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The AP [5/11/2026 6:12 PM, Gabriela Aoun Angueira, 16072K] reports President Donald Trump nominated Cameron Hamilton Monday to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a notable comeback for the former Navy SEAL who was fired from his role as FEMA’s temporary leader last year after he defended its existence. His nomination comes as the Trump administration has increasingly signaled it is backing away from promises to dismantle FEMA, an agency that has faced withering criticism by the president. The nomination of Hamilton, who argued abolishing FEMA was not in the country’s best interests, is the latest indication of that change. If confirmed, Hamilton would be the principal adviser to Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on emergency management and FEMA’s first permanent administrator in Trump’s second term. The agency has gone through three temporary leaders, including Hamilton’s brief tenure from January to May 2025. He would take over an embattled agency still reeling from Kristi Noem’s turbulent leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, of which FEMA is part. FEMA’s workforce has been worn down by mass staff departures, policies that hamstrung operations and a 75-day-long DHS shutdown that ended April 30. Hamilton will need to ensure the agency is prepared for summer disaster season, just weeks away, while answering to Trump, who is likely to expect major reforms after a council he appointed recommended sweeping changes last Friday. "Now is the opportunity to stabilize FEMA," said Michael Coen, the agency’s chief of staff in the Obama and Biden administrations. In 2024, Hamilton shared posts on X promoting misinformation about FEMA spending during Hurricane Helene. During his temporary leadership, FEMA ceased door-to-door canvassing to reach survivors after disasters, and canceled a multibillion-dollar resilience grant program, since restored by a federal judge. The Department of Government Efficiency gained access to internal FEMA networks containing survivors’ private information. FEMA staff were fired for fulfilling a reimbursement payment to New York City for housing undocumented immigrants as part of FEMA’s Shelter and Services program. Hamilton has said he believes FEMA needs major reform. He has said that he wants FEMA to move faster, that the agency is saddled with responsibilities he sees as outside its remit, and that some states have become too dependent on the agency. A Trump-appointed council last week urged sweeping changes to FEMA, which would require congressional action. "I think he’s going to need to rebuild trust across the agency," said Deanne Criswell, FEMA administrator under former President Joe Biden, adding that she believes Hamilton cares about FEMA and she appreciated his outreach to emergency management directors and former officials during and after his tenure. Bloomberg [5/11/2026 5:31 PM, Lauren Rosenthal and Zahra Hirji, 18082K] reports that more than 5,000 staffers have left since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, contributing to morale concerns. At the same time, his administration has slashed or delayed grant programs, triggering lawsuits. While Trump has questioned whether FEMA should exist, he has also authorized aid for major storms and fires since returning to the White House. Hamilton had little major disaster response experience before his FEMA stint last year. Hamilton previously told Bloomberg News he was “publicly removed” as FEMA’s acting chief in May 2025. He left after testifying before a congressional committee that he didn’t support abolishing the agency.

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AP [5/11/2026 4:49 PM, Jesse Bedayn, 1323K] reports President Donald Trump on Monday nominated David Cummins to head the Transportation Security Administration — which has had a rocky few months as employees went without paychecks and security lines grew long at airports across the country. Cummins, who worked as a senior vice president at Serco, a government contractor that works with local and federal agencies, would take over a TSA bruised by the longest partial government shutdown in history which ended late last month. During periods of the shutdown, employees at the TSA, currently overseen by acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill, went without pay, thousands didn’t show up to work and hundreds quit entirely. It left travelers frustrated over delays and missed flights and politicians pointed fingers over who was to blame for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. Cummins has experience in transportation at Serco, and says on a LinkedIn profile, which appears to have been taken down, that he was co-awarded a “dozen patents in transportation systems.” His profile also touted that he was the director of operations for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002. A spokesperson for Serco did not immediately return a request for comment from Cummins.

FOX Business [5/11/2026 6:58 PM, Staff, 7946K] Video: HERE reports Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin emphasizes the need for better White House security following the WHCA Dinner shooting on ‘The Bottom Line.’

Daily Caller [5/11/2026 4:45 PM, Reagan Reese, 803K] reports President Donald Trump is hosting members of major law enforcement organizations at his "Rose Garden Club" this evening in honor of Police Week and those fallen in the line of duty, the Daily Caller learned. Trump is expected to give remarks and be joined by several notable members of his administration, including: Vice President JD Vance, Border Czar Tom Homan, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), the National Sheriffs’ Association, the D.C. Police Union and the National Border Patrol Council are among the organizations that are expected to attend the dinner. The NAPO represents at least 1,000 police units and associations and has sworn in 241,000 law enforcement officers. "The men and women of law enforcement are American heroes who risk their own lives to keep our communities safe. They have never had a stronger champion than President Trump and his Administration," Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, told the Caller about the dinner. "The White House is looking forward to honoring these heroes and celebrating all they do for our country as we kick off Police Week.”

NewsMax [5/11/2026 10:51 PM, Staff, 3760K] reports Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, told Newsmax on Monday that President Donald Trump’s newly signed U.S. strategy marks a return to "common sense and reality-based" efforts to combat terrorism. "The document the president signed last week, the new U.S. strategy, I’ve poured my whole career into it — 16 pages to tell the world we are back in the business of counterterrorism," Gorka told "Greg Kelly Reports.” The strategy outlines an "America First" counterterrorism framework focused on three primary threat categories: "Narco-terrorists and Transnational Gangs," "Legacy Islamist Terrorists," and "Violent Left-Wing Extremists.” Gorka said the administration’s operations have already produced significant results. "Since our first operation on Day 11 of this administration — a scant 15 months ago — we have killed 860 jihadis across the globe. And also, the president has liberated 106 hostages, Americans who are safely back home with not one dime paid in ransom," he said. "We are bringing down the hammers of hell on our enemies, and we are liberating Americans. America is back in the business of counterterrorism.” The strategy outlines the administration’s mission is to "identify terror actors and plots before they happen," cut off financing and recruitment streams, and "ultimately destroy established threat groups.” Gorka said the administration’s first priority remains "legacy jihadis" including al-Qaida, the Islamic State group, and Hamas. "We’re doing incredibly well against them," he said. "Getting rid of the regime in Iran — the biggest state sponsor of international terrorism — will be the greatest historic achievement in counterterrorism we’ve ever seen.” The strategy also emphasizes counter-cartel operations and highlights Trump’s designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The document stated the administration has authorized military strikes against cartel drug boats and aims to "degrade and eliminate the cartels and their ability to impact the national security of the United States.” Gorka credited Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin with leading efforts against narcotics trafficking. He said that under former President Joe Biden’s open-border policies, fentanyl and other illicit drugs trafficked by criminal cartels killed "more than 100,000 Americans every year.”

CBS News [5/11/2026 3:35 PM, Kaia Hubbard, 51110K] reports the Senate is returning to Washington on Monday from a week-long recess as Republicans prepare to take the next steps in their plan to fund immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security without help from Democrats. But the addition of security funds for President Trump’s overhaul of the East Wing of the White House, which includes his plans for a massive ballroom, could pose hurdles. Last week, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees unveiled legislative text to fund DHS’ immigration enforcement through fiscal year 2029. The $72 billion package includes more than $38 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection. It would also provide $1 billion to the Secret Service for "security adjustments and upgrades," including to support enhancements related to the 90,000-square-foot "East Wing Modernization Project." In addition to the ballroom, the construction includes revamped underground national security and health care facilities. The GOP bill would allow the money to be spent on "above-ground and below-ground security features."

New York Times [5/11/2026 5:53 PM, Carl Hulse, 148038K] reports Senate Republicans on Monday defended their plan to include $1 billion for security funding for President Trump’s ballroom project as they prepared to take up a politically charged budget bill that faces stiff opposition from Democrats. Returning to the Capitol for the first time since the components of the spending plan were made public, top Republicans said the security money was necessary given the threats to the president, and claimed that none of it would be used for the ballroom itself. The president has said private donations will pay for the ballroom, which he has estimated to cost $400 million, though some Republicans want tax dollars to go to it as well. “It is a security-related measure,” said Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, who noted the three assassination attempts against Mr. Trump in the past two years. “Obviously the money that’s in there is about securing that building. Secret Service has a job to defend and protect the president, and I need to make sure they have the tools to do it.” Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said events such as the forthcoming World Cup and the attempted attack at the recent gala for White House journalists demonstrated the need for enhanced security. “We’ve got to beef up the Secret Service,” said Mr. Grassley, whose panel is responsible for the majority of the funding request. The funding has come under attack from Democrats who say it underscores the misplaced priorities of Republicans as many Americans struggle with rising fuel prices and higher consumer costs. “Their billion-dollar bill has zero dollars to help Americans deal with groceries and gas prices going up, zero dollars to bring down Americans’ health care, housing and electricity bills,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic minority leader, said on the Senate floor on Monday. “At a time when Americans are struggling to put food on the table, Republicans say ‘Let them eat cake,’ and demand American taxpayers build Trump a palace while they are at it.” Polls have shown that the ballroom project is unpopular, and Democrats have signaled they plan to make it a focus of their election-year message against Republicans. In a letter to Democratic colleagues, Mr. Schumer referred to the G.O.P. majority as “Ballroom Republicans” as he promised to “force vote after vote” to put them on the record about what he called “Trump’s gaudy ballroom.” The $71.7 billion measure also would provide money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection for the remainder of Mr. Trump’s term, after Senate Democrats refused to support any spending for those agencies without changes to how immigration officers operate. Republicans are employing a special budget process that can skirt a filibuster to overcome the united Democratic opposition. Republicans want to pass it through the House and Senate before June 1.

FOX News [5/11/2026 7:32 PM, Staff, 37576K] reports Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on Congress facing a June 1 deadline for I.C.E. and Border Patrol funding on ‘Special Report.’ [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CNN [5/11/2026 8:22 PM, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, Sarah Ferris, Ellis Kim, 612K] reports key Senate Republicans are signaling a willingness to support up to $1 billion in security upgrades for President Donald Trump’s ballroom renovation project, despite Democratic attacks, as the White House ramps up its lobbying push. But the vote could put some of the Senate’s moderates in a politically difficult position, especially after the president said his ballroom would be funded through private donations. "Obviously, there have been three or four attempts on the president’s life, and that’s extremely serious, and we’re in a heightened era of political violence, but the ballroom itself should be paid for by private donations, as the president had indicated," Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins said, adding she wanted clarity on what precisely the money would be going toward. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune projected confidence Monday that congressional Republicans will back the $1 billion in funding, arguing that the money will be focused on other Secret Service projects beyond the ballroom itself. "It’s to secure the building — and not just the ballroom. I think the entire East Wing, which is something the Secret Service is tasked with protecting when the president is using it," Thune told reporters. "It’s pretty clear it’s a tool to keep the president safe.” The White House will ratchet up its push for the funding Tuesday with the US Secret Service director expected to join lawmakers at the Senate GOP lunch. The issue is becoming the latest political flashpoint that Republicans must navigate as they attempt to get funding for federal immigration enforcement across the finish line on a party-line vote in Congress. The push for as much as $1 billion in ballroom security funding – as part of a broader package that will include the immigration enforcement funding – was announced as lawmakers were away from Washington on a pre-scheduled recess and took some Republicans by surprise. Inside the party, some House and Senate Republicans were unhappy the money was included, multiple sources told CNN, expressing concern that putting any money toward East Wing renovations, even if for security, would not go over well with voters worried about their own cost of living and could adversely affect competitive GOP races across the country this fall. But other Republican senators have argued the project is essential and would benefit future Republican and Democratic presidents. "Obviously, the [White House Correspondents’ Association] dinner made the case for why we need a secure ballroom," Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis told CNN about her support for the project. "It’s for all presidents now and in the future," North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said.

Politico [5/11/2026 8:07 PM, Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill, 21784K] reports President Donald Trump and his deputies have a major sales job ahead of them on Capitol Hill as multiple GOP lawmakers questioned a proposed $1 billion in Secret Service security spending that could be used at least in part for Trump’s controversial White House ballroom project. The provision, which gives $1 billion to the Secret Service for “security adjustments and upgrades,” has threatened to overshadow what Republicans wanted to make the main focus of the package — tens of billions of dollars in new immigration enforcement funding. But the White House and many lawmakers argue the funding is necessary after the shooting at last month’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Senate Majority Leader John Thune defended the funding’s inclusion Monday and predicted that most GOP senators will ultimately vote to support what the Secret Service says it needs. “They have a job to do, and we want to make sure they’re able to do their job effectively so that we keep the president of the United States safe,” Thune said. “So I think most of our members are — if they are getting briefed on what the money is going to be used for — are probably going to be in a good place.” Secret Service Director Sean Curran is expected to discuss the request at the Senate GOP’s closed-door lunch Tuesday, according to three people granted anonymity to disclose private scheduling. GOP leaders are hoping to have the bill on the Senate floor next week, after votes in the Senate Homeland Security and Budget committees. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who has emerged as a pivotal vote, was among several Republicans who said they needed more information, with Tillis telling reporters he was “looking forward to seeing the details this week.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who chairs the Homeland Security panel, said Monday that he does not support the funding’s inclusion in the bill. He cannot act directly to strike it since the Secret Service provision is not in the portion of the bill under his committee, but he said it was a “possibility” it gets stripped out before it hits the floor. “I’m not sure it’s anything we’ll ever vote on,” Paul said, while declining to say how he would vote if it stays in: “We’ll see if it gets to that.” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who could block the funding as a member of the Budget Committee, declined to comment multiple times Monday on the decision to include White House security funding. He previously wanted to expand the scope of the party-line bill, but leaders rejected his push, arguing it needed to be focused solely on immigration enforcement. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is in a difficult reelection campaign, said “I don’t know” if the $1 billion is for the ballroom itself and wanted clarification during Tuesday’s closed-door lunch. “Obviously, there have been three or four attempts on the president’s life, and that’s extremely serious, and we’re in a heightened era of political violence, but the ballroom itself should be paid for by private donations, as the president had indicated,” Collins said.

