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CBS News [5/10/2025 7:21 PM, Adi Guajardo, 51661K] Video HERE reports the Department of Homeland Security released body cam video Saturday showing the moments federal officers arrested the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. DHS blurred the faces of those seen on camera. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody for allegedly entering and staying on Delaney Hall property unlawfully Friday. He was held for hours before being released and charged with trespassing. In a press release, the DHS accused members of Congress of storming the gate and breaking into the facility illegally. Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary of public affairs for DHS, told CNN they’ve obtained video of Congressmembers body-slamming ICE officials. "It’s disgusting," she said. She said an investigation is underway and more arrests could be on the horizon. "Nobody from ICE was slammed on the ground. We didn’t storm the place. So it’s, all of it is a lie," Baraka said. The mayor pushed back, saying he was invited to the ICE facility and stayed for over an hour. [Editorial note: consult video at source link] The AP [5/10/2025 3:19 PM, Jake Offenhartz, Claudia Lauer, and Bruce Shipkowski, 48304K] reports Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest while the Democrat was at the facility with three members of Congress. Baraka, who has been protesting the center’s opening in his New Jersey city this week, was released around 8 p.m. Friday night after several hours in custody. He was accused of trespassing and ignoring warnings to leave the Delaney Hall facility. Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary for public affairs with the Department of Homeland Security, said in an interview with CNN on Saturday that the investigation was ongoing and that the department released more video of the confrontation. McLaughlin accused Baraka of playing "political games.” "I’m shocked by all the lies that were told here," said Baraka, who said he had been invited there for a news conference. "No one else arrested, I was invited in, then they arrested me on the sidewalk.” The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the lawmakers had not asked for a tour of Delaney Hall, which the agency said it would have facilitated. The department said that as a bus carrying detainees was entering in the afternoon, "a group of protestors, including two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility." The Washington Times [5/10/2025 4:57 PM, Stephen Dinan, 1814K] reports they have reached out to the congresswoman’s office for comment. In her own social media posts Friday, Ms. McIver, a New Jersey Democrat, disputed Homeland Security’s characterization that she and the other lawmakers "stormed" the facility. She also chided Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin for leaving her out in an early statement, citing just two members of Congress — Mr. Menendez and Ms. Watson Coleman — involved. None of the members of Congress were arrested, but Mr. Baraka, Newark’s mayor, was detained. He was later released. Ms. McLaughlin said if the members of Congress had requested a tour, they would have been allowed in.

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The New York Times [5/10/2025 6:37 PM, Tracey Tully and Alyce McFadden, 153395K] reports a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security suggested on Saturday that three Democratic members of Congress might face assault charges after a confrontation outside an immigration detention facility in Newark during the arrest of the city’s mayor, even as new details emerged that appeared to contradict the Trump administration’s account of the surrounding events. The three lawmakers — Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver of New Jersey — were inside the facility on Friday for what they described as a congressional oversight visit, which they have the right to conduct under federal law. The facility, Delaney Hall, received its first detainees last week and is eventually expected to hold as many as 1,000 migrants at a time. Soon after the legislators left the building on Friday afternoon, Newark’s mayor, Ras J. Baraka, was arrested by the head of Homeland Security Investigations in a brief but volatile clash that involved a team of masked federal agents wearing military fatigues and the three lawmakers. He was then taken to a separate federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city and released five hours later. Precisely what led to Mr. Baraka’s arrest on federal trespassing charges, in a public area outside a facility that is owned by a private prison company, remains unclear. But much of what unfolded was recorded by journalists, as well as by cameras worn by law enforcement officials and videos taken by activists protesting nearby. Tricia McLaughlin, the Homeland Security spokeswoman, told CNN on Saturday that a body camera video showed “members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body-slamming a female ICE officer.” The episode was under investigation, she said, and charges against the three lawmakers were “definitely on the table.” The Hill [5/10/2025 9:11 PM, Ashleigh Fields, 12829K] reports ICE officials said Coleman, Menendez and LaMonica McIver were pushing and shoving among the people in the crowd outside the facility. However, Coleman said reports about lawmakers’ rowdy presence are not true. "Since DHS has been lying about this, allow me to correct the record. This scuffle, during which an ICE agent physically shoved me, occurred AFTER we had entered the Delaney Hall premises. We entered the facility, came BACK OUT to speak to the Mayor, and then ICE agents began shoving us," Coleman wrote in a Friday post on X. "This is not how we entered the facility. We were escorted in by guards, because we have lawful oversight authority to be there," she added. The New Jersey representative said members of Congress have the legal right to conduct oversight at DHS facilities without prior notice and noted she’s conducted visits twice this year. "The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line," Coleman said in a statement. "They have to resort to lies because their conduct is indefensible on the merits. They can threaten us all they like, but their lies are still lies. We will not be intimidated," she continued. The New York Post [5/11/2025 12:12 AM, Shane Galvin, 54903K] reports the state’s US Attorney Alina Habba on Friday confirmed Baraka’s arrest, saying he "committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon. "He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW," she added on X. However, Baraka on Saturday blamed DHS for his arrest, claiming the agency "escalated" the incident. "The reality is Alina Habba wasn’t there; the US attorney wasn’t there. She doesn’t know what happened," he said. "Clearly, that is not the context of what happened. I was there for over an hour in that space, and nobody ever told me to move … not a single person, not an officer from ICE, not any of the security guards, nobody told me to leave that place," Baraka insisted. "Somebody from Homeland Security came in the end and began to escalate the situation, and we wind up being where we are today, and that’s, frankly, the extent of it," he added. The mayor was released from custody Friday night. Video posted to X earlier that day showed him being walked in handcuffs by Homeland Security Investigations officers. "I didn’t go there to break any laws. I didn’t break any laws," Baraka stated earlier Saturday. Newark City Councilmember Kenyatta Stewart agrees with the mayor’s characterization of the visit to Delaney Hall. "They invited him in. A Geo security guard actually opened the door for him," Stewart told The Post. "Then, as we were waiting for the congressman, they asked him to leave, and he did, and they arrested him outside the gate.” Politico [5/10/2025 2:20 PM, Ry Rivard and Daniel Han, 2100K] reports a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said arresting three Democratic members of Congress is “on the table” following a chaotic scene outside of an immigrant detention center on Friday. Three New Jersey Democrats — Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver — were there for a tour of a new Trump administration Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, Delaney Hall, which is expected to play a significant role in its Northeast immigration operations. But chaos broke out when federal agents arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor, setting off a tense scrum including the three members of Congress. “There will be more arrests coming,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN on Saturday morning. In response to a request for further comment, DHS referred questions to the interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba. Her office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from POLITICO. The possibility of arrests marks an escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on public officials and comes as a Wisconsin judge was arrested late last month for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest. Members of Congress have the legal right to make unannounced oversight visits to ICE detention facilities. A spokesperson for Watson Coleman said her office had not heard from DHS; it had only seen the public statements by the department. In response to those, Watson Coleman’s office said it had reviewed body camera footage from DHS and that “proves that DHS has been lying about this incident — blatantly lying. Forbes [5/10/2025 3:39 PM, Staff] reports on Saturday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin spoke with CNN’s Victor Blackwell about the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at an incident outside an ICE facility. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Daily Wire [5/10/2025 3:20 PM, Virginia Kruta, 4700K] reports several New Jersey Democrats claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents got “rough” with them on Friday, but body-cam footage told a very different story. The incident unfolded outside Delaney Hall, a detention facility housing criminal illegal aliens in Newark, New Jersey, as several House Democrats (New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson-Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez) pushed past security and demanded access to and oversight of the facility. According to reports, the protesters waited outside the gate until it was opened for a vehicle transporting detainees, at which point they rushed through the gate. Democratic Newark Mayor Ras Baraka also participated in the breach and was arrested. On Saturday, after the Garden State Democrats claimed that they’d been manhandled and roughed up by the ICE agents, the Justice Department released body-cam footage of the clash between protesters and officers. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons joined “Fox & Friends: Weekend” on Saturday to discuss the incident, and he praised the agents on the ground for doing their jobs despite the ongoing protests and opposition from lawmakers. [Editorial note: consult video at source link] Daily Wire [5/10/2025 3:47 PM, Virginia Kruta, 4672K] reports Rep. Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-NJ) claimed on Saturday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials would use "manufactured" body cam footage to make it appear as though she and her fellow protesters — which included two other House Democrats and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka — had been the instigators. Watson-Coleman appeared on CNN on Saturday to discuss the incident that took place outside Delaney Hall — an ICE-operated detention center in Newark, New Jersey, that currently houses criminal illegal aliens. She and fellow Garden State Reps. Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver had joined Mayor Baraka and had demanded access to the facility to exercise "oversight.” "We were there for a tour," Watson-Coleman began, giving the impression that the "tour" was planned and they were supposed to be there. She then went on to say that they eventually got "access" to the facility, leaving out the fact that she and the others had waited until the gate opened for a vehicle transporting detainees and then charged past security. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded in a statement, saying, "Members of Congress are not above the law and cannot illegally break into detention facilities. Had these members requested a tour, we would have facilitated a tour of the facility.” Watson-Coleman went on to claim that the ICE agents had arrested Mayor Baraka after he walked out of the facility and was on public property — but Alina Habba, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, said that Baraka only left the facility when he was told he would be placed under arrest, after which ICE agents followed and placed him in handcuffs. Watson-Coleman then conceded that she and Rep. Menendez had attempted to "shield" Baraka from the agents when they came to arrest him, but said that she didn’t "know anything about anybody hitting back at those large and weaponized officers" during the ensuing scuffle. "ICE caused this chaos," she insisted, claiming that anyone who said the protesters were at fault was lying because President Donald Trump had given everyone in his administration "permission to lie.” The CNN anchor noted that ICE had promised to go public with body cam footage that showed protesters getting rough with the ICE agents. "If there’s any such body — kind of footage, it is footage that is manufactured for this purpose," Watson-Coleman said. "Because I said it before, and I’ll say it again, they are lying.”

