CHAMPOLUC, Italy (AP) — One down, one to go.
Isaac Del Toro maintained his tight grip on the Giro d'Italia pink jersey on Friday, the first of two massive alpine days.
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The pack pedals during stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
France's Nicolas Prodhomme of Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale Team reacts after crossing the finish line to win the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)
France's Nicolas Prodhomme of Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale Team reacts after crossing the finish line to win the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)
Mexico's Isaac Del Toro Romero of Uae Team Emirates Xrg, pink jersey, crosses the finish line of the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Mexico's Isaac Del Toro Romero of Uae Team Emirates Xrg celebrates with the pink jersey after the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
Del Toro even managed to increase his advantage slightly as the Mexican rider edged closest challenger Richard Carapaz to claim second place on the 19th stage and two precious extra bonus seconds.
The duo crossed the line 58 seconds behind Nicolas Prodhomme, who claimed the biggest victory of his career on the Queen stage.
Del Toro inched to 43 seconds ahead of Carapaz overall. Simon Yates remained third but slipped to one minutes, 21 seconds behind Del Toro.
Del Toro has been in pink since the end of the ninth stage, when he became the first Mexican cyclist to lead the Giro.
His continued success has sparked cycling fever in his home country. He dominates the front pages of the newspapers and Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum wished him luck in her press conference on Thursday.
“It’s amazing. I cannot believe it to be honest. All the people in my country now start to see the sport and how hard it is and it’s just incredible,” Del Toro said. “I think we are coming a little bit, step by step, but now it’s incredible this feeling.”
He added with a laugh, “And I cannot believe I’m the guy who represents the country. They need to send another one better I think.”
The stage featured 5,000 meters of elevation across five climbs — three of which were of the highest classification — on a 166-kilometer (103-mile) route from Biella to Champoluc.
Prodhomme was part of a large breakaway right at the start, and he pulled clear of the remaining escapees on the penultimate climb up the Col de Joux to solo to victory.
The French cyclist had a broad smile on his face as he approached the finish and he sat up and stretched out his arms before putting his hands over his face, in disbelief, as he crossed the line for his first win in a Grand Tour and only the second victory in his career.
“I waited a long time for a win, but I won my first race three weeks ago, and now I win here in Grand Tour, in Giro d’Italia,” Prodhomme said. “I’m very, very happy and it’s a very, very nice day.”
Behind Prodhomme, Carapaz attacked on the final climb — 6.8 kilometers from the finish — and only Del Toro stayed with him. The pair rode away from the peloton.
Yates, who had been 51 seconds behind Del Toro at the start of the day, was 1:22 slower than Prodhomme.
The Giro winner will almost certainly be decided in another mountain showdown on Saturday before the mostly ceremonial finish in Rome the following day.
The penultimate stage is a 205-kilometer (127-mile) leg from Verres to Sestriere that features the beyond-category climb on a gravel road to Colle delle Finestre, where Chris Froome’s audacious attack in 2018 earned him the title.
“I have the same chances to win than before the Giro and I just want to be easy, normal guy,” Del Toro said. “Big dinner and hotel, then in the morning we go again.”
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The pack pedals during stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
France's Nicolas Prodhomme of Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale Team reacts after crossing the finish line to win the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)
France's Nicolas Prodhomme of Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale Team reacts after crossing the finish line to win the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)
Mexico's Isaac Del Toro Romero of Uae Team Emirates Xrg, pink jersey, crosses the finish line of the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Mexico's Isaac Del Toro Romero of Uae Team Emirates Xrg celebrates with the pink jersey after the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Biella to Champoluc, Italy, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.
In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.
Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.
Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.
But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.
More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.
The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.
“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.
People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.
More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .
“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.
The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.
Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.
While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”
"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.
Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”
The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.
A woman gets into an altercation with a federal immigration officer as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A federal immigration officer deploys pepper spray as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Bystanders are treated after being pepper sprayed as federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Federal agents look on after detaining a person during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
