Andy Mannix

Americans’ reactions to the videos of a violent act in Minneapolis have exposed the nation’s raw divisions.

By Liz Sawyer, Andy Mannix and Sarah Nelson Star Tribune (TNS)

MINNEAPOLIS — In the minutes after an immigration agent shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, graphic bystander videos of the incident quickly prompted dueling narratives.

MINNEAPOLIS — In the minutes after an immigration agent shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, graphic bystander videos of the incident quickly prompted dueling narratives.

With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken over states' rights

The first test for prosecutors, if they file charges, would be to prove the agents don’t qualify for immunity through the Constitution’s supremacy clause.

They asked nicely at first. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who’d recently moved to Minneapolis, local law enforcement officials requested a partnership with the federal government to investigate the case, as they’d done in...

Change Appearance Reporting Highlights A National Problem: Old Apostolic Lutheran Church congregations around the U.S. have been forced to deal with child sex abuse.

Across the country, the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church’s culture of “forgiving and forgetting” sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims, who sometimes stretch from parents to children to grandchildren.

They were pillars of their church, congregants in a little-known denomination that sets itself apart from the world and teaches that even the most unconscionable acts can be wiped away — not just forgiven, but forgotten and never spoken of again.So it went in a rural Wyoming church, where a man was ...