‘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?

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, ‘no discipline’ on record … “TJ, we got your back,” United Auto Workers Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a Washington, D.C., speech Monday morning.  She was referencing TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old UAW Local 600 line worker at the factory who called Trump a “pedophile protector.”

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

Immigration Raids in South Texas Are Starting to Hit the Economy  —  Trade groups are raising alarms about aggressive immigration enforcement hurting businesses in the region  —  WESLACO, Texas—At Monte Cielo, a new housing development in this growing region of South Texas, half-built homes are sitting empty.

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.

Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls to resign after he appeared in a recent batch of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …