• Top News
  • Wall Street Journal/The Hill/FOX News: Airline Executives Urge Congress to End Partial Government Shutdown
  • USA Today: Trump tells TSA agents to ‘go to work’ amid partial shutdown
  • Daily Wire: Dems Forced To Face Brutal Question About Americans Dying
  • CNN: Booker pledges to oppose any deal to fund DHS that includes money for ICE
  • NewsMax: Sen. Fetterman Faults Dems on Iran and DHS
  • Daily Signal: ‘Why Would You Wanna Punish All These Workers?’: Sen. Fetterman Slams Fellow Dems Over HHS Shutdown
  • New York Post: Sen. John Fetterman schools fellow Dems on Iran with Kamala Harris reminder: ‘Why can’t we support that?’
  • FOX News: By not funding DHS, American citizens ‘continue to be at risk’: GOP lawmaker
  • FOX News: DHS shutdown stalemate continues amid multiple terror attacks
  • Washington Times: McCaul: Democrats will have ‘blood on their hands’ over DHS shutdown
  • FOX News: Schiff, Booker deflect on shutdown blame amid terror concerns, thousands of DHS workers without pay
  • FOX News: String of attacks connected to naturalized citizens raises national security questions
  • Daily Signal: Lawyers for Texas Anti-ICE Agitators Try to Discredit Anti-Antifa Witness by Citing Group That Carries Water for Antifa
  • AP: As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find
  • Politico: Trump administration highlighted ‘mass deportations’ for months. Not anymore.
  • Washington Post: Deportees sent by Trump to Salvadoran prison are still stuck a year later
  • Breitbart: Rep. Dusty Johnson: Passing Save America Act Through the Senate Comes Down to ‘Math’
  • Breitbart: Sen. Mike Lee: Planned Vote on SAVE America Act Will Show Who Is Fighting for Secure Elections, Who Fears Them
  • New York Times: How Trump’s Homeland Security Pick, a Prolific Investor, Got a Lot Wealthier in Congress
  • The Hill: Markwayne Mullin WENT AFTER Rand Paul. But Could That Hurt His DHS Nomination?
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Wall Street Journal: Terrorists Are Now Often Made in the USA
  • New York Post: How America’s willful blindness has stoked the Islamist terror threat
  • New York Post: FBI Director Kash Patel’s flamboyant lifestyle hits agency morale — while terror attacks strike US
  • New York Times: [MN] Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future
• Top News (Sunday Talk Shows)
  • FOX News Sunday: Sean Duffy urges Dems to ‘come to their senses’ as chaos ensues at US airports
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Post: [DC] U.S. Park Police stops in D.C. area have led to immigration arrests
  • FOX News: [VA] Illegal immigrant released under Biden charged with groping female students at Virginia high school
  • Breitbart: [IN] DHS: Illegal Alien Trucker Accused of Critically Injuring American in Wreck
  • Reuters: [TX] Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Washington Post: Trump rule to cancel driver’s licenses for immigrant truckers
  • FOX News: Top DHS official calls citizenship test ‘too soft’ as terror attacks renew scrutiny of vetting
  • New York Times: To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers
  • Univision: Agricultural shortages prompt changes to the H-2A visa program in the United States
  • New York Times: State Department Cuts Price of Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to $450
  • NewsMax: [FL] Marine Veteran Faces Deportation to New Zealand
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Univision: [TX] Former CBP officer sentenced for trafficking drugs and people across the border
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NBC News: Long security lines form at airports as TSA agents miss first full paychecks amid DHS standoff
  • New York Post: Air-aggedon — Flyer chaos rages as 300 TSA officers quit while Dems refuse budget deal
  • CNN: More airport disruptions expected as TSA agents quit amid first weekend without full pay
  • NBC News: Flying in America is about to get more expensive and less fun
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • AP: Snow and wind batter parts of US, with threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes starting later Sunday
  • AP: Severe storms pummel parts of US with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat
  • Reuters: [NE] Nebraska Battles Largest-Ever Wildfire and Other Blazes as More Than 600,000 Acres Burn
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Wall Street Journal: [Iran] Hack on U.S. Medical Company Shows Reach of Iran’s Cyber Capabilities
• Terrorism Investigations
  • CNN/Chicago Tribune: [MI] Israel says brother of Michigan synagogue assailant was Hezbollah commander killed in strike
• National Security News
  • FOX Business: [CA] Trump admin invokes Defense Production Act, directs oil company to restart California operations
  • FOX News: [Venezuela] American flag back up at US embassy in Venezuela
  • Bloomberg: [Iran] Trump Warns NATO Against Failing to Help US in Iran War
  • FOX News: [Iran] Trump: Iran wants to make a deal but the terms ‘AREN’T GOOD ENOUGH’
  • Reuters: [Iran] Trump Accuses Iran of Using AI to Spread Disinformation
  • AP: [Iran] Trump says that he’s asked ‘about 7’ countries to join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz
  • AP: [Iran] Trump suggests he may delay China trip as he pressures Beijing for help with Strait of Hormuz

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