• Top News
  • Washington Post/The Hill/CBS News: At least 161 people missing in Texas floods as death toll rises to 109
  • AP: Noem provides emotional account of Texas flood visit during Cabinet meeting
  • NewsMax: Kristi Noem to Newsmax: ‘Heartbreaking’ Visit to Flood-Ravaged Texas
  • Houston Chronicle: Trump praises Texas flood response, says it prevented dozens more deaths
  • The Hill: Mexico sends aid to Texas following deadly flooding
  • The Hill: Cruz office says he returned from Greece ‘as fast as humanly possible’ when floods hit Texas
  • Houston Chronicle: Donald Trump set to visit Texas on Friday to see flood devastation
  • CBS News: Gov. Greg Abbott vows to find "every missing person" as death toll in Central Texas floods tops 100
  • AP: Searchers in helicopters and on horseback scour Texas flood debris for the missing
  • New York Times: Two Found, Two Missing: An Agonizing Search After the Texas Floods
  • New York Times: Abbott Calls Seeking Blame for Floods ‘the Word Choice of Losers’
  • AP: Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plan 2 days before deadly flood, records show
  • New York Post: Texas’ early deployment of choppers, boats may have saved hundreds of lives during devastating flooding
  • The Hill/Washington Post/New York Post/FOX News: USDA will ban farmland purchases by Chinese nationals
  • Breitbart: ‘‘We’re the United States, but They Treat Us Like a Colony’: USDA Farm Security Plan Targets China’s Bioterrorism, Land Grabs
  • Wall Street Journal: Authorities Charge 11 People in Connection With Texas Detention Center Shooting
  • The Hill: DHS: Three injured in Monday active shooter incident at Border Patrol facility
  • Blaze: Gunman receives deadly comeuppance during ambush on Border Patrol agents — just days after officer shot near ICE facility
  • FOX News: Gunman ambushes Border Patrol agents days after House Dems reject resolution condemning anti-ICE violence
  • NewsNation: Trio arrested for allegedly trying to damage US Border Patrol cars in Los Angeles
  • Washington Examiner: Four arrested for using ‘improvised devices’ to damage Border Patrol vehicles in Los Angeles
  • FOX News: Tricia McLaughlin: It’s Spineless & Un-American How Karen Bass Is Leading And Failing Los Angeles
  • Washington Examiner: As attacks on federal agents skyrocket, Democrats and media continue deadly rhetoric
  • The Hill/Telemundo/Blaze: Trump says ‘there’s no amnesty’ for migrant farm workers
  • Breitbart: Trump Tells Deputies to Justify Migrant Jobs Giveaway
  • NewsMax: Secretary Rollins: No Amnesty for Farm Workers
  • The Hill: Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers
  • NewsNation: How ‘no amnesty’ for migrants impacts US farm operations
  • Politico: ‘Essential isn’t a strong enough word’: Loss of foreign workers begins to bite US economy
  • FOX News: Trump suggests border crackdown is ‘saving a lot of money’ after stark drop from Biden era crossings
  • UPI: Trump administration plans to deport Abrego Garcia before his trial
  • Washington Post: Case against judge accused of hiding immigrant can proceed, magistrate says
  • Telemundo: They denounce inhumane conditions in the so-called Alligator Alcatraz.
  • Telemundo: A Cuban singer detained in the ‘Alcatraz of the Alligators’ says immigrants are treated like "dogs."
  • Miami Herald: Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days
  • Federal News Network: Trump administration extends governmentwide hiring freeze
  • The Hill: Noem asks followers to choose favorite portrait of her as cowgirl
  • AP: South Sudan says 8 men deported from the US are now in its custody
  • CBS News: Trump administration using Guantanamo to detain foreigners from 26 countries, including criminal detainees
  • Breitbart: Trump Using Gitmo to Detain Migrants with Serious Criminal Histories, Including Crimes Against Children
  • Daily Wire: Meet The Criminal Illegal Aliens Held At Guantanamo Bay
  • AP: Son of ‘El Chapo’ expected to plead guilty to drug trafficking charges in Chicago
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Washington Post: The obvious peril of federal agents in masks
  • Washington Post: What a $178 billion gift means for the immigration police state
  • New York Post: All hail the end of TSA’s idiotic shoe rule — could toothpaste freedom be next?
  • The Hill: Why does the US have birthright citizenship? Should it?
  • The Hill: [China] Students from China are essential for America
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • CBS News: Doctors fear ICE agents in health facilities deter people from seeking care
  • CBS News: Hospitals train for ICE raids as migrant patients skip care
  • The Hill/Washington Examiner/Axios: Senate Democrats press ICE on uniform, mask protocol
  • Breitbart: DHS: San Antonio City Council Candidate Calls for Shooting ICE Agents
  • FOX Business: This rhetoric needs to be tamped down or you will see more bloodshed, Trump border ‘czar’ says
  • The Hill: Homan: If Democrats ‘don’t like what ICE is doing, then change the law’
  • FOX News: Hawley rebukes Democrats’ heated rhetoric after attacks on ICE, border patrol facilities: ‘Knock it off’
  • Breitbart: Stephen Miller: ‘There Is an Insurrectionist Movement in the Democratic Party’
  • Axios: ICE accused of racial profiling in detentions of Latino U.S. citizens
  • Telemundo47: [NY] NYC Shows Offer to Another Student Arrested by ICE After Immigration Appointment
  • CBS New York: [NY] NYC officials rail against what they say are ICE detainment traps at immigration court
  • New York Post: [NY] ICE ‘shockingly’ takes over firehouse lot in major Long Island immigrant hub
  • CBS New York: [NJ] 20 detained by ICE at Edison, New Jersey, warehouse, reports say
  • AP: [GA] Spanish-language journalist remains in ICE custody despite being granted bond
  • Breitbart: [FL] July 4th Tragedy: Illegal Alien Accused of Killing 19-Year-Old Brianna Kelson in Florida Hit-and-Run
  • AP: [LA] Iranian mother released from ICE detention after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes
  • FOX News: [IN] ICE agents capture suspected violent MS-13 gang member, another illegal alien after police let them slip away
  • FOX News: [IL] Chicago mayor vows city police ‘will not ever cooperate with ICE’
  • Breitbart: [MN] Exclusive: ICE Agents Arrest 11 Illegal Alien Sex Offenders in Minneapolis
  • FOX News: [TX] ICE agents targeted in 2 ambush attacks in recent days
  • New York Times: [CA] Los Angeles Moves to Join Suit Against Immigration Raids
  • New York Post: [CA] Federal agents stormed LA’s MacArthur Park to root out MS-13 gangbangers -- before Mayor Karen Bass confronted them: sources
  • CBS Mornings Plus: [CA] Immigration Enforcement Operation in Los Angeles
  • AP: [CA] Residents still shaken a day after federal authorities march through Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park
  • NewsMax: [CA] Personal Property Abandoned After ICE Arrests in Calif.
