• Top News
  • New York Times/Wall Street Journal: Trump Visits Texas Flood Sites, Defends Government’s Disaster Response
  • Breitbart/CBS News: Trump expresses "anguish of our entire nation" after meeting families of Texas flood victims
  • Politico: Trump praises FEMA response in Texas after earlier threats to eliminate agency
  • Washington Examiner: Trump promises to rebuild, lashes out at ‘evil’ reporter during Texas visit
  • The Hill: Senate Democrat questions Noem on reported Texas flooding response delay
  • The Hill: Trump praises Noem on flooding response: ‘Literally the first person I saw on television’
  • The Hill: Trump administration rhetoric on FEMA moves toward reform rather than termination
  • The Hill: House Democrats call for ‘urgent review’ of deadly Texas flooding
  • New York Times: FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
  • AP: Judge orders Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops, arrests in California
  • Washington Post: Protesters and agents clash at major immigration raid at California farm
  • The Hill: 200 arrested, one dead in chaos at California cannabis farm immigration raid
  • The Hill: Undocumented minors found in raid of California cannabis farm, DHS says
  • Federalist: ICE Rescued Kids From Likely ‘Exploitation’ At Marijuana Farm And Democrats Are Furious
  • Los Angeles Times: FBI investigating man who appeared to shoot at agents during Camarillo immigration raid
  • New York Post: Migrant farm worker dies after falling 30 feet from roof during chaotic California pot farm raid
  • ABC News: Hospital says California farmworker is alive after 30-foot fall during ICE raid
  • NBC News: Cannabis farmworker in California is on life support after chaotic federal immigration raid, family says
  • FOX News: Trump grants ‘total authorization’ to ICE agents to protect themselves after violent California clashes
  • NewsMax: Trump to Agencies: ‘Any Means’ to Protect Officers
  • Univision: "They detained us for about 10 hours": Farmworkers recount their experiences during the immigration raid in Camarillo
  • NewsMax/Breitbart/The Hill: Newsom Protests ICE Raid on Marijuana Farm Allegedly Found Using Child Labor
  • Daily Caller: President Of ICE-Raided Pot Farm Doled Out Thousands In Donations To Newsom, Dems
  • Los Angeles Times: Immigration raid at cannabis farm in Ventura County sparks chaotic protest
  • Daily Caller: Organized Activists Egged On Chaotic Anti-ICE Riot That Led To Shooting
  • Daily Caller: Dems Appear Confused Over Raid At Marijuana Farm Run By Illegal Migrant Children
  • Daily Wire: Leftists Insist Raids On California Weed Farms Will Disrupt Food Supply Chain
  • CBS News: 20 arrested in immigration raid in Edison, New Jersey, DHS says
  • Daily Wire: ‘Protesters Becoming Criminals’: Homan Rips ‘Emboldened’ Leftists Clashing With Feds At Pot Farm
  • Daily Caller: Tom Homan Says Border Officials Have Rescued 10,000 Missing Children Lost During Biden Admin
  • FOX News: DHS arrests five illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, including murder and child abuse
  • FOX Business: DHS Public Affairs’ McLaughlin calls out Democrat politicians for ‘vilifying’ ICE agents
  • FOX News: California anti-ICE protesters are becoming criminals: Tom Homan
  • New York Times: Judge Orders Los Angeles Police to Stop Shooting Projectiles at Journalists
  • The Hill: House Democrat: Noem ‘has no idea what she’s doing’
  • FOX News: ‘That ends now:’ White House vows removal of illegal immigrants from taxpayer benefits
  • The Hill: Vance to travel to Pennsylvania to tout passage of ‘big, beautiful bill’
  • AP: Son of Mexican drug cartel leader ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty in US drug trafficking case
  • Washington Post: Maryland judge rebukes Justice Dept. attorney in Kilmar Abrego García case
  • NBC News Daily: Mahmoud Khalil Seeking $20M in Damages from Trump Admin
  • FOX News: Mahmoud Khalil could still be deported despite $20 million claim against Trump, former DHS official warns
  • FOX News: DHS fires back after Mahmoud Khalil targets Trump admin for $20M over detention
  • New York Times: Judge Signals She Will Protect Abrego Garcia From Hasty Second Deportation
  • AP: Judge scolds Justice Department for ‘refusal’ to detail deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  • The Hill: Trump, Harvard fight escalates after president said deal was close
  • NewsMax: Harvard Pulls DEI Web Pages and Replaces Diversity Office
  • Federalist: Democrats Collude With Judges To Keep Allowing Noncitizens To Vote In U.S. Elections
  • Blaze.com: Florida police go full steam ahead with historic partnership to enforce federal immigration law
  • The Hill: Florida lawmakers denied ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ access sue DeSantis
  • CBS Miami: Miami archbishop, lawmakers and activists condemn Alligator Alcatraz, deportation surge
  • The Hill/CBS Los Angeles: LA mayor signs executive order supporting immigrants amid federal raids
  • FOX News: LA Mayor Bass provides cash payments to illegals, issues order to thwart immigration enforcement
  • New York Times: U.S. Subpoenas Governor Who Said He Would House Migrant at His Home
  • Blaze: Democrats find loophole that could continue birthright citizenship for illegal aliens
  • Reuters: The White House aide driving Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda
  • Politico: ‘We find another country’: Homan says Trump administration looking to make deals with several countries to accept deportees.
