Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has come under intense scrutiny after defending an ICE officer who fatally shot a woman during a tense federal operation in south Minneapolis. The shooting occurred amid protests and a heavy federal law enforcement presence, just blocks from where George Floyd was killed in 2020. Noem labelled the incident an act of “domestic terrorism,” claiming the woman attempted to run over an ICE officer. 

Iran is facing one of its most dangerous waves of unrest in years as nationwide protests erupt over a collapsing economy, soaring inflation, and growing anger toward the clerical regime. What began as demonstrations against rising food prices, a crashing Iranian rial, and unaffordable medical costs has rapidly transformed into open political defiance.