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A coalition of local prosecutors from across the country is descending on Washington, D.C., this week to coordinate an unprecedented effort to hold the Trump administration accountable for aggressive immigration raids, according to a report by former White House official Miles Taylor. Organized under the newly formed Fight Against Federal Overreach, the group aims to challenge what it sees as violent and unconstitutional conduct by federal immigration agents who have been shielded by sweeping immunity claims embraced by the administration. With the Justice Department unwilling to police its own and Vice President JD Vance asserting “absolute immunity” for federal agents, prosecutors say they are entering uncharted legal territory — exploring novel strategies, including empowering citizens to sue federal officials, to rein in what critics describe as escalating abuses of power.

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French authorities raided offices tied to Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a widening criminal investigation into the alleged dissemination of child sexual abuse material generated through user-created deepfake images, The Wall Street Journal reported. The probe has reportedly expanded to examine whether X’s algorithm may also amount to foreign interference in France’s elections, prompting officials to seek a voluntary interview with Musk. Carried out with assistance from Europol, the raid marks the latest escalation in Musk’s long-running standoff with European regulators, who enforce stricter limits on platform content than the U.S. Musk declined to comment to the Journal, but the raid comes as he has publicly scrambled to defend himself amid newly surfaced emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein that appear to undermine his past denials.

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A cornerstone U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty is on the brink of expiring, and a former Pentagon official says President Donald Trump’s fixation on including China could doom it for no good reason. Writing about the looming February 5 expiration of New START, Kingston Reiff said the agreement significantly reduced uncertainty about Russia’s nuclear forces and strengthened U.S. deterrence planning, even without covering every weapon system or Beijing’s arsenal. Reiff argued that scrapping the treaty over China — which has long had far fewer nuclear weapons than Russia — makes little strategic sense, especially as inspections were already disrupted by COVID and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Democrats are sounding the alarm as well, warning that allowing the treaty to lapse without a replacement would usher in a dangerous era with no limits on the world’s largest nuclear arsenals.

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Tensions are boiling over inside CBS News as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly digs in her heels over controversial wellness influencer Peter Attia, whose name surfaced repeatedly in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails. According to The Wrap, Weiss is resisting internal pressure to sever ties with Attia — who exchanged hundreds of friendly messages with Epstein and appears more than 1,700 times in the document dump — setting up a showdown with Paramount executives who view the situation as a growing liability. Insiders say Weiss considers demands to drop Attia a capitulation to public outrage, while corporate leadership sees an unavoidable HR crisis, leaving CEO David Ellison poised to decide Attia’s fate. The dispute adds to a string of missteps during Weiss’s turbulent four-month tenure, already marked by programming shakeups, internal backlash, and an embarrassing on-air rollout gone wrong.

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President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years amounts to a quiet admission of failure driven by a familiar error, an Atlantic writer argues. After taking control of the iconic arts institution despite never attending a performance there, Trump insisted his personal judgment would revive it, only to trigger staff resignations, artist withdrawals, plummeting ticket sales, and programming turmoil. His latest claim that the closure is needed for revitalization directly contradicts months of public boasts that the building was already repaired and thriving, leaving the justification largely unverifiable. The episode, David A. Graham writes, reflects Trump’s broader governing pattern: overconfidence, disregard for expertise, and repeated miscalculations about public support that leave high-profile projects collapsing under their own weight.

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A newly released tranche of Justice Department records tied to Jeffrey Epstein includes an unverified allegation that names conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to documents disclosed Friday. The claim, sent by email to federal prosecutors in New York and two federal judges, was discussed internally last August but offers no evidence and has not resulted in any charges or investigation involving Thomas. The accuser, who claimed to be an Epstein victim, alleged she was raped by mobster Johnny Martorano and further alleged — without corroboration — that Martorano referenced Thomas and that Thomas sexually assaulted her as a child. Federal prosecutors acknowledged the complaint internally as part of standard protocol, underscoring that the sprawling Epstein file release contains numerous raw, unsubstantiated claims that do not establish wrongdoing.

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Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sounded the alarm Monday, saying President Donald Trump’s recent actions are raising “huge red flags” ahead of the upcoming election. Appearing on CNN with Erin Burnett, Carlson pointed to a New York Times report detailing Trump personally calling FBI agents during a raid on the Fulton County, Georgia, election office, describing the exchange as disturbingly “rah-rah.” She also cited a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi pressuring Minnesota officials to hand over voter records, arguing the pattern suggests something more ominous is underway. The raid follows Trump’s long-running fixation on the 2020 election, which he continues to falsely claim he won despite losing more than 60 court cases — and after his infamous call demanding Georgia officials “find” votes to flip the result.