The Guardian [5/10/2025 7:10 PM, Lauren Aratani, 78900K] reports speaking out after his arrest on Tuesday, the Newark mayor Ras Baraka said his city would continue its fight in court against the company that runs an immigration detention facility in New Jersey. “I know there are some protests that other people are planning, and if I feel obligated to be there, I will,” Baraka told the Rev Al Sharpton on MSNBC Saturday afternoon. “This doesn’t stop the city’s contention with the Geo Group, and we’re going to continue in court with them.” Baraka was arrested Tuesday morning after joining three members of Congress at a protest and press conference outside a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility located in Newark known as Delaney Hall. He was arrested by homeland security agents and taken into custody at a separate facility in Newark. The mayor was released about five hours later and charged with trespassing. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN Saturday morning that “there will be more arrests coming” after the protest at the facility, saying that the arrests of the three Democratic members of Congress who were there – Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver – are “on the table”. McLaughlin told CNN that the lawmakers “put law enforcement at risk, this actually put the detainees as well at risk” and said that DHS have “body-camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our Ice enforcement officers” “The mayor has been informed that he is more than welcome to enter the facility, as long as he follows security protocols like everyone else,” McLaughlin told the Times. At the protest Tuesday, Baraka joined Coleman, Menendez and McIver, who were allowed into the facility as part of an oversight visit. Baraka, who was in a crowd of people, told Sharpton that he left the entry gates “several times”, and he was ultimately arrested outside the facility gates. Baraka insists that he “didn’t do anything wrong”.

Washington Post [5/10/2025 6:39 PM, Tobi Raji and Arelis R. Hernández, 31735K] reports Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention facility in Newark, has drawn controversy since President Donald Trump’s administration announced a billion-dollar deal with a private prison company in February to reopen the complex, part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s effort to expand its detention capacity in the Northeast. Immigrant rights activists oppose the transformation of the former Newark prison into an immigrant detention center, saying it violates state laws and represents an affront to the deeply immigrant community. The tension over Delaney Hall erupted Friday when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested and charged with trespassing after he tried to visit the facility. He tried to inspect the property alongside a Democratic congressional delegation. U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin accused Democratic leaders during a CNN interview Saturday of assaulting federal law enforcement.

Daily Wire [5/10/2025 10:07 AM, Amanda Prestigiacomo, 4672K] reports Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan on Saturday ripped Democrat Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for claiming he was supporting the rule of law when he trespassed at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility. Baraka was arrested and briefly detained on Friday for “storming” the facility, The Daily Wire reported. The mayor and two other Democrats reportedly rushed into the center after gates were opened to allow a bus of apparent illegal criminals into the facility. “We ask them to obey our laws, to obey the policies, the rules here, in the city and the state of New Jersey, not to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the 4th, 5th, the 14th Amendment, that everybody on this soil deserves due process,” Mayor Baraka said to the press on Friday. “Well look, he’s not very smart,” Homan reacted on Fox News. “The bottom line is, that is what this facility is all about. This facility is about due process. This facility is where we put illegal aliens … this is where due process happens. We have to detain them to go through the due process of, sometimes seeing a judge,” or other processes, like sending them back to their country. Homan went on to criticize the Democrats for rushing the facility and putting safety and security at risk for the public, illegal immigrants, and others. “You don’t make an unauthorized entry while they’re moving a bus of criminals into the facility,” he said. FOX News [5/10/2025 12:52 PM, Staff, 46189K] reports Border Czar Tom Homan reacts to the Newark, New Jersey mayors’ recent arrest for breaking into an ICE detention center. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NewsMax [5/10/2025 5:59 PM, James Morley III, 4998K] reports it’s "a good thing" a New Jersey politician was arrested when protesting at a new federal immigration detention center, Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland of Terrell County, Texas, told Newsmax Saturday. On Friday evening, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at a federal immigration detention center after he ignored instructions from Homeland Security to leave the Delaney Hall facility. "I think it’s a good thing. It shows politicians — whether you’re at the state, local, or federal level — you’re not above the law, and you got to play by the same rules as the rest of the public, just like we do as sheriffs," Cleveland said during an appearance on "Saturday Agenda." DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN earlier in the day that the administration has body cam footage of a member of Congress "body slamming" a female Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and that more arrests are forthcoming. Cleveland said he’s pleased to see the authorities taking proper action. "We’re here to protect and defend any party, any person. And I’m glad that this administration held their feet to the fire and prevented those guys looking to have their own way at that ICE detention facility," he added. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [5/10/2025 5:35 PM, Alexandra Koch and Alex Nitzberg, 46189K] reports democratic lawmakers and protesters on Friday stormed the gate of Delaney Hall Detention Center, a secure immigration facility in Newark, New Jersey, to advocate for detainees Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin categorized as "murderers, terrorists, child rapists and MS-13 gang members." A group of protesters, including members of Congress, chased after a bus of detainees entering the security gate, before storming the gate and breaking into the facility, according to a news release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., later wrote in an X post that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "shoved" her and "manhandled" Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J. Yet, Homeland Security footage posted to X on Saturday appears to show McIver pushing and elbowing officials as they stood defending the gate. DHS posted on X, "Meet who the New Jersey lawmakers are fighting for:" [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Politico [5/10/2025 7:00 AM, Kyle Cheney, 11599K] reports a fundamental promise by America’s founders — that no one should be punished by the state without a fair hearing — is under threat, a growing chorus of federal judges say. That concept of “due process under law,” borrowed from the Magna Carta and enshrined in the Bill of Rights, is most clearly imperiled for the immigrants President Donald Trump intends to summarily deport, they say, but U.S. citizens should be wary, too. Across the country, judges appointed by presidents of both parties — including Trump himself — are escalating warnings about what they see as an erosion of due process caused by the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. What started with a focus on people Trump has deemed “terrorists” and “gang members” — despite their fierce denials — could easily expand to other groups, including Americans, these judges warn. “When the courts say due process is important, we’re not unhinged, we’re not radicals,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Washington, D.C.-based appointee of President Joe Biden, said at a recent hearing. “We are literally trying to enforce a process embodied in probably the most significant document with respect to peoples’ rights against tyrannical government oppression. That’s what we’re doing here. Okay?” It’s a fight that judges are increasingly casting as existential, rooted in the 5th Amendment’s guarantee that “no person shall … be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” The word “person,” courts have noted, makes no distinction between citizens or noncitizens. The Supreme Court has long held that this fundamental promise extends to immigrants in deportation proceedings. In a 1993 opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia called that principle “well-established.” The daily skirmishing between the White House and judges has obscured a slow-moving, nearly unanimous crescendo: If the courts don’t protect the rights of the most vulnerable, everyone is at risk. Administration officials say despite these frustrations, they are providing a constitutional level of due process to the people being deported and following court orders they disagree with. “Neither Congress nor the Founders intended for invading aliens to sit in court for years while their attorneys file frivolous motions,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. “This is not what the Constitution requires, and the far left knows it. Given this, any reasonable person might wonder why foreign citizens who have broken our laws are entitled to constitutional protection at all.”

AP [5/10/2025 11:02 PM, Rodrique Ngowi and Claire Rush, 34586K] reports a Tufts University student from Turkey returned to Boston on Saturday, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she was held for over six weeks. Upon arrival at Logan Airport, Rumeysa Ozturk told reporters she was excited to get back to her studies during what has been a “very difficult” period. “In the last 45 days, I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies,” she said. “But I am so grateful for all the support, kindness and care.” A federal judge ordered Ozturk’s release Friday pending a final decision on her claim that she was illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza. Ozturk said she will continue her case in the courts, adding, “I have faith in the American system of justice.” She was joined by her lawyers and two of Massachusetts’ Democratic members of Congress, Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley. “Today is a tremendous day as we welcome you back, Rumeysa,” Markey said. “You have made millions and millions of people across our country so proud of the way you have fought.” Appearing by video for her bail hearing the previous day, Ozturk, 30, detailed her growing asthma attacks in detention and her desire to finish her doctorate focusing on children and social media. U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Vermont ruled that she was to be released on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions. She was not a danger to the community or a flight risk, he said, while noting that he might amend the release order to consider any conditions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in consultation with her lawyers. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in March, without providing evidence, that investigations found that Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist group. This week a federal appeals court upheld Sessions’ order to bring Ozturk back to New England for hearings to determine whether her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process, were violated, as her lawyers argue.

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Washington Examiner [5/10/2025 12:01 PM, Annabella Rosciglione, 2296K] reports it is unclear how his latest push would be funded as Trump and Congressional Republicans look to make large cuts to the federal government’s budget. There are currently about 6,000 officers focused on deportation efforts at Immigration and Custom Enforcement. Earlier this week, DHS officials said they would pay migrants $1,000 to "self deport" and that their cost of travel would be covered. In his proclamation Friday, Trump repeated that offer and labeled it "project homecoming." The Trump administration has attempted to execute its mass deportation vision though sweeping raids in major U.S. cities, arresting dozens of international students, and allowing ICE officers additional freedom on where they can enforce immigration law — including places previously considered off-limits like schools and churches. BBC [5/10/2025 2:15 PM, Kayla Epstein, 69900K] reports The order did not specify how the increase in staffing at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be funded. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the sub-agency that primarily deals with illegal immigration, currently has more than 21,000 employees. Of those, Ice has 6,100 deportation officers and more than 750 enforcement removal assistants, according to the agency website. The order calls on the DHS to supplement it’s current efforts "by deputising and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former federal officers, officers and personnel within other federal agencies." The president’s call to increase staff comes as his administration pursues multiple pathways to force undocumented immigrants to leave the US. Trump has called for individuals to self deport, using a government app known as CPB Home. This week, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced $1,000 (£751) bonuses and paid travel for people who leave the US voluntarily.

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New York Post [5/10/2025 6:45 PM, Jennie Taer and Anna Young, 54903K] reports the mom of an autistic woman who was raped and murdered by an MS-13 gang member in the US illegally will be honored by the Department of Homeland Security in a solemn Mother’s Day message. The tribute, obtained by The Post, includes a somber video featuring Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was strangled to death in 2022 by Walter Martinez, a native of El Salvador. The nearly three-minute clip shows photos of Hamilton as her mother recounts the horror she experienced upon learning her daughter was killed by an illegal gangbanger — a shock based on her belief that the Biden Administration had secured the border against such threats. She later thanked President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for working to rid the country of “these monsters” and prioritizing the safety of children nationwide, according to the footage. Martinez, who crossed the border under the Biden Administration, pleaded guilty to Hamilton’s murder and was sentenced to 70 years in prison. “This Mother’s Day, Secretary Noem is honoring Tammy Nobles and all the mothers who lost loved ones to illegal crime,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says in a statement included in the announcement.

