• Top News
  • New York Times/CBS News/ABC News: At Least 27 Dead After Tornadoes and Storms Tear Across Central U.S.
  • FOX News: We’ll continue conducting ICE enforcement operations ‘politicians be damned,’ says DHS official
  • CNN: ‘Where is the evidence?’ CNN anchor presses DHS spokesperson on claim of genocide on White South Africans
  • Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: DHS aims to use National Guard for deportations
  • USA Today: ‘Big Beautiful Deportations’: White House shifts focus on ‘stalled’ bill
  • New York Times: Federal Courts’ Emerging Bottom Line: Due Process Rights for Immigrants
  • CNN: Trump is digging up old immigration policies to help his crackdown. Here’s a timeline for how we got here
  • Washington Examiner: Illegal fishing: Cartels expand criminal activity beyond drug, human smuggling
  • The Hill: Reality show will be ‘Hunger Games’ for immigration: Producer
  • HSToday: Border Patrol, Secret Service & Coast Guard Shatter Recruitment Records Under Trump-Noem Leadership
  • Breitbart: [TX] Tom Homan: Biden-Released, Sex-Trafficked 14-Year-Old Migrant Child Rescued in Texas
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Nearly 40 kids in Houston immigration court without attorneys as Trump admin tries to cut funding
  • New York Times: [CA] One Dead and Four Injured as Bomb Damages Palm Springs Fertility Clinic, Authorities Say
  • AP: [CA] The FBI is investigating the explosion at a California fertility clinic as an act of terrorism
  • FOX News: [CA] Federal Bureau of Prisons director gives the latest on possible Alcatraz reopening
  • Reuters: [Mexico] Mexican security forces kill 12, arrest 9 in raid on alleged gang site
  • Washington Post: [El Salvador] Bukele’s crackdown pushes top Salvadoran journalists to flee
  • CNN: [Venezuela] Deported mom says toddler’s return to Venezuela after separation by US authorities was a ‘miracle’
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • CNN: [MA] Bodycam video shows residents trying to stop ICE agents from arresting woman
  • Breitbart: [TX] 400 Illegal Aliens Arrested, 500 Deported in Week-Long ICE Raids in Houston
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [TX] ICE raid on two Texas buildings leaves 31 migrants detained
  • USA Today: [CO] ICE adopts new tactic: Deport before court, removing people facing criminal charges
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • USA Today: Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. How many people would that impact?
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Telemundo: [FL] Ocean patrols and narcotics playbooks: How a Florida city is tackling human smuggling
  • NBC News: [FL] Ocean patrols and narcotics playbooks: How a Florida city is tackling human smuggling
  • CBS News: [TX] Texas Reps. continue to insist the state be reimbursed by federal government for efforts to secure the border
  • NewsNation: [AZ] Border Patrol dismantles cartel scouting site in Arizona
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • NBC News: [KY] At least 18 dead after powerful tornado ripped through Kentucky
  • Washington Post: [KY] How a tornado tested a Kentucky weather office that cut overnight staff
  • AP: [MO] St. Lous Mayor says five people are dead and dozens injured after severe weather system
  • Univision: [PR] How will the U.S. save Puerto Rico’s power grid? Energy Secretary Issues Cave Emergency Orders
• Secret Service
  • The Hill/New York Times: Secret Service interviewed Comey over ‘8647’ post
  • Breitbart: Gorka to Comey: ‘You Committed a Crime — Threatening the Life of an Incumbent President Is a Crime’
  • CNN: James Comey’s ‘weird’ social media approach lands him in hot water
  • Washington Examiner: Trump responds to James Comey ‘86 47′ post: ‘Loud and clear’
  • USA Today: Trump calls former FBI director James Comey a ‘dirty cop,’ after outrage over ‘8647’ post
  • FOX News: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino: James Comey ‘brought shame to the FBI again’ with ‘86 47’ post
  • Washington Post: With Comey questioning, the Trump administration again targets speech
• Coast Guard
  • Wall Street Journal/Bloomberg/New York Post: [NY] Mexican Navy Training Vessel Strikes Brooklyn Bridge, Killing Two
  • FOX News: [NY] Search and rescue effort underway after sailing ship hits Brooklyn Bridge
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Breitbart: [Mexico] U.S. DOJ Slaps Terrorism Charges on Woman Accused of Getting Grenades for Jalisco Cartel
• National Security News
  • ABC News: [Syria] Questions remain on deals, Syria sanctions following Trump’s Middle East trip
  • AP: [Ukraine] Trump says he will call Putin, then Zelenskyy, on Monday to push for Ukraine ceasefire
  • AP: [Ukraine] Russia launches biggest drone attack on Ukraine since start of war, killing at least 1
  • Reuters: [Ukraine] Russia says it downed 25 Ukrainian drones over two of its border regions, one woman reported killed
  • Wall Street Journal: [Israel] Hamas Wanted to Torpedo Israel-Saudi Deal With Oct. 7 Attacks, Documents Reveal

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