In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) reportedly urged Trump to attack Iran. The lobbying campaign achieved success on Saturday, when Trump announced he had begun “major combat operations in Iran.”

“[ICE] is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push and is laying out a process to deal with allegations of past misconduct among recruits, the agency said in an internal email on Monday, underscoring concerns about ICE’s rapid expansion.”

“A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service violated federal law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.”

“Staff at a for-profit Pennsylvania immigrant prison serially falsified detention records about a man who died in 2023, according to a federal death review obtained exclusively by The Intercept earlier this month.”

“Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Donald Trump and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people… Now, three officials from federal law enforcement agencies… say the entire story was fabricated.”

“We did not protect President Trump.” That is what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on January 30, after what he described as the final release of the DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein. It turns out that was not true.

“He was moved to Arizona on Jan. 23, before a federal judge ordered that ICE could not deport witnesses. He was deported to southern Mexico on Jan. 26, the day before the wrongful death case for Lunas Campos began.”

“Leaked documents reveal that Meta… has blocked its AI chatbot from discussing topics including abortion with minors—a blanket policy that contrasts sharply with the firm’s handling of child sexual exploitation claims, and that may also inadvertently affect its content for adults.”

“A former instructor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday accused the agency of dramatically slashing training standards for new officers and lying to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand its mass deportation operation.”

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included thousands of mentions of prominent billionaires.

Jared Kushner represented the United States in meetings with Iranian officials in Geneva, Switzerland— a last-ditch effort to avoid war. Kushner, however, has serious financial conflicts that could make reaching a deal more difficult.

“A North Idaho state legislator is bringing back a request for the nation’s high court to overturn its 2015 landmark decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide.”

“Agents working for the Department of Homeland Security used facial recognition and license plate readers to surveil and threaten legal observers watching officers in Maine, activists said in a lawsuit filed Monday.”

“There have been nearly 1,000 confirmed measles cases in the US in 2026 so far, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than four times the amount of cases as this time last year.”

On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Trump said that he was imposing a new global tariff, citing Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. Several outlets falsely reported that Trump has the authority to impose temporary tariffs of up to 15% in response to trade deficits.

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to shrink its network of more than 200 detention facilities to just 34 government-owned sites, according to local officials briefed this week on the plan, a move that would affect longtime private prison giants like GEO Group and CoreCivic Inc.”

“Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge is on the wane in Minnesota, though crowdsourced data about the frequency and locations where ICE agents have been spotted show they’re far from totally gone.”

In a document quietly filed on Friday night, MAGA Inc., the primary Super PAC supporting Trump, revealed that it received a $5 million donation from Crypto.com on January 23. The donation was made in the name of Crypto.com’s parent company, Foris Dax, Inc.

“Dozens of abortion clinics closed in the US after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision revoked the federal right to an abortion in June 2022 — mostly in states that enacted bans. But the churn has continued, leaving even states with some of the most protective abortion policies to do more with less.”

“The Department of Homeland Security’s chief investigations arm this week launched a broader nationwide campaign to investigate and prosecute naturalized citizens who may have improperly voted in past elections before they became citizens, according to documents reviewed by MS NOW.”

"Its seven members unanimously dropped renewable energy as a priority, ended diversity programs, and granted two of the agency’s four remaining coal plants a reprieve. The decision followed the seating of four members selected by President Trump.”

Trump Media and Technology Group has an unrivaled free source of publicity. Trump posts extensively on the Truth Social platform. He is essentially leveraging the full weight of the presidency to drive awareness of TMTG’s offerings. Yet, by all objective metrics, TMTG is failing.

“Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed into law Tuesday emergency legislation that bans local law enforcement agencies from formally facilitating federal immigration arrests, taking a defiant step against the Trump administration as it weighs where to bring its immigration crackdown next.”

“The warning on the government website was stark. Some products and remedies claiming to treat or cure autism are being marketed deceptively and can be harmful. Among them: chelating agents, hyperbaric oxygen therapies, chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk. Now that advisory is gone.”

“Ring’s controversial, AI-powered ‘Search Party’ feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.”

CBS forbade Stephen Colbert from interviewing Texas State Representative James Talarico, a Democrat running to unseat Senator John Cornyn (R). The incident is a chilling example of how the Trump administration and allied media are colluding to suppress critical coverage of the administration.

“More than 73,000 North Carolinians will be given more time to show identifying documentation to election officials to remain on the state's voter rolls following a settlement between the national parties and the state's election board.”

“For the first time, federal prosecutors are seeking to convict protesters — most of them American citizens — on charges related to domestic terrorism. The outcome will test whether President Donald Trump’s yearslong campaign to brand leftist activists as terrorists can succeed in the courts.”

“Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the Floodlight newsroom shows.”

Over the last year, Meta’s AI smart glasses have been used by deviant men to surreptitiously record videos of women and children. Such incidents could become more harmful if combined with the vast amounts of personal and biometric data that Meta collects on its billions of users.

Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate, released his first TV ad earlier this month. In the ad, Barr speaks directly to the camera and declares, “It’s not a sin to be white.”

“[DHS] is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.”

“Five years ago, climate activists stunned corporate America by winning three seats on Exxon Mobil’s board. Similar revolts have forced some… companies to address climate change. Now, the federal regulator overseeing shareholder rights is making it harder for small investors to convey… concerns.”

“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… Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.”

“The Trump administration is terminating $600 million in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants for programs supporting HIV and STD prevention and HIV surveillance.”

“Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist and journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers, according to a copy of an ICE subpoena obtained by The Intercept.”

“Donald Trump’s pick for a top diplomatic post has championed ‘white supremacist, racist, antisemitic and homophobic views’, a former US state department official has warned.”

Prediction markets are exploding in popularity. Kalshi alone saw over $1 billion in trading volume on Super Bowl Sunday. Remarkably, more than $100 million was wagered on what song Bad Bunny would play first during his halftime show. That kind of market has raised concerns about insider trading.

“At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020, and their documented wrongdoing includes patterns of physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other abuses of authority, a review by The Associated Press found.”

“A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives and the second time in less than a year it has targeted the… site.”

"Palantir allies and leaders from OpenAI and venture capital are wading into the political fray, with more than $100 million already pledged by Leading the Future to boost candidates friendly to AI. They’re also cutting big checks to congressional leaders and [Trump’s] political network.”

Over the weekend, Elon Musk announced a sudden revision to his long-stated dream of building a city on Mars. Instead of prioritizing Mars, he said that SpaceX — which is now competing with Blue Origin over a NASA mission to return astronauts to the moon — would focus on building a lunar “city.”

Major corporations — including Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil — are spending millions to promote Trump and some of his most divisive policy initiatives.

“Police departments across the U.S. are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist President Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by The 74 reveals.”

“At least 32 children of immigrants entered foster care over the past year after their parents were detained or deported, officials in seven states told NOTUS.”

“The Trump administration is planning this week to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, according to U.S. officials, in the most far-reaching rollback of U.S. climate policy to date.”

In a 2025 interview with the New York Post, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was "absolutely done" after a single meeting in 2005. There is only one problem with Lutnick’s story: it is not true.

“A conservative researcher whose theories have often been rejected by Georgia election overseers and who once pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of voyeurism is emerging as a central figure in the investigation that culminated in the FBI’s… seizure of 2020 election records from Fulton County.”

“More than half of the drugs listed on the new TrumpRx website have or will soon have a cheaper generic version on the market that can be purchased through other direct-to-consumer sites.”

“Students with disabilities and survivors of sexual misconduct can’t rely on the Department of Education — the target of budget cuts and staff reductions — to intervene for them, new reports find.”