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“Armed and in uniform, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status — and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections, a CBS News Investigation has found.”

“The State Department has asked some foreign service officials up for promotion who they voted for in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, raising concerns the agency is violating a federal law that bars politicized personnel decisions within the nonpartisan ranks.”

“One of the largest donors to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s political action committee is a Pakistani American Muslim oil executive and philanthropist... Over the same period, Abbott has launched investigations of Islamic organizations and escalated anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

“Pamphlets purporting to come from a transgender rights organization — mailed to families across Texas and igniting a storm of criticism from conservatives — came from a company formed last month in Wyoming.”

“Those companies—Maximus, Gainwell, General Dynamics, Conduent, and Deloitte—now stand to make millions of dollars implementing Medicaid work requirements, the report finds, under which millions of Americans are likely to lose their health insurance.”

Amazon released new touchscreen tablets last week marketed specifically for toddlers to use, even as a growing body of pediatric research links such devices to developmental problems, emotional dysregulation, and poor eyesight.

“TikTok employees repeatedly raised concerns internally about the risks the short-form video app posed to children, including sexual exploitation and exposure to suicide content... court records show that the employees were frustrated with how the company's leadership responded to their concerns.”

“The Trump administration’s cuts to weather satellites will set the country back nearly a decade, experts say. The loss of data used to observe, forecast and research extreme weather could prevent the country from making major advances in weather prediction in the coming years.”

“The 56-year-old Mexican man who died Saturday while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was a lawful permanent resident in the country, the agency said in a statement a day after The Texas Tribune reported about his death.”

On Monday, Elon Musk announced in a post on his social media platform X that he plans to give American children one share of SpaceX, his rocket, satellite, and AI company. While, at first blush, it seems like an act of charity, there are reasons to be skeptical of Musk’s motivations.

“Except unlike his campaign posters, it prominently features an endorsement by and photo of Flores with President Donald Trump, which Democrats are now accusing Flores of trying to bury. The billboard also touts his ‘support’ of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

“Top Trump adviser Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year: access to ‘POTUS,’ ‘VIP events’ and administration officials, according to a text message, reviewed by Axios, that the White House counsel is investigating.”

“In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their ‘rigged’ playbook ahead of the midterms.”

“President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that government officials who leak information to the media should be shot, referring to anyone who makes unauthorized disclosures to the press as ‘the scum of the earth.’”

“More than half of the top holders listed as competing for seats at President Trump's next meme coin dinner have used cryptocurrency exchanges that prohibit U.S. customers, indicating that many of the buyers are based overseas, according to a CBS News analysis.”

“They were victims, not abusers. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys, visitors and anyone else who would listen. It didn’t matter. The women were all taken to a sprawling immigration detention center... and handed thin jumpsuits — red, to mark them as a high security risk.”

"A Texas woman is using a state law banning the transport of abortion pills to sue members of the anti-abortion organization Students for Life of America."

“Videos collected by local investigators make it ‘pretty obvious’ that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday.”

“Johnson said her nonprofit has ‘several large benefactors,’ whom she described as ‘primarily just individuals who have an interest in this and have a heart in this.’ She would not name them or disclose whether they are also supporters of her husband’s political campaigns.”

Early last year, with Trump days away from reclaiming the White House, Meta’s newly appointed policy chief took a seat on the couch on Fox & Friends to share the company’s new commitment to “free expression.” What began as a canned corporate announcement turned into a mea culpa.

“But on X, the social media platform he bought in 2022 and later folded into SpaceX, Musk continues to be outspoken about candidates and political issues — and his enormous audience acts as an influence machine, propelling a fringe claim into the political conversation with a single post.”

“Inspired by new guidance from the Trump administration, right-wing election groups are targeting nursing homes, baselessly claiming that left-wing groups are stealing residents’ votes.”

“Amid that push, the department and its sub-agencies have been scrubbing information about safety measures from government websites that officials had deemed effective, and focused on building policy aligned with a rightwing, anti-immigrant agenda instead of research.”

“The Defending Main Street super PAC spent thousands of dollars on an attack ad to audiences thousands of miles away from the Maine Senate race it was targeting… The group paid for the video ad to show more than 1 million times in the wrong Portland.”

“An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb.”

“The Pentagon acknowledged late Friday that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.”

Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic Party and Hollywood of sexually trafficking children and eating people.

“A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rockets exploded last year.”

“San Franciscans have long been squeezed by high rents… Now, the AI industry – with its high salaries and the astronomical paydays it promises shareholders when firms go public – is pushing rents higher still.”

“The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study.”

“The race for Nevada's 2nd Congressional District shouldn't be competitive, just based on history and math. But the Republican Party's nominee, David Flippo, is facing an unusually tough race despite having President Trump's endorsement.”

“The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids.”

“The Trump administration declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms, meaning observers from the regional security group won’t be at a U.S. election for the first time in more than two decades.”