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Many undocumented immigrants who went to ICE check-in appointments at a federal building in L.A. this week were taken into custody, brought to the basement and held there, lawyers and family members say.

UPDATE: The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a lawsuit from an Ohio woman who claimed she was the victim of reverse discrimination because her employer denied her a promotion because she is straight.

These tweets from Musk are… interesting to say the least.

THEY ARE FIGHTING! Trump and Elon Musk trade insults and accusations as public feud reaches new heights with the president threatening to cancel Musk's lucrative government contracts and Musk claiming that Mr. Trump could not have won the presidency without him.

RECALL ALERT 🚨 (another one amidst FDA cuts) Nearly four dozen people are sick with salmonella food poisoning tied to an expanding cucumber recall, health officials say.

BREAKING: The Trump administration must restore hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states, a federal judge ruled.

NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

NEW: The Trump administration says it's banning entry from 12 countries, citing national security risks.

UPDATE: The Trump administration has returned a Guatemalan man to the United States after a judge determined he was wrongly deported without due process, his legal team told CBS News. The man, who has gone by O.C.G. in court proceedings, landed in the US Wednesday.

RECALL ALERT 🚨 Tomato recall affecting multiple states elevated to highest risk warning by FDA The tomatoes, from Williams Farms Repack, LLC, were shipped to Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

UPDATE: President Trump bars most international students from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard University.

RECALL ALERT 🚨 Ground beef with possible E. coli distributed nationwide, including to Whole Foods, USDA says.

UPDATE: In response to our story, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells CBS: “It's a complete and total disgrace. It's an utter abomination in terms of the extreme MAGA Republican effort to continue to erase American history. and we're not going to allow it to happen.” 👇🏾

NEW: Elon Musk ramped up his criticism of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on Tuesday, calling it "a disgusting abomination."

Pride Month wouldn’t exist without Black queer resistance. I wrote about that legacy, and what it means to show up for Black LGBTQIA+ folks in this moment. 🌈✨ Read now on Substack. #PrideMonth #BlackQueerPride #LGBTQHistory 🔗 deannafry.substack.com/p/pride-month-in-the-black-community

EXCLUSIVE: The Navy is considering renaming naval ships named for Harriet Tubman, Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others.

NEW: A South African woman has been killed allegedly by her husband in Virginia. Kim White was strangled to death following a domestic dispute. Her husband, Alexander Towne, has been charged with second-degree murder.

Student borrowers' credit scores are taking a hit. Here's why that matters.

UPDATE: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to move forward with its plans to lay off thousands of federal workers.

UPDATE: Six Nobel laureate economists said a massive budget bill passed by House lawmakers last month and backed by President Trump would weaken key safety-net programs while greatly lifting the federal debt.

Heavily armed immigration officials carried out a raid at an Italian restaurant in San Diego, where they stormed in and detained multiple staff as local residents confronted the agents on the scene just before the Friday dinner rush. Agents used flashbangs at one point to try to disperse the crowd.

More than 30 people were killed and scores were wounded on Sunday after an Israeli attack near a food aid distribution center in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and multiple witnesses.

🌈 Happy Pride Month! As an ally, I’m committed to listening, learning, and using my platform to amplify LGBTQIA+ voices. Let’s honor love in all its forms and keep pushing for equality together. What does Pride mean to you? #PrideMonth #LoveIsLove

NEW: A teen died after being blackmailed with A.I.-generated nudes. His family is fighting for change

✨ New post! ✨ I’m kicking off my new Reading Between the Headlines series with When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago. This book took me back to college, to the moment I realized the power of sharing our stories, no matter how different our journeys might seem. Read why it moved me:

BREAKING: An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California judge's order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that Department of Government Efficiency-led cuts remain on pause for now.

Taylor Swift buys back masters of first 6 albums, shares new details on "Reputation" album in letter

Former President Joe Biden spoke in Delaware on Friday at a Memorial Day event held four days after the federal holiday — his first public remarks since his office announced he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. During the Speech, Biden remembers his son Beau Biden 10 years after his death.

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump end program protecting Haitians, Venezuelans, others The Supreme Court said Friday it will allow Trump to terminate a program that allowed more than 500,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians & Venezuelans to temporarily live and work in the US

UPDATE: President Trump will visit a U.S. Steel mill in the Pittsburgh suburbs Friday, a week after he announced a "planned partnership" between the company and its Japanese competitor Nippon Steel.

RECALL ALERT: 🚨 Hormel Foods Corporation is recalling over 256,000 pounds of canned beef stew nationwide due to potential contamination with wood fragments, according to federal health officials.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is shaking up ICE leadership amid frustrations with deportation levels, sources say.

NEW: Elon Musk signals his time leading DOGE is coming to an end. Musk began the offboarding process with the White House on Wednesday night, according to an administration official.

UPDATE: Top prosecutor says 2 remaining New Orleans jail escapees may be in other cities: "They can't hide forever."

NEW: The federal government is working to secure a charter flight to return a man who was removed from the U.S. back to America so he can have proper due process proceedings, the Justice Department said in court document.

NEW: Rising number of college grads are unemployed, new research shows.

A little girl seen emerging from the flames of an Israeli strike in Gaza recalls the moment "fire filled the sky," killing her mother and siblings.

UPDATE: A man who police say drove a minivan into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans is suspected of attempted murder and driving after using drugs, police say.

NEW: Southwest sets its first checked bag fee, starting at $35

My latest #Substack post is out now. It’s about Gary, Indiana. About the steel industry. About pollution. But also about family. Legacy. What it means to come home as a journalist and carry the weight of a story you were born into. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/deannafr...

ALERT: COVID variant NB.1.8.1 hits U.S. What to know about symptoms, new booster vaccine restrictions

UPDATE: Trump administration looks to end all federal contracts with Harvard University, totalling $100 million

UPDATE: NPR on Tuesday sued President Trump and administration officials over an executive order signed earlier this month that seeks to cut federal funding to the news organization and PBS.

NEW: A man was detained after he allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd at the Liverpool Football Club trophy parade, injuring over two dozen people. The incident is not being treated as terrorism, authorities said.

Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including some 36 in a school-turned-shelter that was struck as people slept, igniting their belongings, according to local health officials. The military said it targeted militants operating from the school.

Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, a New York Democrat who served over four decades in the House representing Harlem, dies at 94.

NEW: Trump blasts Putin as "absolutely crazy" as Russia targets Ukraine with massive wave of drones and missiles

MY LATEST FOR CBS: A story about pollution and public health in Gary, Indiana, where majority Black residents live near multiple steel facilities, including my own family. EPA data found the area’s three coal-burning steel plants generated more than 25 million pounds of toxic pollution in 2023.