A five-day series of protests, training and events organized by those opposed to aggressive ICE operations kicks off Wednesday in the Twin Cities and is expected to draw participants from across the country eager to learn strategies for resisting what organizers describe as a federal occupation.

“Bring the Heat, Melt the ICE Week of Action” is aimed at opposing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and calling for the elimination of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, organizers said.

Organizers expect more than 2,000 people to participate, including attendees from other states coming to learn about how Minnesotans reacted to the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” over the past 2½ months.

“What we don’t want to see is ICE leaving Minneapolis and taking their operations elsewhere to terrorize someone else’s community,” said Emily, one of the organizers, who declined to be fully identified. “What we want to see is a national movement that can rise up and defend their neighbors wherever it’s needed next. We don’t just need ICE out of Minnesota, we need an end to ICE everywhere.”

The event will feature “teach-ins and panel discussions on tactics for resisting ICE operations, mutual aid strategies for supporting migrants who are being targeted, and growing the national movement to abolish ICE and DHS,” a press release said.

In addition, several protests and community events are planned throughout the week,

The activities will culminate with a Sunday morning march from Fort Snelling to the Whipple Federal Building, the site of ICE’s local headquarters.

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By KATHY McCORMACK and PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities have charged a New Hampshire resident in connection with a shooting that occurred at the state’s border with Canada, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Blu Zeke Daly, 26, who also goes by Cullan Zeke Daly, of Manchester, was charged with one count of attempted murder of a federal officer and one count of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said. Daly was shot near the border early Sunday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was returning fire from Daly, investigators said Monday.

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Daly is at a hospital receiving medical treatment under guard, prosecutors said. The Border Patrol agent, whom authorities have not named, was unharmed, authorities said earlier this week.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has said shots were fired around 1 a.m. Sunday in Pittsburg, a town of about 800 people at the border with Canada. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire said Tuesday that a border patrol agent encountered Daly driving alone near the border late Saturday and followed Daly for a distance. Daly then arrived at the Pittsburg Port of Entry, which was closed at the time.

“The Border Patrol agent activated his emergency lights and exited his vehicle, at which point Daly started to turn. Daly then fired a handgun at the Border Patrol agent. The agent returned fire with his own service weapon and shot Daly,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

It was unclear Tuesday night if Daly had an attorney. Prosecutors said the case is still under investigation and the FBI is taking the lead.

Pittsburg is a rural community that is home to the state’s sole border crossing with the Canadian province of Quebec. It’s is about 150 miles north of the state capital of Concord. The town borders Maine and Vermont as well as Canada.

Whittle reported from Scarborough, Maine.

By MORGAN LEE, Associated Press

Federal workplace safety regulators fined three businesses Tuesday over their failure to protect six Colorado dairy workers who were killed by exposure to highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas after a manure pipe disconnected in an enclosed space.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced proposed fines totaling $246,609 against the dairy owner and two contractors working on a manure management system. The deaths of five men and a teenager on Aug. 20, 2025, shocked the rural communities in and around Keenesburg, 35 miles northeast of Denver.

Dairy owner Prospect Ranch LLC, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, faces the largest fine at $132,406 for serious violations, including failures in training, planning and protecting workers from “atmospheric hazards.”

Regulators also fined Colorado-based Fiske Inc. and another contractor hired to work on the system that released manure water and the hydrogen sulfide gas that led to the deaths, the government said Tuesday in a news release.

Fiske Inc.’s subsidiary High Plains Robotics services dairy equipment and employed some of those who died. Fiske faces $99,306 in penalties for failing to protect employees and provide hydrogen sulfide detection training.

“A Fiske employee and a Prospect Ranch employee attempted to stop the flow but were overcome by the gas,” OSHA said in the statement. “Subsequently, three more Fiske employees and one Prospect Ranch employee entered the pump room, which led to the loss of a total of six workers.”

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The Weld County coroner’s office determined from autopsies and toxicology tests that the people who died were exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas, but provided little indication of the circumstances of the deaths, describing only an industrial accident in a confined space at a dairy farm.

Contractor HD Builders was cited for failing to have a written hazard communication program and provide training on detecting hydrogen sulfide, with a proposed $14,897 penalty. Company employees were present but unharmed after the pipe disconnected.

The companies have 15 days to comply with proposed penalties, request an informal conference with safety regulators or challenge the findings before an occupation safety review commission.

The hazards of confined spaces on farms and dairies are a well-known and persistent cause of death in agriculture across the U.S. — often from exposure to odorless and colorless noxious gases, or due to asphyxiation in closed spaces where oxygen has been depleted.

First responders from a rural fire district in Weld County were dispatched around 6 p.m. on Aug. 20 to Prospect Ranch and took their own safety precautions as they entered a confined space.

All those who died in Colorado were Latino, ranging in age from 17 to 50. Four of them, including the teenage high school student, were from the same extended family.

Alejandro Espinoza Cruz, of Nunn, was found dead along with his 17-year-old son Oscar Espinoza Leos and a second son, 29-year-old Carlos Espinoza Prado.

The Espinozas are related by marriage to a 36-year-old from Greeley who died — Jorge Sanchez Pena, according to the Weld County coroner’s office.

The other two men — Ricardo Gomez Galvan, 40, and Noe Montañez Casañas, 32 — lived in Keenesburg.

The remains of Montañez Casañas, a veterinarian who was employed under a U.S. visa, were repatriated to the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, according to the Mexican consulate in Denver.

Lee reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Former Minnesota United head coach Eric Ramsay never gained any traction at West Bromwich Albion and was fired by the English club on Tuesday.

The Welshman took over the second-tier team on Jan. 16, but failed to win a single game while in charge. He managed four draws and suffered five defeats with a minus-13 goal differential. He was let go after a 1-1 tie with Charlton on Tuesday.

Ramsay took over West Brom after previous coach Ryan Mason struggled, and Ramsay couldn’t reverse the downward trend. WBA now sit only one point out of the relegation zone to the English third tier, and the side was bounced out of the FA Cup on his watch.

In 2024, Ramsay, then 32, became the youngest head coach in MLS and he led United to two straight Western Conference semifinal appearances. Under his stead, MNUFC set a record 58 points in 2025.

Ramsay’s teams in Minnesota were known for its low-block defensive formation, league-low possession percentage and set-piece success for a lot of its goal-scoring. Last season, MNUFC scored 56 goals in 34 games (1.6 per game), but at West Brom, his team scored five in nine (0.5 per game).

Ramsay had another year on his contract with MNUFC for 2026, and WBA paid an undisclosed amount of compensation to MNUFC to bring him back home to England.

Cameron Knowles, who was a Ramsay assistant the last two seasons, became the Loons’ new permanent head coach in January, and in the season opener, his team made two, one-goal comebacks to earn a 2-2 road draw with Austin FC on Saturday.

The Loons’ home opener is Saturday afternoon against FC Cincinnati at Allianz Field.