• Top News
  • Washington Post/FOX News/CNN: Trump administration suspends green-card lottery after Brown shooting
  • New York Times: Trump Administration Pauses Diversity Immigration Program After Brown Shooting
  • DailySignal: Rubio Addresses If He’ll End Program Brown University Shooter Used to Enter the United States
  • Breitbart: Diversity Visa Lottery Imports Nearly 500,000 Migrants to U.S. Every Decade
  • ABC News: Brown, MIT suspect had 200 rounds, laser sights as authorities feared hit list: US attorney
  • CNN/ABC News: Events leading to the killings of Brown University students and MIT professor spanned decades
  • Washington Examiner: Brown-MIT shooting suspect killed himself two days before being found, autopsy shows
  • AP: How surveillance technology and the ‘Reddit Detective Agency’ helped search for a killer
  • New York Times: A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation
  • Free Beacon: Brown University President Spikes the Football After Botched Shooting Response, Praising Police and Condemning ‘Doxxing’
  • CBS News: Investigators struggled to identify suspect while Brown University gunman went on to kill again, timeline shows
  • Daily Caller/Bloomberg Law/Daily Wire/Blaze: Judge Who Helped Illegal Escape From ICE Convicted Of Felony Obstruction
  • New York Times/AP: Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Free Speech Lawsuit From Immigration Judges
  • Washington Examiner: US announces two more strikes on suspected drug boats in Operation Southern Spear
  • FOX News: DHS rips Dem-run county after illegal immigrant, alleged murderer released: ‘Blood on their hands’
  • AP: 4 months in, activists say Trump’s operation in Washington targets immigrants
  • AP: Wisconsin Republicans demand Judge Dugan resign or face impeachment after felony conviction
  • Washington Examiner: Florida judge rejects injunction seeking to close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  • FOX News: Ilhan Omar defends MEALS Act despite ties to massive Minnesota fraud scheme
  • AP: Military lawyer swiftly fired from immigration bench after defying Trump deportation push
  • Daily Signal: 5 Ways Trump Put Pressure on ‘Rampant Fraud’ in Minnesota This Week
  • Breitbart: Prosecutor: ‘Minnesota Has Become a Magnet’ for Welfare Fraud
  • CBS News: What to know about Minnesota’s "industrial-scale fraud" scandal, as more charges are filed and Trump weighs in
  • AP: Trump administration will appeal judge’s order reversing federal funding cuts at Harvard
  • AP: Trump administration wants to ensure Mexican crews operating trains in the US can speak English
  • Los Angeles Times: What is in the Kayla Hamilton Act that was just passed by Congress?
  • New York Times: U.S. Attacks Another Boat Believed to Be Trafficking Drugs
  • New York Post: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cuts off pro-immigration group he founded in retreat from advocacy
  • NPR: Detained migrant children aren’t being reunited with family, government sources say
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Washington Post: Trump again uses a tragedy as the pretext to target legal immigrants
  • Wall Street Journal: [WI] Judge Dugan Learns a Hard Lesson
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] If New Orleans can stand up to masked immigration agents, so can Houston | Editorial
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • New York Post: College killer got US visa that prioritized ‘diversity’ over common sense
  • Washington Examiner: Anti-ICE Democrats get another innocent person killed
  • The Hill: A US military command reshuffle as ISIS threats loom
  • Houston Chronicle: Crossing the border illegally has its consequences
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Reuters: Four died in ICE custody this week as 2025 deaths reach 20-year high
  • New York Times: [NY] ICE Allows Democratic Lawmakers Inside Migrant Cells in New York City
  • New York Times: [NY] Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
  • Reuters: [NY] US drops Uganda deportation order against Chinese dissident, lawyer says
  • New York Times: [NJ] ICE Detainee Being Held at a Troubled Jailhouse in Newark Dies
  • Politico: [NJ] New Jersey Democrats call to shutter ICE facility after detainee’s death
  • CBS Baltimore: [MD] Woman detained by ICE in Baltimore claims she’s Maryland-born U.S. citizen
  • FOX News: [VA] Biden admin marked illegal immigrant, alleged murderer as ‘non-enforcement priority,’ DHS reveals
  • Blaze: [VA] Blood on their hands’: Trump admin blames ‘sanctuary’ Dems after illegal alien with detainer request allegedly murders American
  • Chicago Tribune: [IN] Honduran man gets 16 years for stabbing girl at Little League game