Politico [5/11/2026 1:24 PM, Jordain Carney, 21784K] reports Secret Service Director Sean Curran will attend the Senate GOP lunch Tuesday, according to three people granted anonymity to share details about the closed-door gathering. The private meeting comes as Senate Republicans consider whether to provide $1 billion in new Secret Service funding that could be used for parts of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project as part of a party-line immigration enforcement bill. Speaker Mike Johnson is also expected to come to the lunch, according to two of the people, though several others cautioned that was not finalized.

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Breitbart [5/11/2026 11:20 AM, Staff, 2238K] reports Democrats on Monday launched a sharp new political offensive against Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, casting Republicans as out-of-touch allies of a president focused on “vanity projects” while Americans struggle with rising costs. The unusually aggressive messaging campaign offered an early glimpse of how the minority party hopes to frame the final stretch before November’s midterm elections — as a referendum on affordability, presidential excess and Republican loyalty to Trump. In a letter to his members ahead of a looming budget showdown, Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to force Republicans into politically painful votes over a proposed $1 billion security allocation tied to Trump’s planned ballroom project. “At a time when Americans can’t make ends meet, Republicans say ‘Let them eat cake’ — and then hand Trump a billion dollars to build a ballroom to serve it in,” Schumer wrote. Republicans included the money in a sweeping $72 billion package designed to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol after months of Democratic obstruction in protest over the agencies’ tactics.

NewsMax [5/11/2026 9:50 AM, Charlie McCarthy, 3760K] reports some Democrats who have criticized President Donald Trump for building a new White House ballroom have also accepted money from companies helping to fund the construction. Several Senate Democrats and Democrat Senate hopefuls have accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from corporate PACs, executives, lobbyists, and employees tied to companies backing Trump’s White House ballroom project even while publicly condemning it, The Hill reported. The issue is creating headaches for Democrat candidates already facing pressure from progressive challengers who accuse establishment Democrats of hypocrisy and being too cozy with corporate interests. Among the most prominent examples is Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., who sharply criticized Trump’s ballroom project on social media while also benefiting from contributions linked to companies funding the project. Campaign finance records reviewed by The Hill show Stevens accepted more than $120,000 over several years from PACs and donors connected to companies backing the ballroom project, including Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, Microsoft, and BlackRock. Stevens previously accused Trump of "tearing the White House apart" while Americans struggled with rising costs.

AP [5/11/2026 11:40 AM, Mary Clare Jalonick and Kevin Freking, 35287K] reports Republicans returning to Washington on Monday are facing questions about a $1 billion Senate security proposal that could help pay for President Donald Trump’s ballroom as Democrats say they will try to defeat it. Senate Republicans added the money for White House security to a spending bill that would restore funding for immigration enforcement agencies that Democrats have blocked since February. The steep security proposal was put forward after a man was charged with trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last month. Republicans are using a partisan budget maneuver to push the spending legislation through Congress without any Democratic votes. But in a letter to colleagues Monday morning, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats will fight it in other ways, including by pushing the Senate parliamentarian to strike the ballroom security money from the budget bill and offering amendments forcing Republicans to vote on it. “The Republican-controlled Congress is preparing to answer this moment with a deficit-busting, party-line bill that pours billions more taxpayer dollars into a rogue ICE operation and a billion-dollar ballroom, while doing nothing to end the illegal war in Iran or ease the Republican affordability crisis bearing down on working families,” Schumer wrote in the letter.

Washington Examiner [5/11/2026 10:56 AM, Emily Hallas, 1147K] reports Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday detailed his caucus’s strategy to block a Republican measure centered on White House security funding. Schumer outlined concerns about Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) effort to secure $1 billion in federal funding for White House security, including relating to President Donald Trump’s new ballroom project. Schumer argued in a letter that the funding, proposed in the judiciary committee’s reconciliation bill, is unnecessary. Democrats will use legislative maneuvers to block the provision from passing the Senate, he warned. "Democrats will fight the Republicans’ reconciliation bill with every tool we have," Schumer wrote. "We will bring Byrd Rule challenges. We will offer floor amendments. And we will force vote after vote to make the choice unmistakable: will Republicans vote to help American families — to lower costs, to restore savage health care cuts, to roll back cost-spiking tariffs — or will they vote to fund Trump’s gaudy ballroom?" he wrote. The Byrd Rule allows lawmakers to raise a point of order to the Senate parliamentarian to challenge any provision of a reconciliation bill they deem "extraneous." The rule aims to prevent lawmakers from hijacking the reconciliation process to pass partisan provisions that are not budgetary in nature and would likely face difficulty passing under normal procedures. Democrats believe Grassley’s security funding measure to be such an extraneous provision. The reconciliation bill text does not directly fund ballroom construction, but it allocates the funding to Secret Service-related elements of the facility.

CBS News [5/11/2026 2:40 PM, Staff, 51110K] reports south Texas medical examiner believes heat stroke may have led to the death of six people thought to be immigrants who were found Sunday afternoon inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. The people were found Sunday as workers were inspecting one of the containers, said Jose Baeza, a spokesperson for the Laredo Police Department. Police and fire crews arrived at the scene shortly afterward. They confirmed that there were six people dead, five men and one woman, Baeza told reporters. Dr. Corinne Stern, the Webb County Medical Examiner, is conducting autopsies and completed one for a 29-year-old Mexican woman who died of hyperthermia, or heat stroke. "I’ve ruled that an accidental death," she said. "I believe that the remaining individuals probably all succumbed to heat stroke as well, but their exams are not completed at this time, so I will not rule on their cause and manner yet." Temperatures reached 97 degrees in Laredo on Sunday afternoon, which means it probably felt hotter than 100 degrees in the boxcar, according to CBS affiliate KENS-TV. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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CBS News [5/11/2026 7:13 PM, Kiki Intarasuwan, 51110K] reports a man who was found dead Monday by the railroad tracks southwest of San Antonio, Texas, is believed to be connected to the six people who likely died of heat stroke inside a shipping container near the Mexico border, according to authorities. The body of the seventh person was located nearly 150 miles north of a Union Pacific rail yard in Laredo, where the six bodies were discovered on Sunday afternoon, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CBS News in a statement that the agency is investigating the deaths inside the boxcar as a potential human smuggling incident. Salazar said investigators found the seventh person after there was an alert that one of the containers had been opened at some point over the weekend near the location. "On these trains, there is a censor on some of the containers that alerts whenever a container’s opened," Salazar told reporters. "Once those bodies were found in Laredo, they came back to this location here and started patrolling up and down the railroad tracks until such time that they found him." Salazar said the container cannot be opened from the inside. The sheriff said the train that contained the body found Monday was from Del Rio and had split up near San Antonio, with one half going to Laredo and the other to Houston, suggesting it’s possible there might have been more people in the container at some point. "At this point, we don’t know if it was opened to let people that made it out successfully or they just opened it to dump the body," Salazar said. The person found Monday was identified as a man carrying Mexican identification, according to the sheriff. Webb County Medical Examiner Dr. Corinne Stern, who is conducting autopsies, said she believes the individuals originated from Mexico and Honduras. An autopsy completed for a 29-year-old Mexican woman revealed she died of hyperthermia, or heat stroke. "I’ve ruled that an accidental death," Stern said. "I believe that the remaining individuals probably all succumbed to heat stroke as well, but their exams are not completed at this time, so I will not rule on their cause and manner yet.”

Univision [5/11/2026 10:44 PM, Staff, 4937K] reports the investigation into the six bodies found in a Union Pacific railcar in Laredo , Texas , including those of two men and a woman of Mexican nationality , began to take a turn with the discovery of another body 150 miles north of the original site. The initial hypothesis put together by authorities was that the six people—five men and one woman— boarded the train to enter the United States illegally. They died of heatstroke en route. The autopsy performed by the Webb County Medical Examiner’s Office on the 29-year-old woman established that she presented a case of hyperthermia , which is generated in the body if it overheats and cannot cool down quickly enough. The situation worsens when the temperature reaches 104 degrees Fahrenheit , causing major organ failure. Authorities believe the same happened to the other three people, who are presumed to be Honduran nationals. Now, everything has taken a 360-degree turn with the discovery of another man’s body. The location of the seventh body was reported by Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar. After the six people were found dead, authorities tracked the train ‘s route before it reached Laredo, because they detected that, at some point, the door of the container where they were found was opened . Authorities indicate that an alert was triggered after the gates opened, raising some concerns among officials, who then decided to trace the train’s route. Security personnel retraced the train’s path until they identified another body on the tracks southwest of San Antonio , Texas. With the discovery, the hypothesis put forward by the authorities points out that, at the moment the gates were opened, the person died while trying to get off the train or their body was thrown out . Based on the initial lines of investigation carried out by the authorities, it is suspected that more women and men were being transported in the same container or train car, so the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service opened a case for human trafficking. Furthermore, the investigation led authorities to discover that, once in the United States, the train split in two. One branch went to Houston and the other to Laredo, where the investigation began. This discovery is reminiscent of the one made on June 27, 2022 , when 53 migrants died of asphyxiation due to hyperthermia in the back of an abandoned trailer in San Antonio, Texas. The victims were originally from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The bodies were found in inhumane conditions. Authorities determined that the victims arrived via the same route from Laredo , Texas. They were then placed in a refrigerated trailer that proved insufficient for a three-hour trip to San Antonio with that many people inside. The temperature inside the truck gradually rose. According to the official account, the people inside were screaming and banging on the walls for help or trying to force their way out. Most eventually fainted and suffocated. By the time the trailer was opened in San Antonio, 48 people were already dead. Another 16 were taken to hospitals, where five more died. Among the dead were six children and a pregnant woman.

FOX News [5/11/2026 10:04 AM, Alex Miller Fox, 37576K] reports the partisan battle over midterm elections is heating up in Washington, D.C., with accusations flying that both sides are trying to rig the outcome in November. Republicans are trying to hold on to their majority in both chambers, while Democrats are trying to pounce on sluggish legislating, infighting and rising costs in their quest to take over the House, Senate or both. And President Donald Trump is already accusing Democrats of election interference months before Election Day. "The Democrats are totally unhinged, and we will not allow them to threaten the integrity of our Elections," Trump said on Truth Social. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats recently launched a "free and fair elections task force" that would recruit the likes of former Attorney General Eric Holder and Marc Elias, who Trump charged was "a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record." "Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led ‘Election Integrity Group’ that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections," Trump said on Truth Social. Schumer and Senate Democrats debuted the elections task force as Republicans struggle to move forward on voter ID and citizenship verification legislation, and on the heels of the Supreme Court’s redistricting decision that is expected to further crank up the redistricting arms race across the country.

(B) Good Day Seattle at 10AM [5/11/2026 1:22 PM, Staff] reports that the World Cup is 30 days away and cities across the country are preparing for an influx of fans. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says the games are in jeopardy and puts the blame on Democrats. In the recently ended partial government shutdown, Mullin says 5 to 7 million visitors will be coming to the US for these games in the 11 US cities. He says threat levels are extremely high and agencies like the National Guard, TSA, ICE, and Border Patrol are crucial for massive events like the World Cup. Several activist groups are warning World Cup visitors that they could be at risk due to ICE. Mullin says the agency will have a large presence at the World Cup matches.

(B) NBC 5 News Today at 11 AM [5/11/2026 12:03 PM, Staff] reports this morning, a Cook County judge has delayed her ruling on whether to bring in an special prosecutor to investigate federal agents involved in Operation Midway Blitz. She is weighing whether those agents followed the law during last fall’s immigration crackdown. The push comes after an Illinois accountability commission report raised questions. The judge cites new developments for this delay, specifically, the Illinois State Police who are investigating the deadly shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez by ICE agents. The next hearing is set for May 21.

FOX News [5/11/2026 9:00 AM, Patrick Yoes, 37576K] reports the failure of Congress to provide funding to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and, specifically, to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had real world consequences — our country and its borders were less safe during a time of war, and the men and women in law enforcement were left to wonder if they would receive a paycheck while their lives were on the line. The fact is that protecting our nation’s homeland doesn’t stop, and neither should DHS’ officers’ paychecks. Were it not for the extraordinary measures taken by President Trump and his administration to pay these employees, this crisis would have been even greater. These officers, and our country, are fortunate we averted any disaster or lasting damage. Finally, Congress has voted to end the shutdown after a grueling and agonizing 76 days. It is thanks to the continued efforts of President Trump and his administration that the spending measure reached his desk and was signed into law. However, this bill still leaves immigration enforcement agencies like ICE and CBP unfunded because of partisan policy disputes. In order to rectify this issue, Congressional leaders are turning to budget reconciliation, a process that began with the Senate’s recent passage of a budget resolution, S. Con. Res. 33. This is the first step in the reconciliation process that will allow Congress to fund our immigration enforcement agencies.

Blaze [5/11/2026 4:00 AM, Spencer Klavan, 1556K] reports Democrats have an extremism problem, and it’s not clear how they can solve it. After yet another gunman allegedly tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, liberals nobly renewed their commitment to moderation. "We need LESS violence in America, not MORE violence in America," wrote CNN’s Van Jones. Quite right. But the American left has not exactly put itself in a good position to calm down its radicals. Consider: In April, New York Times hosted superstar streamer Hasan Piker for a podcast with writer Jia Tolentino. Piker has fantasized on camera about murdering landlords and once told his viewers, "If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill [Florida Republican Sen.] Rick Scott." He joked with Tolentino about "micro-looting" — that is, shoplifting — and equivocated about whether UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson deserved to die at the hands of his alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione. Thompson "was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder," said Piker, citing Friedrich Engels to suggest that the killing was retribution for "systematized forms of violence" in the health care system. Piker is just one online celebrity, but the problem is that he represents a significant portion of the base that Democrats must now cater to. One survey found that 41% of young voters, and 22% of Democrats, considered Mangione’s actions "acceptable.”

