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Christian Castro faces four counts of assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in Minnesota after prosecutors formally accused Castro of shooting at the front door of a Minneapolis home that was occupied on Jan. 14, and striking Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg with gunfire. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that Castro fired in self-defense, but evidence later rebuked Castro's account.

Prosecutors say that phone records show that Sampson and three others had "numerous communications" relating to a commercial sex organization. During the investigation, which began in 2021, 13 people were interviewed about the operation. Some said they had been working with Sampson and the other suspects since 2020, and that they provided money from their transactions to the organization.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said farmers need to see more reductions in the price of fertilizer while promoting White House trade policies and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement Tuesday in a packed Minnesota barn.

Rollins’ remarks at Farmfest, a celebration of Minnesota agriculture, come as crop farmers are staring down a harvest where profits will be squeezed by low crop prices. Despite a nearly 30-minute delay, the crowd of farmers and politicians applauded Rollins, who hinted better times will come for producers once the Iran war ends.

Rollins said “input prices are killing” farmers’ bottom lines, specifically the rising cost of equipment, labor and land.

“There’s no doubt those prices have gone up as they were trending pretty significantly down before the conflict in Iran — not here to talk about Iran, unfortunately, I don’t know much about that. I just know about agriculture,” Rollins said.

While down from price peaks when tensions between Iran and the United States were highest a few months ago, the price of common urea fertilizer has swelled since President Donald Trump took office. Yet the prices of crops such as corn have not kept up.

Rollins acknowledged that the war affected the cost of some of the crucial inputs such as fertilizer.

“It’s not enough, and I hear you,” Rollins said about efforts to tamp down input inflation. “But we’re trending in the right direction. And once this Iranian war is over, you will see even more.”

Law enforcement agencies in Eden Prairie and Anoka County say they've had similar incidents

A growing number of federal assault‑on‑officer cases tied to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Richard Berger have unraveled in Minnesota courts, with judges raising concerns about affidavits they say don’t match video evidence — and, in one case, appear to be false

In the case of Christina Rank, defense attorneys presented body camera and surveillance footage showing Rank was in a marked turn lane when a government vehicle made an illegal turn in front of her - contradicting Berger's allegation that Rank "caused a collision."

Last week, Rank’s case was dismissed with prejudice, which means it cannot be filed again, with federal prosecutors saying their request for dismissal is “based on a lack of probable cause and in the interest of justice.”

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/feds-drop-assault-charge-against-twin-cities-teachers-aide-arrested-by-ice-agents-outside-school

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

The law passed the Legislature this year with nearly unanimous support and is set to take effect on Saturday.