• Top News
  • New York Times/The Hill/Federal News Network: Some T.S.A. Workers to Get $10,000 Bonuses for Shutdown Work
  • NBC News Daily: Government Slowly Returning After Longest Shutdown Ever
  • Wall Street Journal/Politico/Los Angeles Times/Washington Examiner: Customs and Border Protection Agents Expected in North Carolina
  • Washington Post: Federal agent shoots at car during D.C. chase, police say
  • NewsMax: Border Patrol Chief to Newsmax: No Sanctuary From Immigration Laws t
  • Federal News Network: Immigration courts understaffed and overwhelmed, as Trump administration surges enforcement hiring
  • NewsMax/Breitbart: Judge Rebukes DHS, Orders Release of Dozens of Illegals
  • CNN: A judge ordered the release of hundreds arrested in Chicago’s immigration crackdown. What happens next?
  • FOX News: Judge who ordered release of 600 Chicago illegal immigrants slammed by DHS as activist putting lives at risk
  • FOX News: Border chief vows to intensify immigration crackdowns as judge orders migrant release
  • Chicago Tribune: Federal judge to hold permanent injunction hearing on use of force by immigration agents before next spring
  • ABC News/AP/Washington Examiner: Rep. LaMonica McIver must face federal charges over incident at ICE detention center, judge rules
  • Washington Examiner: Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear to remove ‘narcoterrorists from our hemisphere’
  • New York Times: U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Trump Says Was Smuggling Drugs
  • AP: US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela in flex of American military power
  • Bloomberg Government: Top Republican Urges Release of Venezuela Strikes Justification
  • NewsMax: US Treasury Sanctions 20 Mexican Firms Linked to Cartels
  • NPR: ‘We need to get out of here’: Trump’s immigration crackdown is quietly reshaping where immigrants live in America
  • FOX News: Illegal alien truck driver presses for blood samples, vehicle analysis in deadly Florida disaster
  • Breitbart: DHS: Mexican National, Recently Re-Elected Mayor of Kansas Town, Repeatedly Committed Voter Fraud
  • Blaze: Leftist county is apparently helping illegal aliens fight deportation — and Texas taxpayers are left holding the bag
  • Reuters: US Catholic bishops condemn Trump administration’s immigration enforcement
  • New York Times: Federal Agencies Return to Work After Longest Shutdown in History
  • Washington Post: Trump faces resistance in MAGA movement over immigration, Epstein
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • FOX News: Trump has made the border secure again — but now the hard part begins
  • FOX News: Democrats’ 43-day shutdown was not a strategy — it was a disaster
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Reuters: US hires 50,000 federal workers under Trump, boosting immigration roles
  • CNN: Thousands of parents, guardians of migrant kids arrested in Trump administration crackdown
  • NBC News Daily: How ICE Raids are Impacting Children’s Wellbeing
  • CNN: Journalist held by ICE speaks after returning to UK
  • AP: British commentator Sami Hamdi mulling possibility of taking legal action against US over detention
  • The Guardian: Detained and deported from US for speech, a UK commentator speaks out: ‘It’s a tragedy of justice
  • Herald Tribune: Undocumented child sex offenders nabbed amid broad backlash against immigration crackdown
  • The Hill: Democrats press ICE to confront imposters amid agents’ ‘failure’ to ID themselves
  • Telemundo: Government plans to hire companies to track immigrants and expedite their deportations
  • Federalist: [TX] To Resolve Biden’s Border Crisis, Red States Need To Require All Police To Help Deport Illegals
  • FOX News: [MD] Illegal gangster with demonic face tattoo, wanted for homicide, arrested on US soil: feds
  • ABC News: [PA] A Pennsylvania sheriff struck a deal with ICE. Months later, he was voted out.
