U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Want Qualified Immunity

Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham

U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Want Qualified Immunity

Tohono O'odham Raymond Mattia's family said the U.S. Border Patrol is using an edited, redacted video of the agents murdering Raymond at his home on the Tohono O'odham Nation and the video is not reliable evidence.

By Courthouse News

SAN FRANCISO — A Ninth Circuit panel appeared unlikely on Wednesday to reverse the denial of qualified immunity to three Border Patrol agents who shot and killed an unarmed man on his front lawn in the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The family of Raymond Mattia, killed in 2023, says the three-judge panel cannot rely on “an edited and untested, incomplete and redacted body camera compilation” to challenge claims made in the lawsuit, which must be taken as fact at the motion to dismiss stage.

Tohono O'odham Nation Denied Injunction to Halt Border Wall

Tohono O'odham Nation Denied Injunction to Halt Border Wall

Photo courtesy tree sitters in Lochiel, Arizona

After rejecting all of the Tohono O'odham Nation's arguments to halt border wall construction, a federal judge expects Homeland Security to 'Consult and Cooperate' with the Tribe. The U.S. government has already waived and violated all federal laws which protect the borderlands in order to build the double-layered wall.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 15, 2026

WASHINGTON -- The Tohono O'odham Nation was denied an injunction to halt construction of the border wall on Friday by a federal judge who ruled the government's interests outweigh other possible harms. The judge failed to uphold the tribe's right to their land and to protect it from being diminished by the border wall. Further, the judge ruled that the border wall would not be illegal trespass.

"We strongly disagree with this ruling and are considering all possible options for moving forward," Chairman Verlon Jose and Vice Chairwoman Carla Johnson said in a statement.

U.S. Manufactured Crimes and Spied on Peaceful Protesters During Minneapolis Metro Surge, New Court Filing Reveals

Tipis stand at Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring), a sacred site for the Dakota and other tribes, across from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Tuesday in Minneapolis.Kerem Yücel | MPR News, Feb. 11, 2026.

U.S. Manufactured Crimes and Spied on Peaceful Protesters During Minneapolis Metro Surge, New Court Filing Reveals

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 14, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS -- While Dakotas were praying at a sacred spring for those held in federal detention at the Whipple building in Minneapolis -- the U.S. government was spying on, and stalking, the Whipple watchers, a new court document reveals.

The government is now refusing to release all of its documents on its surveillance of those watching the Whipple building. The Whipple building is on the site of a former concentration camp, where Dakota and Ho Chunk were imprisoned, suffered and died.

Energy Fuels under Investigation for Insider Trading

White Mesa Ute protest Energy Fuels' radioactive dump in their community.
Photo by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, Censored News

Energy Fuels is being investigated for insider trading

 
Bears Ears opened up for new uranium mining. Photo Tim Petersen, Grand Canyon Trust

By KNAU Radio in Flagstaff 

House Democrats are investigating the uranium mining company Energy Fuels for alleged insider trading.

The investigation centers on whether Energy Fuels executives received privileged information about Trump’s planned slashing of Bears Ears National Monument before the news became public, and if they used that information to purchase stock in their own business. The company said in a statement provided to KNAU that it "strongly rejects any suggestion that the Company or its executives engaged in any improper conduct.”