• Top News
  • AP/Washington Examiner/EFE/Axios: Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
  • ABC News: El Salvador prison holding alleged Venezuelan gang members has been criticized for alleged abuses
  • Wall Street Journal/Newsweek: Trump Administration Loses Bid to Restart Deportation Flights
  • Washington Examiner: Jim Jordan teases hearings on judge’s ‘ridiculous orders’ to stop deportation flights
  • The Hill: Trump administration can stop new refugee approvals, appeals court rules
  • New York Times: Federal Judiciary Creates New Task Force With Threats on the Rise
  • NBC News: Academic groups sue Trump administration for arresting students and faculty linked to pro-Palestinian protests
  • FOX News: Federal judge blocks detention of Columbia anti-Israel protester Yunseo Chung
  • Newsweek: Yunseo Chung Speaks Out After Judge Blocks ICE Deporting Columbia Student
  • Axios: Exclusive: Trump’s "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges
  • Boise State Public Radio: What is the ‘state secrets privilege’ invoked by the Trump administration?
  • AP: Trump signed an order to reshape how elections in the US are run. Is it constitutional?
  • CBS News: Trump administration doubles down on stand on deportation flights to El Salvador
  • NBC News: Trump’s move to end an immigration program hits a powerful Republican base of voters
  • FOX News: House Dems rally around Hamas sympathizer facing potential deportation: ‘Free Mahmoud Khalil’
  • FOX News: Not a valid excuse’: Tensions mount over possible House committee on Mexican drug cartels
  • AP: Trump will nominate acting CDC director Susan Monarez for the position, White House official says
  • Washington Post: U.S. could hit borrowing limit as soon as May, budget office warns
  • FOX News: [VA] Gov. Youngkin proposes withholding state funding from Virginia’s ‘sanctuary cities’
  • Yahoo! News: [DC] DC’s ‘Sanctuary City’ status could be coming to an end
  • Washington Examiner: [FL] Florida lawmakers eye relaxing child labor laws after targeting illegal immigrant workforce
  • Border Report: [TX] Army secretary: ‘Immigration facility’ at Fort Bliss has been ‘greenlighted’
  • FOX News: [CO] Blue state sanctuary laws enabled illegal ‘abolish ICE’ activist to evade capture, says local DA
  • Yahoo! News: [AZ] Border security or mass deportation? Arizona leaders clash over money for local law enforcement
  • Spokane Public Radio: [WA] Attorney claims violation of the Keep Washington Working Act after ICE arrest in Spokane Valley
  • Bloomberg: [CA] Los Angeles Defies Trump With New Sanctuary City Protections
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Wife of slain Cal Fire captain pleads not guilty after arrest in Mexico
  • FOX News: [Mexico] Mexican cartels’ TikTok recruiting scheme squashed as border agent sounds alarm on lingering threat
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Examiner: Trump administration using public visual threats as immigration deterrents
  • Yahoo! News: [ME] Lewiston man pleads guilty to charges related to child sexual abuse material
  • AP/New York Times/CBS News: [MA] Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
  • CBS Boston: [MA] Protesters demand release of Tufts student taken into custody by federal agents in Massachusetts
  • Newsweek: [MA] Man Selling Fake Social Security Cards Arrested by ICE
  • FOX News: [MA] ICE in Boston nabs previously deported Dominican fentanyl trafficker, child rape convict, murderers
  • Boston 25 News: [MA] Man suspected of murder, drug trafficking in Brazil arrested by ICE in Milford, police say
  • Yahoo! News: [MA] U.S.-based facilitator of international human smuggling operation arrested
  • Washington Post: [DC] Federal agents attempted to detain worker at D.C. school, officials say
  • WSB: [GA] Federal agents raid manufacturing plant in Bartow County in human trafficking investigation
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [GA] Federal agents conduct extensive operation at a flooring factory
  • New York Times/Reuters: [AL] ICE Agents Detain University of Alabama Doctoral Student
  • Yahoo! News: [FL] Sheriff: ICE has deportation orders for 10,000 people in Orange County
  • NPR: [MI] Felt like a kidnapping’: Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] What is ICE doing in Houston? Everything we know about deportation operations across the region.
