Unrest in Minneapolis is set to stretch into the weekend.

Demonstrators are protesting outside a federal building again on Friday after clashes intensified the night before.

The Department of Homeland Security says it arrested 12 anti-ICE protesters who it alleges were assaulting officers.

Scripps News Group cameras captured one woman being detained Thursday night.

On Friday, Democratic congressional lawmakers held a hearing in Minnesota bashing the Trump administration's deployment of federal immigration officers to the state and calling for them to leave.

"The Trump administration is abusing its power of the federal government to deny people their civil rights and subjecting them to violence," said Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN).

"What we are witnessing right now is unprecedented," said Rep. Ilan Omar (D-MN).

"What we're seeing on our streets is unnecessary abuses of force. This is an invasion for the sake of creating chaos by our own federal government," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

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But DHS is standing by its operation and highlighting some of the 2,500 undocumented migrants it says it's arrested in Minneapolis under its current deployment.

"Scores and scores of murderers, child pedophiles gang members, known and suspected terrorists, these are all the people that we've arrested in Minneapolis, and DHS and Secretary Noem, President Trump have done a phenomenal job of trying to give people transparency on who we are arresting," said DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin.

A majority of Americans say President Trump has gone too far in deporting migrants living in the U.S. illegally. However nearly as many say the president's actions have been about right or have not gone far enough.

On Thursday President Trump threatened to institute the Insurrection Act, to potentially deploy the U.S. military or federalize the national guard to quell ongoing anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis.

"We did discuss the Insurrection Act. He certainly has the constitutional authority to utilize that," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

The president's threat comes after another shooting involving a federal officer Wednesday night.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara pleaded with protesters in the aftermath of the shooting to leave the area. He said crowds that gathered afterward were breaking the law and throwing fireworks at police officers.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blamed federal agents' presence for the unrest and violence.

"We have ICE agents throughout our city and throughout our state who, along with border control, are creating chaos," Frey said.

And Minnesota's governor Tim Walz on Wednesday accused them of raining down trauma on the community.

"Let's be very, very clear. This long ago stopped being of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government," Walz said.

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Federal officials explained the Wednesday shooting on Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security says officers stopped someone who was in the U.S. illegally from Venezuela, who then fled in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car and fled on foot.

An officer eventually caught up to the subject but was allegedly assaulted by him.

DHS says two other people then attacked the officer with a "snow shovel and broom handle."

Officials say the agent feared for his life and shot the initial subject in the leg.

Wintry weather scattered across the U.S. is contributing to travel headaches right after the Christmas holiday.

Nationwide there were over 5,000 flight delays and more than 1,400 cancellations, according to tracking website FlightAware. The New York airports were leading the way with JFK, Newark and Laguardia each having more than 150 flights canceled.

Effects on the ground are also still pronounced.

California floods

In California, a powerful storm brought record-breaking rainfall and dangerous conditions across the state. The state's south in particular was battered by rain and experienced severe flooding, debris flows, mudslides and power outages.

Flooding and landslides have been pronounced due to burn scars left from large wildfires earlier in the year.

"We haven't had this much rain at this time of the year in decades," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said. "And so needless to say, our greatest concern [was] for those areas where the wildfires were in the city of Los Angeles that is Palisades and other areas outside of the city That's Malibu and Altadena. So we were worried about the burn scars and massive mudslides. I am happy to say that did not occur, but that was the reason for the evacuation orders. And we hope that this subsides, but this amount of rain over so many days does weaken the earth. And so we will be worried about mudslides for some time."

At least 3 deaths are attributed to the storm.

The ongoing flood threat to California is forecast to diminish as the weekend gets drier.

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Snow and wintry mix in New York

New York City is expecting the biggest snowfall in more than 3 years during the next few days. Between 4 and 8 inches of snow could fall as a powerful storm system moves across the Midwest towards the Northeast.

In both regions, millions will be bracing for snow and a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain. The National Weather Service advises the roads will be "treacherous" for those traveling back after Christmas.

America's obsession with the lottery is growing as jackpots balloon.

Monday's $1.6 billion Powerball drawing is the fifth largest pot in U.S. lottery history.

And it's part of a trend of growing jackpots. The top five largest have all come in the last three years.

"The prize gets bigger, it gets bigger, it gets bigger, and it snowballs. More people start playing, it gets even bigger. More people started playing, it gets even bigger and then lo and behold, a couple of weeks go by and you get to a billion dollars," says Jonathan Cohen, author of "For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America."

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Cohen says bigger jackpots are by design.

"The people who run the lottery have made it harder to win because people, people who buy tickets, care a lot more about the size of the jackpot than they do about their odds of winning."

In 2015, Powerball increased the range of numbers for the first five white balls, giving players slimmer odds of perfectly matching each number and taking home the grand prize.

Higher ticket prices are driving up jackpots, too.

Powerball upped prices in 2012 to two dollars per ticket, and in April Mega Millions increased its ticket price to five dollars.

"A share of every ticket, it depends on sort of over time, it's changed over time. But it's maybe a half or a third of every tick is going to go not just to prizes, but specifically to the top prize," Cohen says.

Another factor in enormous jackpots is the Federal Reserve.

Lotteries advertise the deferred annuity payment a winner would get if they got paid out over about 30 years. Because the Fed's interest rate has been relatively higher over the past few years, lotteries are able to advertise bigger jackpots.

"The most important thing is the size of the prize that can go on a billboard," Cohen says. "Any little trick of financial management they can do to project a slightly higher jackpot if you were to take the multi-year annuity, they're going to do it because that's how they know they get people in the door in the first place."

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The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the third time this year, lowering it by a quarter point and signaling it expects just one reduction in 2026 and likely another in 2027.

Growing dissent at the Fed

The move appears to signal that a majority of Federal Reserve board members think a rate cut will help boost a weaker labor market.

But once again, the board's members were not in agreement.

For the fourth straight meeting, at least one member dissented.

Stephen Miran, the Board of Governors member who President Trump appointed to join the board earlier this year, voted for lowering the rate by half a point.

Austan Goolsbee, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Jeffrey Schmid, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, each voted for no change to the interest rate.

It's the first time since 2019 that three board members dissented.

Dissent was also visible in the board members' forecasts for interest rate cuts next year.

Seven members forecast no cuts or rate hikes next year; four projected one cut; four projected two cuts; and four projected more than two reductions.

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This was a very difficult meeting for the Federal Reserve, Said Thomas Stockwell, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Tampa. There was a lot of evidence that suggested that a rate cut was needed, but there is also a lot of evidence that suggested a rate cut wasn't needed.

Stockwell says the decision was part of a balancing act to carry out the Federal Reserves dual mandate to keep prices steady and support a strong job market.

Typically, the bank cuts rates to boost a faltering labor market.

They're more worried about keeping the unemployment side of the equation in check and not letting the labor market get much worse than it is right now, Stockwell said.

New data released Tuesday showed employers laid off almost 1.9 million workers in October, the most in a month since January 2023.

Meanwhile, year-over-year inflation remains at 3% according to the latest data from September.

For consumers, another cut means the cost of borrowing money could come down. That may happen in the form of lower interest rates on home equity loans and credit cards.

But a cut also risks fanning inflation.

That could make it more challenging for the Trump administration to promote a new focus on affordability.

I have no higher priority than making America affordable again, and thats what were going to do, President Trump said during a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

The president has touted his work on the economy, but many Americans are still facing an affordability crisis.

More than nine in 10 U.S. adults say inflation is still an issue, according to a survey from WalletHub.

Congressional lawmakers questioned Adm. Frank Bradley during several sessions behind closed doors on Thursday.

The inquiry stems from the disclosure by the Trump Administration of follow-up strikes during a Sept. 2 military attack in the Caribbean. Those strikes killed 11 people who were allegedly on a boat transporting drugs to the U.S.

President Donald Trump announced a "kinetic strike" in a Truth Social post and shared a 29-second video of a single strike.

However, controversy erupted following a report last week from The Washington Post alleging Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered follow-up strikes on two survivors from the initial attack, including an alleged verbal order to "kill them all". Those follow-up strikes have raised legal concerns.

International law and Pentagon manuals state that incapacitated or shipwrecked individuals deserve "respect and protection", not further strikes, unless combat operations or threats still exist.

"If they are wounded, sick, no longer in the fight, as it were, then our obligation is to give them basic protections," said Victor Hansen, a former Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Army.

During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Hegseth said that it was Adm. Frank Bradley, who leads U.S. Special Operations Command, who ultimately gave the order to carry out the follow-up strikes.

"Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat," Hegseth said. "He sunk the boat and eliminated the threat, and it was the right call. We have his back."

The briefings come the same day the U.S. military announced another strike against an alleged drug vessel in international waters.