FOX News [5/11/2026 5:00 AM, Omri Raiter, 37576K] reports in the first hours after American and Israeli airstrikes hit Iran on Feb. 28, while most of the world was watching missile tracks across the Middle East, something quieter was happening on the blockchain. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives moved tens of millions out of their crypto wallets in the first hours, scaling to hundreds of millions in the days that followed. RAKIA, a cyber intelligence firm that develops data analysis platforms used by governments and security agencies, had its analysts track the surge in real time, and Fox News Digital detailed the findings as they unfolded. The funds eventually landed in wallets used by the Houthis, Hezbollah and personal safe havens for regime insiders. It was a tell. The same regime that spent years building a $3 billion crypto operation to fund its proxies was, in the opening hours of a war, using that infrastructure to evacuate its war chest. The two months since have brought the second act: the IRGC turning that infrastructure outward, against Americans and our allies. Iran’s hackers are not sophisticated. Every major Iranian operation against Americans this year has run on the same cheap fuel: stolen passwords, harvested by commodity malware, basic widely available hacking software, sold for a few dollars on dark web marketplaces America already has the tools to dismantle. President Donald Trump’s strikes on Feb. 28 proved this regime responds to pressure. Extending that posture into cyberspace, going after the credential supply chain the way America already goes after ransomware infrastructure, is how to shut the door on these breaches before they get any closer to home.

Washington Post [5/12/2026 5:01 AM, Emmanuel Martinez, Arelis R. Hernández, Marianne LeVine, and Reshma Kirpalani, 24826K] reports the Trump administration’s vast deportation effort has led to the removal of an unusually high number of undocumented men who have lived and worked in the United States for years, according to a Washington Post analysis, upending the livelihoods and routines of scores of families. Men account for nine out of every 10 people who have been deported by federal immigration officers since President Donald Trump began his second term last year. That ratio is not new: Women have historically represented a smaller share of those in detention, even as rising numbers of families have arrived in recent years. But the characteristics of the men being taken into custody have changed, and the number of detainees has skyrocketed. The Post’s analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data shows that almost a quarter of the 300,000 men removed since January 2025 had lived in the United States for at least three years. In the last year of the Biden administration, less than a 10th of all deported men had been in the country for that long before they were removed. The share of those removed who have criminal convictions also has shifted significantly. Most of those deported in the decade before Trump took office again had been convicted of a crime. Now the reverse is true: Nearly two-thirds of the men removed since the start of the second Trump administration do not have criminal convictions. Administration officials have said that the Department of Homeland Security is targeting criminals but will arrest anyone who is in the country illegally. A DHS spokesperson asserted that many of the detained immigrants who are listed as “non-criminals” have records in other countries. The agency provided five examples of recently arrested men who fit that profile but did not answer a follow-up question on how many detained men in total have criminal records abroad.

Washington Post [5/12/2026 5:00 AM, Anna Liss-Roy, 24826K] reports she came to the detention facility to examine the conditions for the detainees inside — not to end up with the threat of years behind bars herself. One year and three federal charges later, the life of 39-year-old Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-New Jersey) — a defendant in a legal battle that could redefine how members of Congress do their jobs — would be unrecognizable to the woman who showed up at a federal migrant detention facility in her district on the afternoon of May 9, 2025. On Tuesday, McIver, along with two colleagues who joined her at the facility that day, plans to introduce a bill to strengthen oversight protections for members of Congress scrutinizing the Trump administration’s immigration tactics, as her own legal battle is about to escalate. McIver was charged with three counts of assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering with federal officers during a clash outside the New Jersey facility last spring. McIver denies wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated. A federal appeals court is expected to hear arguments in June on her bid to have those charges dismissed before trial. A district judge overseeing that case already ruled against her. McIver could face up to 17 years in prison. The bill from McIver and Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez Jr. is unlikely to pass in a Republican-controlled House. But the lawmakers are seeking to mark the anniversary of the episode and refocus attention on ways the Trump administration has made it more challenging for lawmakers to conduct visits to assess the conditions at detention facilities as it has waged an aggressive immigration crackdown. On Friday, a federal appeals court rejected a Trump administration attempt to bar members of Congress from conducting unannounced oversight visits at immigration detention facilities. The ruling emerged from a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats and upheld an earlier decision from a U.S. district court that overturned policies the Department of Homeland Security attempted to implement last year.

CBS News [5/11/2026 6:37 PM, Staff, 51110K] Video: HERE reports millions of fans are expected to pack host cities across the U.S., Mexico and Canada with the FIFA World Cup set to begin in 30 days. Law enforcement, federal agencies and financial crime experts are all working to prevent human trafficking in these critical next few weeks.

Just the News [5/11/2026 3:14 PM, Ben Whedon] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) latest roundup of illegal aliens brought in more than a dozen with serious criminal convictions over the weekend, including individuals convicted of child sexual abuse and murder. Under President Donald Trump, ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have worked to enact mass deportations of as many as 22 million illegal aliens, with a particular focus on those with criminal convictions. As of January, ICE reported as many as 3 million departures through either physical removal or self-deportation. Over the weekend alone, ICE brought in more than a dozen aliens whose convictions earned them spots in the DHS’s "worst of the worst" highlights. “While Americans celebrated Mother’s Day, the NICE men and women of ICE risked their lives to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “This weekend, ICE arrested a murderer, pedophiles, violent assailants, and a kidnapper. Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, we are protecting American families by removing the worst of the worst from our neighborhoods before they can victimize another innocent American.” [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CBS Boston [5/11/2026 1:54 PM, Mike Toole and Penny Kmitt, 51110K] reports a mother from Lynn, Massachusetts who feared for days that she was about to be deported was not detained by immigration authorities after a meeting Monday. Mariola Perez came to the United States from Guatemala 16 years ago, a survivor of the genocide there. She’s been seeking asylum here for more than a decade. She has a 15-year-old son with complex medical needs who is a U.S. citizen. Perez has worked in Lynn as a trained medical interpreter and para-educator in the city’s public schools. Perez said she was told to expect to be detained at her next regularly scheduled check-in with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Burlington on Monday. She has not clarified exactly who told her this. Two rallies were held for her in Lynn in the last week. Perez went to the check-in meeting Monday morning and was allowed to leave without any issues. "Today, DHS made a decision not to detain Mariola at her check-in and instead issued her a new date for a new check-in," Perez’s immigration attorney Alec Peters Larson told reporters. "Any time we accompany our clients into the ICE building the threat is real," he said. "Detention’s always a possibility at these check-ins. It’s possible that folks in there, there’s plenty of people in there, won’t be as lucky as Mariola was today." Her next check-in meeting has been scheduled for November. "For operational security purposes, ICE does not disclose information pertaining to operations, including law enforcement plans, tactics, or strategies," a spokesperson for ICE told CBS News Boston Monday when asked for comment on Perez’s case.

FOX News [5/11/2026 9:00 AM, Staff, 37576K] reports New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s sanctuary policies draw sharp criticism from border czar Tom Homan. Homan argues these policies compromise public safety by allowing criminal illegal immigrants to remain on the streets, citing a list of serious offenses. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney highlights bail law complications. Homan defends law enforcement, stating they put their lives on the line daily. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Federalist [5/11/2026 5:04 PM, Maisey Jefferson, 540K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a criminal illegal alien from Cuba last week who was carrying fentanyl, narcotics, and cocaine, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. The arrest of the illegal alien — who DHS said was previously convicted of drug trafficking four times — took place in Virginia, and serves as a reminder of how the state’s dangerous sanctuary policies under Democrat leadership threaten Americans’ safety. "Virginia is a hotbed for criminal illegal alien crime," Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. "Criminals flock to sanctuary Virginia because they know Governor Spanberger and her fellow sanctuary politicians will protect them.” According to DHS, ICE arrested Eduardo Perez-Legra on May 4 in Newport News, Virginia. When law enforcement searched Perez-Legra after arresting him, they "seized 19.5 grams of cocaine, 101 oxycodone pills, 5 fentanyl pills, and 27 individually packaged suboxone sublingual films.” Perez-Legra was previously convicted of drug trafficking four times. He also has two prior felony convictions for cocaine possession, according to the agency. The illegal alien from Cuba reportedly obtained a green card in 2004. He was "eligible for removal" after being convicted as a felon in 2011, but instead the Obama administration released him in "despite a Department of Justice Immigration Judge issuing him a final order of removal" in May 2012, the DHS said in a press release. Virginia’s Democrat governor, Abigail Spanberger, has wasted no time using her position to make it harder for the Trump administration to carry out its campaign promise to arrest and deport criminals in the country illegally. As Fox News reported, after Spanberger became governor in Virginia, she "joined a handful of Democratic governors like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker who have made it harder for local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts.” Spanberger, as DHS points out, signed an executive order in January "banning state cooperation with ICE." She also directed multiple state departments and the Virginia State Police "to terminate any and all Section 287(g) Agreements and any related memoranda of understanding or similar agreements with ICE." Section 287(g) programs allow ICE to "delegate state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under ICE’s direction and oversight.”

USA Today [5/11/2026 12:54 PM, Irene Wright, 70643K] reports that "hey, everybody. I’m grateful to be here." Rodney Taylor, a 47-year-old double amputee who was released from ICE custody last week after spending more than 15 months in detention, began his remarks to a crowded room in Norcross, Georgia by thanking everyone who worked on his case. "A month ago, I wouldn’t believe that I would be here right now," Taylor said. The meeting space inside Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta was packed with immigration advocates, members of Taylor’s family and cameras as Taylor made his first public statement since his release. "It’s just a blessing from the Lord that I’m here, (with) my beautiful wife, my family. Words can’t express this feeling," Taylor said. "It’s still surreal to me, because when I was in detention, the day I got there, they told me I was going to be deported in three months. No going to court, no seeing the judge, not anything." Taylor’s case drew national attention when Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA) described the "despicable"conditions inside the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia during a hearing with then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Now, after Taylor’s release, he’s sharing his story of perseverance and shining a light on what he says is the dark reality inside ICE detention centers.

CBS Miami [5/11/2026 5:57 PM, Staff, 51110K] reports the Florida Division of Emergency Management spent another $45.3 million for immigration enforcement-related costs, bringing the total for the year to nearly $460 million. According to Transparency Florida, a government accountability website through the executive office of the governor, FDEM filed a budget amendment May 6 notifying the Legislature it was spending $45.3 million out of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund to pay off invoices for the 2025-2026 year. In total, FDEM has spent $458.5 million in emergency funds on illegal immigration enforcement in the past year. The division was blocked from spending money from the fund on any new contracts after Feb. 17, when the Legislature failed to renew its authorization, but the state can still use funds to pay off any invoices before the expiration date. The records didn’t detail how the money was spent, other than noting it was for "illegal migration."

USA Today [5/11/2026 6:05 AM, Violet Ikonomova, 70643K] reports in the Baghdad rooftop unit where he’d been confined for weeks, Sanan Atou sprang to his feet. "Did you hear that?" he asked a Detroit Free Press reporter on a FaceTime call, rushing out onto the roof. Atou’s eyes darted in the darkness. A series of loud cracks rang out. As he flipped his phone camera to show his view, his hand shook, blurring the Baghdad skyline. It was another air strike, Atou feared. The former Macomb Township resident was deported to Iraq on Feb. 22, just days before the United States opened war on neighboring Iran. At least five air strikes had rocked his building in the weeks since, he said, and hours before his call with the Free Press, President Donald Trump had warned "a whole civilization will die tonight." Iran’s border was just over 100 miles from where Atou stood. "It’s going to be a long night," Atou said. "Yeah, this is what keeps me up now." Atou, 43, had lived in metro Detroit since he was 11. He came from a big family and attended high school in Oak Park, where he was enrolled in JROTC. More recently, he worked as a roofer and loved to camp and fish with his girlfriend in northern Michigan. While most of his family won U.S. citizenship, Atou was ordered deported due to a drug crime he committed in 2006, kicking off a removal process that spanned presidential administrations from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. He’s among more than 600,000 immigrants the Department of Homeland Security says have been removed from the United States since Trump returned to office, promising to launch the largest deportation program in the nation’s history. Many have been sent to countries racked by conflict, that do not recognize them as citizens, or that they left so long ago they have few remaining ties. Atou’s case is a window into the dangers such deportees can face.

Chicago Tribune [5/11/2026 9:02 PM, Caroline Kubzansky, 5209K] reports a federal judge has ordered officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to drop a campaign aimed at getting Meta and Apple to shut down a Chicago-based ICE monitoring page and app, according to court records. The preliminary injunction order filed last week follows a mid-April ruling from U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso in which he concluded that federal officials had effectively threatened Apple and Facebook with prosecution if they didn’t take “Eyes Up” app and the “ICE sightings – Chicagoland” Facebook group offline, citing multiple statements from former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Although these statements may not be direct threats to prosecute Facebook and Apple, they are intimations of a threat,” Alonso wrote in the April 17 ruling. “And thinly veiled threats such as these constitute sufficient evidence on which Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim.” In the order issued May 5, Alonso reiterated that government officials were not allowed to “coerce or threaten” either technology giant with sanctions for reinstating the app or the Facebook group. The order also applies to previous government efforts to get the page and the app disabled and taken down, and gives DOJ and DHS supervisors a week to notify officers who had been part of that effort. Social media pages where users documented possible and confirmed sightings of federal immigration agents have been a major mode of communication for Chicago-area residents and immigration activists. They were used with particular intensity during “Operation Midway Blitz,” the Trump administration’s sweeping arrest campaign against immigrants without legal status that roiled the Chicago area in late 2025. A complaint alleging First Amendment violations first filed in the U.S. District Court in February alleged that one of the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado, created the ICE watch Facebook group to share information among users about sightings of federal immigration agents, shortly after the Trump administration announced that immigration officials would conduct “enhanced operations” in and around Chicago.

