‘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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.) …

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 …

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …