrior” who participated in an “ICE watch” group to “document and resist” the agency, according to the New York Post. Good first learned of the group through her 6-year-old son’s leftist charter school, which prides itself on “involving kids in political and social activism,” the outlet reported. “She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told the New York Post. Leesa went on to say that Good “was trained against these ICE agents” on “what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” adding that the training included how “to listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.” County worker Kristin Peter, 30, said Good was on the same ICE Watch team as one of her coworkers. Peter said she herself was planning to go to one of the group’s meetings Thursday night. “They were on the same team, they would eat meals together,” she told the New York Post. “From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told the New York Post. Good was killed after she appeared to be blocking a road ICE agents were trying to pass through. The officers appeared to order her to get out of her vehicle, before she put it in reverse and then in drive. One video appeared to show the car make contact with an ICE officer who was standing in front before shots were fired. The Trump administration says the ICE officer acted in self defense, but Democrats, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have classified his actions as “murder.” The Department of Homeland Security blamed the “malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians” for a 1,300% increase in assaults, 3,200% surge in vehicle attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE, in a statement shared with The Daily Wire Thursday. “I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right,” Leesa said. A federal investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

NASA is cutting short the Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station due to a crewmember’s medical issue, and canceling the first spacewalk of the year that was originally planned for Thursday. “I have come to the decision that it’s in the best interest of our astronauts to return Crew-11 ahead of their planned departure,” NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday in a press conference, adding that their return would take place “in the coming days.” The space agency released no further details on the name of the crewmember or of the medical situation, but reiterated that the astronaut is now fully stable. Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer, said, “It’s not an emergency evacuation, but we are erring on the side of caution for the crew member.” The spacewalk was to be performed by American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, who would exit the orbiting lab for almost 7 hours and “finish preparing a power channel where a new solar array is set to be installed on the ISS,” according to Live Science. It would have been Cardman’s first spacewalk, and Fincke’s ninth. The other two astronauts were Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov. The American-Japanese-Russian crew first arrived on the ISS in August 2025 and was scheduled for at least a sixth-month stay. The group was then supposed to be replaced with Crew-12 in mid-February, but this is now up in the air due to the early departure. Isaacman said they may “potentially pull [the crew] forward.” “It is unclear what returning Crew-11 home early would mean for the ISS, as such changes to the usual rotation are highly unusual,” Live Science reported. There are also three other astronauts currently living on the space station who launched from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in November and are due back to Earth in the summer. NASA announced it will provide further details regarding the upcoming crew in the next 48 hours.

The House voted to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act for another three years, and the proposal now heads to the Senate. The legislation made it to the floor after four Republicans joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition, and 17 Republicans ultimately ended up voting with the Democrats on the extension. Those Republicans were Reps. Rob Bresnahan, Mike Carey, Monica De La Cruz, Brian Fitzpatrick, Andrew Garbarino, Jeff Hurd, David Joyce, Tom Kean, Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Ryan Mackenzie, Max Miller, Zach Nunn, Maria Elvira-Salazar, David Valadao, Derrick Van Orden, and Rob Wittman, according to Punchbowl News. The successful discharge petition and subsequent passage is seen as a major victory for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). “The House just decisively passed legislation that restores the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Over the objection of Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson. If you don’t know, now you know,” Jeffries posted to X after the vote. Lawler (R-NY) said in a statement that his vote suggests a “commitment to a bipartisan solution.” “Healthcare affordability is not a political issue; it is a governing responsibility. My signature on the discharge for this bill, and my affirmative vote today, is not an endorsement of a clean 3-year extension, but rather a commitment to a bipartisan solution,” Lawler wrote. “I look forward to working with and voting on a Senate-amended bipartisan compromise in the weeks ahead. My focus is always ensuring Hudson Valley families aren’t caught in the gridlock, and that doesn’t change today.” On the Senate side, Axios reported that there could be a bipartisan deal in the works that would continue the pandemic-era subsidies for another two years. The lengthy government shutdown in the fall had to do largely with Democrats seeking an extension of the subsidies as a precondition to keeping the government open. Now, the government is set to shutter again if a budget is not passed, but the House also passed some spending bills on Thursday to avoid another shutdown. There are still other bills needing to be worked out in Congress to completely avoid another shutdown, The New York Times reported.

