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February 2, 2026
Speaker Johnson faces tough choices as partial government shutdown drags and debate over ICE deepens
Updated 12:01 AM EST, February 2, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump to ensure passage. Trump struck a deal with senators to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from ...
Go to discussionEx-Capitol riot prosecutors draft strategy for Congress to probe ICE conduct
11h A half dozen former U.S. Capitol insurrection prosecutors, who helped lead the largest criminal prosecution in American history, have crafted a strategy memo to prompt Congress to investigate potential misconduct by federal immigration agents. The four-page memo, which was obtained by CBS News on Sunday, details a series of investigative recommendations for Congressional committees to probe allegations of excessive force and other violations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Go to discussionICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
Updated on: February 1, 2026 / 9:33 PM EST / CBS News U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted "all movement" at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had "active measles infections," the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday. The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in ...
Go to discussionUS Olympic teams rename exclusive hospitality center in wake of ICE protests
11h Team USA’s new “athlete-first” hospitality center created exclusively for this year’s U.S. figure skating, hockey and speed skating teams ahead of next week’s 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Games has already undergone a name change. The country’s three major national governing bodies (NGBs) — U.S. Figure Skating, USA Hockey and US Speedskating — announced Sunday that the formerly-named “ICE House” hospitality center will now be called the “Winter House,” according to Sports Business Journal. ...
Go to discussionNew York Times Uncovers 5,300+ Epstein Files Mentioning Trump in Exhaustive Analysis
Feb 1st, 2026, 6:10 pm The New York Times did a deep dive into the latest files tied to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on Sunday and found that President Donald Trump’s named appeared in more than 5,300 of the documents. The Times piece said reporters used a “propriety search tool,” and found “more than 38,000 references to Mr. Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of emails, government files, videos and other records released by ...
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