FOX News [5/12/2026 1:40 AM, Landon Mion, 37576K] reports the Minnesota Senate on Monday narrowly passed a bill that would restrict federal agents from concealing their identities, with exceptions, and create a path for lawsuits over alleged constitutional violations stemming from immigration enforcement in the state. The bill narrowly passed with a 34-33 party line vote. It now heads to the House, where it faces an uphill battle with the chamber evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. The legislation also instructs schools, day cares and health care facilities to deny access to agents seeking to conduct civil immigration enforcement on their premises without a signed judicial warrant, with some exceptions. And it prohibits certain civil immigration arrests of people attending court proceedings. Additionally, it gives state officials the authority to investigate deaths involving federal agents’ use of force and creates penalties or civil liability in certain cases when someone fails to render aid after a shooting. Democratic Sen. Omar Fateh, a co-sponsor of the bill, said the federal government’s raids in Minnesota displayed "a show of force against immigrant communities," according to The Minnesota Star Tribune. "They said agents were here to enforce law and order," Fateh said. "Again, they lied. They broke down doors without a warrant, denied people due process, assaulted, arrested, tear-gassed and shot peaceful people.” This comes as several Democratic-led states have sought to adopt restrictions on immigration agents, particularly after the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in separate incidents in January during immigration raids in Minneapolis that triggered nationwide protests. Lawmakers in New York reached an agreement with Gov. Kathy Hochul on a final state budget to limit state and local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and place restrictions on masked agents and warrantless searches of homes, schools and other locations. The deal would also allow residents to sue immigration agents. A mask ban was also passed by California lawmakers, but similar restrictions have faced federal court challenges, including rulings blocking parts of California’s law. Other Democratic-led states, including New Jersey and Massachusetts, ​have proposed ⁠similar plans to block immigration agents from wearing masks during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Minnesota Democratic Sen. Ron Latz, another co-sponsor of the bill passed on Monday, said the measure aims to bring accountability and "ensuring that what happened here never happens again." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Axios [5/11/2026 4:32 PM, Jay R. Jordan, 17364K] reports ICE’s role providing security during the World Cup in Houston will not focus on immigration enforcement, the city host committee’s security chief told Axios on Monday. Mixed and unclear messaging from the Trump administration has led to confusion on ICE’s role during the tournament, which will take place in Houston and 10 other cities nationwide come June. Tommy Calabro, chief safety and security officer for the Houston host committee, tells Axios that immigration enforcement has never come up during planning meetings with federal, state and local police. It’s unclear what ICE’s role will be at the World Cup. ICE acting director Todd Lyons told Congress in February the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, which investigates transnational crimes such as human trafficking, will have a presence in World Cup host cities. A FIFA host committee co-chair in Miami said last week he was personally assured by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that ICE would not have a presence inside stadiums, per the Athletic. More than a dozen agencies will help secure Houston Stadium, FanFest and everywhere soccer fans will congregate while the World Cup is played. That includes the Secret Service, ATF and Texas DPS along with local law enforcement. They’ll be working under the direction of a Houston Police Department unified command center, Calabro says.

Univision Austin [5/11/2026 5:29 PM, Staff, 4937K] reports what should have been the most exciting weeks for Luis Fernando Cabrera turned into a nightmare. The 18-year- old, a senior at Austin ISD, was detained by ICE during a traffic stop days before his graduation. During a press conference held this Monday, Texas Democratic Congressman Greg Casar demanded the immediate release of the student and asserted that the young man should not be in an immigration detention center. Attorney Jim Harrington reported that last Friday they filed a habeas corpus petition seeking the immediate release of the young man before his graduation.

Univision [5/11/2026 6:33 PM, Staff, 4937K] reports on March 23, Darisbell was taken to Laredo and later transferred to a facility in Alvarado, Texas, where she began receiving prenatal vitamins, folic acid, and iron. Her family clung to this medical care as a sign of reassurance, even though conditions remained difficult. Gilbert recalls that his wife spoke of exhaustion, stress, and poor nutrition while at the center. As the first weeks of her pregnancy —considered the most delicate— progressed, her lawyer filed a writ of habeas corpus seeking her release, arguing that she should continue the immigration process outside of detention. But the days continued to pass in uncertainty and confinement. Last Tuesday, May 5th, Darisbell experienced bleeding and went to the medical area of ​​the center. Shortly after, she was hospitalized; according to her family, it was there that she received the devastating news: she had lost the baby. Authorities confirmed in a statement that the pregnancy was detected upon her admission and that she received medical attention while in custody. They also noted that she sought medical help on her own initiative after experiencing bleeding. Now, Gilbert’s fear is no longer just about immigration, as he says his wife is going through a profound emotional crisis. While she remains detained, her lawyers are seeking a new legal remedy to secure her release after the loss that has marked their lives.

Univision [5/11/2026 2:45 PM, Ana M. Islas, 4937K] reports Angela’s compass was the ICE locator that indicates where a person detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has been taken. Her driving force was her love for Carlos and keeping her family together. Thus, she traveled through three states and two territories where ICE randomly transferred Carlos during the first weeks of his detention, until he arrived in Louisiana, where he was locked up in the Winn Correctional Center. Her home became the 21 hotels where she stayed and which she also turned into her press center from where she answered every interview request from the press that came to her, because for Angela it has always been clear that making community is the only thing that can beat the system, one that has been separating families for decades, but that this year has been particularly cruel to a migrant population that represents 4% of the US population. “I never thought I would experience this. I am white, I was able to go to school, I come from a privileged background,” Angela says, acknowledging the privilege of her skin tone and citizenship. Angela Della Valle never imagined she would have to leave the classrooms of the Upper Merion, Pennsylvania school district to seek out representatives, politicians, and legislators to tell her story with Carlos, a story that resonates with millions of families across the country. But this struggle took her far.

Breitbart [5/11/2026 2:13 PM, John Binder, 2238K] reports that an illegal alien, released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, is accused of raping his deceased girlfriend’s underage daughter, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials revealed. Wualter Jesus Travieso Soto, an illegal alien from Venezuela, was arrested in Flathead County, Montana, in February and charged with felony sexual intercourse without consent with a child under 16 years old as well as strangulation of a partner or family member. According to police, Soto’s girlfriend died in a car crash in 2024 and her three children were subsequently left in his care despite his having no relation to them. In May 2025, police received a tip from the deceased woman’s sister, who allegedly found photos and videos on Soto’s phone of him kissing the eldest daughter. The deceased woman’s aunt got custody of the three children and that is when the girl told police Soto had raped her on several occasions and, at one point, choked her. Soto was only able to go to Montana because of the Biden administration’s catch and release policy, carried out by Alejandro Mayorkas. Under that policy, Soto was released into the United States interior after illegally crossing the border in 2023. "This monster repeatedly raped the child of his dead girlfriend," the Department of Homeland Security’s Lauren Bis said in a statement: He now faces felony charges of sexual intercourse without consent with a child under 16. He would not be in this country in the first place if it weren’t for the Biden Administration’s disastrous catch and release policies that allowed him into our country.

Los Angeles Times [5/12/2026 12:32 PM, Clara Harter, 12718K] reports a person wanted for child sexual assault, two corporate vice presidents and a child psychologist were among 42 people arrested in a sweeping child sexual exploitation bust in the Inland Empire, authorities announced Monday. The effort, dubbed Operation Volcano, identified more than 500 suspected distributors of child sexual abuse images as part of an effort to dismantle regional networks exploiting minors, according to the Riverside County district attorney’s office. Among the suspects, authorities focused on those deemed to pose the highest risk. They included people who had previously committed sexual offenses, those under criminal justice supervision, people working with children, and individuals in positions of public trust. Feliciano Chavarria, 62, was arrested in Lake Elisinore. He was wanted on a $2-million arrest warrant for child sexual abuse out of L.A. County, according to a spokesperson for the Riverside County district attorney’s office. The operation also netted three registered sex offenders: Mark Tyler, 66, of Perris; Dustin Jenks, 56, of Palm Springs; and Anthony Ramirez, 39, of Nuevo. Additional arrests included a retired law enforcement employee, a California prison information technology employee, a local government planning director, a Southern California hospital chief technology officer, a notary public, a United States Postal Service employee and a naturopathic doctor, prosecutors said. The operation began in March 2025 as part of a partnership between the Riverside County Child Exploitation Team and nonprofit organization Our Rescue, which focuses on combating child exploitation. Our Rescue provided resources to help pay for software to search suspects’ computers and cellphones, according to Liam Doyle, supervising investigator with the district attorney’s office. "The arrest is the easy part; the digital forensic examination is time-consuming, expensive, and without the evidence, we don’t have a case," Doyle said in a statement. The 42 people arrested come from 19 Riverside County cities, with the highest concentrations in Menifee, where six people were arrested; Riverside, where five people were arrested; and Moreno Valley, also with five arrests. Although all of the people arrested are accused of distributing child sexual abuse material, there were no indications that any of them were working together, Doyle said. Those arrested range from 21 to 81 years old, with the majority of suspects being middle-aged men. Operation Volcano, the effort announced Monday, was carried out with support from Homeland Security Investigations, the California Highway Patrol and the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Telemundo [5/11/2026 9:00 PM, Shelby Bremer, 56K] reports that, on Monday, staff at the Otay Mesa Detention Center refused to allow Representatives Mike Levin and Sara Jacobs to speak with detainees during an oversight visit, handing them a new ICE memo stating that such visits must be requested two days in advance, with proof of consent from each detainee, stating their name. Levin and Jacobs made an unannounced visit to the facility a little over a month after their last previously planned visit, during which they were also denied the opportunity to speak to any of the people being held inside. “Each time there is a new reason or excuse,” Jacobs said after the visit, “but it is completely unacceptable that we are not allowed to speak to our constituents who are here.” “I believe this is part of an effort by ICE to find reasons why members of Congress cannot exercise oversight functions without prior notice, or meet with detainees,” Levin added. The memo, dated Monday, was sent by outgoing ICE Director Todd Lyons to all ICE staff. It stated that congressional visits are "disruptive and resource-intensive," and that the agency is not currently obligated to facilitate meetings with detainees, but would do so under the new requirements. After being denied entry, several representatives sued the federal government to be able to conduct oversight visits to the detention centers, and a federal court issued an injunction allowing all members of Congress to conduct such visits while the litigation proceeds. A federal appeals court ruled Friday against the Department of Homeland Security’s request to lift the suspension, meaning those visits can resume. Lyons’ memo, issued Monday, details the new restrictions. “I don’t think it’s right,” said a woman from Escondido, referring to the detention center’s ban on representatives meeting with detainees. She was at the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Monday to pay her father’s bail after an immigration judge ordered his release, and asked to remain anonymous. “I think members of Congress could make a difference if they went in there and improved things for them,” he said. According to her statement, her father is undocumented, has no criminal record, and was parked in front of a store in January when plainclothes officers detained him. She added that he suffers from several medical conditions, has not received his medication on schedule, and has been hospitalized four times since his arrest. She stated that the staff did not inform her family; another detainee called to let them know, or they found out from her father after the fact. “Now I’m worried that his health has worsened and that he won’t have much time left with us,” she said. “It makes me very sad.”

NBC News [5/11/2026 12:05 PM, Issa Osorio, 42967K] reports that a teen battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents in Durango, Mexico, following their release from U.S. immigration custody. Kevin Gonzalez’s aunt and brother confirmed his death to NBC Chicago/Telemundo Chicago late Sunday afternoon. Earlier this week, an immigration judge had ordered the expedited release of Gonzalez’s parents so they could reunite with him in Mexico. Kevin, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen, was born in Chicago but had been living in Mexico with his parents, Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, who had been deported years back. Kevin was diagnosed with colon cancer earlier this year in Chicago, where he had gone to get checked for ongoing stomach ailments. The cancer had spread to his stomach and lungs, and doctors said treatment was no longer viable. The physicians had recommended he receive comfort care at home until the end of his life. Following his diagnosis, Kevin’s parents had attempted to cross the border to see him in Chicago, but they were taken into custody by ICE agents and were put in immigration detention in Arizona. While his parents were detained, Kevin flew back to Mexico and was in the care of his grandmother. Last week, Kevin had issued a public plea for his parents to be released from custody so they could be by his side. On Saturday, Kevin was able to reunite with his parents in an emotional reunion, embracing his mother in a hug that resembled the finish line.

New York Times [5/11/2026 11:26 AM, Amy Qin and Pooja Salhotra, 148038K] reports for decades, international students hoping to stay in the United States after graduation faced relatively few barriers. Temporary employment programs designed to attract skilled talent made it easy to transition from studying to working. And employers were eager to hire these students, especially those with STEM degrees. But that once open road to a job in the United States is now full of hurdles. The Trump administration has upended the H-1B program, a skilled-worker visa sought by many international students, by imposing a $100,000 fee on new applicants and introducing a new lottery based on wage levels. And Homeland Security has indefinitely paused the processing of visa applications for people from 39 countries. The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services added to the uncertainty by questioning the future of the Optional Practical Training program, which allows international students to work for up to three years in the country after graduation. There is also a deadline. Most graduating students have up to five months to find a job before being kicked out of the country. “It’s just getting unfriendlier and unfriendlier,” said Caroline Liu, 21, a Chinese citizen who is a graduating computer science major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Supporters of the new visa rules say that lowering the number of foreign students — 1.3 million in 2025 — will protect jobs for Americans, especially in a challenging job market. Overall hiring has slowed, tech companies are laying off workers by the thousands, and the rise of A.I. has intensified fears that some jobs will disappear altogether. The unemployment rate for college graduates increased to 5.6 percent at the end of last year, compared with an overall rate of 4.3 percent at the time, according to an analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

NBC News [5/11/2026 6:00 AM, Daniella Silva, 42967K] reports Erika, an intensive care nurse who is seven months pregnant, said she was brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was barely a year old. Now, nearly 35 years later, she is one of many Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients who can’t work and are in dire financial circumstances because their renewal applications have all but ground to a halt.