ABC News [5/10/2025 4:51 PM, Laura Romero and Armando Garcia, 34586K] reports the family of the 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her mother to Honduras last month, voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against the Trump administration, one of the attorneys who represents the family told ABC News. "Given the traumatizing experiences the families have been through, they are taking a step back to have full discussions about all their options, the safety and well-being of their children, and the best ways to proceed so the harms they have suffered can be fully addressed," attorney Gracie Willis said. Last month, a federal judge said he had a strong suspicion that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras "with no meaningful process." "The ACLU dropped its lawsuit on the false claims that DHS deported a U.S. citizen," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement on Saturday. "The truth is, and has always been, that the mother -- who was in the country illegally -- chose to bring her 2-year-old with her to Honduras when she was removed. The narrative that DHS is deporting American children is false and irresponsible," she added.

AP [5/10/2025 1:12 PM, Will Weissert, 48304K] reports White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government. Such a move would be aimed at migrants as part of the Republican president’s broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border. Miller suggested that the U.S. is facing “an invasion” of migrants. That term was used deliberately, though any effort to suspend habeas corpus would spark legal challenges questioning whether the country was facing an invasion, let alone presenting extraordinary threats to public safety. Federal judges have so far been skeptical of the Trump administration’s past efforts to use extraordinary powers to make deportations easier, and that could make suspending habeas corpus even tougher.

AP [5/10/2025 10:32 AM, Travis Loller] reports more than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried. The operation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a reminder of how local and state law enforcement jurisdictions are critical to President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations. The Highway Patrol said Friday that it made 588 stops in the joint operation with ICE, which took custody of 103 under investigation for immigration violations. The stops "led to the recovery of illegal drugs and firearms — taking dangerous elements off the street and making Tennessee safer," the Highway Patrol said. One person was wanted in a killing in El Salvador. Tennessee’s Gov. Bill Lee recently signed a law creating a division of immigration enforcement with the state’s Department of Safety and Homeland Security, which includes the Highway Patrol. He is one of a number of Republican officials pledging to use state resources to carry out Trump’s plans. Meanwhile, city officials in the Democratic stronghold of Nashville have disavowed involvement and been critical of the arrests.

San Diego Union Tribune [5/10/2025 1:17 PM, Alex Riggins, 1682K] reports on the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving in 2022, a panga piloted by two cousins from Baja California capsized as it approached the shoreline off Imperial Beach. The cousins and five of the undocumented immigrants they were transporting made it safely onto the beach, but three others drowned. The cousins were eventually sentenced to less than five years each in federal custody for their roles in the deadly mishap. Both are scheduled to be released from prison in 2026. Their fates stand in stark contrast to the punishment U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recommended this week for the two suspected smugglers charged in connection with the panga that capsized Monday morning near Del Mar, leaving three people dead and a 10-year-old girl missing and presumed dead. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will ultimately be responsible for deciding whether to seek the death penalty against Jesus Ivan Rodriguez Leyva, 36, and Julio Cesar Zuniga Luna, 30. But death-penalty sentences would be far harsher than the sentences that federal judges in San Diego have handed down in recent years to convicted smugglers in similar cases. If prosecutors were to seek the death penalty against Rodriguez and Zuniga, they must do so before trial. There is no deadline yet for that decision, but a judge could set a deadline in the future.

Washington Post [5/10/2025 9:00 AM, Tatum Hunter, 31735K] reports as the Trump administration aggressively pushes to deport more immigrants, scammers are using social media and messaging apps to offer fake legal help and defraud vulnerable people like Ramírez. Bad actors create TikTok accounts impersonating immigration lawyers, buy fraudulent Facebook ads, and even set up fake court hearings via WhatsApp. Algorithmic feeds, meanwhile, help them target people seeking information about the immigration process. Victims lose thousands of dollars and, in some cases, find themselves facing deportation when scammers file incorrect paperwork. In the months since President Donald Trump took office, immigration scams on social media have spiked, attorneys say. Impostor scams are the most common type of fraud report the Federal Trade Commission receives from consumers, according to the agency’s public data. The number of immigration fraud complaints more than doubled from 2023 to 2024, according to the latest FTC data shared with The Washington Post.

UPI [5/10/2025 8:19 PM, Mike Heuer, 1546K] reports the American Civil Liberties Union has dropped its federal lawsuit accusing the Department of Homeland Security of illegally deporting a U.S. child and her Honduran mother and sister. "The ACLU dropped its lawsuit on the false claims that DHS deported a U.S. citizen," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Saturday in a news release. The news release referred to the federal lawsuit as "baseless lawfare" against the DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "The truth is, and always has been, that the mother - who was in the country illegally - chose to bring her 2-year-old with her to Honduras when she was removed," McLaughlin said. "The narrative that DHS is deporting American children is false and irresponsible."

USA Today [5/11/2025 6:01 AM, Lauren Villagran, 75858K] reports every night at midnight, Will Trim sits down to the piano in his Boston apartment and waits for lights out in the Louisiana ICE detention center where his best friend is being held. His cellphone rings. On the other end, Kseniia Petrova is silent. She leans against a brick wall in a freezing ward with 101 other women, cradling one of six working phones to her ear. She listens. Trim plays Bach or Chopin to calm her until the jail line clicks off at the 15-minute mark and she – a shy, 30-year-old Harvard scientist with no history of immigration violations or criminality – retreats to the bunk where she has slept for nearly three months in immigration detention. "I know he is very worried about me," Petrova told USA TODAY, using one of the phones. "Maybe I should be tougher," said Trim, a biologist, who works in a Harvard Medical School lab with Petrova, his colleague and roommate. "But even after three months, the music doesn’t sing anymore unless she calls and wants to hear it." Across the country, President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign is ensnaring people of all sorts – not only immigrants with criminal backgrounds, as promised during the presidential campaign. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained international students, immigrants with valid green cards, immigrants with legal work permits; tourists, U.S. citizen children, and, in Petrova’s case, top-tier scholars who work legally in the nation’s prestigious research labs. A court hearing May 14 could decide her fate.

Milwaukee Independent [5/10/2025 6:30 AM, Staff] reports that, if President Donald Trump’s administration has its way, the capacity to hold tens of thousands more migrants will soon be added around the country as the U.S. seeks an explosive expansion of what is already the world’s largest immigration detention system. Trump’s effort to conduct mass deportations as promised in the 2024 campaign represents a potential bonanza for private prison companies and a challenge to the government agencies responsible for the orderly expulsion of immigrants. Some critics say the administration’s plans also include a deliberate attempt to isolate detainees by locking them up and holding court proceedings far from their attorneys and support systems. The acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Todd Lyons, said at a border security conference in Phoenix in April that the agency needs “to get better at treating this like a business” and suggested the nation’s deportation system could function “like Amazon, trying to get your product delivered in 24 hours.” “So trying to figure out how to do that with human beings and trying to get them pretty much all over the globe is really something for us,” Lyons said.

