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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

The Don Lemon indictment: Video appears to contradict key claims  —  The former CNN anchor, now an independent journalist, faces criminal charges after covering a protest at a church in St. Paul last month  —  Video footage appears to contradict key aspects of a federal indictment's descriptions …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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% …

‘I Just Want to Get Out of Here’: ICE Is Detaining Hundreds of Children … A 7-year-old in Oregon was seeking treatment for a nosebleed last month when immigration agents detained her and her parents outside a hospital emergency room.  They were taken to a federal detention center in Texas for three weeks.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

The MAGA Bubble Is Imploding  —  Americans aren't buying Trumpist gaslighting about the economy … Attorney General Pam Bondi's meltdown on Wednesday while being questioned the House Judiciary Committee was exceptional, even by this administration's rock-bottom standards.

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 …

“Not Ready for Prime Time.”  A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.  —  When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county's voter roll as potential noncitizens, she was taken aback.

Nanos pushes back on claims of withholding evidence in Guthrie case  —  TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is pushing back on claims that he is withholding crucial evidence from the FBI in the Nancy Guthrie case.  —  Nanos denies the allegations, describing the report as “not even close to the truth.”

South Carolin's Mark Sanford eyes a comeback  —  Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is considering three paths to political redemption — a run for his old House seat, a campaign for the governor's mansion he once occupied or a primary bid against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Stephen A. Smith Tells CBS News He Is Not Ruling Out 2028 Presidential Run: “I'd Love To Be On The Debate Stages Against Some Of These Individuals” … I have no desire to run for office."  —  But Smith said he was “not ruling it out because I'd love to be on the debate stages …