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Bradley received bipartisan praise from lawmakers who met with him Thursday, but Democrats and Republicans were split over their reactions to video they saw of the follow-up strikes.

"What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service," said Democrat Rep. Jim Himes who serves as the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee. "You have two individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who were killed by the United States."

Himes noted the people who were attacked were "bad guys," who were carrying drugs, but said after the initial strike "they were not in a position to continue their mission."

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, gave a different assessment after viewing the full video of the strikes.

"I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat loaded with drugs bound for the United States back over so they could stay in the fight," Cotton told reporters Thursday, adding that the Pentagon launched a total of four strikes on the boat.

Both Cotton and Himes said Bradley told members of Congress that he had not been given an order to "kill them all."

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Video of the follow-up strikes has not been released by the Pentagon, but President Trump said Wednesday it could be made public.

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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed during a Senate hearing Wednesday that something has to change to make health care affordable. But time is rapidly dwindling to reach a bipartisan fix.

"We've got to have a solution for three weeks from now," said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).

At the end of the year, Biden-era subsidies are set to expire for millions of Americans who receive their health care through the Affordable Care Act.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, without those subsidies 4.2 million more Americans will go without health insurance over the next decade.

Democrats largely want to extend those subsidies.

And some Republican lawmakers support extending the subsidies with changes, but the party in power hasn't agreed on a broader health care plan that could replace the Affordable Care Act.

Some, including Sen. Cassidy, are proposing a plan that would offer Americans more flexibility in how they use their health savings accounts.

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With just weeks before the deadline there's some pessimism that a deal can come together.

SCRIPPS NEWS' NATHANIEL REED: is there a bipartisan middle ground that could be reached with Republicans?

SEN. CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (D-NV): always. But it has to start on both sides, and right now the Republicans are in control.

"I think we'll probably have some vote of some kind on two dueling provisions, but again I'm not very optimistic that the Democrats are willing to reform a broken system," said Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO).

As lawmakers debate a path forward, health care will continue to stay in the spotlight.

A Scripps News/Talker Research poll found one in four Americans say health care is the most important issue facing the country today.

By car and by plane, a record number of Americans are set to travel for Thanksgiving.

After the federal government shutdown snarled air travel, TSA agents are getting paid again and expecting to screen more than 17 million passengers over the next week.

Air traffic control staffing levels are back to normal after absences caused thousands of flight cancellations during the lapse in government funding.

The FAA says it's ready for the holiday rush.

"The airlines, the travel sector in general, airports, TSA, FAA especially, for us this week is our Super Bowl, and I'm here to tell you we've got a great plan," said FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford.

"We're looking forward to an extraordinarily successful week of travel for the literally tens of millions of Americans that will be flying this week."

With the FAA still in a years-long push to fill a shortage of 3,000 controllers, isolated air traffic delays and cancellations are still possible.

But weather remains the likelier cause of any hiccups at the airport.

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Meanwhile, if you're one of the 73 million Americans who AAA says will drive for the holiday, there's good news at the gas pump.

"Most Americans are going to see gas prices roughly where they were last year, the national average at $3.02 a gallon, about 26 states seeing prices lower than last year," said, Patrick De Haan, Head of Petroleum Analysis at GasBuddy.

Data from Google Maps suggests roads will be busiest Wednesday from 1 to 3 pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 3 in the afternoon.

A Senate-passed bill to end the government shutdown will not guarantee any extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. That could mean higher health care bills for millions of Americans across the country.

Many have recently told the Scripps News Group what their insurance would look like next year without those subsidies.

"If I did not have that it would be over $600 a month which is prohibitively expensive for me," one enrollee said.

"I was expecting my costs to maybe double, maybe go up to $500, maybe at the most $600. But to see it over $1,000 was beyond shocking," said another.

"Going up to paying almost $1200 is going to be very, very difficult," said another.

A vast majority of the 24 million Americans enrolled in the Affordable Care Act marketplace receive subsidies that make their health care cheaper.

Without those, out-of-pocket premiums are projected to increase by 114% next year an average of more than $1,000, according to a KFF analysis.

The fact that the bill to reopen government wouldn't extend these subsidies is infuriating many Democrats who voted or plan to vote against it.

"I'm frustrated for the people of America," said Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). "The 24 million Americans that are potentially going to see their premiums increase."

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A Scripps News/Talker Research poll found nearly 70% of Americans are concerned about affording their own health insurance.

