‘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 …

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 …

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.

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.) …

ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds  —  DIABOLICAL  —  The 38-year-old hasn't had his kidney transplant medication since he was detained on Thursday.  —  A kidney transplant recipient in Minnesota who was arrested by ICE has been denied access to life-saving medication …

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 …

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?

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 …

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.

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.

As Trump presidency enters second year, his voters share hopes - and concerns  —  Trump voters urge him to tone down the rhetoric and focus more on domestic issues, especially clearer pathways to legal status for law-abiding immigrants, healthcare reform, curbing waste and fraud, and lowering US debt.

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 …

Raskin said unredacted Epstein files indicate DOJ improperly shielded names  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said after reviewing the unredacted Epstein files that the Justice Department (DOJ) appears to have flouted the law when concealing various names in documents.

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 …

Utah GOP push to repeal anti-gerrymander law falters amid fraud allegations tied to firm backed by Trump Jr.  —  A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures.

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.

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 …

Confirmed: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into a False Story, Then Rewarded Her  —  Back in August, I argued that Todd Blanche's interview of Ghislaine Maxwell was not intended to elicit useful information.  —  Rather, it was an effort to lock in transparently false testimony …

RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say  —  Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy's testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak  —  Three members of Congress say US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lied during …

Legality of Trump's $400M in private funding for White House ballroom at issue  —  A federal judge weighing whether the project may proceed has focused on whether the administration can use private donations to bypass congressional approval.  —  A federal judge is expected to soon rule …

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 …

Trump's ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer probing 2020 election fraud has access to sensitive US intel … “Every time he hits a roadblock, he just calls POTUS,” said the first person familiar with Olsen's work.  —  The decision to provide some of the government's most sensitive spy material to Olsen is unusual …

More Argentina beef imports won't do much to ease costs for consumers, according to experts  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  President Trump's move to boost U.S. imports of beef from Argentina to help ease costs for consumers may have less impact than the White House is hoping for, experts said.

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.

Justice Department moves to dismiss Steve Bannon's criminal case  —  Bannon, a close Trump adviser, was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House January 6 committee.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

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 …

MAHA Group Pledges $1 Million to Help Defeat Senator Cassidy in Louisiana Primary  —  Tony Lyons, a co-founder of the group MAHA PAC, said his group would support the congresswoman who has been endorsed by President Trump.  —  A leader of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s …

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.