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Alex Pretti’s family hold first press conference since her death | CNN World News

Alex Pretti’s family hold first press conference since her death | CNN

Alex Pretti’s parents demanded answers Tuesday, saying the federal government has stayed silent for 275 days since immigration agents shot and killed their son, a US citizen, in Minneapolis in January. The day of the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security posted that agents were conducting a targeted operation when an “individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and that after they tred to “disarm the subject,” an agent “fired defensive shots,” though video of the incident disputed those claims. CNN has reached out to the DOJ and the US Attorney for Minnesota.

Trump officials reportedly asked staffers to secretly hack a voting machine. Technology
The Verge • 3w ago

Trump officials reportedly asked staffers to secretly hack a voting machine.

The request from political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was never fulfilled, ProPublica found, but staffers were shocked at the directive not to report flaws back to the voting machine company. It demonstrates why state officials’ trust in CISA has eroded. [Link: This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump. | https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump | ProPublica]

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