Congressional Republicans say they want to come up with their own health care plan, but it remains unclear what that would look like.

"I think the Democrats have a lot to answer for. Obamacare has been a disaster," said Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO).

Scripps News' Nathaniel Reed: Are you concerned that they will just voters will just blame the party in power? They won't know the nuance of how their healthcare prices got more expensive.

Sen. Schmitt: That's what elections are for.

Travelers at airports across the U.S. are preparing to be grounded because of the record-long federal government shutdown.

The FAA announced this week it may reduce flights by up to 10% across 40 of the nation's busiest airports potentially causing delays and cancellations in and out of major hubs including Denver, New York, Houston and Chicago.

"When we see pressures building in these 40 markets, we just can't ignore it, and we're not going to wait for a safety problem to truly manifest itself when the early indicators are telling us we can take action today to prevent things from deteriorating," said FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford.

A 10% cut could affect as many as 1,800 flights, according to one estimate, plus slow down cargo jets.

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Ground stops are already snarling traffic at dozens of airports during the government shutdown. Some air traffic controllers are not showing up to work after not getting a full paycheck since October 1, straining an already understaffed system.

"The stresses, the pressure, the fatigue is setting in. Air traffic controllers are texting, 'I don't even have enough money to put gas in my car to come to work,'" said Nick Daniels, President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

The U.S. saw more than 6,000 delays within, into our out of the country on Thursday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. At least 190 flights were canceled.

As of Thursday evening, more than 800 flights had been canceled for Friday.

Airlines are now scrambling to review flight schedules, saying the vast majority will run as planned.

Delta and United say long-haul international flights won't be affected at all -- and are also offering refunds for any passengers who'd rather not fly.

Crafting for Evan Cordes-Stone and his daughter, Evie, looks different these days.

The two have been spending afternoons in their Chicago apartment assembling whistles for neighbors to use if they see federal agents carrying out detainment operations.

"I'm a fan of very simple solutions," Cordes-Stone said on Monday while putting together a batch of 600 whistles. "This seemed like a very simple, efficient way to keep the community safe if ICE came in."

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Across the Chicago area, whistles have become a symbol and sound of resistance to the Trump administration's efforts to deport undocumented migrants.

"If you see an ICE agent, just observe them in the area, it's (three short whistles)," Cordes-Smith demonstrated. "If you see an ICE agent actively abducting someone or actively being aggressive towards the community, it's three long whistles."

Cordes-Stone and some local groups have assembled the whistles and passed them out to neighbors, left them in pop-up corner library boxes that normally store used books and given them to small businesses to hand out to customers.

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"We wanted our neighbors to be prepared when it happened," he said.

In September, ICE launched Operation Midway Blitz to target undocumented migrants who it says are "terrorizing Americans" across the state of Illinois.

The Department of Homeland Security says it's arrested over 1,000 undocumented migrants, "including the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers."

Critics of the Trump administration's operations say they've also detained undocumented migrants with no criminal record.

Cordes-Stone started assembling the whistles in early October. He and his daughter have since distributed more than 1,500 whistles.

"At the time we first started, ICE wasn't visible in our neighborhood yet, but we sensed that it was going to happen soon and we wanted our neighbors to be prepared when it happened," he said.

It happened on Oct. 24. In multiple operations, just blocks from where Cordes-Stone lives in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, Customs and Border Protection agents made arrests.

Abby Nystedt says she was on a call in her home when she heard the sound of whistles.

"I got off the call that I was on and came out of my house and started protesting with other neighbors that don't want to see this type of activity happening in our neighborhood or any neighborhood in our city or in our country."

Neighbors say federal agents detained one man who was part of a construction crew working on a home on Nystedt's street.

Within moments, Nystedt and others formed a crowd around the federal agents protesting their actions. Many blew whistles to alert others of what was happening.

The legality of blowing the whistle

"Certainly, blowing a whistle is your right to do under free speech," said David S. Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor. "On the other hand, once you've done that, you cannot now go and impede that officer from performing a legitimate lawful function."

Neighbors in Chicago say their whistle-blowing is peaceful and say it's their duty to sound the alarm.

"These whistles just kind of enable the community to be aware of what these agents are doing and to come out and watch what they're doing," Cordes-Stone said. "If you as a federal, and or civil servant, don't want the community, don't want the people to see what you're doing, you're probably not doing the right thing."

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment about locals using whistles to protest their operations.