Rubio's speech to European allies takes softer tone but sticks to Trump's firm stance  —  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a reassuring message to America's allies on Saturday, striking a less aggressive but still firm tone about the administration's intent to reshape …

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally.  It hasn't stopped.  —  Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump's administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

3 detained as SWAT team searches property in Nancy Guthrie investigation  —  Thank you for signing up!  —  Missing Newsletter  —  Submit  —  (NewsNation) — A SWAT team from the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department swarmed a Tucson area house Friday evening as part of the ongoing search …

Homeland Security Department shuts down as Democrats and Trump negotiate changes  —  The White House and Senate Democrats have been trading offers on changes to DHS and ICE after two Americans were killed in Minneapolis.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Casey Wasserman to sell his agency amid Epstein controversy  —  Casey Wasserman, the veteran Hollywood talent agent who also chairs the LA28 Olympic committee, is selling his agency amid a growing controversy over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say  —  Protesters in Minneapolis and St. Paul said in sworn statements that they were singled out by agents who demonstrated that they knew where they lived.  —  On a subzero Tuesday last month, Daniel Woo …

The future of Nebraska's ‘blue dot’ electoral vote becomes an issue in one key midterm race  —  Democrats are vying to flip their party's top House target, a Nebraska district where Kamala Harris won an electoral vote in 2024.  State Republicans want to change the law.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death  —  Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death.  —  The UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands are confident that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin.

Why Did I Trust Jeff Bezos?  —  In June 2017, in one of those strange turns of life, I found myself at a dinner in a palazzo in Turin, Italy, sitting next to Jeff Bezos.  We had both been invited to speak at a conference convened by an Italian billionaire to discuss the future of newspapers …

Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg  —  Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.  —  FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Donald Trump's rally on Friday followed a familiar plan: He entered to Lee Greenwood's …

Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis  —  Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take down” …

New U.S. Boat Strike Kills 3 in the Caribbean  —  The attacks since early November had specifically targeted suspected drug smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean.  —  A U.S. military strike killed three people and blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, the U.S. Southern Command said …

Trump is clowning his evangelical base  —  This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one👇  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Donald Trump's approval rating hit a new low this month, but there's one group that still staunchly stands by him.

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 …

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.

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files  —  The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE

Bondi's Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein's Victims  —  The hearing in the House Judiciary Committee room this week offered a grim tableau of the state of American justice.  Sitting in the gallery were victims of Jeffrey Epstein, women who have waited decades for clarity and accountability.

‘The court can conceive of no circumstance’: Judge bars ‘warrantless’ immigration enforcement raids at churches to protect ‘religious freedom’  —  The Trump administration has been barred from carrying out “warrantless” immigration enforcement operations in or “within 100 feet of the entrance” to various churches across the country.

Trump Lashes Out as Epstein Files Fallout Grows and the Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down  —  Good morning, everyone.  Happy Saturday.  It is already a whirlwind.  Trump is lashing out at Republican allies in the Senate, the fallout from the Epstein files is intensifying …

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci - but what did he actually say?  —  Line handily sums up people's bewilderment at state of world, but it isn't quite what the Marxist thinker wrote  —  At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away …

Fragmenting Latino vote now a wildcard in elections  —  Latino voters aren't realigning — they're fragmenting.  — Consultants and pollsters tell Axios that after moving toward Donald Trump in 2024, the nation's fastest-growing electorate is splintering into competing political identities …

Kamala Harris Sold Her Email List to D.N.C., Then Paid Off Old 2024 Debts  —  The national party, which is nearly $100 million behind its G.O.P. counterpart, bought the list for $6.5 million.  —  The Democratic National Committee, which began 2026 in debt and nearly $100 million behind …

Judge Boasberg's Most Recent Decision  —  The plaintiffs in J.G.G. v. Trump are non-U.S. citizen Venezuelan nationals who were denied due process before the Trump administration deported them under the Alien Enemies Act in March 2025.  There is also a class of similarly situated individuals.

Trump vows voter ID requirements for the midterms, ‘whether approved by Congress or not’  —  In social media posts on Friday, the president said that if Congress failed to approve legislation mandating voter ID, he would issue an executive order.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation … - Max Kozlov  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  Staff members at the United States's premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and …