• Top News
  • New York Post/NewsNation: Markwayne Mullin sworn in as Trump’s new homeland security secretary
  • CNN: Change is ‘long overdue’ at Homeland Security. Can Markwayne Mullin bring it?
  • NewsMax: Rep. Sessions to Newsmax: Mullin Confirmation Could ‘Reset Tone’ at DHS
  • People: Kristi Noem Shares Parting Message on Final Day as Homeland Security Secretary, Touts She’ll Build on Her ‘Expertise’ in New Role
  • AP: Oklahoma’s governor picks energy executive Alan Armstrong to fill US Senate seat through end of year
  • New York Times/ABC News/FOX News: State Prosecutors Sue for Evidence in Shootings by Immigration Agents
  • AP/New York Times/San Diego Union Tribune: Supreme Court Seems Open to Trump Request to Block Asylum Seekers at Border
  • Washington Examiner: Kavanaugh concerned asylum ‘metering’ policy gives illegal border crossers an advantage
  • New York Times: Costa Rica Agrees to Take Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration
  • New York Times: Republicans Step Up Efforts to Reach a Homeland Security Funding Deal
  • Wall Street Journal: GOP Senators Make Offer to Fund DHS, End TSA Staffing Woes
  • New York Times: Republicans Offer to Fund Homeland Security Without ICE Enforcement
  • Washington Examiner/The Hill: Democrats and Republicans oppose shutdown deal that does not fund ICE deportations
  • Washington Post: Senate Republicans pitch deal to end DHS shutdown, but Trump isn’t sold
  • The Hill: Senate Republican bashes GOP proposal to partially fund DHS as a ‘pipe dream’
  • The Hill: Speaker Mike Johnson: ‘Not my preference’ to split DHS funding bill 
  • ABC News: Trump says he’s ‘pretty much not happy’ with any deal to reopen DHS as negotiations continue
  • CBS News: Cornyn encouraged by DHS deal talks and TSA pay, discusses Texas Senate GOP runoff battle against Paxton
  • NewsMax: Sen. Thune: Reconciliation Back in Play for GOP Agenda
  • Washington Examiner: Senate GOP balks at using reconciliation to pass SAVE America Act
  • Washington Examiner: Senate GOP to make ‘down payment’ on SAVE America Act with party-line bill
  • NewsMax: Sen. Rick Scott: ICE Funding Plan a ‘Pipe Dream’
  • Daily Caller: Tom Homan Has Questions He Wants Democrats To Answer As They Fight SAVE Act
  • USA Today: Democrats throw cold water on shutdown deal, call for more ICE reforms
  • CBS News: Warnock pushes for TSA worker pay as government shutdown enters 6th week
  • CBS News: We asked every lawmaker in Congress what they’re doing to end the DHS shutdown
  • CBS News: TSA lines are getting worse but Congress appears to contemplate deal to end shutdown
  • WJLA 24/7 News ON YOUR SIDE at 3: Pressure Increases on Congress to Make a Deal to End Airport Chaos
  • Washington Examiner: DHS: 100,000 employees unpaid amid shutdown
  • NewsMax: Sen. Cruz Moves to Halt Pay During DHS Shutdown Standoff
  • Reuters: Senator proposes 10% bonus to government employees working without pay
  • FOX News: Sen. John Cornyn weighs in on DHS funding fight, calls out Democrats over ‘open border policy’
  • Daily Signal: Airport Billboards Blame Democrats for Long TSA Lines
  • AP: Airport disruptions abound as senators chase deal to end Homeland Security budget standoff
  • Wall Street Journal: American Airports Are Latest Washington Battlefield
  • CBS News: No food, water or AC: What it’s like to stand in TSA line during the DHS funding fight
  • Breitbart: ICE Agents Pass Out Water to Grateful Travelers: ‘They’re Here Doing a Job’
  • ABC News: ICE agents deploy to airports around the country
  • FOXBusiness: ICE presence cuts massive lines at world’s busiest airport - full text
  • ABC News: Travel disruption continues even after ICE agents deployed to airports
  • USA Today: TSA officers need a ‘skilled eye.’ ICE’s presence is raising concerns.
