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A longtime employee who worked for a division of the conglomerate that owns the Reuters News Agency claims she was dismissed from her job for raising the alarm within the company that it was providing services to the Department of Homeland Security that were being used illegally.

According to NPR reporting, Billie Little, who worked in legal publishing for the company's Westlaw division, was fired shortly after she joined colleagues in flagging potential unlawful use of Thomson Reuters products by ICE.

Little became alarmed after witnessing ICE enforcement activities in Minneapolis. In late January, she followed news reports about U.S. citizens detained by ICE and heightened tensions in the Twin Cities area following shootings. She also heard disturbing accounts from colleagues working at the Thomson Reuters office in Eagan, Minnesota.

"People afraid to go to work, people afraid to take their kids to school, people being followed and all of that," Little recalled to NPR.

When a colleague posted on an internal employee chat claiming Thomson Reuters was a top corporate collaborator with ICE, Little said she felt "sick to my stomach."

Little joined a committee that sent a letter to company management in February demanding transparency. The group flagged that ICE could be using Thomson Reuters products unlawfully and requested greater oversight of the company's Department of Homeland Security contracts.

"Instead of addressing our concerns, our legitimate concerns — instead, they turn toward investigating me," Little told NPR. "And I was instrumental in leading the group. So I think that clearly they were trying to chill [the] activity of workers and that should scare every worker across the country."

Thomson Reuters' main surveillance tool is called CLEAR. According to NPR, the platform aggregates billions of data points on individuals from public and proprietary records, as well as social media. CLEAR also includes images from a network of license plate readers. ICE holds a nearly $5 million contract with Thomson Reuters beginning May 2025 for "license plate reader data to enhance investigations for potential arrest, seizure and forfeiture."

Little initially understood CLEAR was being used to target human traffickers and child exploitation cases — work she could support. But she grew concerned the tool was being deployed far more broadly by ICE "to identify immigrants and protesters without criminal histories."

An archived Thomson Reuters description stated explicitly that CLEAR is "not designed for use for mass illegal immigration inquiries or for deporting non-criminal undocumented persons and non-citizens." This raised question for Little about ICE's use of the platform and if it violates the company's own stated parameters.

Appearing on MS NOW, Bloomberg reporter Jeff Mason lightly laughed when discussing a Monday interview with Donald Trump and admitted the president became abusive when cornered on his Iran difficulties.

During a segment on the on-again, off-again Iran war negotiations that has the president scrambling for good news, co-host Willie Geist pressed Mason for what is going on inside the White House.

Prominent conservative media figure Tucker Carlson issued a public apology Monday for having supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, telling his millions of followers that he was “sorry for misleading people.”

“I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say,” Carlson said during an episode of his podcast aired on Monday, The Hill reported Tuesday. “You don’t want to be a conspiracy nut, but like, clearly, there were signs of low character, we knew that, but there are tons of people of low character who, like, outperform their character.”

More U.S. troops could soon be suffering from influenza after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the flu vaccine was no longer mandatory for the armed forces.

"Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions," Hegseth said in a statement on Tuesday. "Even when those decisions posed no threat to our military readiness, you know what I'm talking about, what happened: COVID-19 and the vaccine. No more. That era of betrayal is over."

Donald Trump will be returning the White House Correspondents' Dinner, after years of boycotting the event and attacking journalists for their reporting on him.

According to reporting from Status's Oliver Darcy and analysis from The Atlantic's Paul Farhi, some of the president's most controversial appointees will also be there to cheer him on, courtesy of recently Trump-friendly Paramount and CBS.

President Donald Trump praised himself for "doing a great job" after 13 service members were killed in the Iran war.

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Trump noted that many other wars lasted years instead of months.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission Tuesday when pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen about his threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, suggesting the decision was not ultimately his to make.

“I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bomb the bridges and the electric grid, but I don't think the regime cares about the people of Iran,” Kernen said, with Trump phoning in to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The citizens of tiny Social Circle, Georgia, where Donald Trump received 70 percent of the vote all three times he ran for president, are in full revolt against the president’s administration after the Department of Homeland Security bought a facility projected to hold 10,000 immigrants while they await deportation.

According to MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton, that has led to a standoff with the city manager who is insisting the town of approximately 5,000 does not have the water and sewage infrastructure to accommodate the flood of detainees.

Reacting to reports out of the Beltway that Republican lawmakers are crossing their fingers and hoping either Supreme Court Justices Sam Alito or Clarence Thomas will make a surprise retirement announcement just prior to the midterm election, MS NOW Now’s Jonathan Lemire reported that Democrats have their own opinions about what is transpiring.

Last week it was reported that both of the elderly justices will be returning, which dashed the hopes of some far-right lawmakers who want Donald Trump to pack the court with younger right-wing extremists.

President Donald Trump lobbed a bizarre jab at the late Steve Jobs on Tuesday in saying that the technology company Apple wouldn’t have performed “near as well” under his leadership if he hadn’t died in 2011, while also congratulating himself for having consulted Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook.

“I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

A House bill written by a Florida Republican designed to allow a stream of immigrants to stay in the work is creating a schism within the party with dueling PACs planning to spend millions backing separate lawmaker group on either side of the debate.

At issue is Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s (R-FL) Dignity Act, which is backed by business groups seeking a reliable source of workers, and has hard-line anti-immigrant Republicans up in arms.