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

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.

Republicans worry shutdown will overshadow Trump's State of the Union … “It doesn't exactly scream ‘a functioning GOP trifecta,’” said one House Republican granted anonymity to speak candidly.  —  Asked whether postponing the address was under discussion, a senior White House official said Friday, “Not as of yet.”

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

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 …

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.

Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations  —  The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far …

Judge Orders U.S. to Facilitate Return of College Student Who Was Deported in Error  —  A federal prosecutor said last month that ICE had made a “mistake” in deporting Any Lucia López Belloza, a college freshman in Massachusetts, to Honduras.  —  A federal judge on Friday ordered …

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 …

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

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 …

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.

'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

Casey Wasserman Is Putting His Talent Agency Up for Sale After Epstein Fallout  —  Wasserman has said he ‘never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein’ and told staff he felt that he had ‘become a distraction’ to the firm's work  —  Casey Wasserman is putting …

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 …

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 …

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Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Coons, Murphy, Kaine, Booker, Van Hollen, Duckworth and Rosen Publish Major New Report on True Cost of Trump Administration's Third Country Deportation Deals  —  WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …

New images of White House ballroom show clearest look yet at Trump project  —  The planned 90,000-square-foot project would represent the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades and is advancing even as it is challenged in court and questioned on Capitol Hill.

Four men in unredacted files named by Ro Khanna have no ties to Epstein  —  Men appeared in photo lineup assembled in New York and had no apparent connection to late sex offender  —  Ro Khanna, a California Democratic representative, read a list of six names on the House floor earlier …

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 …