  • The Hill: TSA official: ICE at airports a ‘distraction, not a solution’
  • New York Times: T.S.A. Union Leaders Blast Trump’s Deployment of ICE Agents in Airports
  • The Hill: Homan on ICE at airports: ‘We’re going to arrest criminals’
  • NewsMax: Border Czar Homan Expects ICE Protests at Airports
  • FOX News: Homan fires back at Booker after senator voices ‘outrage’ over ICE airport deployments
  • Washington Examiner: Democrats ‘clutching their pearls’ over ICE in airports: Guy Benson
  • Axios: Here’s what ICE can (and can’t) do in airports
  • Breitbart: Booker: ICE in Airport Is ‘Triggering’ Already Stressed Out Passengers
  • Washington Examiner: Philadelphia district attorney threatens to arrest ICE agents patrolling airport
  • New York Times: T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport
  • New York Times: LaGuardia Delays Expected to Last For Days After Runway Crash
  • CNN: How the deadly collision at LaGuardia unfolded
  • Breitbart: Passengers Say Pilots Killed During LaGuardia Airport Tragedy ‘Saved Our Lives’
  • Breitbart: Prosecutors: Biden-Released Illegal Alien Shot, Killed Sheridan Gorman as She Ran for Her Life
  • FOX News: Chicago mayor asked about city’s immigration policies after illegal immigrant allegedly killed college student
  • Chicago Tribune: Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledges ‘real failures’ in immigration system after Loyola student killing
  • Blaze: Will Pritzker honor ICE detainer against illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old college student?
  • Breitbart: Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson Smear Trump for Migrant Murder in Chicago
  • FOX News: IL Dems decline to defend ‘no’ votes on Laken Riley Act after student’s killing tied to repeat offender
  • FOX News: Pritzker’s glowing review of lakefront resurfaces after college student killed by illegal alien nearby
  • Federalist: ‘This Was Not Random Misfortune’: There’s Blood On JB Pritzker’s Hands Again
  • Daily Caller: John Fetterman Blasts Democrats Over Response To College Freshman Allegedly Killed By Illegal Alien
  • Daily Caller: Blue State Senator Admits Who Democrats ‘Care About Most’ In Resurfaced Video
  • FOX News: NJ Gov. Sherrill attends mosque led by Imam once accused of Hamas ties in deportation case
  • The Hill: Jeffries gives remarks amid DHS, Iran turmoil
  • CBS News: Venezuelan man deported to CECOT prison sues U.S. for $1.3 million
  • USA Today: Taxpayers spent thousands on hair, makeup and horses for Noem’s DHS ad
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: If FEMA is dismantled, Congress will own the consequences
  • The Hill: Keep ICE away from airport security — pay TSA instead
  • CNN: Are Democrats caving on a shutdown again?
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • FOX News: Americans first’: ICE sweeps up child predators, rapists across US as Mullin takes helm of DHS
  • FOX News: Reporter’s Notebook: GOP eyes DHS deal funding ICE probes, but not removals, as shutdown drags
  • Axios: [MA] Boston judge blocks ICE from detaining refugees
  • CBS News: [GA] Resolutions regulating how ICE operates in Atlanta pass key city council committee vote
  • FOX News: [NY] DHS touts ICE nabbing illegal migrant leaving police station accused of raping 5-year-old girl
  • Telemundo51.com: [FL] Cuban Doctor Detained by ICE Since December Released
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Skokie police express concern over ICE-related ordinance
  • Bloomberg: [MI] Michigan Sues to Stop ICE Warehouse in Suburban Detroit
  • NBC News: [TX] Nonverbal 5-year-old who met Ms. Rachel over Zoom released from ICE detention
  • Newsweek: [TX] ICE Detains Canadian Mom with 7-Year-Old Autistic Daughter
  • Breitbart: [CO] Illegal Alien Tries Fleeing to Mexico After Being Found Guilty of Raping Child in Colorado
  • FOX News: [UT] Illegal alien accused of slitting Salt Lake woman’s throat, ICE lodges detainer
  • Univision: [CA] Guatemalan mother detained in front of her daughter by ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport.