Washington Post [5/10/2025 8:00 AM, Marissa J. Lang, 31735K] reports by the time lawyers arrived Wednesday morning at the leafy playground in one of the District’s most affluent neighborhoods, the rumors had already alarmed parents across the city. As concern grew, neighbors lined the block. An elected official jetted to the Forest Hills playground. Immigration attorneys handed out know-your-rights cards in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole to any nannies they could find. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials later told The Washington Post that agents had not targeted nannies at that playground nor any other in the District this week. Still, the unease gripping the nation’s capital has not abated. Tales of nannies being questioned and detained came during a week in which D.C. restaurants were served documents by Homeland Security demanding to see proof of workers’ legal status and as reports continued to spread of ICE arresting Maryland parents in front of their children. Fears agents would show up unannounced at schools prompted at least one to cancel a field trip. An ICE official declined to say Friday whether agents made arrests in D.C. on any day this week, citing safety concern amid ongoing enforcement efforts. The Post could not independently verify any confrontations between immigration agents and child-care workers at D.C. parks.

FOX News [5/10/2025 10:08 PM, Jasmine Baehr, 46189K] reports FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shared a detailed update Saturday about the bureau’s operations, making clear the agency is focused on removing dangerous criminals and protecting children. In a post on X, Bongino outlined several priorities and took aim at what he called misleading media coverage of the FBI’s work. "The workforce has been working overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens from the country. The work continues," Bongino wrote. "If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered.” He said these operations are only getting started and will ramp up in the coming weeks. "These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration’s laser-focus on sealing the border shut," he added. Bongino also pointed to a new initiative focused on protecting children from predators. "Crimes against children are a priority for the workforce. Operation ‘Restoring Justice,’ where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning," he said. "We are going to take your freedom if you take away a child’s innocence.” He promised more enforcement efforts to come and warned those targeting children to "think twice.” Bongino addressed the FBI’s efforts to respond to Congress and the public about several high-profile cases. These include the attack on Rep. Steve Scalise, the Nashville school shooting, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the origins of COVID-19. He also mentioned the ongoing work with the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case. "There are voluminous amounts of downloaded child sexual abuse material that we are dealing with," he wrote. "There are also victims’ statements that are entitled to specific protections. We need to do this correctly, but I do understand the public’s desire to get the information out there.”

FOX News [5/10/2025 1:03 PM, Greg Norman, 46189K] reports a tense video emerged of a Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by a crowd of about 25 people in what police are calling a "chaotic incident." Footage captured Thursday in Worcester shows a group of residents chanting "don’t take the mother!" and "no warrant!" after a woman was led into an SUV by uniformed ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. Before the vehicle can pull away, other women are seen placing their hands on the front hood of an SUV and screaming in protest. At one point, a CBP agent and a bystander start shoving each other as he tried to move her away from the SUV. The vehicle eventually leaves the area after the Worcester Police Department arrived and declared an unlawful assembly, threatening arrest. "I am disturbed to hear about today’s events involving ICE. As someone who prides themselves on leading a welcoming city, I am devastated to hear about the separation of a family, especially with Mother’s Day around the corner," Joseph Petty, the city’s Democratic mayor, wrote on X. "The fear of ICE tearing a family apart is the worst nightmare of so many in our city. I have asked the City Manager for a full report of the incident. We were not notified by ICE about the detainment. Simply put, we cannot have this happen in our community," he added. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. [Editorial note: consult video at source link] The Boston Herald [5/10/2025 5:12 PM, Lance Reynolds, 1200K] reports federal authorities say the woman detained amid the chaotic ICE operation in Worcester had been previously arrested on charges that include assault and battery on a pregnant victim. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has identified the target of Thursday’s operation as "violent criminal illegal alien" Ferreira de Oliviera. "The previous administration’s open border policies allowed this criminal to illegally enter our country in August of 2022," McLaughlin said in a scathing statement shared with the Herald on Saturday. "Thanks to President Trump and Secretary (Kristi) Noem this criminal is off our streets." McLaughlin did not disclose when and where de Oliviera was previously arrested on charges of assault and battery on a pregnant victim and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Worcester Police spokesperson Lt. Sean Murtha told the Herald that the city department doesn’t "generally comment on past arrests after someone has already been arraigned." McLaughlin also slammed City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj for responding to the scene of the ICE action, which unfolded in a neighborhood that Haxhiaj represents. The councilor is seen in videos posted on social media confronting police officers. Haxhiaj told one of the officers, "I am trying to protect my constituent. I have the right to be here. I am the city councilor, and I am protecting my constituents." The councilor also said, "All you needed to do was just have one of us hold her and contain her. You didn’t have to take her. … Your use of force is unnecessary." “District Councilor for the City of Worcester Haxhiaj pulled a political stunt and incited chaos by trying to obstruct law enforcement,” McLaughlin said in her statement. “ICE officers and local police regained control of the situation and ICE (arrested) Ferreira de Oliveira.”

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Telemundo [5/10/2025 5:39 PM, Arly Alfaro, 171K] reports the life of Germán Mendoza-Reyes, a 54-year-old Nicaraguan, took a dramatic turn after he voluntarily showed up for an appointment with immigration authorities in South Florida. Instead of an evaluation, he was detained and sent to the Broward Transitional Center. Since then, he says he has begun a hunger strike as a desperate form of protest. His fear: that he will be deported to Nicaragua, where he says his life is in danger. His partner, Lucia Castro, can barely hold back tears as she recalls the last call he received from the detention center. “He told me: ‘If they take me out of here, it has to be in a box,’” she says between sobs. From the detention center, Mendoza-Reyes spoke by phone with this reporter. His voice, although firm, denotes the weight of fear and hopelessness. She explains that she decided to stop eating the day after her arrest, in protest of what she considers a direct threat to her life if she returns to her native country. "I am afraid that they will capture me, torture me or make me disappear. That’s what the Nicaraguan regime does," he declared. “I would rather die in this free country than go back and be mistreated.”

Univision [5/10/2025 12:49 PM, Staff, 5325K] reports a U.S. citizen truck driver barricaded himself inside his vehicle after being stopped by immigration agents seeking to arrest two fellow immigrants he was transporting in his truck. The incident occurred on a highway in Jacksonville, Florida, when Alex Morales and his companion Jorge Jiménez, who is also a citizen, refused to open the truck they were traveling in to protect two other companions who are undocumented immigrants. Alex Morales was detained at a commercial truck weigh station by an agricultural control officer. The driver says he decided to confront the officers because he believed the arrest was due to racial profiling. Jorge Jiménez, who was riding co-pilot in the truck with Alex and is also a U.S. citizen, asked his companions not to hand over any documents through the window, adding that it’s sad that even though they have papers, they now also have to remain silent. In the end, immigration agents let them go, but warned them that they would be kept under surveillance.

