‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September  —  Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record  —  An Irishman living in the United States for more than 20 years has been held by US Immigration …

Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump  —  Libertarians can be annoying, with our constant bellyaching about privacy and taxes, our obsession with the First Amendment and our fearmongering about jackbooted thugs.  —  But in light of how the past year has unfolded, consider cutting your friendly neighborhood libertarian some slack.

They've Always Known He is A Racist...  Why did it take Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) until Friday, after Trump had posted a video portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a hard-bitten racist?

Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis  —  Illegal immigration and government overreach are colliding in Minneapolis, fundamentally changing Trump voters' views of the president.  —  Produced by Caitlin O'Keefe  —  Pat McCusker and Elisheba Ittoop  —  The question of what to do about …

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump's Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho  —  Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity.  Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.  —  People in Wilder, Idaho, didn't give much thought …

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts  —  Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products.  While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.

Trump leaves Republicans guessing on midterms plans as outlook darkens  —  The president is said to be eager to increase his involvement, but on some days sounds detached and noncommittal.  —  Republicans looking to the White House to lead in the face of the party's dimming prospects …

Oversight chair says Maxwell invoked 5th Amendment, refused to answer questions in Epstein investigation  —  House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters just before 10:30 a.m. ET that Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell invoked her 5th Amendment rights and refused …

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House …

The Children of Dilley  —  Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, with her mother for some 45 days when I managed to get inside to meet her.  The staff brought everyone in the visiting room a boxed lunch from the cafeteria …

1 big thing: Trump's crypto revolt … - Why it matters: Crypto joins a growing number of segments of the Trump coalition — from Epstein-focused populists to farmers to Latino men — now questioning whether his return to power has delivered as promised.  —  🔎 Zoom in: The hyper-online …

Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial  —  Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing's transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub.

Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment  —  What JD Vance and his entourage in Milan teach us about Epstein's magnetism  —  Charts and numbers are my comfort zone, and even my political writing is usually analytical in style.  But today I'll take a break and write something looser and more self-indulgent …

Border czar warned immigration operations should be targeted to ‘keep the faith of the American people’  —  In an exclusive interview for an upcoming book, Tom Homan warned that public support for aggressive immigration tactics could falter.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten  —  The Supreme Court's February 2016 rulings blocking President Obama's Clean Power Plan were unprecedented at the time; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a deep paradigm shift in the Court's role.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” …

Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis  —  The decline of Keynesian economic theory in the 1970s marked a tipping point in the evolution of capitalism in the United States.  Beginning with the Great Depression, Keynesian economic policy facilitated the expansion …

February 8, 2026  —  On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday.  The senator waved a piece of paper and later recalled telling the audience …

Jasmine Crockett Is Not Running a Traditional Campaign.  It's Making Allies Anxious.  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett's post-Senate campaign announcement fundraising surge never materialized.  She has been outspent nearly 19-to-1 on political ads this year and hadn't run a single broadcast ad as of early February.

How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants  —  During a December 2 cabinet meeting, President Trump unleashed a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants.  “We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Trump said.

Why Washington's all-in on smart rings … It's paying off.  The Defense Department, Oura's largest customer, now provides rings to certain soldiers and civil servants as an employee benefit. … Besides buying the rings, lawmakers have gone to bat to protect Oura from Chinese and Indian competitors.

UK's Starmer fights for survival as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a crisis  —  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just 19 months in office.

A Federal Worker Developed A Brain Tumor.  Then Trump's Budget Director Cut Her Disability Plan.  —  Russell Vought is seizing every opportunity he can to dismantle a crucial watchdog agency.  —  When Helen Shaw found out in December that she needed to have a brain tumor removed …

Texas Primaries 2026  —  All eyes are on the Lone Star State's primary election slates in 2026.  With a potentially competitive U.S. Senate race in the General Election in November, who will win the Republican and Democratic party nominations in the March primary elections?

Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group … - Former Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, ex-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will serve as president.  — The group describes itself as a “hub for center-left policy and advocacy.”

Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm at Super Bowl Halftime  —  'We're still here,' Puerto Rican superstar says in Spanish while spiking a football  —  Bad Bunny delivered a pointed message in Spanish to millions of Americans watching the Super Bowl on Sunday night: “We're still here.”