Telemundo [5/11/2026 6:20 PM, Fatima Navarrete, 26K] reports that, facing forced unemployment are DACA beneficiaries who, because their renewal did not arrive on time, were laid off by their workplaces. “The job has given me 30 days to be able to give them the new work permit, but we know that because of the delays, I am living in limbo,” said Elvira, a DACA recipient. She is a professional in the health sector; her job was to accompany expectant mothers in their pregnancy process, and now, after 35 years living in this country, she doesn’t know what her future will be. “You come here, you study, you fall in love with your profession, and then basically you have to take it away, because you can no longer work there,” Elvira said. According to official data, there are more than 500,000 active DACA recipients in the United States. One of them is Andrea, who worked at UC Santa Cruz, the same university from which she will graduate in just a few weeks. “I’m studying to be a social worker, so I loved the jobs I had because I worked with the school community, with the custodians, the cafeteria staff,” Andrea explained. “My daughter officially graduates on June 14th, and it will be very exciting for me to see her walk like so many other Dreamers will soon. I’m still uncertain about what will happen even with that certificate,” said Yurina Guzmán, mother of a DACA recipient. Although the DACA program has not been canceled, the long waiting times for a valid document are causing profound damage. “Right now, our dreamers are parents, business owners, and they’ve done things right. The administration has tried to create a nightmare right now to take away their dreams,” Yurina said. Losing their driver’s license or California ID is another consequence they have to face. “Right now I can’t travel; I can’t use it at the airport. If I go to the doctor, they see it, but legally I can’t use it if I’m driving or if I want to travel, they won’t accept it,” Andrea stated. According to USCIS, the delays are due to more thorough reviews, new biometric and background checks. “We’ve been here since we were little, we want to get ahead, contribute to this country, and we don’t know any other home but this one,” Elvira said. “We still can’t vote, we still can’t get jobs, but at the end of the day our story does matter, it does count,” Andrea said. “That’s why I’m asking the parents and the young people to unite, because we can’t let their dreams turn into a nightmare. Please, young people, unite, let’s organize so that their dreams aren’t taken away,” Yurina asserted.

AP [5/11/2026 5:44 PM, Matthew Leonard, 35287K] reports Honolulu’s federal immigration court has become increasingly overwhelmed since 2020, with new data showing that the number of cases pending and the wait time for those cases to reach the courts both have hit their highest levels in 15 years. Those problems, which predate the second Trump administration, have been further tested by a quadrupling of immigration arrests in Hawaiʻi in 2025 compared to 2024. The pace of arrests was averaging 35 a month last year, then appeared to be tapering off in February, according to the latest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is moving to limit the time allocated in courts for individual hearings in asylum cases, while ramping up requests for removals before hearings can be conducted. Such policies are designed to close cases faster, DHS says, and so far the strategies have led to a reduction in the national immigration case backlog from 3.7 million at the start of the Trump administration to 3.3 million in March.

ABC News [5/11/2026 3:29 PM, Elizabeth Schulze, 34146K] reports the first wave of tariff refunds will reach some American businesses’ bank accounts Tuesday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The government launched an online portal last month where companies can file to get money back for tariffs they paid that were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, which said the administration exceeded its authority. More than 330,000 importers paid the tariffs, collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), totaling $166 billion, CBP said. As of April 26, at least 75,000 businesses have applied for refunds, according to a court filing. A CBP spokesperson tells ABC News about 15% of the claims that have been submitted were rejected, typically due to incorrect information or ineligible shipments being included on a claim. But while the money will start flowing to businesses, consumers should not expect to see direct refunds.

USA Today [5/11/2026 3:08 PM, Kaitlyn McCormick, 70643K] reports a police K-9 in Philadelphia is making headlines after leading officers to $44,000 in unreported currency at the Philadelphia International Airport. The incident, which occurred May 7, involved a 54-year-old man traveling to Mexico who had $44,690 of bulk currency on him and in his carry-on. Over $34,000 of the money was not officially reported, violating federal currency laws. Nitro, a 3-year-old male Labrador retriever working with Customs and Border Protection to identify bulk currency, firearms and ammunition detected the concealed money, according to a press release from CBP. Officers confiscated the cash, though they did return $240 to the traveler. According to the release, the man was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Peru, flying to Cancun, Mexico.

Telemundo [5/11/2026 5:52 PM, Staff, 2524K] reports Bexar County police found a man’s body near train tracks in San Antonio, Texas, and authorities suspect he belongs to the same group of people whose remains were found over the weekend at a Union Pacific rail depot in Laredo. Five men and one woman were found when an inspector was checking the trains, according to the Laredo, Texas Police Department. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told News 4 (WOAI) San Antonio that the body was found after noon. The victim’s age cannot yet be determined due to the advanced state of decomposition, he said. A Mexican identification card was found on the body, but the victim’s nationality has yet to be confirmed. Among the belongings found with the other deceased were identifications and cell phones that suggest the victims were from Mexico and Honduras, said Corinne Stern, the county coroner. The identities of the deceased have not yet been revealed, but samples were taken to cross-reference information with authorities in those countries, through consulates and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Missing Aliens Program. It is not yet known where the Union Pacific railcar in which the six people were found departed from. It is also unclear whether they are victims of border crossings via coyote routes, criminals who charge migrants by promising them safe passage.

Univision [5/11/2026 3:44 PM, Staff, 4937K] reports authorities in Laredo, Texas, are investigating the deaths of six people found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the Mexican border, in a case that points to a possible heat stroke. According to information from The Associated Press and a statement from the Webb County Medical Examiner’s Office, the discovery occurred Sunday afternoon when railroad workers were inspecting one of the containers at the facility located in Laredo. Jose Baeza, spokesman for the Laredo Police Department, confirmed the deaths of five men and one woman. Webb County Medical Examiner Dr. Corinne Stern said she performed an autopsy on a 29-year-old Mexican woman and determined that she died from hyperthermia, also known as heatstroke. The official added that among the belongings found were identifications and cell phones, suggesting that the victims may have been originally from Mexico and Honduras. Authorities took fingerprints from the deceased and shared them with the U.S. Border Patrol as part of the Missing Aliens Program, with the goal of confirming their identities and nationalities. In addition, the coroner’s office reported that it had already contacted the Mexican consulate after identifying the deceased woman.

NBC News [5/11/2026 10:57 PM, Joe Kottke and Dennis Romero, 42967K] reports twenty-seven cruise ship workers, including some from the Disney Cruise Line, were deported after having engaged with child pornography, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The discovery was made last month, after CBP officers boarded eight cruise ships from April 23 to 27 as part of an ongoing child sexual exploitation material investigation, or CSEM, a CBP spokesperson said in a statement Monday. The spokesperson said the agency determined 27 of the 28 crewmembers interviewed "were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography" and that their visas were canceled and they were deported to their home countries. Twenty-six of the crewmembers are from the Philippines, one is from Portugal and another is from Indonesia, the spokesperson said. The agency said it would not release their names. CBP did not indicate whether the crewmembers might be tried in U.S. courts. An FBI spokesperson referred questions about the possibility of prosecution to CBP. CBP did not immediately respond to questions about what prompted the operation. In a statement, a Disney Cruise Line spokesperson said that the company fully cooperated with law enforcement and that it has a "zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior.” "While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company," the spokesperson said. A Holland America spokesperson confirmed in a statement that some of its crewmembers were involved. Echoing a similar zero-tolerance policy, the spokesperson called the allegations "deeply disturbing" and said that Holland America is cooperating with CBP and that the crewmembers involved have been "terminated.” NBC San Diego reported at least one of the CBP enforcement actions last month happened on the Disney cruise ship Magic as it was docked at B-Street Pier on the San Diego Bay harbor. The Port of San Diego’s Harbor Police said the agency was not involved in the operation because it is prohibited by state law from participating in immigration enforcement and because the terminal is a federal port of entry under CBP’s jurisdiction.

FOX News [5/11/2026 12:42 PM, Arabella Bennett, 7946K] reports that President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping is drawing renewed attention to concerns that Chinese electric vehicles entering North America through Canada could pose national security risks inside the United States. Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang joined FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria" to discuss tensions surrounding China’s trade practices, energy policy and Beijing’s growing EV footprint ahead of the high-stakes Beijing meeting. The discussion comes as lawmakers push legislation aimed at blocking Chinese electric vehicles from entering the U.S. market, citing concerns over surveillance technology and connected-vehicle systems capable of collecting sensitive data. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, warned that the vehicles function as "little Trojan horses" because of the amount of information they can collect and transmit. "These cars have lots of cameras. They send back data to the Communist Party and can be remotely controlled by the Communist Party," Moreno said during a recent appearance on "Sunday Morning Futures." Chang expanded on those concerns, warning that Canada’s decision to lower tariffs on some Chinese EV imports could create another pathway for the vehicles to reach the United States.

Washington Times [5/11/2026 3:47 PM, Kerry Picket, 1323K] reports the Competitive Enterprise Institute says the recent Department of Homeland Security shutdown that squeezed U.S. airport security personnel proves it is time to privatize all airport screening at U.S. airports. The libertarian think tank said that, even before the partial shutdown of DHS, too many complaints about the Transportation Security Administration from most interactions over the years, and that, under normal circumstances, the TSA lines did not suddenly materialize during the funding shutdown.

CBS Pittsburgh [5/11/2026 7:15 PM, Shelley Bortz, 51110K] Video: HERE reports a terrifying security breach at Denver International Airport is now raising urgent questions nationwide after a man got onto an active runway and was killed by a departing plane. KDKA went to Pittsburgh International Airport to find out just how difficult it would be for someone to get close to restricted airfield areas here at home. The incident in Denver is now shining a spotlight on airport perimeter security across the country. And today at Pittsburgh International on Monday, what stood out was how easy it is in some areas to walk right up to the fence surrounding the airfield. Using a cellphone for scale, we wanted to show you exactly what separates the public from active runway areas. Passengers are screened, scanned and checked multiple times before ever stepping onto a plane. But after a deadly runway breach in Denver, KDKA wanted to know what security looks like outside the airport along the fencing surrounding restricted airfield areas. Using a public roadway, we accessed an area directly beside the airport fencing. We remained there recording video for nearly 10 minutes, and during that entire time, no security personnel, patrol vehicles, or airport employees ever approached us. Using a cellphone camera, we documented in real time just how close someone can get to restricted airfield areas from outside the airport perimeter. And while this section of fence did include barbed wire, so did the area that was jumped in Denver, and the fact that no one appeared to be actively monitoring this area on Monday raises new questions about perimeter security and response. KDKA contacted Allegheny County Airport Authority about what we found, and in a statement, it says: "Safety and security are always the top priority at Pittsburgh International Airport. Like any major security event in the industry, our team is aware and is reviewing the incident that occurred in Denver. While we can’t discuss specific security measures, our operations team along with Allegheny County Police, patrol and inspect perimeter areas around PIT which include publicly accessible areas. Our teams are constantly evaluating new technology to enhance security measures and make adjustments and additions is necessary. These evaluations have been ongoing long before the incident in Denver this past weekend.”

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Chicago Tribune [5/11/2026 12:27 PM, Lauren Penington, 5209K] reports that a Frontier Airlines flight deplaned at Denver International Airport on Sunday after an ammunition magazine was discovered on board, according to the airline. The magazine was found as the Phoenix-bound flight prepared to take off from DIA, Frontier spokesperson Rob Harris said in a statement. The plane was scheduled to depart at 8:08 p.m. Sunday. "As a matter of precaution, passengers were deplaned and rescreened," Harris said. "The aircraft also underwent a security sweep with no additional findings." Airport officials responded to the "security incident" to investigate, but no injuries were reported, an unidentified DIA spokesperson stated. Gun parts — including magazines, clips, bolts and firing pins — are prohibited in carry-on baggage, but may be transported in checked baggage, according to the Transportation Security Administration. TSA officials did not respond Monday morning to requests for comment. It’s not clear how the gun magazine made it onto the plane. The delay caused the crew on Frontier flight 4765 to exceed their duty time, and passengers were rebooked on an early Monday flight, Harris said. That plane took off from DIA just before 6 a.m. Monday and landed in Arizona shortly before 7 a.m., according to flight tracking software FlightAware. Frontier’s latest security incident comes just days after a pedestrian jumped the Denver airport’s perimeter fence and was killed by a departing plane from that airline. The National Transportation Safety Board was collecting information Sunday to determine if an investigation into the plane’s emergency evacuation after the fatal crash was warranted.

Bloomberg [5/12/2026 12:01 AM, Joe Wertz, 18082K] reports record-breaking heat and drought have fueled the world’s worst ever start to a wildfire year, as climate change and a developing El Niño threaten to push extreme weather to new heights. Over the first four months of this year, more than 150 million hectares (579,150 square miles) was burned, according to satellite estimates from the Global Wildfire Information System. That’s an area nearly the size of Alaska and roughly double the seasonal average for this period. “This rapid start, in combination with the forecast El Niño means that we’re looking at a particularly severe year,” said Theodore Keeping, an extreme weather and climate researcher at Imperial College London.

AP [5/12/2026 5:13 AM, Staff, 35287K] reports a pair of South Florida wildfires that torched thousands of acres in the Everglades over the weekend spread Monday as fire crews worked to contain them. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CBS Miami [5/11/2026 7:05 PM, Staff, 51110K] Video: HERE reports over 11,000 acres have burned in a major South Florida wildfire. Crews are working by air and on the ground to contain the flames near Pembroke Pines and Florida City, as residents watch anxiously and prepare for possible evacuations.

CBS Colorado [5/11/2026 7:10 PM, Staff, 51110K] Video: HERE reports law enforcement evacuated residents near a wildfire burning in Carter Lake in Larimer County that was estimated at about 30 acres.

