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Trump loyalist Kash Patel is confirmed as FBI director by the Senate despite deep Democratic doubts

By ERIC TUCKER
Updated 3:25 PM CST, February 20, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI, moving to place him atop the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency despite doubts from Democrats about his qualifications and concerns he will do Donald Trump’s bidding and go after the Republican president’s adversaries.

“I cannot imagine a worse choice,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told colleagues before the 51-49 vote by the GOP-controlled Senate. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the lone Republican holdouts.

A Trump loyalist who has fiercely criticized the agency he will now lead, Patel will inherit an FBI gripped by turmoil as the Justice Department over the past month has forced out a group of senior bureau officials and made a highly unusual demand for the names of thousands of agents who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Patel has spoken of his desire to implement major changes at the FBI, including a reduced footprint in Washington and a renewed emphasis on the bureau’s traditional crime-fighting duties rather than the intelligence-gathering work that has come to define its mandate over the past two decades as national security threats have proliferated. ...

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Musk's private security detail deputized by U.S. Marshals Service, sources say

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Members of Elon Musk's private security detail have been deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service, granting them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, four sources familiar with the move confirmed to CBS News Thursday.

The move comes after several people within Musk's orbit relayed a heightened concern about safety for the tech billionaire, including several death threats in recent weeks.

The Tesla CEO turned Trump adviser referenced that concern while on stage at a conservative gathering outside Washington, D.C., on...
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Trump administration has cleared migrants out of Guantánamo Bay

  • News source: Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley | NBC News
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The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data.

In response to a lawsuit, the Trump administration said that there were 178 immigrants, all from Venezuela, housed at Guantánamo Bay as of early Thursday.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that 177 of the 178 migrants at Guantánamo Bay were deported on Thursday. The one other person was sent to a detention facility in the...
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Trump's DOGE stays on track after pair of federal judge rulings

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Facing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras begin taking deportees

  • News source: Javier CÓrdoba | The Associated Press and Megan
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A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica's capital Thursday, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it organized the return back to their countries.

The flight of 135 deportees, half of them minors, added Costa Rica to a growing list of Latin American nations to serve as a stopover for migrants as President Donald Trump ’s administration...
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Trump administration hasn't complied with order halting foreign aid freeze, judge says

  • News source: Daniel Barnes and Nnamdi Egwuonwu | NBC News
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The Trump administration has not fully complied with a court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali last week ordered the administration to allow the disbursement of U.S. foreign assistance after hearing claims from federal contractors challenging an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pausing nearly all foreign assistance.

Ali determined a "blanket suspension of congressionally appropriated foreign aid" had caused irreparable harm to the...
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WATCH: Dog rescued after getting head stuck in treat jar

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A dog named Murphy was digging for a treat on Monday night -- perhaps a little too aggressively -- and ended up getting his head stuck inside a plastic jar.
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Top FDA official resigns, warns firings will backfire on RFK Jr.

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The top official in charge of food safety and nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration resigned this week, protesting the dozens of scientists and other health officials now being let go across the agency's foods program.

In his resignation letter, James Jones warned that the "indiscriminate" cuts would add "one more roadblock" to the "Make America Healthy Again" agenda outlined by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"They included staff with highly technical expertise in nutrition, infant formula, food safety...
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How Trump's NIH layoffs upending one probationary staffer's life

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington --- Last month, Katie Sandlin uprooted her life in Carbon Hill, Alabama, a town of 2,000, to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, outside Washington, D.C.

"I wiped out my savings account, I maxed out my credit card, I had to take out a loan," Sandlin told CBS News.

But she called her job as an education outreach specialist an opportunity of a lifetime, educating communities about NIH research.

"People like me, where I'm from, rural Alabama, like, these kind of jobs don't happen to people like me," Sandlin said. "You...
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Pardoned Jan. 6 defendants attend conservative conference

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It was one month ago, on his first day back in office, that President Trump made good on his promise to pardon the rioters involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. On Thursday, some of them attended a gathering of conservatives in Maryland. Scott MacFarlane has details.
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Illegal crossings at U.S.-Mexico border down 94%, Border Patrol chief says

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Washington — Unlawful crossings at the U.S. southern border are down 94% from the same period last year, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks told CBS News in his first sit-down interview, crediting the Trump administration's government-wide crackdown on illegal immigration.

Over the past seven days, Banks said, Border Patrol agents have apprehended an average of 285 migrants per day along the entire southern border, compared to roughly 4,800 during the same time last year.

Banks attributed the dramatic drop in illegal immigration to a slew of executive...
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How Trump's comments on Ukraine are rattling European allies

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The diplomatic dispute between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has upended international protocols and rattled U.S. allies in Europe. Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins to discuss.
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'Constant fear and anxiety': Family says it left US over ICE raid fears

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A California family, fearful of immigration raids, has decided to pick up their lives and leave the United States.
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IRS layoffs underway around the country as millions prepare to file taxes

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The IRS has begun laying off more than 6,000 new and newly promoted employees across the country as part of the push to slash the federal government, sources say.
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DOGE cuts at 9/11 health program may impact first responders

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Advocates for those sickened by toxins from the massive debris of 9/11 are calling on President Trump to immediately reverse cuts he made to the World Trade Center Health Program. Anthony Gardner, who was just fired as a public affairs specialist at the program, joins to discuss the implications.
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