  • Kansas Public Radio: [KS] Leavenworth city leaders say CoreCivic needs permission to reopen detention center
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] An O.C. couple with no criminal record gets caught up in Trump’s deportation push
  • Miami Herald: [El Salvador] U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Border Report: 18 states file motion against plans to end protections for Haitians, Venezuelans
  • Univision: Criticism of the Trump administration’s proposal to review the social networks of every green card applicant
  • Newsweek: [Ireland] Ireland Issues Travel Warning For US
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Washington Examiner: Encounters of suspected terrorists drop at Mexico border as Canada border sees spike
  • FOX News: US-Canada border eyed as vulnerability by China, Russia, says Patel: ‘The enemy adapts’
  • USA Today: US citizens getting pulled aside: Travelers fear scrutiny at the border is rising
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] US Army Stryker armored vehicles roll into El Paso, West Texas to boost border security
  • Border Report: [TX] Cartel ‘sicarios’ crossed into US soil in murder-for-hire scheme, prosecutors say
  • KIRO: [WA] Nationwide manhunt underway for suspects who killed teen, injured 4 in Moses Lake drive-by shooting
  • Border Report: [CA] Border Patrol seizes 115 pounds of meth at California checkpoint
  • AP: [Canada] A beloved library that united the US and Canada faces new border restrictions
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Politico: Noem outlined major restructuring of FEMA in private meeting
  • Washington Post: Trump officials working to strip FEMA’s role in disaster recovery by Oct. 1
  • CNN: ‘We’re not preparing’: As Trump officials vow to eliminate FEMA, the agency is already in turmoil
  • NBC News/USA Today: Over 8 million under red flag warnings as wildfires still rage in the Carolinas
  • Yahoo! News: Crews continue to put out flare-ups in Carolina Forest wildfire
  • Miami Herald: [NC] Wildfires in NC, large enough to be seen by satellite, spread and lead to evacuations
  • Yahoo! News: [FL] Homeland Security director’s plans to close FEMA spark debate among Florida leaders
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Montgomery County eyes federal funds to cover expenses from 2,400-acre Pauline road fire
  • Newsweek: [TX] Thousands Warned Not To Drive As Texas Flood Warning Issued
• Secret Service
  • AP: [DC] Child slips through fencing at White House and is intercepted by Secret Service
  • Yahoo! News: [NJ] Skimming devices found in another NJ 7-Eleven store: How to stay safe
  • Yahoo! News: [IA] Milan woman arrested; accused of cashing counterfeit savings bonds
• Coast Guard
  • Washington Times: Republicans and Democrats agree: We must defend the Jones Act
  • Washington Post/Newsnation: [MD] Maryland officials commemorate anniversary of Key bridge collapse
  • Breaking Defense: [MS] Coast Guard awards nearly $1B contract mod to Bollinger for heavy icebreaker design, construction
  • Magnolia Tribune: [MS] Bollinger Shipyards secures $951 million U.S. Coast Guard contract modification
  • NBC 5 West Palm Beach: [FL] Man accused of illegally bringing migrants into US off Boynton Beach, court documents say
  • CW 4 Jacksonville: [FL] Dive teams continue search for missing child almost 5 days after boat capsized on St. Johns River
  • CW 4 San Francisco: [CA] Person found dead on Rodeo Beach identified
  • FOX Weather: [CA] Coast Guard battles perilous weather to rescue 2 hikers in dramatic California cliffside operation
  • DVIDS: [AK] Alaska Army National Guard rescues 3 plane crash victims on glacial lake near Soldotna
  • Philippine Information Agency: [Philippines] Philippine Coast Guard Joins U.S. Coast Guard for Balikatan 40-25 Integration Training
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • FOX News: FBI warns about document conversion sites spreading malware
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Yahoo! News: [GA] Josey High School cleared after officers investigate an alleged ‘active shooter’ report
• National Security News
  • New York Times: Intelligence Officials Face a Fresh Round of Questions About Signal Leak
  • Washington Post/CBS News: The Atlantic posts more texts from Signal group chat showing Hegseth provided detailed attack plans
  • New York Times: Newly Released Signal Chats Showed What Was at Stake
  • ABC News: Lawsuit over Trump administration’s Signal group chat assigned to judge in deportation case
  • Bloomberg: Trump Administration Military Leak Scandal Widens
  • FOX News: Trump admin declares the Atlantic’s Signal article a ‘hoax’ after it drops ‘war plans’ rhetoric
  • Bloomberg: Gabbard Acknowledges Sensitive Attack Plan Was Shared in Chat
  • FOX News: Ratcliffe says new Signal texts show he ‘did not transmit classified information’
  • The Hill: Hegseth: ‘Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan’
  • Axios: Who is Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who exposed Trump officials’ Signal chat
  • The Hill: Trump reacts to new Atlantic messages: ‘Really not a big deal’
  • Washington Examiner: Trump suspects ‘innocent staffer’ may have been at fault for Signal chat leak
  • The Hill: White House scrambles to contain Signal chat fallout
  • The Hill: Signal defends app security amid group chat controversy
  • The Hill: House Republican: White House ‘in denial’ about Signal war plans chat
  • FOX News: Trump team’s Signal snafu sparks debate over secure comms: ‘Russia and China are listening’
  • Roll Call: Democrats seek criminal probe over group chat on Houthi strike
  • Washington Examiner: Private data of top US officials including Hegseth and Waltz found online
  • Yahoo! News: DOGE’s Pursuit Of Sensitive Unemployment Data Sparks Alarm
  • CBS Miami: Cuts to little-known NOAA office could hamper space companies, put satellites at risk, Democrats warn
  • Yahoo! News: US Army wants AI solutions to protect homeland munitions sites
  • Los Angeles Times: President Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos
  • New York Times/Miami Herald: [Lithuania] Vehicle Carrying 4 U.S. Soldiers Is Found in a Lithuanian Swamp, Officials Say
  • Newsweek: [Lithuania] Donald Trump Says He Wasn’t Briefed About US Soldiers Missing In Lithuania
  • Reuters: [Ukraine] Russia has attacked eight Ukrainian energy facilities since announcing halt, Kyiv says
  • AP: [Russia] North Korea sent 3,000 more troops to Russia, according to South’s assessment
  • Axios: [Yemen] U.S. strikes home in on Houthi drone experts in Yemen
  • Washington Examiner: [Yemen] Trump’s precision strikes made Houthis pay
  • AP: [China] Trump Says He Would Consider Reducing China Tariffs if There’s a Deal on TikTok
  • Newsweek: [North Korea] What Tulsi Gabbard Said About North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
  • Reuters: [North Korea] North Korea leader Kim Jong Un touts AI suicide drones, early-warning aircraft

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