The AP [5/11/2026 3:19 PM, Michael Kunzelman, 12718K] reports a man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner while armed with guns and knives pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he attempted to kill President Trump and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer who tried to stop the attack. Cole Tomas Allen was handcuffed and shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform when he appeared in federal court for his arraignment. Allen didn’t speak during the brief hearing. One of his attorneys entered the plea on his behalf. Allen’s lawyers are asking U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden to disqualify at least two top Justice Department officials from direct involvement in prosecuting him because they could be considered victims or witnesses in the case, creating a potential conflict of interest. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro were attending the event when Allen ran through a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer, authorities said. In a court filing last week, Allen’s attorneys argued that it creates at least the appearance of a conflict of interest for Blanche and Pirro to be making any prosecutorial decisions in the case. CNN [5/11/2026 9:31 AM, Holmes Lybrand, 612K] reports Allen appeared before a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday, hands and feet shackled together and stood by his attorney as they entered the not guilty plea on his behalf. He has been indicted on charges including attempting to assassinate a president and assaulting an officer. The judge presiding over the case, Trump-appointed Trevor McFadden, pressed Allen’s attorneys on an earlier motion they had made seeking to remove US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro and other administration officials from the case. Allen’s attorneys argued that because Pirro and others were at the April 25 dinner and may have been targets according to their version of events, she should be recused from the case. “We assume a lot about how victims feel,” defense attorney Eugene Ohm said during Monday’s hearing, adding that Pirro is “very close friends with Trump” and should be removed for that alone. “I’d be very surprised if they were victims in any legal sense,” McFadden said, noting that they did not see the incident.

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New York Post [5/11/2026 3:11 PM, James Gant, 40934K] reports more than 20 oil rig workers have been evacuated after a fire broke out on a platform off the Southern California coast. The blaze ignited on Platform Habitat, nine miles off Carpinteria, early Monday morning as Harbor Patrol were seen trying to douse the flames. Twenty-six staff were rushed to safety with two minor injuries reported, per the US Coast Guard’s X post.

FOX News [5/11/2026 12:24 PM, Adam Sabes and Preston Mizell, 37576K] reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has reportedly seized Brian Hooker’s sailboat as the federal agency continues its investigation into the disappearance of his wife, who he claims fell off a dinghy in the Bahamas. Brian Hooker told Bahamian officials that his wife fell off a dinghy after leaving shore at Hope Town at around 7:30 p.m. on April 4, saying that Lynette fell off with the ignition key. Local authorities said that he arrived at a marina at Marsh Harbour at around 4 a.m. on April 5 after paddling to shore, roughly eight hours after his wife went overboard. The couple’s sailboat, named "Soulmate," was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard, two sources told CBS News. Brian and Lynette Hooker’s sailboat was en route to the U.S. when it was seized by the Coast Guard on Saturday, the outlet reported. In recent days, according to the report, the Coast Guard Investigative Service’s probe into Lynette Hooker’s disappearance has intensified. Brian Hooker hasn’t been charged with a crime. The Coast Guard declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital, citing the active investigation. The development comes about a week after the Coast Guard sought the public’s help in finding the owner of a sailboat that was moored near Brian and Lynette Hooker’s "Soulmate" in the Bahamas.

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The New York Times [5/11/2026 9:00 AM, Dustin Volz, 148038K] reports a criminal hacking group recently attempted to launch a widespread cyberattack that appeared to rely on artificial intelligence to detect a previously unknown bug, Google said in research published Monday, highlighting the potential threat that A.I. poses to digital security. Security experts have feared for years that malicious hackers could eventually rely on A.I. models to identify undisclosed flaws in computer code to launch crippling attacks that are difficult to guard against. That fear was largely theoretical until now. “We have high confidence that the actor likely leveraged an A.I. model to support the discovery and weaponization of this vulnerability,” the report said. The tech giant did not say precisely when the thwarted attack happened, whom it was targeting or which A.I. platform the hackers used, but the company added that it did not believe it was its own Gemini chatbot. Google’s research arrives as the technology industry and governments, including the Trump administration, re-evaluate how, and whether, to police advanced versions of A.I., in large part because of growing concerns over what they mean for cybersecurity. Bloomberg [5/11/2026 9:02 AM, Margi Murphy, 18082K] reports that the scheme, which was foiled when Google alerted the tool developer, would mark the first time that Google’s Threat Intelligence Group caught a hacker using an AI-generated “zero-day” in such a way, according to a report published Monday. Zero-day vulnerabilities are flaws unknown to the developer, leaving defenders no time to patch before they can be exploited. Google said it has “high confidence” that AI was used to help discover and weaponize the exploit. The company declined to name the cybercrime group, the impacted software or the large language model that was used in the attempted attack. However, a spokesperson said researchers don’t believe the exploit was created using Anthropic PBC’s Mythos or Google’s own model, Gemini. The company also wouldn’t say when the exploit was discovered other than it was “recent.” Anthropic said in April it wouldn’t widely release its new model, Mythos, because the way it used AI to identify and exploit software flaws posed a national security risk. Since then, the White House has moved to address potential malicious use of large language models, and government officials have held emergency meetings with technology and industry leaders. The AP [5/11/2026 10:02 AM, Matt O’Brien, 35287K] reports Google shared limited information about the attackers and the target, but John Hultquist, chief analyst at the tech giant’s threat intelligence arm, said it represents a moment cybersecurity experts have warned about for years: malicious hackers arming themselves with AI to supercharge their ability to break into the world’s computers. "It’s here," Hultquist said. "The era of AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation is already here." It comes at a time of leaps in AI’s abilities to find vulnerabilities, including the Mythos model announced a month ago by Anthropic. Among those trying to bolster their defenses is President Donald Trump’s White House, which has shifted its approach in how it plans to vet the most powerful AI models before their public release. After following through with a campaign promise to repeal Democratic President Joe Biden’s guardrails around the fast-developing technology, the Republican administration and its allies are now sending mixed signals about the government playing a larger role in AI oversight. "Some people don’t want there to be a regulatory response to this and others do," said Dean Ball, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation who was previously a White House tech policy adviser and a lead author of Trump’s AI policy roadmap last year. "I don’t like regulation," Ball said. "I would prefer for things not to be regulated. But I think we need to in this case.”

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CyberScoop [5/11/2026 7:25 PM, Matt Kapko, 122K] reports pressure is mounting on Instructure, the company behind Canvas, as cybercriminals threaten to leak a trove of sensitive data they claim was stolen during a prolonged cyberattack on the widely used education tech platform. Widespread outages left schools, students and teachers temporarily unable to access critical data late last week after the company took Canvas offline following additional malicious activity, including a defacement of the platform’s login page. By Friday, the company said Canvas — a central hub for K-12 and university coursework, exams, grades and communication — was back online and fully operational. ShinyHunters, a decentralized crew of prolific cybercriminals affiliated with The Com, claimed responsibility for the attack on its data leak site and is attempting to extort the company for an unknown ransom amount. Instructure hasn’t confirmed the existence of a ransom demand and declined to answer questions about its response. The threat group initially set a deadline of May 6 — four days after Instructure previously said the incident was contained soon after it disclosed the attack — claiming it stole 3.65 terabytes of data spanning 275 million records across 8,809 school systems. When that deadline passed without payment, ShinyHunters escalated its pressure on the company by “injecting an extortion message directly into the Canvas login pages of roughly 330 institutions, and pivoted to school-by-school extortion with a current deadline of May 12,” Cynthia Kaiser, senior vice president of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Center, told CyberScoop. “The scope makes this one of the largest single education-sector exposures we’ve tracked,” she added.

New York Times [5/12/2026 1:23 AM, Qasim Nauman, 148038K] reports the maker of Canvas, the software used by thousands of schools and universities around the world, said on Monday that it had reached a deal with the hackers that recently breached its systems for the return of stolen data and the destruction of any copies. ShinyHunters, a hacking group, had claimed responsibility for the attack on Instructure, the Salt Lake City-based company that provides Canvas to about half of all colleges and universities in North America. The hackers said they had accessed the data of more than 275 million users at nearly 9,000 schools worldwide, including private conversations between students and teachers as well as personal identifying information such as names and email addresses. Canvas was shut down for hours after the cyberattack on Thursday. The agreement, Instructure said in a statement, involved the return of the stolen data and confirmation that the data had been destroyed at the hackers’ end. Instructure added that it had been informed that none of its customers would face extortion as a result of the theft. “While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cybercriminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible,” the company said. Instructure did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the return of the data. The company did not immediately respond to questions about the deal. Canvas has more than 30 million active users around the world, according to Instructure. The platform is used by teachers and students for coursework management and communications. Instructure said the data compromised in the hack included usernames, email addresses, course names, enrollment information and messages. ShinyHunters on Thursday claimed the attack in a message that appeared on students’ Canvas pages and was obtained by New York Times. The group warned that it would leak an unspecified amount of data on May 12 if it did not receive a response from Instructure. In its May 3 ransom note, the group had threatened to leak “several billions of private messages among students and teachers.” Not much is known about ShinyHunters, which is believed to have been formed around 2020. Its goal appears to be to obtain personal records and sell them. One of its high-profile attacks was against Ticketmaster in 2024, when the hackers said they had stolen the user information of more than 500 million customers. Instructure said it first detected unauthorized activity in Canvas on Apr. 29, and again on May 7. The company said it took Canvas offline to investigate the breach, and also informed the F.B.I., the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other international law enforcement partners. Instructure did not immediately respond to questions about whether any law enforcement agencies were involved in its dealings with the hackers. The F.B.I. advises against paying ransom to hackers, saying it does not guarantee data security and encourages attackers to target more victims.

FOX News [5/11/2026 3:23 PM, Eric Mack, 37576K] reports federal authorities charged more than 25 alleged members and associates of Tren de Aragua (TdA), seizing more than 80 firearms, roughly 18 kilograms of drugs and more than $100,000 in cash as part of a sweeping crackdown on the violent transnational gang. Now, more than 260 members and associates of TdA have been charged. The operation targeted alleged TdA activity tied to firearms trafficking, narcotics distribution and other violent criminal conduct, according to federal authorities. Investigators recovered fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, ketamine, MDMA and tusi, a pink powder often containing ketamine and/or MDMA. Charges have been filed across six U.S. Attorney’s offices, including the Districts of Colorado, Southern Florida, Northern Indiana, Middle Tennessee, Western Tennessee and Eastern Washington. The bust underscores the Trump administration’s push to dismantle foreign gang networks operating inside the United States, including TdA, which has drawn growing scrutiny from law enforcement over its alleged role in violent crime, drug trafficking and migrant-related criminal networks. The Washington Examiner [5/11/2026 5:13 PM, Claire Carter, 1147K] reports the Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against more than 25 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, saying the operation resulted in the seizure of more than 80 firearms and 40 pounds of narcotics across multiple states. Federal prosecutors said the defendants, many of whom they said are Venezuelan, Colombian, and Honduran nationals in the United States illegally, were charged as part of the Homeland Security Task Force investigations targeting the gang, which the Trump administration designated a foreign terrorist organization in January 2025. The cases were across six federal jurisdictions, including Colorado, southern Florida, northern Indiana, middle and western Tennessee, and eastern Washington. The charges vary by case but include firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug crimes, according to the DOJ. Prosecutors allege the defendants played roles in criminal networks tied to Tren de Aragua, which U.S. officials say has expanded operations into American cities in recent years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the operation reflects the administration’s broader effort to dismantle transnational criminal organizations operating in the U.S.

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Daily Caller [5/11/2026 12:00 PM, Hudson Crozier, 803K] reports President Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up global efforts to track and prevent leftist terrorism following the April attempt on his life in Washington, State Department officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The U.S. government now treats left-wing political violence as a global problem requiring a transnational response rather than isolated incidents, according to State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott and two other department officials. The gunman arrested at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in an alleged attempt to kill Trump reflects rising insurrectionist trends from the left that the West must take seriously, the administration believes "From the United States to Germany to Spain, left-wing terrorists have targeted democratically elected political leaders in an attempt to undermine the will of the people, destabilize societies, and intimidate members of the public," Pigott told the DCNF. "The State Department is actively tracking the rise in far-left political violence and is committed to identifying and disrupting terrorist networks that wage terror campaigns in service of a revolutionary political project." A State Department official familiar with the operations pointed to several recent incidents to establish the problem: masked attackers beating a German right-wing politician in 2019, an Italian anarchist group mailing a bomb to a defense contractor in 2022, a leftist anarchist caught preparing bombs to kill 50 people in the United Kingdom in 2023 and other cases. Most recently in Europe, French authorities charged alleged adherents of a leftist group with beating a right-wing activist to death in a February brawl.

CBS News [5/11/2026 11:47 PM, Matt Schooley, Louisa Moller, Kristina Rex, 51110K] reports a gunman who opened fire with what authorities said was an assault-style rifle on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts Monday afternoon was shot by a responding State Police trooper and a civilian. Two men in separate cars were shot and have life-threatening injuries. The suspect, 46-year-old Tyler Brown, is in custody and is being treated for gunshot wounds at a Boston hospital. It happened around 1:30 p.m. between River Street and Pleasant Street Extension. Videos from witnesses show the gunman walking down the middle of the street firing and waving a rifle. According to I-Team sources, a photo of Brown was included in an officer safety bulletin that went out Monday morning. At about 12:30, police officers attempted to do a well-being check at his home in Dorchester after his parole officer reported to police that he made a suicidal statement. Shortly after 1 p.m., Cambridge Police received a 911 call from Boston Police about Brown, who was believed to be in the area and in possession of a rifle. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said when officers responded to the area, "it was already an active shooter situation." Brown was walking down the middle of Memorial Drive, firing the rifle in "an erratic fashion at various vehicles along the road," Ryan said. Ryan said 50-60 rounds were fired and at least a dozen vehicles were struck by gunfire. Two men in separate vehicles were shot and are currently being treated for life-threatening injuries at Boston hospitals. As people were scattering from their cars, Ryan said a State Police trooper and a civilian, a former Marine who has a license to carry a firearm, went toward the suspect with their weapons. "Both the trooper and the civilian fired their weapons, and that suspect was struck multiple times in the extremities," Ryan said. Troopers provided first aid to Brown and the two victims who were struck before they were taken to the hospital. Ryan said the trooper’s cruiser was also struck by gunfire. "That does not begin to address the trauma experienced by everybody who was out there, those individuals on the river, walking, pushing baby carriages, riding by," Ryan said. "We know that that weapon had the capacity to have struck people on the other side of that river." A U.S. Postal Service truck was struck by gunfire. A bullet went through the front windshield and hit just inches from the driver’s headrest inside. A coworker of the driver told WBZ she was stopped at a red light when a bullet flew past her. She was not injured. Investigators do not believe there is any link between Brown and any of the people who were in the cars that were struck.