Yahoo News [5/10/2025 9:50 PM, Staff, 59943K] reports County leaders have decided not to move forward with a proposed agreement with ICE that would allow the county to detain undocumented immigrants. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Telemundo [5/10/2025 4:38 PM, Staff, 2K] reports multiple immigration raids leave residents and construction workers in one county outraged and anxious after the presence of agents. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Daily Caller [5/10/2025 9:08 AM, Floyd Buford, 1082K] reports a recent Democratic-backed law in New Mexico seeks to solve the state’s rampant crime problem and shortage of cops by letting foreign nationals become police officers. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on April 7 signed Senate Bill 364, which opens the door for anyone with a federal work permit to serve as a cop. In 2024 alone, the Biden administration issued over two million new work permits to non-citizens — many through hotly debated parole programs with major oversight flaws. Over the last several years, New Mexico has experienced an exodus of cops and a spike in crime, something Las Cruces Police Chief Jeremy Story attributes to the anti-police sentiment stemming from the George Floyd riots. One of the bill’s main proponents argued it would address the state’s police shortage.

Breitbart [5/10/2025 7:58 PM, Neil Munro, 2923K] reports India’s government has just signed a deal with the United Kingdom that allows more Indian graduates to take more white-collar jobs from British graduates. The deal is "truly appalling," said Nigel Farage, leader of the fast-rising, anti-migration Reform UK party. The government has "betrayed working Britain" by giving Indian white-collar workers a 20 percent price advantage over similar Brits in jobs, he said. But the deal is also bad news for American graduates because it may be similar to the still-secret trade deal that President Donald Trump is negotiating with Indian government officials. "Hopefully, @POTUS and JDVance will not be willing to screw American workers in a US trade deal with India," said a May 7 tweet from the Immigration Accountability Project. "We’ve heard nothing out of this administration so far that would indicate to me they are serious about doing anything about employment visas that are displacing Americans," said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers. He added: We’re not seeing anything coming out of India saying that they’re aghast that the U.S. is looking to curb these employment visa programs. Indian officials have been pressuring Trump to welcome many more mixed-skill Indian graduates into the U.S. white-collar jobs, many of which are already closed to Americans because of ethnic hiring networks created by Indian managers within the Fortune 500. Also, U.S. lobbies welcome the Indian migrant workers because they provide India with billions of dollars in remittances needed to buy U.S. weapons, grain, energy, and technology that the U.S. hopes to sell via the trade deal. Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. dramatically expanded visa awards to Indians, including the B-1 visitor visas used by Indians to get truck-driving jobs in the United States. So far, U.S. officials have remained tight-lipped about the pending U.S.-India deal.

AP [5/10/2025 1:02 PM, Gerald Imray, 48304K] reports the Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort for a minority group who are being persecuted by their Black-led government because of their race. The South Africans’ applications are being fast-tracked by the U.S. after President Donald Trump announced the relocation program in February. The Trump administration has taken an anti-migrant stance, suspending refugee programs and halting arrivals from other parts of the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan and most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Refugee groups have questioned why some white South Africans are being prioritized.

NewsNation [5/10/2025 7:46 PM, Jorge Ventura, 6866K] Video: HERE reports the U.S. military is expanding its role at the Southern border, and that includes the use of technology designed to detect aerial threats. The Department of Defense is sealing off key stretches of the border with high-tech radar systems, NewsNation national correspondent Jorge Ventura reports. The move comes as drone activity launched by Mexican cartels has become a growing concern for Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement. Some drones have even been equipped with explosives, raising threat levels for agents on the ground. In 2023, one sector alone recorded more than 10,000 drone incursions from Mexico into the U.S. Near Rio Grande City, soldiers are operating the AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar system to detect drones and unmanned surveillance threats coming from Mexico. The Sentinel system — mounted on a mobile platform — can be remotely positioned and is able to alert front-line air defense when it detects hostile aircraft, drones, helicopters or missiles. It’s a 3-D radar, tracking an object’s range, bearing and elevation. In March, U.S. troops also deployed the AN/TPQ-53 radar system, a multi-mission radar that detects mortars, rockets, artillery, and low-flying threats, including cartel drones. This system can also pinpoint the origin of attacks, giving law enforcement real-time intelligence on where drone launches are happening. The Defense Department says both radar systems are part of broader efforts to enhance border security and directly respond to increased cartel drone activity. Last month, a 170-mile stretch of federal land along the New Mexico border was officially transferred to the Department of Defense, creating what’s now known as a National Defense Area. As part of the military’s expanding enforcement role, soldiers with Joint Task Force-Southern Border placed 150 warning signs over a more than 18-mile stretch near Clint, Texas. Enforcement is already underway. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said anyone crossing into this restricted zone will be detained by U.S. troops. Officials say this is part of a broader push to close off corridors long exploited by smugglers and criminal groups and to enforce the military perimeter with zero tolerance.

FOX News [5/10/2025 8:57 AM, Michael Dorgan, 46189K] reports President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order establishing the first ever self-deportation program which incentivizes illegal migrants to voluntarily leave the country in a free flight and with a cash bonus. The new program, titled "Project Homecoming," authorizes government-funded flights and offers money to illegal migrants willing to self-deport. Trump announced the signing of the order in a video post on Truth Social and said that the program will end up saving taxpayers "billions and billions" of dollars. Trump added that illegal migrants will be offered a "very important exit bonus" to leave. Homeland Security said earlier this week that migrants would be offered a $1,000 stipend each to leave. The department said this will be 70% cheaper for American taxpayers, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone. He advised illegal migrants to use the Homeland Security CBP One app to arrange their deportations. Trump said that there would be stiff consequences for those who do not comply with his order, but added that migrants who have behaved in the U.S. may get a chance to come back in – as long as they follow the rules of the new plan.

Reuters [5/11/2025 6:08 AM, Leah Douglas, Tim Reid, Nichola Groom and Nathan Layne, 41523K] reports the U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to current and former officials, memos seen by Reuters, and three sources familiar with the situation. The training cutbacks could leave storm-prone communities less prepared to handle the often devastating aftermath of hurricanes, the sources and some of the current and former officials warned. Leading forecasters predict a busier-than-average Atlantic hurricane season this year, with 17 named tropical storms, including nine hurricanes. If state directors and local emergency managers are not briefed on the federal government’s latest tools and resources, it will impact their ability to prepare for and warn communities of impending storms, said Deanne Criswell, who headed FEMA during President Joe Biden’s administration. Some 2,000 FEMA employees - or about a third of full-time staff - have been fired or accepted incentives to quit since President Donald Trump took office in January and declared that the agency should be abolished and its functions handed over to the states. Last week, Trump fired FEMA’s acting chief, Cameron Hamilton, a day after Hamilton told lawmakers that the agency should be preserved. Hamilton’s successor, David Richardson, told FEMA employees on Friday that he would "run right over" any staff opposed to his implementation of Trump’s vision for a smaller agency.

