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Top Trump administration immigration officials are testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee.
As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, the oversight hearing follows intensified public scrutiny over the way immigration enforcement agents are doing their job.
FBI Director Kash Patel released surveillance photos and videos of a person outside the house of Nancy Guthrie.
The mother of NBC Today show host Savannah Guthrie the morning she disappeared from her home in Arizona.
The photo shows a person wearing a ski mask, a backpack, gloves, and what appears to be a weapon holstered at the waist.
The image also appears to show the person tampering with the camera.
Meanwhile, the FBI says it hasn't identified any suspects or persons of interest
in the disappearance of the 84-year-old more than a week ago.
The Epstein files are triggering controversy across the Atlantic as well.
Empire's Lauren Frayer reports Prime Minister Keir Starmer isn't implicated in the files, but the man he appointed as ambassador to Washington is, and that's prompted calls for Starmer's own resignation.
In a widely expected announcement, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins says she's running for re-election, seeking a sixth term.
That state is crucial to the Democrats' hope to retake the Senate.
Collins is likely to face either Governor Janet Mills or Graham Plattner, a political newcomer, next fall.
The 73-year-old moderate is the only Republican running for re-election in a state former Vice President Kamala Harris won in the 2024 presidential election.
An immigration court judge has blocked the Trump administration's bid to deport a Tufts University grad student who was detained last March near her home in Massachusetts.
Rumeysa Ozturk from Turkey was arrested as the Trump administration started targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy.
She co-authored an op-ed criticizing her university's response to Israel and the war in Gaza and
and says the deportation attempt is retaliation that violates her First Amendment rights.