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Citizen Frank
July 20, 2025
Good morning. It’s Sunday, July 20.
The mayor of Minneapolis — who oversaw the city during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots — has lost the backing of the Dem party to a Somali-American socialist following a contested vote by party members.
Omar Fateh, 35, a Minnesota state Senator, won the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party for Minneapolis mayor over Jacob Frey, who has been in office since 2018.
Fateh (MN-62), who is the first Somali American and Muslim to serve in the Minnesota state Senate, received more than 60% of the vote from delegates at the Minneapolis DFL convention late Saturday — despite complaints from the Frey campaign over the election process.
An off-duty Border Patrol agent was shot in the face after being robbed by a moped-riding illegal immigrant in a New York City park — but he shot back and wounded his attacker, according to sources.
The suspect has been identified as Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a 21-year-old Dominican national with a lengthy rap sheet in New York as well as a deportation order, according to sources — but he was let go each time he was busted.
Mora entered the US illegally via the southern border under the Biden admin, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday.
Trump administration officials are fuming over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “madman’’ trigger-happy behavior even as the president plays nice with him, a new report says.
Recent aggressive actions by Netanyahu — including the bombing of Syria last week and the shelling of a church in Gaza despite President Trump’s warm embrace and chumminess with Bibi — have more than unnerved top US officials behind the scenes, Axios said.
“Bibi acted like a madman. He bombs everything all the time,” a White House official vented to the outlet. “This could undermine what Trump is trying to do.”
An already active start to the 2026 cycle has kicked into overdrive in recent weeks with a major retirement announcement, the passage of a key GOP priority and moves by candidates that could further scramble the chess board.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) made waves in the lead-up to the passage of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by announcing he would not be seeking a third term next year, throwing the party’s push to retain the seat in flux.
That was only a prelude, however, to the GOP getting its mammoth tax and spending package over the finish line by July 4, with the newly minted law set to potentially play a far-reaching role as Democrats try to tether Republicans to the Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cuts that were included in the bill.
Former President Barack Obama said this week that males need to have gay friends to call them out over “ignorant” remarks and to prepare them in case they have a gay or “non-binary” son.
Obama made the comments on his wife Michelle’s “IMO” podcast, which she co-hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson.
When the discussion turned to raising young men, Obama said boys need “exposure” to all sorts of male role models, who can sometimes shed “perspective” on their own dad.
At least one person was killed and six were injured as a fire engulfed a residential building amid a Russian drone attack on Odesa overnight on July 19.
“The enemy launched a massive attack on Odesa with strike drones. Despite the active work of our air defense forces, there is damage to civilian infrastructure,” Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper first said at approximately 1:01 a.m. local time in a Telegram post.
Emergency services are cleaning up debris as a result of the attack, and casualty figures are preliminary.
Survivors of the Tigray war in Ethiopia have bravely spoken out on the systematic violence perpetrated against civilians by both sides in the conflict, alleging harrowing accounts of gang-rape, torture and mutilation during and after the fighting.
Tseday, a mother-of-two who had been living in the Oromia region with her husband when the war broke out, told French newspaper Le Monde that she was stopped and raped by ‘soldiers from the federal army’ as they fled into exile in the months following the ceasefire.
‘They raped me first, then my two-year-old daughter. After that, they killed my husband and cut up his body in front of us. They forced us to watch,’ she recounted in a harrowing testimony published on Wednesday.
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