{"id":67902,"date":"2026-03-03T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/kristi-noem-refuses-to-retract-statement-calling-minnesotans-killed-by-federal-agents-domestic-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:54:58","slug":"kristi-noem-refuses-to-retract-statement-calling-minnesotans-killed-by-federal-agents-domestic-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/kristi-noem-refuses-to-retract-statement-calling-minnesotans-killed-by-federal-agents-domestic-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem refuses to retract statement calling Minnesotans killed by federal agents \u2018domestic terrorists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland security secretary was grilled in Senate hearing over immigration enforcement crackdown in Twin Cities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/03\/donald-trump-iran-war-powers-kristi-noem-primaries-friedrich-merz-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. (DHS), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kristi-noem\">Kristi Noem<\/a>, on Tuesday would not retract her statements calling the two US citizens who were killed by immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis earlier this year \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d, while also claiming that agents do not abide by quotas for arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> for the first time since the killings, Noem evaded a question by the Senate judiciary committee ranking member, Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, about whether she would take back the false accusations about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota-ice-shooting\">Renee Good and Alex Pretti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/kristi-noem-senate-hearing-minnesota-ice-shootings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland security secretary was grilled in Senate hearing over immigration enforcement crackdown in Twin Cities US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. (DHS), Kristi Noem, on Tuesday would not retract her statements calling &#8230; <a title=\"Kristi Noem refuses to retract statement calling Minnesotans killed by federal agents \u2018domestic terrorists\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/kristi-noem-refuses-to-retract-statement-calling-minnesotans-killed-by-federal-agents-domestic-terrorists\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kristi Noem refuses to retract statement calling Minnesotans killed by federal agents \u2018domestic terrorists\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}