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CyberScoop [5/11/2026 1:30 PM, Staff, 122K] reports the family of a school shooting victim has filed a lawsuit against the OpenAI Foundation for negligence, alleging the nonprofit betrayed its mission to insert strong ethical and moral principles into its AI products and instead created a tool that was used to help plan the attack. Last year, Florida State University student Pheonix Ikner shot seven people on campus. Two died, including Tiru Chabba, a food service contractor for the university. Records of Ikner’s ChatGPT prompts obtained by law enforcement indicate he used the AI chatbot to validate or justify his thoughts of violence and taught him how to operate the weapons used to carry out the shooting. The lawsuit, filed by Chabba’s family and estate, alleges that OpenAI had ample evidence that prior to the attack, Ikner was lonely, expressing suicidal thoughts, and actively planning acts of violence on ChatGPT, but “either defectively failed to connect the dots or else it was never properly designed to recognize the threat.” Ikner also prompted the chatbot about other mass shootings, like the 1999 Columbine shooting, the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and a prior mass shooting at FSU in 2014. He also “frequently discussed his interest in [Adolf] Hitler, Nazis, fascism, national socialism, Christian nationalism” and other extremist topics. ABC News [5/11/2026 12:22 PM, Deena Zaru, 34146K] reports Chabba’s family attorney, Bakari Sellers, said these messages date back about 18 months ago and include 16,000 different "disturbing chats." "This is the same person who asked, you know, how can he become infamous? He asked about the Columbine shooting. He asked about what time should he go to campus? What time are most people going to be there?" Sellers said, describing the alleged messages that Ikner sent to ChatGPT. "He literally utilized open AI and Chat GPT as his co-conspirator, utilized it as a resource to carry out mass murder," Sellers added. "There was nothing in place to prevent that from happening and so lives were lost. That’s the inherent danger, there has to be something in place to prevent that from happening." The lawsuit comes after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced last month that the Office of Statewide Prosecution launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT after prosecutors reviewed the chat logs. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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HS Today [5/11/2026 6:30 AM, Staff, 38K] reports a Michigan man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison after having been convicted by a jury last year on two charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, commonly known as ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg, U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan of the FBI Detroit Field Office. Aws Mohammed Naser, 38, formerly of Westland, Michigan, was convicted last year following a five-week trial. The jury unanimously found that Naser twice attempted to provide material support to ISIS, in the form of personnel (including himself) and services, knowing that ISIS was a designated terrorist organization, and that ISIS engages in terrorism. In addition, Naser was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a destructive device. The jury deliberated approximately six hours before returning their verdict. “This self-professed ‘soldier of the Caliphate’ and ‘son of the Islamic State’ has now faced American justice. We welcomed this traitor into our Nation with open arms. And he repaid us by building a bomb and helping our great enemy,” said U.S. Attorney Gorgon. “Those who support terrorism or violent extremism against the United States should expect a lengthy prison sentence. Today’s outcome sends that message without question,” said Jennifer Runyan, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. “Threats against our homeland and endangering American lives are what the FBI works day in and day out to prevent. Thanks to the thorough investigative work of our FBI Detroit Joint Terrorism Task Force and partner agencies, this defendant was identified, disrupted, and brought to justice.”

AP [5/11/2026 4:15 PM, Staff] reports federal authorities on Monday arrested a teenager in Georgia who is accused of opening fire last month near a popular University of Iowa nightlife district, injuring five people. Iowa City officials announced in a news release that U.S. marshals captured Damarian M. Jones, 17, of Cedar Rapids, near Atlanta. He faces multiple charges, including five counts of attempted murder and five counts of assault. He was being held in the Clayton County Jail in Georgia pending a hearing on extradition to Iowa. The release did not explain how the marshals tracked Jones down, exactly where he was arrested or whether he resisted them. Police have said Jones was part of a large fight that broke out along a pedestrian mall lined with shops, bars and restaurants near the Iowa campus just before 2 a.m. on April 19. During a break in the fighting, he allegedly fired six shots toward the crowd and then fled. One person was shot in the head and another in the arm and chest. Two more people were hit in at least one leg and another person was struck in the stomach. The news release Monday said one victim remained hospitalized but did not specify which one or elaborate on that person’s condition.

CBS News [5/11/2026 1:57 PM, Stephen Smith, 51110K] reports that the leader of a group linked to a notorious cartel that operates near the U.S. border has been detained in Mexico, officials announced Monday. Authorities said they recovered weapons, drugs, cash and seven tigers during the arrest. José Antonio Cortes Huerta, 39, the leader of a cell affiliated with the Northeast Cartel, was arrested in Nuevo León, stemming from an investigation following the seizure of a boat in Tamaulipas, security minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said in a social media post. A woman, identified as 41-year-old Rosario Flores Alemán, was also detained. Authorities said they seized unidentified narcotics, cash, 10 guns, 11 vehicles, six motorcycles — and seven tigers. Some Mexican drug cartels are known to house exotic cats as symbols of power and, occasionally, to dispose of their enemies. According to a 2023 U.S. indictment, some victims of a Sinaloa cartel faction were "fed dead or alive to tigers." Officials said the seized items are linked to Roberto Blanco Cantu who is known as "El Señor de los Buques" ("The Lord of the Ships"), a majority shareholder of the company Mefra Fletes. Cantu is accused of smuggling fuel and is affiliated with the Northeast Cartel. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the cartel is involved in the trafficking of illegal drugs along the border, including fentanyl, crystal meth, heroin and cocaine, and has waged a "campaign of terror on the border."

Telemundo Washington DC [5/11/2026 9:00 PM, Staff, 120K] reports federal security forces arrested José Antonio Cortés Huerta on Monday in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. He is identified as the leader of a faction linked to the Northeast Cartel and is accused by authorities of fuel smuggling, reported the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch. Through his social media accounts, the official announced that a 41-year-old woman was also arrested in the operation, and ten firearms, doses of drugs, eleven vehicles, six motorcycles, computer equipment, and cash were seized. The agents also took custody of seven tigers belonging to the criminal leader. In a subsequent statement, the SSPC added that the arrested member of the Northeast Cartel (CDN) is 39 years old and was involved in the illicit sale of hydrocarbons from the United States. Therefore, the security forces carried out several searches at homes in several municipalities of Nuevo León: San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey and Allende. Federal sources informed EFE that the properties are linked to Roberto Blanco Cantú, alias "The Lord of the Ships", majority partner of a company linked to fuel smuggling and the CDN. "This operation is the result of investigative work stemming from the seizure of a vessel in Tamaulipas. Furthermore, José Antonio Cortés Huerta is identified as one of Roberto Blanco Cantú’s main associates. They are also linked to an ongoing investigation (...) for not possessing permits to keep wildlife," these sources added. There they located the man and woman in question, whom they arrested to be placed at the disposal of an agent of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). The operation involved personnel from the Navy, SSPC, the Ministry of National Defense, the National Guard, and the FGR. "With these actions, the institutions of the Security Cabinet reaffirm their commitment to work in a coordinated manner to weaken the operational and financial capabilities of criminal groups that affect the population," the authorities stressed. The Northeast Cartel is one of the Mexican criminal organizations that Washington designated as terrorist last year, following Donald Trump’s return to the presidency.

FOX News [5/11/2026 6:00 AM, Max Bacall, 37576K] reports Mexican Sen. Lilly Téllez accused President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government of protecting what she called "narco-politicians" after New York prosecutors unsealed indictments accusing 10 current and former Mexican officials of working with the Sinaloa Cartel to protect fentanyl trafficking operations. Téllez claimed Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend" that Sheinbaum is refusing to hand over indicted officials to the U.S. because she fears it could lead to the discovery of more alleged corruption. "She’s afraid that if she extradites… to the United States these narco-politicians, there will be — the Pandora’s box will be open, and many other narco-politicians will fall," she said. "I mean, this government is not acting, is not responding to the rule of law, but to the rule of the mafia.” The senator called Mexico a "mafiocracy," or a mafia state, and said the recently unsealed indictment out of the Southern District of New York was the "most important" accusation against a sitting Mexican government by the United States. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Terrance C. Cole, announced on April 29 the unsealing of an indictment charging Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya and nine others with drug trafficking and related weapons offenses.

New York Times [5/11/2026 11:30 PM, Carol Rosenberg, 148038K] reports the military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case on Monday reset the start of jury selection to Oct. 19, more than 26 years after the suicide bombing in a port in the Middle East killed 17 U.S. sailors and wounded dozens of others. Col. Matthew Fitzgerald, an Army judge, said that government agencies were unlikely to process classified evidence in time for what was to be a June 1 start date for the national security trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A Saudi citizen, Abd-al Rahim al-Nashiri is accused of orchestrating the attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer off Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000 as an acolyte of Osama bin Laden. The death penalty case has been shadowed by the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture on the defendant. Judges at the U.S. naval station in Cuba have set and then abandoned about 10 earlier trial start dates. Pretrial litigation has gone on so long, since Mr. Nashiri was charged in 2011, that three previous judges and all of the initial defense and prosecution lawyers retired from the case or left it for personal or professional reasons. Mr. Nashiri was captured in Dubai in October 2002. First, he spent about 1,390 days in the custody of the C.I.A., which subjected him to waterboarding, forced nudity, extreme isolation, rectal and other forms of abuse, primarily in secret prisons in Afghanistan and Thailand, according to agency and Senate reports. The Cole bombing, by two Al Qaeda recruits who blew themselves up on a small, explosives- laden skiff, was a precursor of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and Mr. Nashiri’s case is on track to become the first capital trial at Guantánamo Bay. A judge in each case has ruled against the use of a defendant’s confessions because they were contaminated by their years in the C.I.A.’s brutal detention and interrogation program — out of reach of the courts, defense lawyers and International Red Cross. The defendants were moved to Guantánamo in September 2006 and interrogated by federal agents to build cases against them without warnings against self-incrimination and the right to consult a lawyer. The Cole trial is expected to last at least six months, and would start on Oct. 19 with the military shuttling 50 U.S. officers at a time there from a pool of 350 men and women to establish a jury of 12 with six alternate members. Guantánamo is so small, a 45-square-mile base with about 4,500 residents and limited guest quarters, that it would be logistically difficult to bring the entire pool down. Last week, prosecutors in the Sept. 11 case asked a military judge to set deadlines for starting the four-man conspiracy trial in May 2027. Prosecutors had earlier proposed Jan. 11, 2027, but concluded it was not practical even before arguing for it to Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, their presiding judge. Colonel Schrama said Monday that he would look at setting a trial schedule after he rules on some key pretrial evidentiary motions, probably over the summer, involving Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is accused of being the mastermind of the plot, and two other defendants. Both cases have dragged on so long in part because no court case in U.S. history has dealt with the volume of classified information involved in this case, which is guarding secret government activities and surveillance that started with the war against terrorism.

New York Post [5/11/2026 3:01 PM, Josh Christenson, 40934K] reports Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades, as part of an effort to end potentially risky experiments with viruses pursuant to President Trump’s executive order on so-called "gain-of-function" research. Gabbard told The Post Monday in a statement that her team is going "to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain and what ‘research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and the world.” "The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have," the spy chief also said. "Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called health professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.” Under new guidance from Gabbard, the US Intelligence Community will review research at all US-funded biolabs, which would include facilities engaged in gain-of-function experiments that could increase the transmissibility of viruses, as well as work for defensive purposes against dangerous pathogens. Office of the Director of National Intelligence officials noted that the foreign labs extend into more than 30 countries, and several had received funding in the past through a Department of Defense program that sought to dispose of weapons of mass destruction after the end of the Cold War. More than 40 of the biolabs under review are located in Ukraine — and could "be at risk of compromise" due to Russia’s war, ODNI officials noted. The research, which is part of the Defense Department’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, is aimed at studying pathogens to prevent future outbreaks and enhancing biosecurity for the US. Critics have argued that lax oversight of the research funding, which often flows through US agencies to grantees and subawardees, prevents Americans from knowing whether potentially dangerous experiments are being conducted. Clinical trials currently being conducted at the biolabs are now "raising significant, ethical, financial and security concerns," ODNI officials said.

Bloomberg [5/11/2026 3:02 PM, Zoe Tillman, 18082K] reports the Trump administration asked the US trade court to pause a ruling that declared the president’s latest 10% global tariffs unlawful while the government appeals, meaning importers would keep paying the levies while the legal fight continues. In a 2-1 decision last week, a US Court of International Trade panel found that President Donald Trump’s use of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose the tariffs was invalid, although the court only immediately blocked enforcement for two companies that sued and Washington state. Despite the limited scope of the court’s order for now, the Justice Department argued in a Monday filing that thousands of importers paying the Section 122 tariffs were likely to flood the court with claims. Allowing the decision to take effect would “severely undermine” Trump’s trade agenda and siphon resources away from the “vast effort” underway to refund an earlier round of global tariffs struck down by the US Supreme Court, government lawyers wrote. The trade court rejected the administration’s stance that “balance-of-payments deficits” — a key criteria for imposing the Section 122 tariffs — was “a malleable phrase.” The government’s appeal of that decision is pending before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Justice Department said in Monday’s filing that if the trade court and the Federal Circuit refuse to pause the ruling, the administration is poised to make an emergency request to the Supreme Court. The justices earlier this year struck down Trump’s global tariffs under a different law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA. A refund process launched in April, but there’s uncertainty about whether all companies that paid the IEEPA tariffs will be able to get their money back.