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Breitbart: Tom Cotton’s Bill Requires Universities to Disclose Visa Holders to DHS Database
  • NewsMax: Rep. Ogles to Newsmax: Deportation, Denaturalization Needed in Fraud Cases
  • Axios: Trump’s visa freeze sidelines immigrant doctors
  • NewsMax: [CA] Judge Orders Return of Deported DACA Recipient
• Customs and Border Protection
  • New York Times/Daily Caller: Outgoing Border Patrol Chief Leaves Admin With One Simple Regret: ‘I Wish I’d Caught Even More’
  • The Hill: Bovino attacks Homan, fellow Trump officials in exit from Border Patrol
  • NewsNation: [DC] Tom Homan responds to Gregory Bovino criticism
  • New York Post: [CA] Border agents bust migrant sneaking into California in most unlikely of places
  • CBS News: [Mexico] Authorities find 229 migrants calling for help in back of truck in Mexico
• Transportation Security Administration
  • Washington Examiner/New York Post: Delta cuts service allowing Congress to bypass TSA lines
  • Blaze: Republican defends congressional airline perks as cost-savings for Americans
  • Reuters/FOX News: US says more than 450 TSA officers have quit since funding standoff
  • Breitbart: Monday TSA Call-Outs Exceeded 3,200 Nationwide; Houston Hardest Hit
  • CBS News: TSA wait times stretch up to 6 hours as ICE and other Homeland Security agents deployed to 14 airports
  • CNN: Not paying TSA workers could pose a security risk, experts say
  • Washington Examiner: Port Authority sends civilian security employees to support TSA at airports
  • USA Today: How long will it take for TSA to return to normal after the shutdown ends?
  • CNN: TSA agents quitting, calling out as airports hit with record wait times
  • ABC News: TSA officer explains why he called out of work during partial government shutdown
  • AP: TSA officers describe tears, tough choices and dwindling savings from working without pay
  • USA Today: [NY] Long TSA lines delayed Air Canada crash investigation, NTSB says
  • Houston Chronicle: [NY] U.S. officials had to ‘beg’ to get LaGuardia plane crash investigator past Houston TSA, NTSB says
  • New York Post: [TX] Houston airports are a travel nightmare with nearly 50% of TSA agents calling out -- the worst in the US
  • New York Post: [CA] Insane video shows mammoth TSA lines at major California airport
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] ‘It was chaos’: San Diego travelers brace themselves for long lines and mixed messages at airport
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Washington Post: Hurricane evacuation tool will soon expire due to DHS approval delays
  • AP: [HI] The ferocity of the downpour that brought the latest Hawaii flooding surprised even meteorologists
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [HI] Hawaii floods: Maui officials reportedly suspend search for women swept away by river
• Secret Service
  • Blaze: Man served time for threatening to kill Trump — then gets arrested for more alleged threats against Trump
  • Austin American Statesman: [TX] JD Vance’s motorcade brings Austin traffic to a standstill: See photos, video
• Coast Guard
  • Stars and Stripes: [AK] Coast Guard relieves commander of cutter in Alaska
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: DarkSword’s GitHub leak threatens to turn elite iPhone hacking into a tool for the masses
  • CyberScoop: Experts warn of a ‘loud and aggressive’ extortion wave following Trivy hack
  • CyberScoop: [IN] Russian access broker sentenced to over 6 years in prison for ransomware schemes
  • Axios: [Iran] Iran-linked hackers target second U.S. medical institution, researchers say
• Terrorism Investigations
  • AP: Jewish communities boost security and continue observances amid rise in hateful incidents
  • NewsNation: US non-profits on alert as FBI, IRS investigate terrorism funding
• National Security News
  • Reuters: [France] Rubio to attend G7 meeting in France to discuss Ukraine and Middle East, State Dept says
  • New York Times: [Iran] Trump’s Threat to Iran Crosses a Line, Rights Experts Say
  • NewsMax: [Iran] Trump: Possible Iran Deal Disappoints Hegseth, Gen. Caine
  • US News & World Report: [Iran] Iran military spokesperson says US is negotiating with itself
  • ABC News: [Afghanistan] American held captive in Afghanistan released, Taliban says
  • FOX News: [North Korea] North Korean dictator says government will keep cementing nation’s ‘irreversible status as a nuclear power’

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