Telemundo [5/10/2025 5:53 PM, Staff, 171K] reports southwest Miami-Dade County continues to be shrouded in smoke and tension as dozens of firefighters and Florida Forest Service firefighters struggle to quell a wildfire that has already engulfed nearly 400 acres of vegetation. Although authorities reported that the fire is 50 percent contained, persistent winds threaten to reverse the progress made. The fire broke out Thursday afternoon in the vicinity of Card Sound Road and Southwest 392nd Street, a high-risk area due to dry vegetation and difficult access. Since then, efforts to control the flames have not ceased. The operation includes water tankers, specialized wildfire crews and helicopters that are constantly discharging water from the air. Images shared by the Miami-Dade Fire Department show plumes of thick smoke rising into the sky as the fire line advances through the area’s dry brush. "The situation remains critical. Although the fire is partially contained, wind conditions could complicate things again," warned Erika Benitez, Fire Department spokeswoman.

AP [5/10/2025 2:43 PM, Staff, 48304K] reports a magnitude 4.1 earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning. No injuries or major damages were immediately reported. The website for the U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake hit shortly after 8 a.m. local time about 12 miles from Greenback, Tenn., roughly 30 miles south of Knoxville. More than 23,000 reports from the public were received by USGS in the first hour after the earthquake, spokeswoman Ayesha Davis told the Associated Press in an email. Meteorologists at television news stations serving Georgia and North Carolina reported feeling the tremors as well. There is a 5% chance of a magnitude 4 or larger aftershock in the next week, according to USGS.

FOX News [5/10/2025 1:12 PM, Michael Dorgan Fox, 46189K] reports a bronze sculpture depicting the attempted assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, PA, last year was seen displayed in the Oval Office on Friday. The commanding piece of symbolic art, which appeared to be at least 12 inches tall, was seen next to Trump’s Resolute Desk as he signed a series of executive orders in front of the press. It depicts the now-iconic image of then-candidate Trump being hauled off stage by three Secret Service members – including the current director of the agency, Sean Curran – after would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off several bullets from a nearby rooftop at Butler Farm Show Grounds on July 13. The sculpture itself is rendered in dark bronze tones with a muted Old Glory flag draped vertically behind. The White House did not say why the statue was there on the day or whether it had been presented to the president.

Yahoo! News [5/10/2025 11:32 AM, Staff, 52868K] reports a Florida man was rescued by the Coast Guard after his boat capsized on Saturday morning in the vicinity of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg boat crew said they received notification of the incident at 7:34 a.m. According to officials, the alert was relayed via a 911 transfer, indicating that St. Petersburg Fire Rescue and Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office marine rescue teams were already on route to assist the distressed boater. Within a short timeframe, the crew said they located the individual and safely retrieved him from the water at 7:56 a.m. The boater had capsized from his 15-foot vessel. Reports suggest the man was then transferred to a St. Petersburg Fire Rescue vessel and subsequently transported to the Maximo Boat Ramp. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident.

Yahoo News [5/10/2025 3:33 PM, Annabelle Sikes, 59943K] reports the Coast Guard rescued two people on Saturday after they were stranded on their sailboat 40 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Officials said they responded to a stranded boat after the operator radioed for help. The operator told authorities they were stranded 40 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral. They said they had been stuck on the water since Friday. One other person was on board with the operator. Authorities said the tow was passed to commercial salvage. Officials said no injuries were reported. It is currently unclear how the two people ended up stranded on the boat. Officials have not released an exact timeline of the incident.

Yahoo! News [5/10/2025 11:56 AM, Jenna Deml, 52868K] reports three people were rescued and one crew member is still missing after a large fishing boat capsized off the Washington coast early Friday morning. Just before 10 a.m., U.S. Coast Guard crews responded to reports of a capsized 68-foot fishing vessel off the coast of Westport. A boat crew from Grays Harbor managed to rescue three people, while other boat crews and an air support crew from Astoria actively searched for another missing crew member. By the early afternoon, officials said U.S. Navy divers were called in to assist in the search, as the fishing vessel had started to sink to the bottom of the channel. However, at around 10 p.m., the Coast Guard called off the search. No further information, including the identity of the missing crew member, has been released at this time.

NewsNation [5/10/2025 6:02 PM, Danielle Dawson, 6866K] reports boating season has arrived in San Diego, but federal officials are urging the public to be wary of illegal charter operators after the U.S. Coast Guard stopped one such “pleasure craft” last week. According to the Coast Guard, crews encountered the 26-foot vessel on Saturday, May 3, off the coast of San Diego. At the time, a boarding team was conducting a safety inspection of the boat, which was carrying 10 passengers and one non-credentialed crew member. Upon further inspection, the Coast Guard crew determined the boat was being used as a charter vessel without meeting a number of key requirements for commercial boating operators. This included not having an appropriately credentialed mariner on board, failure by the operator to be enrolled in a drug and alcohol testing program, and the lack of a valid Certificate of Inspection from the Coast Guard.

BigIslandNow [5/10/2025 9:00 AM, Nathan Christophel, 94K] reports the U.S. Coast Guard on May 9 medevaced the captain of a commercial fishing vessel 80 miles offshore from Hilo on the east side of Hawai’i Island, several days after the nearly 70-year-old man reported several days earlier to watchstanders at Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu he had been experiencing some kind of illness for more than a week. Watchstanders established a regular communication schedule with the vessel’s crew after conferring with the duty flight surgeon and directed them to transit toward Hawai’i Island. U.S. Coast Guard 14th District and U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu personnel procured antibiotics, which an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Barbers successfully dropped at 1:07 p.m. May 7 to the Sea Angel. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point arrived on scene with the Sea Angel at 10:27 a.m. May 9, hoisted the patient and transported him to Hilo Benioff Medical Center. He was reported to be in stable condition.

The Hill [5/10/2025 1:54 PM, Filip Timotija, 12829K] reports the Trump administration is currently probing the impact of imported commercial jets, engines and other aircraft parts on national security, according to a copy of the federal notice made public on Friday. The Commerce Department started the investigation on May 1, per the notice. The department is seeking public comments on the current and projected demand for commercial aircraft and jet engines, the role of foreign supply chains in meeting U.S. demand for commercial jets and the “impact of foreign government subsidies and predatory trade practices on the competitiveness of the commercial aircraft and jet engine industry.” The probe marks the latest use of a Section 232 provision under the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. It also comes after President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs last month on steel and aluminum coming into the country.

