Tensions remain high in Minnesota as ACLU files lawsuit and Trump threatens Insurrection Act – US politics live

<p>Minnesota governor Tim Walz urges president to ‘stop this campaign of retribution’ as he threatens to deploy military</p><p>Hello and thank you for joining us on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</a> live blog.</p><p>Tensions remain high in <strong>Minneapolis</strong> in the aftermath of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/minnesota-ice-shooting">killing </a>of <strong>Renee Good</strong> by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.</p><p>A group of US parliamentarians is visiting <strong>Copenhagen</strong> today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced on Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the US to discuss their “fundamental” disagreements over <strong>Greenland</strong> – but on Thursday, <strong>Karoline Leavitt,</strong> Trump’s press secretary, maintained that the purpose of this working group was “to continue to have <strong>technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland.</strong>” Our colleague Jakub Krupa have more on that over on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/16/greenland-denmark-us-europe-live-news-updates">the Europe live blog</a>.</p><p>In more immigration news, the death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in <strong>Texas</strong> in early January <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ice-detention-camp-texas-death">may be investigated as a homicide </a>after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.</p><p>Venezuelan opposition leader <strong>María Corina Machado </strong>met with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. After, she said that she had presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal.</p><p>An appeals court dismissed <strong>Mahmoud Khalil’s</strong> lawsuit challenging his initial detention, and opened up the path for his re-arrest. Khalil – a green card holder and Columbia graduate – was released from an immigration detention facility last year, after he was initially arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/16/donald-trump-minnesota-ice-us-politics-live-latest-news">Continue reading...</a>

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