• Top News
  • AP/Daily Caller/FOX News: Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding from 34 cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies
  • New York Times: 2026 World Cup draw to be held at Kennedy Center, President Trump announces
  • FOX News: Trump praises Noem for making border wall ‘untouchable’ with new upgrade
  • CBS News: U.S. immigrant population sees first decline in decades after record 2023 peak, Pew report finds
  • Wall Street Journal/AP: Defense Secretary Authorizes National Guard in D.C. to Carry Arms
  • AP: Trump visits a DC gift shop and the Kennedy Center during military crackdown
  • Axios/Daily Wire: After D.C. takeover, Trump suggests Chicago is next
  • Chicago Tribune: Johnson and Pritzker blast as illegal Trump’s suggestion he’ll send the National Guard to Chicago next
  • NPR: As Trump touts D.C. arrests, experts caution they’re not the best indicator of public safety
  • Reuters: Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington’s safest sites
  • The Hill: Trump threatens Bowser with expansion of DC takeover over crime stats
  • Washington Post: National Guard troops are in D.C. We went to see what they’re up to.
  • Washington Post: Kilmar Abrego García set free, but ICE threatens to deport him to Uganda
  • FOX News: Noem torches ‘activist liberal judges’ after Abrego Garcia’s release from jail: ‘New low’
  • Daily Signal: Judge Orders Wind Down of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  • CNN: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ may be shut down before Halloween. Florida already has a backup plan
  • New York Times: Florida Governor Says He Is Undeterred by Court Ruling on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  • Blaze/NewsMax: Florida makes one thing absolutely clear after Obama judge orders teardown of Alligator Alcatraz
  • Univision: Miami-Dade Mayor Considers Reclaiming Site Where Alcatraz Was Built
  • USA Today: Will Alligator Alcatraz close? Here’s a look inside the controversial detention center
  • FOX News: Top Trump agency slashes billions in government waste with move to expose ‘abuse’ of US tax dollars
  • New York Times: Noem’s Spending Rule Causes Delays at Homeland Security Dept.
  • New York Times: Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
  • The Hill: These 3 African countries have agreed to take US deportees
  • Federal News Network: DoD asks civilian employees to volunteer for ICE, CBP supporting roles
  • FOX News: National Guard mobilizing in 19 states amid immigration, crime crackdown
  • Blaze: Rubio takes action to prevent more foreigners from ‘endangering American lives’ with big rigs
  • Blaze: License to kill: The nationwide scam turning America’s highways into death traps
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Wall Street Journal: [MD] Trump’s Vendetta Campaign Targets John Bolton
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • FOX News: Federal law enforcement risk their lives daily — now some Democrats want to make it worse
  • The Hill: How Black police and soldiers have resisted federal takeovers of their communities
  • Daily Signal: Why Would We Want Bad People Here?
  • Washington Post: My gut instinct on Trump’s D.C. power grab was wrong
  • USA Today: I led FEMA during Katrina. After 20 years, we still must learn from failures.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Daily Caller: Trump Admin Rips Media For Calling Convicted Felon An ‘Immigration Activist’
  • USA Today: [ME] Maine police officer detained by ICE agrees to voluntarily leave US
  • New York Post: [NY] NYC teacher’s aid busted with sickening trove of child porn on cellphone: feds
  • NBC News: [DC] ICE director says agents won’t be at D.C. schools on the first day — but may be going forward
  • Blaze: [DC] Online outrage erupts over video of illegal alien’s arrest in DC — then the horrific charges against him are revealed
  • FOX News: [DC] Feds nab suspected MS-13 gangster, top 700 arrests in DC crackdown
  • The Hill: [GA] Spanish-language reporter detained by Trump administration sues for release
  • Washington Examiner: [GA] Georgia ICE arrests up 367 percent from 2021, making for ‘safer streets, open jobs
  • Washington Examiner: [GA] Inside the Georgia campus where ICE is training thousands of new recruits
  • FOX News: [FL] ICE arrests brother of illegal immigrant trucker in deadly Florida Turnpike wreck
  • Chicago Tribune: [IN] Former Hammond school official formally charged in child porn case
  • FOX News: [OR] America’s original sanctuary state rebukes Bondi’s warning, denies ‘obstruction’ of ICE
  • New York Post: [CA] San Francisco mob assaults ICE agents, one keffiyeh-clad perp charged for threatening to ‘stab’ officer, hurt family
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] S.F. woman charged with slashing ICE van’s tires during protest
  • Telemundo: [CA] ICE carries out another "selective enforcement action" in Encinitas and arrests two individuals
  • Univision: [CA] "They don’t respect anyone": Lynwood community halts ICE operation at barbershop
  • NBC News: [CA] Home Depots become prime locations for immigration enforcement
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • FOX News: Over 55 million visa holders subjected to continuous vetting amid Trump admin crackdown
  • New York Times: Impact of ‘Continuous Vetting’ for U.S. Visa Holders Remains Unclear
  • Washington Post: U.S. demands deposits of up to $15,000 of visitors from Malawi and Zambia
  • San Diego Union Tribune: Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program
  • AP: What to know about visas for foreign truckers and the politics of a deadly Florida crash
  • Los Angeles Times: How many people are actually undocumented in the U.S.?
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Breitbart: [MI] Chinese ‘Scholar’ from Wuhan Facing Prison for Allegedly Smuggling Biological Material into U.S
  • USA Today: [MI] Primate, rodent meat seized twice in one month at Detroit airport
  • Telemundo 48 El Paso: [TX] CBP helicopter conducts dramatic nighttime rescue in the Franklin Mountains
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NewsNation: TSA confirms hair tool ban from certain baggage
  • New York Post: This cult favorite food brand is paying for checked bags over Labor Day weekend — here’s the catch
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • NPR: DHS to states: Follow our voting rules or lose out on election security money
• Terrorism Investigations
  • FOX News: US warns American travelers about terrorism, crime, kidnapping in popular vacation destination
  • NPR: [TX] Release of Uvalde school shooting documents raises questions for victims’ families
• National Security News
  • Reuters: Trump says US conducting tariff investigation into furniture imports
  • Wall Street Journal: Hegseth Fires Defense Intelligence Agency Chief After Iran Report
  • Reuters: [RI] US orders Orsted to halt offshore wind project, deepening industry woes
  • Washington Post: FBI raid targeting Bolton crosses a line in the Trump revenge campaign
  • New York Times: [MD] F.B.I. Searches Home and Office of John Bolton, Trump Adviser Turned Critic
  • The Hill: [MD] Trump responds to Bolton raid: ‘He could be a very unpatriotic guy’
  • The Hill: [MD] Bolton search raises specter of Trump retribution
  • The Hill: [MD] Vance says classified documents led to Bolton raid
  • The Hill: [MD] Vance says Bolton FBI raid was not retribution
  • Washington Post: [MD] Trump repeatedly pointed finger at Bolton in the days before raids
  • CNN: [MD] ‘Militarization of politics’: How bucolic Bethesda woke up to FBI raid on John Bolton
  • FOX News: [China] Navy sailor faces life in prison after selling military secrets to China for $12K payment

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