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Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations discovered an additional 200,000 SIM cards at a location in New Jersey, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. This follows last week’s discovery by U.S. Secret Service of a sprawling telecommunications network in the New York Tri-State area that investigators said could potentially have caused a serious disruption to New York’s telecom systems and threatened the United Nations General Assembly meetings.Agents were first tipped off last spring, and officials believe that among other foreign links, the telecommunications network was connected to Chinese actors, according to two law enforcement sources briefed on the probe. Authorities still…

The website for the Department of Housing and Urban Development features a banner and popup message blaming the “Radical Left” for an impending government shutdown. Screenshot/HUD.gov hide caption toggle caption Screenshot/HUD.gov The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for the likely government shutdown in internal federal agency communications as well as on at least one public website, in what experts say could be a violation of federal ethics laws. A bright red banner and pop-up message that appeared Tuesday on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website warns: “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict…

Actress Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from her husband, country musician Keith Urban, after nearly 20 years of marriage, according to court documents obtained Tuesday by CBS News. The documents show that the 58-year-old Kidman filed for divorce Monday from the 57-year-old Urban in Davidson County Circuit Court in Nashville, Tennessee, where the couple resides. She cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason, per the court documents. A separate marital dissolution agreement signed by both Kidman and Urban shows that the two reached a co-parenting arrangement that will see Kidman serve as the “primary residential parent” of their two teenage daughters, with…

Politics / September 30, 2025 The former hard-charging deputy attorney general succumbed to political hubris as FBI director, and discredited the federal justice system in the process. Ad Policy Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in via videoconference to testify before a 2020 Senate Judiciary hearing on federal investigations of the 2016 election. (Ken Cedeno / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty Images) It was August of 2005, and Jim Comey was delivering a memorable and heartfelt speech in the Department of Justice’s historic Great Hall as he stepped down from his position as deputy attorney general (DAG). Comey compared…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer debate government funding on Senate floor on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Senate TV Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got into a rare direct back-and-forth on the Senate floor ahead of the shutdown deadline.”Democrats have a choice to make. They can shut down the government and subject the American people to all the problems that come with a shutdown, many of which, as I’ve said, they’ve enumerated in the countless quotes they’ve made in the past,” Thune said. “Or they can join Republicans to pass a clean,…

Washington — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation in order to strike fear into international students and curb lawful speech.In a 161-page decision, U.S. District Judge William Young delivered a blistering assessment of the Trump administration’s efforts to pursue international students who expressed pro-Palestinian views on college campuses, which he said was constitutionally protected speech. The judge, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, was unsparing not only in his views of Noem and Rubio’s actions, but also of…

U.S. Marines’ Lockheed Martin F35-B jets arrive in formation to José Aponte de la Torre Airport in September 2025, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. President Trump sent ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico as part of his war on drug cartels. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images At a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated the Trump administration’s labeling of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and told lawmakers the United States should go after narcotraffickers like it did al-Qaida in the wake of…

Federal immigration officials have revealed plans to reopen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to new applicants to comply with a court order, though they cautioned the Trump administration retains the discretion to modify the Obama-era policy.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has made plans to accept and process new DACA applications from immigrants not enrolled in the initiative, which currently allows more than half a million so-called “Dreamers” to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday.Dreamers are immigrants who, as children, entered the U.S. illegally or overstayed…

Tracking Imelda as it strengthens into a hurricane in the Atlantic – CBS News Watch CBS News Imelda strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday morning. It is already blamed for at least two deaths in eastern Cuba after flooding and landslides hit Monday. CBS News meteorologist Rob Marciano is tracking the storm. Source link

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left yesterday’s meeting with President Trump without a plan to fund the government. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tonight. The meeting, which also included Vice President JD Vance, was a last-minute attempt to resolve a weeks-long standoff between the parties over spending. Vance made it clear that the GOP wouldn’t agree to Democrats’ demands to attach health care…