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Anti-ICE Protests, Trump's Next Military Action? & Golden Globes Upset - Monday, January 12, 2026

The NewsWorthy

Erica Mandy

News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The news to know for Monday, January 12, 2026!

We're talking about rising tensions over a deadly shooting involving an ICE agent, and the protests that brought out tens of thousands of people around the country.

Also, Iran's deadly crackdown on protesters that could prompt military action from the U.S., while President Trump also threatens Cuba and Greenland.

Plus: how Trump's portrait at the Smithsonian was changed, where thousands of nurses are set to go on strike, and which movies, TV shows, and podcasts won big at this year's Golden Globes.

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0:00.0

Today is Monday, January 12. We're talking about rising tensions over a deadly shooting involving

0:05.6

an ice agent and the protests that brought out tens of thousands of people around the country.

0:10.2

Also, Iran's deadly crackdown on protesters that could prompt military action from the U.S.

0:15.2

While President Trump also threatens Cuba and Greenland. Plus, how Trump's portrait at the Smithsonian

0:20.2

was changed, where thousands of nurses are set to go on strike, and which movies, TV shows, and podcast won big at this year's Golden Gloves.

0:28.8

Those stories and even more news to know coming up.

0:32.9

Welcome to The Newsworthy. All the Day's News in less than 15 minutes.

0:37.2

I'm Erica Mandy.

0:38.2

Thanks so much for being here. Let's do this. All around the country, large crowds of Americans

0:45.7

took to the streets to protest the way federal officials are cracking down on immigration.

0:50.3

Activists say at least a thousand so-called ice out for good events happened.

1:00.3

A lot of focus was on the death of the Minnesota woman named Renee Good, who died in a confrontation with an ice agent last week.

1:05.0

A new video came out on Friday showing the officer's perspective leading up to the shooting.

1:07.7

It appears the officer was recording with his cell phone.

1:31.5

The video shows Good's wife also recording the ice agent's actions from outside of the car, while Good sits in the driver's seat with her hand on the wheel. The last thing she says to the officer is, quote, that's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you. Other officers tell Good to get out of the car in one attempts to open her door. So her wife tells her to drive. Good reverses slightly and then drives forward, and the ice agent at the front of her vehicle, seemingly the one recording, opens fire.

1:34.8

Then a man's voice is heard saying a misogynistic insult toward her. While the Homeland Security Department says the video shows the officer's life was in danger

1:39.2

and that he fired in self-defense at a woman who was trying to run him over,

1:43.0

and DHS Secretary Christy

1:44.3

Nome again characterized Good's actions as an act of domestic terrorism. Good's family tells

1:49.5

it differently, though. Her wife explained their actions by saying they had stopped their car

1:53.2

to support their neighbors after dropping their son off at school, and that, quote,

1:56.8

we had whistles, they had guns. State and local officials in Minneapolis also reject the federal government's characterization.

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