• Top News
  • NBC News: DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers
  • CBS News: Legal immigration agency employees asked to volunteer to help ICE operations
  • Reuters: Trump Justice Department fires head of organized crime drug task force
  • CBS News: Major increase in nonfatal fentanyl exposure among U.S. children over the past decade, study finds
  • Washington Post/CBS News: [NY] Crews battle multiple brush fires on Long Island; Hochul declares state of emergency
  • Miami Herald: [GA] Migrant workers in Savannah, Ga., receive $580K settlement for back wages, damages
  • CBS Austin: [FL] Suspected Tren de Aragua gang faces gun charges
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • PBS: Schools brace for immigration arrests after Trump administration changes ICE policy
  • Washington Post: [VA] Former Va. Senate candidate owes nearly $20,000 to immigrants she defrauded
  • Newsweek: [MI] ICE Arrests Father Outside Child’s School
  • FOX News: [CO] ICE raids at schools: Federal judge gives green light
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Yahoo! News: [MS] Immigrants make up 3.4% of Mississippi’s workforce
  • Washington Post: [Mexico] He escaped the cartel that kidnapped him. Then he learned there’s ‘no more asylum.’
  • NBC News: [Haiti] Haitian immigrants grapple with uncertainty as TPS end date looms
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Univision: "On this side of the wall they are ours": Two armies work on both sides of the border to stop undocumented immigration
  • CBS 7: [NY] Border patrol agent admits to telling women to expose breasts to get into US, feds say
  • Yahoo! News: [India] Migrant deported in chains: ‘No-one will go to US illegally now’
• Transportation Security Administration
  • SFGate: TSA workers thrown into chaos after Trump appointee spikes contract
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • CBS Austin: Senators demand FEMA address concerns over data access and staffing cuts
  • New York Times: NOAA Said to Be Planning to Shrink Staff by 20 Percent
  • Yahoo! News: [RI] Crews contain large brush fire in Charlestown
  • AP: [MD] FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts
  • Washington Post: [NC] FEMA critics in North Carolina have Trump’s ear. Has it made a difference?
  • CBS Austin: [SC] Gov. McMaster secures federal aid for SC wildfire
  • NBC News: [SC] South Carolina woman arrested in connection with Myrtle Beach wildfire
  • The Augusta Chronicle: [GA] Glascock ready to proceed with debris removal
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] FEMA extends deadline to apply for L.A. wildfire relief
• Coast Guard
  • Telemundo: [NY] U.S. Coast Guard investigates fuel spill on Puerto Rican island of Vieques beach
  • Green Bay Press-Gazette: [WI] Bay of Green Bay’s southern part to open to commercial shipping as icebreaking begins
  • AP: [PR] US Coast Guard investigates fuel spill off the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques
• Terrorism Investigations
  • NPR: Experts warn that recent school shootings show growth in new radicalization pattern
  • Yahoo! News: [LA] Suspect in Mardi Gras Mamou mass shooting found in Montgomery County
• National Security News
  • Washington Post: Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge
  • AP: [Panama] Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo following human rights criticism
  • FOX News : [Iran] Iran’s supreme leader rejects nuclear talks with US after Trump’s overtures
  • Newsweek: [Syria] Hundreds of Minorities, Including Christians, Killed in Syria—Reports
  • Wall Street Journal: [China] What New York State Aide’s Help Was Worth to China: More Than $15 Million
  • ABC News: [Ukraine] Ukraine reports 264 Russian drone attacks in 48 hours amid Trump aid freeze
  • Yahoo! News: [China] US takes rivalry with China to the high seas
  • Newsweek: [China] US Warned of Caribbean Becoming ‘Chinese Lake’

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