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Politics / Hiding in Plain Sight / August 6, 2025 Stephen Miller’s dystopian immigrant-hunting system is picking up pace, and asylum seekers like Mohamed Naser are increasingly vulnerable. Ad Policy Fifty-year-old Libyan asylum seeker Mohamed Naser was detained in a privately run immigrant detention facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, an eight-hour drive from his home.(Andrea McCormack) Three weeks ago, Helen Parsonage, a North Carolina immigration attorney, received a call from a Greensboro community member informing her that unidentified government agents were trying to grab an immigrant father of five from out of his home. The man the agents wanted to arrest…

On Oahu’s North Shore, where powerful Pacific swells crash into some of the world’s most dangerous beaches, an elite team of lifeguards stands between thousands of visitors and tragedy.Honolulu Ocean Safety lifeguards patrol 43 towers across the Hawaiian island, but none face more treacherous conditions than those along the seven-mile stretch home to the legendary Banzai Pipeline.”It’s been said … if you were able to harness the energy from a single wave, it could light up the city of Honolulu for a week,” said Lt. Dave Wassel, a 20-year veteran. “If you’re in the wrong place, wrong spot, that wave…

CBS News Live CBS News Texas Live Some of the Texas Democrats who left the state in protest of a redistricting bill were temporarily evacuated Wednesday from their Chicago-area hotel after a bomb threat, according to one of the representatives.”Early this morning, a bomb threat forced us to evacuate our hotel. Thankfully, no one was harmed,” said state Rep. Ann Johnson in a statement. The hotel is in St. Charles, Illinois, west of Chicago. The St. Charles Police Department said first responders “conducted a thorough search and no device was found.” “In response to the threat, 400 people were immediately evacuated and…

Kari Lake, who is overseeing the U.S. Agency for Global Media, holds up a photo of the Voice of America newsroom as she testifies during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the future of the agency on June 25, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The conflict over Voice of America’s future is coming to a head as a federal judge demands answers from Kari Lake, who is overseeing its federal parent for the Trump White House. The stakes were sharpened Monday when Michael Abramowitz, the director of the government-funded…

Washington — Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Wednesday announced a bid for Tennessee governor, pledging to make the state “America’s conservative leader for this generation and the next.””Trump is back, America is blessed and Tennessee — better than ever,” Blackburn said in a video announcement Wednesday. “Here in the Volunteer State, we always lead the way. And that’s why I am announcing my candidacy for governor.”Blackburn came to the Senate in 2019, after representing Tennessee in the House since 2003. Her 2018 Senate bid gained added national attention when Taylor Swift, who had previously stayed out of politics, criticized Blackburn’s…

Politics / August 6, 2025 At first, the right wanted to claim progressives were delusional for seeing a slide back into white supremacy in the American Eagle ad. Now they’re boasting about it. Ad Policy An advertisement featuring actress Sydney Sweeney outside an American Eagle store in New York, US, on Aug. 4,. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. shares surged after US President Donald Trump came out in support of a controversial ad from the company featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.(Photographer: Michael Nagle / Bloomberg) The first thing you notice in actor Sydney Sweeney’s controversial ad campaign for American Eagle blue jeans…

Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell are arguing against the Justice Department’s attempt to unseal grand jury testimony against her, writing in a court filing Tuesday that their client “has no choice but to respectfully oppose” the potential release.”Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not,” Maxwell’s attorney David Markus wrote in a nine-page filing. “Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain.”In her interview with the Justice Department, Maxwell did not…

A small, dual-propeller medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement. A Beechcraft King Air 300 from CSI Aviation, a medical flight service based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, took off with two pilots and two health care providers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and CSI Aviation. It crashed in the early afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 300 miles northeast of Phoenix. “They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong,” district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. Smoke is seen…

Dana is mom to a son who, when he was 14, experienced a rapid decline in his mental well-being. A few months later, she came to understand that he had become deeply influenced by predatory online networks that encourage vulnerable people, especially minors, to harm themselves and others. NPR is not using Dana’s full name or revealing her identity because it remains unclear whether those who targeted her son continue their activities. Joanna Kulesza for NPR hide caption toggle caption Joanna Kulesza for NPR The beginning of ninth grade was already shaping up to be a bumpy transition for then-14-year-old…

Former Department of Government Efficiency staffer Edward Coristine was allegedly assaulted in an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, according to police records obtained by CBS News — an incident that led President Trump to threaten to put the nation’s capital under federal control.19-year-old Coristine — who is known for his online moniker “Big Balls” — was allegedly surrounded and assaulted by a group of approximately 10 teenagers near his car early Sunday morning, according to a report from the Metropolitan Police Department. Two 15-year-olds were arrested and charged with unarmed carjacking.Coristine and his significant other later told…