• Top News
  • FOX News/NewsMax/Washington Examiner: Mexican gangs offering up to $50K bounties for ICE agent assassinations in US, DHS says
  • FOX News: DHS confirms cartel bounties on ICE and CBP agents in Chicago
  • Breitbart/The Hill/Reuters: U.S. military kills 6 in fifth drug boat strike near Venezuela
  • New York Times: Drug Smugglers Change Supply Routes to Evade U.S. Warships
  • NewsMax: Drug Runners Shifting Strategies After Trump Strikes
  • New York Times: ICE Sends More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Resuming Operations
  • Washington Examiner: Johnson watching ‘closely’ on whether congressional intervention needed for anti-ICE protests
  • FOX News: Los Angeles County declares local state of emergency over ICE raid surge
  • FOX News/New York Post/CNN: Illegal immigrants arrested after ramming Border Patrol in Chicago amid violent clash with protesters
  • New York Times: ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.
  • Bloomberg: Military Tactics by Border Patrol Agents in Chicago Fuel Backlash
  • Breitbart: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Suggests Democrats May Try to Prosecute ICE Agents, DHS Officials
  • CNN/Chicago Tribune: Chicago TV station employee detained by federal agents disputes DHS account she threw objects at a Border Patrol car
  • AP: Florida officials didn’t disclose funding request for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility, lawsuit says
  • ABC News: 2 teens sentenced to probation in assault of DOGE worker during DC carjacking attempt
  • CNN: Distrust of federal officers takes spotlight at DC trial of anti-ICE protester
  • Breitbart: Trump Continues Payments to Troops, Bureaucrat Layoffs; Admin Will ‘Ride Out the Democrats’ Intransigence’
  • Blaze: Trump says a very wealthy ‘gentleman’ offered to pay troops’ wages through government shutdown
  • AP: Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other
  • Bloomberg: Trump Pledges to List Programs to Be Cut Amid Shutdown on Friday
  • Breitbart: Report: Dem-Led Oregon on Track to Spend $500 Million More for Healthcare Program that Includes Illegals than for State Police
  • NewsMax: Sen. Cotton: Ensure Illegal Immigrants Can’t Access Banking System
  • Daily Caller: Elizabeth Warren Lays Out What She’ll Do If Trump Sends Troops To Massachusetts
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Daily Signal: Trump Targets Antifa, With Good Reason
  • Chicago Tribune: The masking of ICE agents is indefensible
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Authorities devalue the law when they hide behind masks
  • The Hill: [Venezuela] 26 years of dictatorship and narcoterrorism in Venezuela are about to end
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • AP: ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
  • The Hill/NewsMax: Facebook scraps ICE lookout page
  • FOX News: LISTEN: Man leaves disturbing voicemail for ICE agents: ‘Hope they’re doxxed’
  • FOX News: Professor advocates doxxing ICE agents, impeding operations in social posts
  • Daily Wire: Here Are ‘The Worst Of The Worst’ Arrested By ICE During Dem Government Shutdown
  • Axios: Immigration crackdown sets off alarms in hospitals
  • The Hill: Martin Sheen: ICE agents wear masks to hide that ‘they’re not proud of what they’re doing’
  • CBS Boston: [MA] Massachusetts 13-year-old in ICE custody threatened student but didn’t have gun, Everett mayor says
  • New York Post: [NY] Nassau County will lock up 3,000 illegal immigrants this year -- with a little help from the feds: officials
  • Axios: [VA] Virginia ICE jails lead U.S. in solitary confinement use
  • Daily Caller: [NC] Illegal Migrant Allegedly Kills Man After Blue County Released Him On No Bond
  • CBS Chicago: [IL] Broadview ICE facility fence must come down as neighbors say area feels like ‘fortress’
  • NBC 5 News at 11:00am: [IL] Midnight Deadline to Remove Fence Outside of ICE Facility
  • Breitbart: [IL] Chicago Catholics agonize over raids in Pope Leo’s hometown
  • NewsNation: [IL] Chicago pastor recalls ICE shooting him with pepper balls
  • NewsMax: [IL] Left-Wing Group Instructs How to Fight ICE in Chicago
  • NBC News: [IL] Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class
  • Telemundo: [IL] ICE fines a Hispanic man $130 in Chicago for not having a green card.
  • CNN: [IL] Exclusive: Teen whose parents were detained by ICE on the way to 10-year-old’s birthday celebration speaks out
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [TX] Hispanic teenager with autism, whose family considered him missing, was in federal custody
  • New York Post: [CA] Father of US Marine arrested then deported by ICE after visiting pregnant daughter at military base
  • Breitbart: [CA] Sanctuary California: Seven-Time Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Six People in Crash
  • Washington Post: [Afghanistan] He supported the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Now he may be deported to the Taliban.
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • The Hill: US revokes visas of over 50 Mexican politicians in drug cartel crackdown
  • The Hill/New York Post: State Department revokes six visas over comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination
  • Federalist: Records: Blue States Can’t Provide Any Evidence To Defend Anchor Baby Citizenship
  • Reuters: US Supreme Court won’t review rule allowing H-1B holders’ spouses to work
  • Blaze: Executive fiat’: Biden-era rule change quietly permits H-1B visa holders to work remotely
  • The Hill: Labor Department warns Trump immigration policies could drive up food prices
  • NPR: Many rural schools rely on international teachers. Trump’s visa changes threaten that
  • Washington Post: Amid anti-immigrant policies and DACA limbo, ‘dreamer’ chefs speak out
  • Reuters: [Mexico] US revokes visas of over 50 Mexican politicians in new drug war front
• Customs and Border Protection
  • NewsNation: CBP agents and officers not getting paid during government shutdown
  • FOX News: [TX] CBP agents seize $1.3M worth of meth and heroin in border drug bust amid Trump’s war on narcoterrorism
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NYT/AP/ABC News/CBS News/USA Today/Politico: Some airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it’s political
  • CNN: Legal questions arise as many airports refuse to play Noem’s shutdown message blaming Democrats
  • New York Post: Thanksgiving travel nightmare looms due to government shutdown, GOP leaders warn
  • Reuters: US air safety at risk with traffic controllers as ‘pawns’ in shutdown, official says
  • Axios: [NC] Charlotte airport won’t show Kristi Noem government shutdown video at TSA checkpoints
  • NewsNation: [IL] Suspicious device with anti-ICE message found at Chicago’s Midway Airport
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Reuters: Trump administration flouted court order on FEMA grant funding, US judge rules
  • Roll Call: Judge rejects immigration enforcement condition for FEMA grants
  • CBS Chicago: Deadly nor’easter causes major flooding, damage on East Coast
  • AP: [RI] Judge accuses Homeland Security of bullying states into accepting conditions to get FEMA money
  • CBS Philadelphia: [NJ] Nor’easter moves out to sea after breaching dunes in Strathmere, New Jersey
  • CBS News: [TX] Texas lawmakers appointed to investigate Hill Country floods that killed 130 people
  • New York Post: [AK] 1 killed, 51 rescued as western Alaska communities devastated by floods caused by Typhoon
  • AP: [AK] Storm decimates 2 Alaskan villages and drives more than 1,500 people from their homes
  • AP: [AK] Officials airlift evacuees to safety after the remnants of Typhoon Halong devastate Alaska villages
  • New York Times: [AK] Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
  • CNN: [AK] Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm
• Secret Service
  • ABC 9 Cedar Rapids: [IA] Cedar Falls man sentenced for threatening government officials, illegally possessing firearms
• Coast Guard
  • Federal News Network: Coast Guard to pay service members amid shutdown
  • NewsMax: Noem Credits Budget Bill for Keeping Coast Guard Paid During Shutdown
  • ABC News: Over 50 tons of cocaine seized by US Coast Guard in Pacific since August
  • USA Today: [MA] Video shows Coast Guard rescuing man off Massachusetts coast during nor’easter
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Axios: U.S. cyber agency faces another round of layoffs after months of cuts
  • NewsMax: Layoffs, Reassignments Being Used to Shrink Cyber Agency
  • CyberScoop: Swalwell seeks answers from CISA on workforce cuts
  • CyberScoop: Officials crack down on Southeast Asia cybercrime networks, seize $15B
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Blaze: Deadass serious’: FBI goes to Glenn Beck’s home after he helped expose Antifa’s terror network
  • FOX News: Republican lawmakers demand Treasury probe CAIR over alleged Hamas ties and terrorism concerns
  • Reuters/AP: [PA] Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to arson attack on governor’s mansion
  • AP: [MS] 5th arrest made in connection with shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says
  • CBS News: [TX] Dallas ICE shooter believed he had radiation sickness, records show
• National Security News
  • NBC News: Five major broadcast networks say they will not sign new Pentagon press policy
  • Washington Post: Former national security council member charged under Espionage Act
  • AP: NATO seeks more arms for Ukraine as Western support fades and allied airspace concerns mount
  • FOX News: [Russia] Trump threatens to ‘speak’ with Putin on giving Ukraine Tomahawk missiles as Russia hits hospital

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