NBC News [5/10/2025 7:46 PM, Keir Simmons and Mirna Alsharif, 44742K] reports President Vladimir Putin of Russia said early Sunday that his country is committed to restart direct talks with Kyiv about ending their war, and suggested the next discussions begin May 15 in Turkey. He said he was scheduled to speak to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, later Sunday with hopes of holding talks next week in Istanbul. There would be no preconditions on Russia’s part, he said. Putin said Ukraine walked away from such talks in the past and broke ceasefire agreements, though both sides have been blamed for attacks during the last three ceasefires. He used language that expressed his desire for serious talks with long-term consequences, including long-lasting peace. Putin’s comments came on the last day of the three-day ceasefire declared by Russia, and almost immediately after leaders from the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Germany threatened to increase sanctions against the nation if he does not accept an unconditional, 30-day ceasefire starting Monday. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made the demand for an unconditional ceasefire in a news briefing, which included over 30 countries that have pledged to strengthen Ukraine. They also joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the memorial of fallen Ukrainian soldiers at independence square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. The leaders said the proposal to start the ceasefire Monday was supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, whom they had briefed over the phone earlier in the day.

CNN [5/10/2025 12:00 PM, Jennifer Hansler] reports Sasha, his wife and his young daughter are among the approximately 280,000 Ukrainians who have relocated to the United States through "Uniting for Ukraine" (U4U), a US government humanitarian parole program that allowed private US citizens to sponsor and help support Ukrainian refugees. Now, Sasha’s family and scores of others who came to the US under the U4U program fear their lives may once again be uprooted, as decisions on parole extensions, temporary protected status, and work authorizations have been paused amid the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to the immigration system. "This is pending the completion of additional vetting to identify any fraud, public safety, or national security concerns," they said in a statement to CNN. "USCIS is committed to safeguarding the integrity of our nation’s immigration system and carrying out President Trump and Secretary Noem’s mandate to make America safe again."

Washington Post [5/10/2025 5:03 PM, Karishma Mehrotra, Rick Noack and Natalie Allison, 31735K] reports over four nerve-racking nights, missiles and drones streaked across the skies of major cities in India and Pakistan, as the nuclear-armed neighbors appeared to be sliding toward all-out war. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, President Donald Trump announced a truce. “India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday, saying the deal had been reached “after a long night of talks mediated by the United States.” The sudden announcement of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire followed four days of steady escalation between the regional rivals, and mixed signals from Washington over whether it would reprise its traditional role as mediator. Amid celebrations in India and Pakistan on Saturday, and self-congratulations in Washington, Kashmir endured another night of violence, with both sides claiming violations — a grim reminder that the deal seems only to have temporarily contained one of the world’s longest-running conflicts rather than ended it. A person familiar with the situation, who like others in this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, said Vice President JD Vance called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi around noon in Washington on Friday after senior U.S. officials became increasingly worried about the spiraling situation.

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Reuters [5/11/2025 5:08 AM, Parisa Hafezi, 41523K] reports top Iranian and U.S. negotiators will resume talks on Sunday to address disputes over Tehran’s nuclear programme, in a push for progress as Washington hardens its stance ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East visit. Though Tehran and Washington both have said they prefer diplomacy to resolve the decades-long dispute, they remain deeply divided on several red lines that negotiators will have to circumvent to reach a new nuclear deal and avert future military action. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will hold the fourth round of talks in Muscat through Omani mediators, despite Washington taking a tough stance in public that Iranian officials said would not help the negotiations. Araqchi, before departing for Muscat, told Iranian state TV that "Iran has well-known positions based on clear principles... We hope to reach a decisive stance in Sunday’s meeting". He added that Iran’s expert team was in Oman and "will be consulted if necessary". Witkoff told Breitbart News on Thursday that Washington’s red line is: "No enrichment. That means dismantlement, no weaponization,” requiring the complete dismantling of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. "If they are not productive on Sunday, then they won’t continue and we’ll have to take a different route,” Witkoff said about the talks. CNN [5/10/2025 6:41 PM, Frederik Pleitgen, 22131K] reports an Iranian official told CNN that recent indirect talks with the United States aimed at addressing Tehran’s nuclear program and lifting sanctions were “not genuine” from the American side and were likely designed from the outset as a “trap to draw the situation toward tension.” According to the official, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, Iran evaluates the talks’ interruptions and weekly gaps, which were against Tehran’s preference, as a political and media game by the American side and is now preparing for scenarios in which the talks fail. It comes after US special envoy Steve Witkoff warned on Friday that if the next set of talks in Oman on Sunday were not productive, “then they won’t continue and we’ll have to take a different route.” A US official told CNN Saturday that “President (Donald) Trump is completely sincere in his desire to reach a deal with Iran and is completely committed to getting one.” “The United States will ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, but also wishes for lasting peace in the Middle East, a new relationship with Iran, and for the Iranian people to reach their nations full potential,” said the US official. Sunday’s talks are expected to be high-level only, suggesting that the two sides will discuss a broader framework for moving forward. CNN understands that the technical team, which negotiates on more granular aspects of a deal like sanctions relief, is not expected to attend.

New York Post [5/11/2025 6:30 AM, Dan Raviv, 54903K] reports when President Trump visits the Middle East this coming week — spending four days in a trio of Arabian Gulf nations — his most controversial stop will be Qatar. Claiming to be America’s friend, yet in intimate contact with America’s enemies, Qatar is what many might call the ultimate “frenemy.” This relationship is as complex as it is consequential. On one hand, US officials and pundits privately bemoan clear Qatar negatives — such as offering a home to the political leaders of Hamas, its warm ties with Iran, and establishing the frequently anti-American television news network Al Jazeera. But as in any relationship, the other side often sees things differently. Fueled by billions in gas and oil reserves, Qatar has long-fielded a cadre of diplomats, investors and highly-paid communications consultants to burnish the country’s image as a pro-peace, pro-modernization, pro-moderation force in a region that surely needs more of that. Qatar-affiliated funds have invested more than $40 billion in the US in everything from condo developments to universities, analysts say. And a handful of US schools, including Northwestern University and Georgetown University, have campuses in Qatar’s skyscraper-filled capital, Doha. It’s investment as influence — and Qatar-critics say it’s paying off.

New York Times [5/11/2025 1:00 AM, Alan Rappeport, 153395K] reports top economic officials from the United States and China will meet on Sunday in Geneva for their second day of high-stakes negotiations, discussions that are aimed at easing tensions stemming from President Trump’s trade war. The talks have major implications for the global economy, which has been rocked by the tariffs that the United States and China have imposed on each other in recent months. Mr. Trump has imposed a minimum tariff of 145 percent on all Chinese imports, while China has hit American products with a 125 percent import tax. Such punitive levies are already disrupting the world’s supply chains. American companies are scrambling to source products from countries other than China, while Chinese factories are looking for ways around the U.S. tariffs and exporting more to Southeast Asia. At the same time, many U.S. businesses are weighing how much they can increase prices to help offset the tariff costs. Economists have warned that the trade dispute will slow global growth and fuel inflation, potentially tipping the United States into a recession. Those economic fears have pressured Mr. Trump into seeking a deal with China. After roughly seven hours of talks on Saturday, the United States said it would not release any formal statement about the proceedings.

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