Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show  —  The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief …

Congress Jets Off as D.H.S. Shuts Down  —  Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.  —  When a disruptive government shutdown nears, the Capitol is usually occupied …

Don Lemon pleads not guilty on St. Paul federal church protest charges  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Several people charged in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church whose pastor served as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official are set to be arraigned Friday afternoon in a Minneapolis federal courtroom.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers  —  Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the Trump administration's controversial and costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.

White House, RFK Jr. shake up health leadership after controversies  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health department is undergoing a major leadership overhaul.  —  The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department's leadership team ahead of the midterms …

Feds investigating whether 2 ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis  —  Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis last month.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts  —  The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT.  Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The struggle that killed Alex Pretti began with a shove.  It ended with gunshots.  —  In the final moments before he was shot and killed by federal authorities in Minneapolis …

Dems tell DOJ to “immediately cease” Epstein files “spying”  —  A trio of top House Democrats wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding that the Department of Justice “immediately cease” cataloguing members' searches of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention  —  A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

US judge orders Trump administration to facilitate deported college student's return  —  A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Honduran college student who was deported in violation of a court order, a step the government had previously refused to take.

Consumer prices rose 2.4% annually in January, less than expected … The cost of goods and services rose at a slower annual rate than expected in January, providing hope that the nagging U.S. inflation problem could be starting to ease.  —  The consumer price index for January accelerated 2.4% …

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses  —  In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.  —  Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people …

Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections  —  America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it  —  Donald Trump and his administration are waging an unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on this year's midterm congressional elections.

The Battles Inside Kristi Noem's DHS: Five Takeaways From the Journal's Investigation  —  Criticism of the Homeland Security secretary's tactics exploded during the Minnesota immigration enforcement surge  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has for months been the headline-grabbing …

What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI's Seizure of Election Records in Georgia  —  The Missouri prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, has taken part in meetings since last fall with lawyers tasked by President Donald Trump to reinvestigate his loss to Joe Biden.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash  —  Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial law-enforcement technology company.

President Trump pardons Hall of Famer Joe Klecko and four other former NFL players  —  Share full article  —  President Donald Trump pardoned former NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon on Thursday, according to White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson.

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE  —  The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.  —  Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information …

Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich  —  US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’  —  US secretary of state Marco Rubio has skipped a meeting with European leaders on the war in Ukraine, in a move seen …

Former Penn President Liz Magill, Who Resigned in Disgrace After Disastrous Anti-Semitism Testimony, Named Dean of Georgetown Law  —  Liz Magill, the former University of Pennsylvania president who resigned in disgrace after arguing that calls for the genocide of Jews could be permissible under campus rules …

Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth's crackdown on ‘biased’ schools  —  Pete Hegseth Federal agencies US military Student life  —  Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance …

Justice Department Sues Harvard for Admissions Records  —  The Trump administration appears to have renewed its pressure campaign against Harvard since President Trump backtracked this month on a possible settlement with the Ivy League school.  —  The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday …

Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say  —  Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn't let go.  —  He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned …