A 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Good was driving a red SUV when ICE agents approached her vehicle on Portland Avenue near East 34th Street around 9:30 a.m. Witnesses reported that agents ordered her to exit the vehicle, and after she began to reverse and then move forward, an agent near the front of her SUV drew his weapon and fired multiple shots, striking her. The vehicle crashed into another parked car shortly after the shooting.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, during a press conference on Wednesday evening, said that ICE agents were conducting operations in adverse weather when they became stuck in snow and were attempting to push their vehicle out. She said that a "mob of agitators" blocked the agents, and that Good, who had been "harassing and impeding law enforcement operations" all day, "weaponized her vehicle" and attempted to run over an ICE officer, prompting the agent to act in self-defense.

Noem described the act as "domestic terrorism" and called for federal prosecutors to charge individuals who use vehicles to ram ICE agents. She also said the agent was hit by the vehicle and briefly hospitalized.

The shooting occurred amid a surge of over 2,000 federal agents deployed to the Twin Cities for immigration enforcement, following criticism from the Trump administration of the fraud found in Minnesota’s social service programs and its large Somali population.

The incident has sparked intense controversy, with federal officials, including President Donald Trump, asserting that Good intentionally weaponized her vehicle to run over ICE agents, calling it an act of domestic terrorism.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, described Good as a "professional agitator" who was "very disorderly, obstructing and resisting" before "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." He stated the agent "seems to have shot her in self-defense" and called the outcome fortunate. Trump’s post was accompanied by video footage of the incident.

"You can accept that this woman's death is a tragedy while acknowledging it's a tragedy of her own making," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X. "Don't illegally interfere in federal law enforcement operations and try to run over our officers with your car. It's really that simple. I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them. To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law."

In contrast, far-left Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have dismissed this narrative as false, citing video evidence that shows no clear attempt to ram agents, and have demanded that ICE leave the city. Walz called the DHS claims "propaganda" and claimed that the federal government's actions were creating fear and endangering public safety.

The incident is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), with the BCA specifically examining whether any state laws were violated.

Good was identified by her mother, Donna Ganger, describing her as "one of the kindest people I’ve ever known" who was caring for her neighbors at the time of her death.

The Minneapolis City Council described Good as a resident who was out "caring for her neighbors" when she was killed.

The incident has led to widespread protests, including a demonstration in New York City’s Foley Square, where protesters chanted for justice and called for ICE to be removed from American streets.

Rumble, the video streaming platform, has launched a non-custodial crypto wallet in partnership with Tether, enabling users to tip creators directly using Bitcoin (BTC), USDT, and Tether Gold (XAUT).

The wallet, built using Tether’s Wallet Development Kit (WDK), eliminates reliance on traditional intermediaries like banks and payment processors, with MoonPay providing the on- and off-ramp infrastructure for fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions via credit cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, and Venmo, while maintaining full custody of their assets.

The Rumble Wallet is non-custodial, meaning users retain full control of their assets. It supports Bitcoin, USDT, and Tether Gold (XAUT) at launch, with plans for potential future asset additions. The wallet is embedded directly into the Rumble platform, enabling instant, borderless transactions.

MoonPay serves as the on- and off-ramp provider, enabling users to convert between crypto and traditional payment methods such as credit cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, and Venmo. This hybrid structure lowers barriers for non-crypto users while preserving decentralization at the custody level.

MoonPay’s CEO, Ivan Soto-Wright, described peer-to-peer crypto payments as the future of the internet economy and praised Rumble for being one of the first major platforms to adopt this model.

Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski saId that the wallet aligns with Rumble’s free-speech mission with decentralized financial tools, emphasizing that the platform is “putting more power into the hands of users and creators so they can engage with and financially support the content they like.”

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino described the launch as a milestone in expanding decentralized payments to a mainstream audience, noting it gives users “more control than any platform has offered before” and marking the first real-world deployment of Tether’s WDK.

After downloading and signing into the Rumblke Wallet, content creators can enable the tip jar on their Rumble channels and profiles.