  • Local 10 News: [FL] Officials Tout Operation Dirtbag Arrests
  • FOX News/CBS Miami: [FL] ICE and Florida arrest 230 criminal illegal aliens in 10-day operation
  • Breitbart: [FL] Operation Dirtbag Secures Arrest of 150 Illegal Alien Sex Predators in Florida
  • Univision: [FL] ICE says it arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants accused of sex crimes in Florida
  • CBS Miami: [FL] Man charged with human trafficking in Miami Beach
  • Chicago Tribune: [IN] Hammond man gets four months for illegal reentry before deportation to Mexico
  • AP/ABC News/Chicago Tribune: [CA] Chicago day care worker detained by immigration agents released after community support
  • CBS Chicago: [IL] Judge to tour Broadview ICE processing facility amid claims of inhumane conditions
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Attorneys visit ‘black box’ ICE processing center in Broadview
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Inside the ICE facility in Broadview
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Immigration agents make arrest outside Leighton courthouse, leaving behind broken fence
  • Daily Signal: [IL] Is DHS Inflicting ‘Terror’ on Chicago? Group of Retired Journalists Thinks So
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] ICE makes 1,500 arrests in 10 days in the Houston area
  • Axios: [TX] Harris County among top areas for unauthorized immigrants
  • BorderReport/Bloomberg: [NM] Senator Calls for Evacuation of ICE Site After Contract Lapse
  • FOX News: [OR] Oregon Democrats outraged over reported ICE facility plans near Portland
  • NewsMax: [OR] Newport, Oregon Presses DHS as ICE Signs Raise Alarm
  • Axios: [OR] Oregon’s unauthorized immigrant population hits 155K
  • Roll Call/FOX News/AP: [CA] Groups challenge conditions at California migrant detention center
  • Breitbart: [CA] Leftist Group in California Putting Up Anti-ICE Signs: ‘ICE Stole Someone Here’
  • SFGate: [CA] Whistles are San Francisco’s latest bulwark against ICE
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Newsweek: Green Card Update: Kristi Noem Says Applications Are Being Sped Up
  • Axios: State Department says visas can be denied over diabetes, obesity: reports
  • Daily Caller: Marco Rubio Suggests No More Visas For Fatties
  • DailySignal: Republican Senator Has a Plan to Stop Foreigners from Abusing Surrogacy for US Citizenship Purposes
  • Reuters: Fact Check: No evidence that US revoked visas of 80,000 Nigerians
  • AP: [GA] Some Korean workers detained in Georgia immigration raid have returned to their jobs at Hyundai site
  • Breitbart: [FL] Cuban Pilot Linked to 1996 Killing of Four Americans Indicted on Immigration Fraud Charges
  • Daily Caller: [TX] Texas Illegal Allegedly Stole Child’s Identity To Defraud Medicaid, Obtain 7 Jobs
  • FOX News: [China] Observers stunned as Nikki Haley takes harder line than Trump on Chinese student visa plan
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: Unauthorized drone flights pose rising threat to U.S. bases, border, civilian events, senator warns
  • NewsMax: $200M Senate Bill Aims to Block Influx of Vapes Tied to CCP
  • CNN: Fed-up parents are tracking Border Patrol on their phones
  • CNN: [IL] How White suburban moms are standing up to Border Patrol with whistles and phones
  • AP: [CA] Former customs officer sentenced to 15 years in prison for helping traffickers bring drugs into US
• Transportation Security Administration
  • AP: FAA says flight cuts will stay at 6% because more air traffic controllers are coming to work
  • Washington Examiner: Over 1,000 flights canceled day after government reopens
  • Chicago Tribune: Airlines are optimistic about a quick recovery ahead of Thanksgiving once the FAA ends flight cuts
  • CBS News: Air travel should be back to normal by the weekend after government shutdown ends, Delta CEO says
  • Houston Chronicle: Southwest, Delta and United Airlines expect normal flights within days as shutdown ends
  • USA Today: [GA] Loaded handgun magazine left behind on Frontier flight belonged to cop, airline says
• Coast Guard
  • NewsMax: Hegseth Announces Expanded Operation Southern Spear
  • Bloomberg: Fincantieri Gets First Nod for $515,000 Data Breach Settlement
  • FOX News: [HI] Russian spy ship detected just miles from Hawaiian coastline prompts US Coast Guard response
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Axios/Daily Wire: Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s Claude AI agent to automate spying
  • Federal News Network: Congress extends CISA 2015, but path to long-term reauthorization remains murky
  • CyberScoop: FBI calls Akira ‘top five’ ransomware variant out of 130 targeting US businesses
  • NBC News: [NY] Hackers breach texting services used by New York state, sending hundreds of thousands of scam texts
• Terrorism Investigations
  • New York Post/FOX News/Washington Times: Antifa group designated foreign terror groups for first time
  • Washington Examiner: [DC] Bongino slams Massie for ‘disgusting’ implication that FBI is targeting investigators in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case
  • ABC News: [CA] Member of athletic staff shot at California college, suspect at large: Officials
  • Reuters: [Mexico] US sanctions family behind Mexican casino empire for laundering cartel funds
• National Security News
  • Reuters: US to remove tariffs on some products from Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala and El Salvador
  • CNN: [Venezuela] Trump briefed this week on options for military operations in Venezuela
  • CBS News: [Venezuela] Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days
  • Reuters: [Israel] Israel receives another deceased hostage from Hamas, Islamic Jihad
  • Washington Post: [Israel] The fate of dozens of trapped Hamas fighters is hindering Trump’s Gaza plan
  • New York Post: [China] Congress warns China could spy on US military at home through CCP-linked smart devices

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