  • FOX News: [IL] ICE is nice: Amfest attendees overwhelmingly call for DHS to target their hometowns as Dems spurn agents
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Reports of ICE agents at Houston KIPP campus were false, officials say
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NewsMax: Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ Visa Nets Over $1B in Sales
  • New York Times: Trump Administration Pushes Asylum Seekers to Apply in Other Countries
  • FOX News: State Department says the Trump administration has revoked over 95,000 visas so far
  • CNN: Trump Administration pauses DV1 visa program indefinitely
  • Axios: Trump’s new crackdown: Collective punishment for legal immigrants
  • Roll Call: Judge points to Trump’s authority in challenge to H-1B visa hike
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Feds block California from issuing new commercial licenses to immigrant drivers
  • AP: [Honduras] Trump administration restricts 2 Honduran election officials’ visas over special vote count
  • Washington Post: [India] H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Trump administration touts ‘most secure border in history’ as 2.5 million migrants exit US
  • FOX News: Chinese researcher on US visa charged with smuggling E. coli into the country, FBI Director Kash Patel says
  • Blaze: Another Chinese researcher busted for allegedly smuggling crop-harming biomaterial into America
  • Washington Examiner: As illicit vapes flood the country, authorities ramp up enforcement
  • Reuters: [IL] ‘Not a life here.’ Immigration raids hollow out Chicago neighborhood
• Transportation Security Administration
  • FOX News: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s pregnant daughter rips ‘unconstitutional’ TSA after ‘invasive pat-down’
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • The Hill: At FEMA, $900 million in grants, loans awaits Noem’s approval
  • New York Times: U.S. Will Pay $450,000 to Wildfire Fighters With Cancer
  • NewsMax: [MT] Trump Approving Emergency Declaration for Montana
• Coast Guard
  • CBS News: Coast Guard language on swastikas, nooses clarified, then Senate confirms Admiral Kevin Lunday as chief
  • DefenseScoop: Senate approves Adm. Lunday as Coast Guard commandant after flap over hate symbol policy
  • Washington Examiner: Navy to roll out new frigate class for Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’
  • Wall Street Journal: Navy Announces New Warship for Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Government Executive: CISA opens 100 applications for CyberCorps students
  • Cyberscoop: FBI says ‘ongoing’ deepfake impersonation of U.S. gov officials dates back to 2023
  • CyberScoop: Former incident responders plead guilty to ransomware attack spree
  • Cyberscoop: [NY] Ukrainian national pleads guilty to Nefilim ransomware attacks
• Terrorism Investigations
  • NPR: Where ISIS is still active today
  • Blaze: Trump declared war on leftist domestic terror. The IRS didn’t get the memo.
  • Breitbart [TX] DOJ: Tren de Aragua Leaders Among Four Venezuelans Charged with Terrorism in Texas
  • Breitbart: [CA] Mexican Cartel Used 15-year-olds for Contract Murders in California, Say Feds
• National Security News
  • Washington Times: House intelligence panel steps up probe of Havana Syndrome incidents
  • Reuters: National security law in 2026: Legal adaptation in a constrained security economy
  • Reuters: [FL] US, Russian officials to meet in Florida for more Ukraine talks
  • Reuters: [Haiti] Rubio: US has pledges of up to 7,500 security personnel for Haiti
  • CNN: [Venezuela] Sanctioned tanker enters Venezuelan waters, tracking data shows, testing Trump’s blockade
  • New York Times: [Venezuela] U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard
  • NewsMax: [Venezuela] Rubio Defends Tough US Stance on Venezuela
  • CNN: [Venezuela] Rubio calls ‘status quo’ with Venezuela ‘intolerable’ as Trump admin sanctions Maduro family members
  • NewsMax: [Venezuela] Treasury Sanctions Maduro Family Network
  • Wall Street Journal/New York Times: [Syria] U.S. Strikes Syria Targets in Response to Fatal Attack on Americans
  • FOX News: [Syria] US strikes 50 ISIS targets after three Americans killed in Syria
  • FOX News: [Syria] Syrian foreign ministry says they will work alongside the U.S. in the fight against ISIS
  • FOX News: [Syria] Deadly strike on US troops tests Trump’s counter-ISIS plan — and his trust in Syria’s new leader
  • New York Times: [Syria] Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria
  • Los Angeles Times: [Russia] Putin tells his annual news conference that the Kremlin’s military goals in Ukraine will be met

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