The following is an adapted transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * An awful scene unfolded in Minneapolis yesterday. Everyone agrees it was an awful scene, but we can’t quite agree on why. A leftist woman obstructed federal immigration enforcement, then hit an officer with her SUV, at which point the federal agent shot her. Now, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, is calling on the Minnesota National Guard to commit insurrection against the federal government, against which he says his state is at war. Where to begin? The federal agents were entirely in the right. Everyone obstructing law enforcement — from the woman in the SUV all the way to Governor Walz — is entirely in the wrong. But even though her death is entirely her own fault, I can’t help but feel sorry for her. Amid the ICE raids in Minneapolis, amid the response to a woman being justly killed, you have examples of leftists not learning their lesson at all. One of the protesters was actually trying to grab the weapon of law enforcement. Why might one think it’s okay to grab the weapon of a National Guardsman or law enforcement officer? Well, one of the inciting incidents for all of BLM, for all of this leftist anarchy and rioting in recent years, was the Michael Brown case. In that case, Michael Brown, a young thug who had just robbed a store, goes up and starts taunting a cop, then threatens the cop, then reaches into the police car and grabs the cop’s weapon. The weapon actually discharges, and still the cop doesn’t kill him until he goes away. And then the thug turns around, comes back, and starts charging the cop. And the way that incident was rewritten by the media was, “that poor little child, Michael Brown, a gentle giant, was executed in cold blood by a racist officer. He did nothing wrong. He had his hands up. He said, ‘Don’t shoot.’” Completely made up.  But if you are one of these leftist activists in the streets and you learn that you can get away with this stuff; if you’re told law enforcement is evil and racist and terrible, then you need to stop them. Take, for example, what Maxine Waters (D-CA) said back in 2018 during Trump’s first term: If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station; you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome. Then, if you see the Michael Brown case, which helped kick off BLM, you’ll say to yourself, “I can go grab a cop’s weapon, and I’m not at fault.” Well, sooner or later, you are going to get shot, and it’s going to be your fault. And I feel bad for that person. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show But I also blame the Democrats for this situation. I blame people like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. One day after January 6, on January 7, 2026, Tim Walz literally called for insurrection. He called on Minnesota National Guardsmen to violently oppose federal law enforcement, which is as clear-cut a case of insurrection as there can be. In my view, Walz should be arrested for it.  Here’s what he had to say about the incident. Watch: BREAKING: Tim Walz announces that he issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to “protect Minnesotans” from “rogue Ice Agents.” Wow. pic.twitter.com/6L2EqIJxd1 — Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) January 7, 2026 Credit: @AndrewKolvet/X.com He wants to be very careful? And deploy the Minnesota National Guard? For those of you who are confused on the matter, take a look at the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Article VI, clause two of the United States Constitution states: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. When Tim Walz says the Minnesota National Guard is there to protect people in the event of a natural disaster, chaos, or rioting, that’s true. When he says the Minnesota National Guard is there to protect them from federal agents, that’s not true. That is completely untrue. That would violate not merely the law and the American political tradition, that would violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Either Walz doesn’t know anything, which is plausible, or he is reckless and a traitor to his country. Either way, there is a strong case to be made that Tim Walz should be arrested for his statements. Now, I am not someone who says we need to round up all of our political opponents. I’m really not. I’m pretty moderate, relative to both the Left and the Right, with my rhetoric. I think there is a very strong case to be made, however, that Tim Walz should be arrested for his statements. By the way, he doesn’t stop there. Watch: Did Tim Walz just say Minnesota is at war with the Federal Government??? pic.twitter.com/HbqxPZ9m6U — TheBlaze (@theblaze) January 7, 2026 Credit: @theblaze/X.com Tim Walz is effectively stating that he views Minnesota as being at war with the federal government. It’s not quite a firm declaration, but it’s about as close as you can get. And he’s the governor of Minnesota. He’s declaring war on the government of the United States. He’s talking about calling up troops to fight the government of the United States. There is a special irony here. Democrats recently guffawed and howled and cheered because a statue of Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest Americans in history, was taken down in the U.S. Capitol and replaced with someone no one’s ever heard of. Robert E. Lee was an American patriot who defended his homeland and also helped bring about peace and reconciliation in America. Lee’s statue comes down because he was a “terrible, awful, evil insurrectionist.” You were not allowed to declare war on the government of the United States 150 years ago. Now, sitting Governor Tim Walz, a man who was the most recent Democrat nominee for vice president, was almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president — Tim Walz, as governor, more or less declares war on the federal government. And then begins to take actions to actually back it up. There actually is a good argument to be made for arresting Tim Walz. He was just caught in a major fraud scandal with the Somalis, and it looks like he’s engaged in a cover-up of the scandal. Putting that aside, there is still a very strong argument to arrest him for his statements. The liberals who whine about January 6 are not doing so in any kind of principled way. The same liberals who say you can’t question election results supported Al Gore when he held up the election results in 2000, probably the most famous example. Then, Hillary Clinton denied the election results, and Stacey Abrams denied the election results in Georgia. So principles play no role in this. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. But let’s say the libs don’t believe in any of these principles. Just as a matter of law. Just as a matter of the Constitution. Tim Walz is leading a literal insurrection against the government of the United States. I’m not saying that the federal government should arrest him. I’m not. I haven’t come to that conclusion. But they should strongly consider it.