  • CBS Los Angeles: [CA] MacArthur Park immigration sweep leaves Los Angeles community leaders with more questions about city response
  • CNN: [Jamaica] He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NBC News: Trump administration sued after it ends program for 60,000 Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese
  • Telemundo: TPS beneficiaries sue the Trump administration to stop the end of the program that protects them from deportation.
  • Telemundo: Activists reject cancellation of the TPS for Honduran and Nicaraguan migrants in the United States
  • NECN News 3 pm: TPS to Expire for 80,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans
  • Telemundo51: What is the TPS and what the government says to cancel it to Hondurans and Nicaraguans
  • Daily Caller: Biden Admin Paroled Thousands Of Migrants Into US Without Any Plan To Return Them Home
  • Washington Post: To study in the U.S. under Trump, international students scrub their accounts
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: [VA] CBP beagle Freddie recovering from attack
• Transportation Security Administration
  • ABC News/New York Times: Homeland Security ends mandatory shoe removal at airport screening
  • Washington Post: TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on
  • CNN: Hear Kristi Noem’s announcement about change in shoe removal policy at airport security checkpoints
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Axios: Trump’s NOAA pick vows strong weather forecasting amid criticism
  • AP: [TX] Texas flooding, and politics around it, underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA
  • New York Times: [TX] In Flooded Texas, Questions About FEMA’s Role and Fate
  • Bloomberg Government: [TX] Trump’s Texas Flood Response Renews Scrutiny of FEMA Downsizing
  • NPR: [TX] Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut
  • New York Times: [TX] Why the Texas Floods Were So Deadly
  • New York Post: [TX] Texas town right next door to flood-ravaged county added new alert sirens last year — and nobody perished in July 4 storms
  • FOX Business: [TX] Texas flood victims received hours of critical warning through emergency mobile alert system
  • Washington Post: [NM] Three people missing following flash floods in Ruidoso, New Mexico
  • Reuters: [NM] Flash floods in New Mexico resort town kill three, trap dozens in homes and vehicles
  • CBS News: [NM] New Mexico flash flooding emergency declared, multiple rescues underway
• Secret Service
  • USA Today: [FL] Florida woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago saying she had ‘urgent message’ for Trump
  • CBS News: [FL] DOJ accuses 2 people of selling a gun to Trump’s alleged would-be assassin Ryan Routh
• Coast Guard
  • NPR: [TX] U.S. Coast Guard aids in rescue operation following floods in central Texas
  • USA Today: [TX] Coast Guard rescue swimmer saves over 200 from Texas floods in first mission
  • NewsNation: [TX] Texas flooding: Rescue swimmer hailed as hero for saving 165 lives
  • New York Post: [OR] Stranded teens cling to dangerous cliffside until chopper swoops in for daring rescue: video
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: Appeals court clears path for El Salvadoran journos to sue spyware maker
  • CyberScoop: Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 130 vulnerabilities, none actively exploited
  • CNN: [TX] US seeks extradition of Chinese man held in Italy accused of hacking to steal Covid-19 vaccine research
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Chinese hackers accused of stealing COVID-19 research from Houston universities, DOJ says
• Terrorism Investigations
  • AP: [MN] Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, shot 9 times by a man posing as an officer, leaves the hospital
  • Washington Examiner: [Syria] Trump administration removes terrorist designation from Syrian leader’s group after lifting sanctions
• National Security News
  • Washington Post: A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
  • Washington Post: Rubio heads to Asia on trip overshadowed by tariffs, Middle East
  • NBC News: Trump-Netanyahu meeting revives bitterly opposed plan to relocate Palestinians
  • New York Times: Trump’s New Trade Threats Set Off Global Scramble to Avoid Tariffs
  • Washington Post: Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda
  • The Hill: [Ukraine] Pentagon sending more defensive weapons to Ukraine at Trump’s direction in reversal
  • FOX News: [Ukraine] US will ‘have to’ send weapons to Ukraine, Trump says days after Pentagon pause
  • Reuters: [Ukraine] Ukraine urges investigation into alleged Russian chemical weapons use
  • AP: [Yemen] Yemen’s Houthi rebels release video of their deadly attack on cargo ship in Red Sea
  • NBC News: [China] China says it will retaliate on unfavorable deals after Trump warns Asia of higher tariffs
  • Breitbart: [North Korea] U.S. sanctions North Korean hacker for crimes benefitting Kim Jong Un’s arms programs
  • CyberScoop: [North Korea] Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes
  • AP: [Japan] Japan says new US tariffs will have an impact on domestic industries, employment

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