  • AP: Trump administration has floated deporting third-party nationals to Africa. Here’s what we know
  • CNN: Ecuadorean gang leader ‘Fito’ agrees to be extradited to the US
  • AP: US sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations
• Opinion – Editorials
  • New York Post: Americans need full answers on the Secret Service’s Trump assassination-attempt failures
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Sirens alone won’t save us from floods. Texas needs a culture shift.
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • New York Post: Why the biggest domestic intelligence threats are often home-grown
  • Chicago Tribune: Donald Trump wants to deport migrants to South Sudan. What awaits them isn’t pretty.
  • The Hill: Is the US following in Nicaragua’s authoritarian footsteps?
  • Daily Wire: What America Can Learn From Bulgaria About Securing Borders
  • New York Post: ‘Assassination culture’ makes ICE its new target — and Dems fan the flames
  • Daily Caller: [CA] Democrats Chum The Water With Lazy Propaganda On Pot Farm Raids
  • The Hill: [PR] The end of birthright citizenship could be an opportunity for Puerto Rican independence
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Breitbart: Report: ICE Arrests 30,000 Illegals in June — the Most in at Least Half a Decade
  • USA Today: Florida, Utah, Iowa among states that have tripled daily ICE arrests since January
  • USA Today: Trump urges immigration agents to arrest ‘THUGS’ in violent clashes
  • New York Times: [NY] A New York County Will Let Officers Wear Masks When Working With ICE
  • USA Today: [GA] ICE still holds journalist arrested covering anti-Trump protest
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [GA] Alleged ICE agents reported raiding Hispanic mall
  • Federalist: [OH] ICE Detained An Illegal Alien Once ‘Flagged’ On Terror Watchlist. Media Call Him A ‘Children’s Chaplain’
  • CBS News: [TX] Manhunt underway for man added to Texas’ Most Wanted list after ICE facility ambush
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Houston mother’s detention by ICE officials during road trip leaves family searching for answers
  • New York Times: [CA] Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] SoCal surgery center staff confront ICE agents detaining landscapers on the property
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] OC father of 3 U.S Marines to be released from immigration detention center
  • FOX News: [CA] California clinic staffers seek to shield ICE agents from detaining Honduran landscaper
  • Breitbart: [CA] DHS Defends ICE Arrest that Ended in California Surgery Center
  • New York Times: [CA] ICE Raids Scare Off L.A. Workers Rebuilding Fire-Torn Areas
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Mistaken reports of ICE raids are stoking fear, troubling law enforcement in Southern California
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] ‘La migra, la migra’: Inside Huntington Park’s long deportation summer
  • Federalist: [CA] Furor Over Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park Illustrates Democrats’ Total Departure From Reality
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Law enforcement violating rules on less-lethal weapons in ICE protests, critics say
  • CNN: [CA] Tensions are rising in Southern California over immigration raids. Here’s what we know
  • FOX News: [CA] Cal State LA lets professors move classes online due to student fears over ICE immigration enforcement
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Wall Street Journal: Immigration Raids Reveal Holes in Government’s Tool to Verify Workers
  • New York Post: Trump offers new visa program for migrant workers after facing backlash from farmers: report
  • Axios: "Not amnesty lite": Trump’s new plan for migrant worker visas
  • New York Times: Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses
  • Federalist: It Should Be Obvious By Now That Not Everyone Can Become An American
  • NBC News: N.H. green card holder denied re-entry to U.S. after visiting native Canada
  • NBC News: [TX] With expired work permits, couple who fled Haiti leans on Texas church that brought them here
  • Washington Examiner: [Afghanistan] Our closest Afghan allies are in limbo
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Breitbart: Border Patrol: A Chunk of Money Migrants Make Working Ends Up Paying Off Cartels
  • New York Times: [CA] Man Had 14 Toucans Stashed in His Volkswagen Dashboard, U.S. Says
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking Long Beach cop while off duty
  • Breitbart: [CA] Border Patrol: Multiple Kids We Found in CA Came Across Border and ‘Disappeared’
  • Daily Caller: [Canada] Trump Raises Tariffs On Canada, Threatens More Over Fentanyl Crisis
  • Washington Times: [Canada] Canada says it will defend workers, stop fentanyl ahead of Aug. 1 tariff deadline
  • The Hill: [Canada] Carney cites ‘vital progress’ in stopping fentanyl after new Trump tariff threat
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Reuters: Fate of US disaster relief agency FEMA still being discussed
  • HS Today: [VA] FEMA to Evaluate Readiness of the Surry Nuclear Power Station in the Commonwealth of Virginia
  • CBS News: [TX] North Texas faces weekend rain and storm threats after hot and humid Friday
  • AP: [TX] FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
  • CBS News: [TX] Gov. Greg Abbott activates state emergency response resources as new storms threaten flood-weary Texas
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Death toll from flooding in Kerr County climbs to 103 as search efforts in central Texas continue
  • New York Times: [TX] An Army of Searchers Combs the Banks of the Guadalupe for the Missing
  • Washington Post: [TX] Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
  • The Hill: [TX] Sheriff hints at ‘after action’ review, as records reveal warning of ‘worst-case flood event’
  • CNN: [TX] Camp Mystic’s owner warned of floods for decades. Then the river killed him.
