The death of Renee has ignited anger across the US, with more than a thousand protests held across the country in the wake of the ICE-related shooting.
Large crowds marched on Saturday in Boston, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. In snow-covered Minneapolis, crowds reached into the thousands, chanting: “Fuck ICE, ICE out!” and Renee Nicole Good’s name. With planned actions in all 50 states, events will continue into Sunday.
Earlier on Saturday, US representatives Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig had attempted to enter a Minneapolis ICE facility, later accusing the agency of unlawfully denying them entry.
The Trump administration has sought to claim that Good was part of a shadowy “leftwing network” who was trying “to incite violence” against federal agents, and was probably a “paid agitator”.
Here are the key stories at a glance:
Protests condemn ICE killing and ‘regime that is willing to kill its own citizens
On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup, but both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to what they see as Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.
“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter.
Ilhan Omar and two other House members blocked from visiting ICE facility in Minnesota
Three Democratic members of Congress from Minnesota, including House representative Ilhan Omar, were blocked from entering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center located near Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
The incident took place near the Whipple federal building in the Twin Cities as clashes and demonstrations continued after the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis earlier in the week.
US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries
The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens, one week after the capture of the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
In a security alert sent out on Saturday, the state department said there were reports of armed members of pro-regime militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence that the occupants were US citizens or supporters of the country.
Pardoned January 6 defendant runs for Florida political office
A Florida man who was convicted then pardoned by Donald Trump after he grabbed then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and posed for photographs with it during the US Capitol riot is running for county office.
Adam Johnson filed to run as a Republican for an at-large seat on the Manatee county commission on Tuesday. That was the fifth anniversary of the January 6 riot, when he was photographed smiling and waving as he carried Pelosi’s lectern after the pro-Trump mob’s attack in 2021.
Trump administration suspends $129m in benefit payments to Minnesota
The Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.
The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on social media that was addressed to Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, notifying them of the administration’s decision and citing investigations into alleged fraud conducted by local non-profits and businesses.
What else happened today:
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Trump announces one-year 10% cap on credit card interest rates
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Vice-president JD Vance has agreed that it is “entirely unacceptable” for platforms such as X to allow the proliferation of AI-generated sexualised images of women and children, says the UK’s deputy prime minister David Lammy.
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The Guardian’s Julian Borger has written a compelling read on Trump’s imperialist ambitions.
Catching up? Here’s what happened on 9 January 2026.