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FOX News [5/11/2026 12:47 PM, Morgan Phillips, 37576K] reports that a senior U.S. intelligence official described a close-range encounter with fast-moving, "super-hot" unidentified objects that came within roughly 10 feet of a helicopter during an aerial search, according to newly released Pentagon UFO files. The account is detailed in an FBI Form 302 interview report, which documents interactions between federal agents and witnesses, and is part of a broader tranche of previously classified unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) records made public Friday as part of the Trump administration’s push to declassify government files on them. The objects were detected as "super-hot" on infrared systems and traveled roughly 20 miles at speeds the helicopter could not match, according to the report, before abruptly changing direction and accelerating away. The release has drawn significant attention, as it includes previously unseen reports involving military personnel, sensor data and firsthand accounts from government officials — though many of the incidents remain unexplained. The official was among multiple federal and state personnel involved in an aerial search after earlier sightings of unexplained lights, according to the report. The object was detected as "super-hot" on infrared systems, indicating it emitted a strong heat signature detectable by thermal imaging equipment. The report does not offer an explanation for the source of that heat, and was observed traveling roughly 20 miles at a speed too fast for the helicopter to match. The report does not identify the specific military facility or location of the encounter, and it is unclear from the document whether the helicopter involved was operated by U.S. military personnel or a partner agency. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for more details.

FOX News [5/11/2026 8:07 PM, Stepheny Price, 37576K] reports a California mayor who has since resigned has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China and has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors who say she secretly worked to push pro-Beijing messaging inside the United States before she took office. Eileen Wang, former mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China and has agreed to plead guilty to the felony offense, the Justice Department announced. She now faces up to 10 years in federal prison along with a potential $250,000 fine, though any sentence would be determined by a federal judge. Federal prosecutors say Wang admitted she acted "at the direction and control" of Chinese government officials from at least 2020 through 2022, coordinating with individuals in the U.S. to spread pro-Beijing messaging, all without notifying the U.S. Attorney General as required by law. The conduct described by prosecutors occurred before Wang took office on the Arcadia City Council in December 2022. "Individuals elected to public office in the United States should act only for the people of the United States that they represent," Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said. "It is deeply concerning that someone who previously received and executed directives from PRC government officials is now in a position of public trust at all.” According to court documents, Wang worked alongside Yaoning "Mike" Sun, a convicted Chinese agent already serving a four-year federal prison sentence, to operate a website posing as a local Chinese American news outlet. Prosecutors described the website as a propaganda arm for the Chinese Communist Party, saying it published content supplied directly by Chinese officials. Bottom of Form. In one exchange, a Chinese government official sent Wang a pre-written article denying allegations of forced labor and genocide in Xinjiang. Minutes later, Wang posted it online and sent back the link. The official replied, "So fast, thank you everyone.” In another instance, after making edits at Beijing’s request and touting more than 15,000 views, Wang responded, "Thank you leader.” Prosecutors also say Wang communicated with convicted PRC operative John Chen, a figure tied to China’s intelligence apparatus with connections to Chinese President Xi Jinping, asking him to distribute messaging and writing, "This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send.” "Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said. "This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China’s efforts to corrupt our institutions." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [5/11/2026 2:51 PM, Molly Quell and Regina Garcia Cano, 35287K] reports that Venezuela ‘s acting President Delcy Rodríguez told journalists Monday that her country had no plans to become the 51st U.S. state after President Donald Trump said he was "seriously considering" the move. Rodríguez was speaking at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the final day of hearings in a dispute between her country and neighboring Guyana over the massive mineral- and oil-rich Essequibo region. "We will continue to defend our integrity, our sovereignty, our independence, our history," said Rodríguez, who assumed power in January following a U.S. military operation that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela is "not a colony, but a free country," she added. Speaking to Fox News earlier on Monday, Trump said he was "seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st US state," according to a post by Fox News’ co-anchor John Roberts on social media. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. Trump has made similar comments about Canada. Rodríguez went on to say that Venezuelan and U.S. officials have been in touch and are working on "cooperation and understanding.” Before addressing Trump’s comments, Rodríguez defended her country’s claim to Essequibo at the United Nations’ highest court, telling judges that political negotiations — not a judicial ruling — will resolve the century-old territorial dispute.

Wall Street Journal [5/11/2026 5:39 PM, Sadie Gurman, Josh Dawsey, and Aruna Viswanatha, 646K] reports President Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter, prompting an aggressive push at the Justice Department to pursue those investigations. Blanche vowed to secure subpoenas specifically targeting the records of reporters who have worked on sensitive national security stories, one official said. In one meeting, Trump passed a stack of news articles he and other senior officials thought threatened national security to Blanche with a sticky note on it that said “treason,” another administration official said. Senior Justice Department officials have met with counterparts from the Pentagon to discuss the investigations, according to officials familiar with the meetings. In particular, Trump has focused his ire on articles that provided details on how he arrived at his decision to launch the war, and what his advisers had told him as he deliberated, officials said. Launched 10 weeks ago, the conflict is now stuck in a shaky cease-fire. “In all circumstances, the Department of Justice follows the facts and applies the law to identify those committing crimes against the United States,” a department spokeswoman said. A White House official referred a request for comment to the Justice Department. Trump’s recent push to pursue the leak investigations comes as the Justice Department had already stepped up investigations into sensitive reporting about the lead up to the Iran war. The Wall Street Journal received grand jury subpoenas dated March 4 for records of Journal reporters.

Axios [5/11/2026 12:41 PM, Barak Ravid, 17364K] reports that President Trump is meeting with his national security team Monday to discuss the way forward in the Iran war, including possibly resuming military action, after negotiations with the country deadlocked Sunday, three U.S. officials said. Why it matters: U.S. officials say Trump wants a deal to end the war, but Iran’s rejection of many of his demands and refusal to make meaningful concessions on its nuclear program puts the military option back on the table. Trump publicly threatened several times in recent days to bomb infrastructure in Iran if diplomacy failed. Driving the news: The U.S. waited 10 days for Iran’s response to its draft proposal for ending the war. The White House was optimistic that Iran’s positions would show further progress toward a deal. But the Iranian response that arrived on Sunday was not positive. Iran’s state TV reported that Tehran has rejected the U.S. proposal, which it said "meant Iran’s surrender to Trump’s excessive demands." Trump rejected Iran’s response on Sunday. "I don’t like it. It is inappropriate," he told Axios. Behind the scenes: Vice President JD Vance, White House envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and other senior officials are expected to participate in the Iran meeting on Monday, U.S. officials say.

NewsMax [5/11/2026 5:54 PM, David Shepardson, 3760K] reports two House members from Michigan will introduce legislation Monday to toughen the government’s ban on Chinese automakers from entering the U.S. market just before President Donald Trump heads to China for talks. The legislation would codify a regulation imposed by the Biden administration that effectively bans ​all Chinese automakers from selling motor vehicles in the U.S. and take other steps to prevent China from entering the ⁠U.S. light-duty market. Reps. John Moolenaar, a Republican, and Debbie Dingell, a Democrat, ​are introducing the bill after a version was introduced in the Senate ⁠last month by Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. The legislation would ban vehicles designed in China that contain advanced connectivity technology or vehicle software. The Biden administration imposed sweeping regulations that effectively ban Chinese automakers from ​selling motor vehicles in the United States in January 2025, citing national security concerns linked to the ability of vehicles to collect sensitive data on American owners. In March, auto trade groups representing nearly all major car companies — including the Detroit Three, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and ⁠Toyota, parts manufacturers, auto dealers, and others urged the U.S. ⁠government to keep out Chinese carmakers, citing "serious concerns about China’s ongoing efforts to dominate global ⁠automotive manufacturing ⁠and to gain access to the U.S. market.” They added China poses "a direct threat to America’s global competitiveness, national security, and automotive industrial base.”

Washington Examiner [5/11/2026 6:32 PM, Rena Rowe, 1147K] reports President Donald Trump will travel to China for a crucial summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week and is bringing a slew of top business leaders with him. The summit will begin May 14, and the two leaders are expected to discuss the Iran war, Taiwan, and trade, among other topics. The meeting was originally scheduled for April but was delayed after the Iran war broke out. Joining the U.S. delegation to Beijing are some of the top CEOs in finance and technology, such as Tim Cook of Apple and Elon Musk of Tesla. The delegation comes as the world’s largest economies balance business and national security interests.The CEOs on the delegation are as follows: Cook, Musk, Larry Fink of BlackRock, Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, Brian Sikes of Cargill, Jane Fraser of Citi, Jim Anderson of Coherent, Larry Culp of GE Aerospace, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, Jacob Thaysen of Illumina, Michael Miebach of Mastercard, Dina Powell McCormick of Meta, Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm, and Ryan McInerney of Visa. In recent weeks, Musk and his companies have faced controversies, including dozens of lawsuits against his artificial intelligence company and criminal investigations.

NewsMax [5/11/2026 1:31 PM, Charlie McCarthy, 3760K] reports that President Donald Trump travels this week to China, where President Xi Jinping reportedly has prioritized his country’s security over its economy. The two presidents will talk Thursday and Friday. Xi’s decade-long strategy of emphasizing military strength, industrial self-sufficiency, and state control has transformed China into a more formidable geopolitical rival — at the cost of slowing economic growth, rising debt, and mounting hardship for ordinary Chinese citizens, The Wall Street Journal reported. The tension between economic weakness and Beijing’s global ambitions is expected to loom large as Trump meets Xi in Beijing amid trade disputes, the Taiwan question, and instability tied to the Iran war. Under Xi, China has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into strategic sectors such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, robotics, electric vehicles, and military expansion while delaying broader market reforms that economists say could improve consumer confidence and job growth. Xi has made China’s security a priority over its economy, according to the Journal, describing a government increasingly focused on "national rejuvenation" through military power and industrial dominance. The results have been mixed. China’s military spending has more than doubled during Xi’s rule, according to government data, while Beijing has rapidly expanded its nuclear arsenal and aircraft carrier fleet. Meanwhile, local governments have slashed education and social spending even as youth unemployment and economic anxiety worsen.

Breitbart [5/11/2026 1:16 PM, Frances Martel, 2238K] reports that the Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that Beijing expects President Donald Trump to visit from May 13 to 15, spending much of that time in personal exchanges with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party rarely confirms visits by foreign leaders in advance, choosing to wait as late as possible to confirm their visits or, in some cases, their arrivals in real time. President Trump had initially scheduled his visit to China for April, however, and pushed it forward a month as Operation Epic Fury, initially described as a short-term operation to limit the Iranian government’s ability to engage in international terrorism, extended for weeks with no surrender from Tehran. The Iran war is expected to be a major topic of conversation in China, as Xi Jinping is one of the Iranian regime’s closest allies. China is the world’s most prolific buyer of Iranian oil and has been accused of sharing military technology with Tehran. Iran is also a member of BRICS, an anti-American security and economic coalition largely believed to be led by China. BRICS has essentially become irrelevant to geopolitics, however, as Iran responded to Operation Epic Fury in part by bombing a fellow BRICS member country, the United Arab Emirates. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters on Monday that China considered engagement at a personal level between Xi and Trump "irreplaceable" in the management of the bilateral relationship.

AP [5/11/2026 8:46 PM, Staff, 35287K] reports that, as President Trump prepares to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14-15, the Alliance for Global Security (AGS) is in Taiwan leading a multinational delegation of leaders from North America and Europe on its third annual Democratic Resilience Study Visit. The visit is being conducted in collaboration with the Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation and with support from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. The delegation includes participants from the United States, Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom with U.S. representation from Florida, Texas, Colorado, and North Dakota. The timing is coincidental but instructive. The security challenges Taiwan navigates every day, including cyber disruption, foreign interference, economic coercion, and threats to democratic institutions, are the same challenges that will shape the agenda when Trump and Xi sit down. State and local leaders across the United States and Europe rarely have a seat at that table. The visit focuses on Taiwan’s experience in democratic resilience, civil preparedness, critical infrastructure protection, and whole-of-society security. Participants are funding the majority of their own travel and program costs, reflecting a shared personal commitment to the mission. Taiwan is widely recognized as a frontline democracy confronting cyber threats, foreign interference, economic coercion, and information manipulation. Its experience offers practical lessons for leaders across the United States and Europe as global security challenges increasingly impact local communities. "Taiwan is a living case study in democratic resilience," said Joshua M. Burgin, Founder and President of the Alliance for Global Security. "For leaders from North America and Europe, this visit provides direct exposure to how democratic institutions prepare for sustained pressure and uncertainty. The issues on the table when Trump meets Xi are not abstract. They show up in our supply chains, our cyber infrastructure, and our local economies.” During the visit, AGS participants are meeting with Taiwanese policy experts, civil society leaders, security specialists, and public officials. The program examines how Taiwan prepares for pressure below the threshold of open conflict, including cyber disruption, foreign interference, supply chain vulnerabilities, civil preparedness, and threats to democratic institutions. The Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation is facilitating key elements of the program, connecting the delegation with expert voices and institutional partners across Taiwan. The Taiwan study visit is part of AGS’s broader effort to connect leaders across democratic countries and strengthen practical cooperation among officials, experts, and civil society partners. AGS organizes study visits, strategic briefings, and international convenings focused on global security threats affecting state and local communities. "Security is no longer confined to national capitals," Burgin said. "Cyberattacks, infrastructure disruption, foreign interference, and economic pressure are increasingly felt at the state and local level. The conversations happening at the highest levels of government this week have direct consequences for communities across America and Europe. AGS exists to help leaders understand those connections and build relationships before they are tested.”

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