• Top News
  • FOX News/Washington Post/AP: Mexico’s most powerful cartel leader is killed by security forces
  • FOX News/Houston Chronicle: Shelter-in-place order issued for Americans in Mexico after cartel leader killed
  • FOX News: Americans stranded in Puerto Vallarta describe fires, lockdowns amid cartel unrest
  • New York Post: US, Canadian airlines cancel Puerto Vallarta flights after killing of cartel leader ‘El Mencho’
  • Breitbart/Reuters: U.S. Navy Seals Trained Mexican Military Team Who Killed Terrorist Leader El Mencho
  • New York Post: Rocket launchers among military-grade equipment seized in raid that killed notorious Mexican cartel leader ‘El Mencho’
  • CNN: Who was El Mencho, the feared cartel leader killed in a military operation?
  • Daily Wire/New York Times: Chaos Erupts In Mexico After Cartel Boss ‘El Mencho’ Killed By Special Forces
  • New York Post: Trump to honor Laken Riley and other ‘angel families’ ahead of State of the Union address
  • FOX News: Vance slams Dem ‘temper tantrum’ amid DHS shutdown, says Trump won’t back down on border
  • FOX News: DHS shutdown drags into week two as Iran threat, SOTU clash complicate Hill talks
  • San Diego Union Tribune: DHS says assaults on federal officers have spiked. San Diego prosecutions show more nuanced view.
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • New York Post: Here’s the REAL reason the left favors a wide-open southern US border
  • Wall Street Journal: [Cuba] The Cuban Regime’s Slow Collapse
• Top News (Sunday Talk Shows)
  • CNN’s State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash: Bessent Says Supreme Court Did Not Address Refunds
  • ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos: Governor Shapiro Reacts To Tariffs
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Post: New bill would restrict Trump administration’s push for ICE warehouses
  • Washington Examiner: Politicians ‘demonizing’ ICE are silent for illegal immigrant crime victims: Guy Benson
  • Breitbart: [KY] ICE Levies Retainer Against Cuban Lyft Driver Charged with Sodomizing Woman
  • Univision: [TX] ICE agents caught jumping a fence to enter a house in Donna and arrest one
  • NPR: [TX] After mistrial, new trial for Texas ICE detention facility shooting case set to begin
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NewsMax: Gov. DeWine: Revoking Temporary Protection for Haitians Is ‘Wrong’
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Reuters: US to stop collecting tariffs deemed illegal by Supreme Court on Tuesday
  • Breitbart: Ex-Biden DHS Officials Behind Record Border Failures Now Advising CBP on High‑Risk Traveler Screening
• Transportation Security Administration
  • New York Times/Wall Street Journal/Daily Caller: T.S.A. Says PreCheck Will Remain Operational at Airports
  • Breitbart: ‘Endangers Our National Security’: Democrats Blamed as TSA Programs Suspended amid Government Shutdown
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Politico: Noem restricts disaster aid over shutdown targeting ICE
  • NPR: A major winter storm hits the Northeast, with blizzard warnings in effect
  • NBC News: Blizzard warnings for millions of Americans as major winter storm hits the Northeast
  • ABC News: Coastal flooding threat along the Atlantic
  • Reuters: Powerful winter storm shuts schools, disrupts travel across US Northeast
• Secret Service
  • New York Times: Here Are the Rare Instances of Fatal Shootings by the Secret Service
  • New York Times: [FL] Armed Man Is Fatally Shot at Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service Says
  • FOX News: [FL] Suspect identified after fatal shooting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate: officials
  • NewsNation: [FL] What we know about the man killed by Secret Service
  • New York Post: [FL] Family of Austin Tucker Martin, shotgun-wielding Mar-a-Lago madman, lost daughter in horrific crash years before son was gunned down by Secret Service
  • Breitbart: [FL] Report: Armed Man Who Was Shot and Killed After Breaching Mar-a-Lago’s Secure Perimeter Had Been Reported Missing by His Family
  • AP: [FL] U.S. Secret Service: Armed man killed after entering Mar-a-Lago perimeter
  • ABC News: [FL] New details on man fatally shot at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
  • New York Times: [FL] N.C. Man Shot and Killed at Mar-a-Lago Liked to Draw Golf Courses
  • Daily Caller: [FL] Text Message Reportedly Reveals Motivation Of ‘Deeply Disturbed’ Armed Man Killed Attempting To Breach Mar-a-Lago
  • FOX News: [FL] Mar-a-Lago shooting: FBI leads investigation after armed man killed
  • NewsMax: [FL] Ex Agent to Newsmax: FBI Lead at Mar-a-Lago Points to Wider Probe
  • FOX News: [FL] Bessent blames left’s political ‘venom’ for violence after deadly Mar-a-Lago incident
• Coast Guard
  • Oregonian: [WA] Coast Guard suspends search for 21-year-old kayaker missing in Washington
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • New York Times: [DC] Shutdown at D.H.S. Extends to Cyber Agency, Adding to Setbacks
• National Security News
  • Wall Street Journal: [Greenland] Trump Says He Is Sending Hospital Ship to Greenland
  • Wall Street Journal: [Iran] The Diminishing Risk of an Iran Attack

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