‘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.

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 …

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.) …

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.

Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims  —  Dozens of asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in immigration courts were suddenly rescheduled and recategorized over the weekend, according to four lawyers interviewed by NPR.  —  NPR has learned that lawyers across …

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?

Live updates: Ghislaine Maxwell avoids answering questions in House deposition  —  Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.

Trump has a plan to steal the midterms.  It will probably fail.  —  The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable. … Ever since the United States entrusted its presidency to a would-be insurrectionist in January 2025, many Americans have feared for the integrity of their nation's future elections.

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 …

Trump Watched Bad Bunny Halftime Show at His Own Super Bowl Party  —  It appears that President Trump didn't even bother to tune into Turning Point USA's alternative, anti-immigrant “All-American Halftime Show.”  —  Footage taken from inside Trump's Super Bowl party at his Mar-a-Lago golf club showed …

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 …

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.”

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 …

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.

New York GOP's midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump … That race and several other New York swing districts will be crucial in determining control of the House and the fate of Trump's final two years in the White House.  —  New York Republicans' misery is fueling Democratic elation.

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April  —  Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

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.

Chloe Kim, Eileen Gu speak out after President Trump calls Olympian ‘a loser’  —  Share full article  —  LIVIGNO, Italy — A day after President Donald Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess “a real loser” over the freestyle skier's comments about representing the United States …

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 …

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 …

Andrew Farkas Called Jeffrey Epstein ‘Blessing’ as the Two Did Deals  —  Andrew Farkas has repeatedly played down ties to Jeffrey Epstein.  But they swapped business favors in the Virgin Islands, and in nearly 2,000 emails, the two expressed admiration for each other.