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Vivian Wilson, the estranged daughter of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, publicly corroborated a damaging detail from newly released Jeffrey Epstein files, confirming her family was in St. Barth’s during the same 2013 holiday period referenced in emails showing Musk seeking a visit to Epstein’s private island. Writing on Threads, Wilson said the emails appeared authentic and blasted her father’s efforts to dismiss them as “out of context,” undercutting Musk’s prior claims that he had declined repeated invitations from Epstein. The confirmation added to growing scrutiny after Justice Department records revealed Musk asking about visiting the area, with Epstein offering to “send heli,” and contradicted other Musk denials — including claims Epstein never toured a SpaceX facility — prompting supporters to urge Wilson to protect herself as fallout from the disclosures intensified.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office took a sharp jab at President Donald Trump after his late-night Truth Social meltdown over the Grammy Awards, releasing a sarcastic, all-caps statement mocking his grievances. The post fake-awarded Kid Rock and Nicki Minaj a “California Music Participation Peace Prize,” lampooning Trump’s habit of inventing accolades. The mockery followed Trump’s furious screed attacking the Grammys, host Trevor Noah, and a joke referencing Epstein’s Island — which Trump falsely framed as defamatory while threatening legal action. Newsom’s office leaned into the absurdity, turning Trump’s grievance politics into a punchline just hours after the president promised to “have some fun” with another lawsuit.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Republicans to take notice after Democrats stunned the GOP by flipping a deep-red Texas state Senate seat, and CNN data analyst Harry Enten said the numbers back up that concern. Union leader Taylor Rehment defeated Trump-endorsed conservative Leigh Wambsganns in a district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 — only for the Democrat to win it by 14, marking a jaw-dropping 30-plus-point swing. While some Republicans blamed the loss on bad weather, Enten dismissed that excuse, pointing instead to a broader pattern of Democrats dramatically outperforming Kamala Harris’s 2024 margins in special elections nationwide. Historically, he noted, that kind of overperformance has reliably foreshadowed major midterm losses for the party in power, warning that Republicans ignore the Texas result — and the trend behind it — at their own peril.

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Despite toning down his public rhetoric, President Donald Trump has not abandoned his long-standing fixation on absorbing Greenland into U.S. territory, according to an administration insider speaking to Zeteo. The official told reporter Asawin Suebsaeng that Trump “still wants it” and has privately pushed aides to find a way to make it happen by the end of his current term, even eyeing 2029 as a target. Advisers say Trump believes Europe is merely placating him with the status quo of U.S. military bases on the island, while critics argue the supposed national security and mineral-resource justifications don’t hold up. As NATO allies publicly smooth things over, Suebsaeng reports the threat hasn’t vanished so much as gone dormant — a face-saving pause in what he calls Trump’s ongoing flirtation with MAGA-style imperialism.

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Rep. Nancy Mace’s penchant for spectacle and scorched-earth politics has left a trail of burned bridges — and former staffers now say they’re alarmed by what they describe as a sharp personal and professional decline. According to a New York Magazine report, even aides who disliked the South Carolina Republican say her explosive House floor speech accusing an ex-fiancé of abuse, followed by a public meltdown at a Charleston airport, marked a turning point where everything became centered on her own grievances. Former staffers described an erratic, intimidating workplace marked by excessive drinking, fixation on online attention, misuse of staff for personal errands, and behavior they believe signals deeper mental health struggles. As her standing in South Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial primary slides and a House Ethics inquiry looms, even longtime associates say the best outcome for Mace may be stepping away from politics altogether.

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A right-wing Brazilian influencer who publicly applauded President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has now found himself caught up in it. Júnior Pena, a social media personality with hundreds of thousands of followers, recently praised Trump and falsely claimed federal agents were only targeting “criminal” migrants — just days before he was detained by immigration authorities and sent to a New Jersey detention facility, according to multiple reports. Pena, who has lived in the U.S. since 2009 and is known for attacking Brazil’s left-wing president while boosting far-right figures aligned with Trump, was taken into custody Saturday as deportations of Brazilians surge under the administration. His detention underscores growing fear within immigrant communities, where even vocal supporters of Trump’s policies are learning firsthand that the dragnet does not stop at political loyalty.

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