Viewers can send tips by selecting the “Tip” button from within the wallet or on a video or channel page; choosing their preferred cryptocurrency (BTC, USDT, or XAUT), and confirming the transaction (via their connected wallet).

Funds can be deposited in the wallet using fiat via MoonPay’s supported payment methods, and creators can withdraw or convert received assets using the same tools.

The launch marks a significant step in mainstream crypto adoption, aligning with Rumble’s free-speech mission and Tether’s push for decentralized financial tools. Users can receive and send money to other crypto wallets, buy, swap and store cryptocurrencies.

The partnership follows Tether’s $775 million strategic investment in Rumble in late 2024, which gave Tether a nearly 48% stake in the company. Rumble has also adopted a Bitcoin treasury strategy, holding 211 BTC as of early 2026.

The wallet launch is part of a broader strategic alignment, including a $150 million GPU leasing agreement with Northern Data, which Rumble is merging with in a $767 million all-stock deal. This merger would expand Rumble’s cloud and AI infrastructure, positioning it as a full-stack provider with access to over 22,000 Nvidia GPUs.

The announcement Monday, triggered a positive market response, with Rumble’s stock (RUM) rising nearly 4% in premarket trading and over 5% year-to-date. Retail sentiment on Stocktwits shifted to “extremely bullish,” with users projecting the stock could surpass $10.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a suite of groundbreaking innovations at CES 2026, centering on the new Vera Rubin AI platform and the Alpamayo reasoning model for autonomous vehicles.

The Vera Rubin platform, now in full production, is a six-chip, extreme-codesigned AI system designed to deliver up to five times the computing power of the previous Blackwell generation while reducing token generation costs by up to 10 times.

This next-generation AI supercomputer integrates 88 custom Olympus cores per Vera CPU and 336 billion transistors per Rubin GPU, with each system containing a pair of both components. The platform is designed for large-scale AI inference and training, capable of being clustered into "pods" with over 1,000 Rubin chips to form a single AI engine. It features a proprietary data format and includes innovations like "context memory storage" to improve long-form AI interactions.

The system is expected to be deployed by major cloud providers including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and CoreWeave, as well as by AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI. Cooling is optimized using hot water, and the chassis can be assembled in just five minutes.

Alpamayo, an open-source family of reasoning models, enables autonomous vehicles to handle complex, unfamiliar driving scenarios through chain-of-thought reasoning, with the first deployment in the 2025 Mercedes-Benz CLA set for early 2026.

This 10-billion-parameter chain-of-thought reasoning model is designed to guide autonomous vehicles through unpredictable situations by breaking down complex scenarios into smaller, manageable problems and explaining its decisions at each step. It is part of NVIDIA’s full-stack DRIVE platform and will be used in the 2025 Mercedes-Benz CLA, which has already earned a five-star safety rating from EuroNCAP.

Alpamayo is also being used in conjunction with NVIDIA’s Cosmos simulation environment to train robots and vehicles using synthetic data from digital twins. The model is open-sourced, including the training data, to promote transparency and trust.

In other highlights of his presentation, Huang was joined on stage by autonomous BDX droids from Star Wars, trained using NVIDIA’s Cosmos and Isaac Sim platforms, demonstrating the company’s progress in physical AI.

NVIDIA also announced partnerships with Siemens to enhance manufacturing through digital twin-based robotics training. Additionally, the company emphasized its focus on inference efficiency, with Rubin chips designed to handle real-time AI responses more effectively than previous generations.

While no new GeForce RTX GPUs were announced during the main keynote, NVIDIA covered its gaming advancements on GeForce On Community Update. This included DLSS 4.5, which introduces a second-generation transformer model to reduce ghosting and shimmering, along with support for 6x multi-frame generation and dynamic frame generation.

G-Sync Pulsar, a new flicker reduction technology, was also announced, promising perceived motion clarity equivalent to 1,000Hz through backlight pulsing and adaptive brightness/color temperature adjustments. Pre-orders for G-Sync Pulsar displays are set to open January 7, 2026.

All announced products by NVIDIA are either in full production or scheduled for rollout in the second half of 2026, with the Vera Rubin platform and Alpamayo already being integrated into early partner systems.