  • CBS 2 News at Midday: [NM] New Mexico Anticipates Federal Aid Following Floods
  • Breitbart: [Canada] Republicans in Congress Ask Canada for Their Forest Management Plan as Wildfires Threaten Midwest Summer
  • New York Times: [Canada] Republicans Blame Canada for Wildfire Smoke ‘Suffocating’ the U.S.
• Secret Service
  • CNN: [PA] A year after Butler: How a near assassination led to an uneven search for accountability in the Secret Service
  • CBS News: [PA] One year after Butler assassination attempt, Secret Service bolsters security with drones, mobile command posts
  • CBS News: [PA] The secret double life of Thomas Crooks, Trump’s would-be assassin
  • Washington Post: [PA] In global hunt for Butler gunman’s motive, FBI finds a loner and a cipher
  • Washington Post: [PA] He may have stopped Trump’s would-be assassin. Now he’s telling his story.
  • USA Today: [FL] Man charged with trying to assassinate Trump in Florida wants to represent himself
  • Washington Examiner: [FL] Ryan Routh offers himself for prisoner swap with US adversaries in letter shared by judge
  • FOX News: [KY] Kentucky school official resigns after allegedly calling to ‘shoot Republicans’ on social media
  • USA Today: [TX] Texas man charged with threatening Trump day before flood damage visit
  • NewsMax: [Iran] Iranian Group ‘Blood Covenant’ Places $40M Bounty on Trump
• Coast Guard
  • USA Today: [MI] Truck crashes into concrete wall, falls into water at Delaware bridge
  • CBS News: [TX] Coast Guard shares emotional rescue moments from Central Texas floods
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • DefenseScoop: Senate Armed Services Committee wants DOD to explore ‘tactical’ cyber employment
  • Federal News Network: How a hacker for El Chapo illustrates ‘existential’ counterintelligence threats
  • FOX News: Windows 11 flaw lets hackers bypass Secure Boot protections
  • CNN: [DC] Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
  • DefenseScoop: [China] Senate panel pushing DOD on strategy to deter Chinese cyber activity on critical infrastructure
  • Bloomberg: [North Korea] North Korean Hackers Find It’s Hard to Launder $1.5 Billion in Stolen Crypto
• Terrorism Investigations
  • New York Times/Washington Post: [NY] Appeals Court Overturns Plea Deal in 9/11 Case
  • NPR: [Cuba] Guantánamo plea deals for accused 9/11 plotters are canceled by federal appeals court
• National Security News
  • Daily Caller: Trump Admin Cans Foreign Contractors On National Security Grounds
  • Wall Street Journal: Pentagon Lifts Drone Restrictions, Sending Shares of Defense Stocks Higher
  • The Hill: State Department begins laying off 1,300 staff, drawing fire from critics
  • Bloomberg Law: [DC] Supreme Court Tests Agency Chiefs’ Resolve on Workforce Cuts
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Accused Chinese agent delivered $20k to ‘friend’ during drive from Texas to California, FBI says
  • The Hill: [Ukraine] Trump: Deal struck to send Ukraine weapons through NATO
  • Reuters: [Ukraine] NATO needs more long-range missiles to deter Russia, US general says
  • Bloomberg: [Russia] Major Russian Airstrike Targets Western Ukraine Near Romania
  • The Hill: [China] Rubio meets with Chinese foreign minister as U.S. tariffs roil Asia

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