Judge demands answers on whether 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras

A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News. In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana wrote

Trump says he hasn’t asked El Salvador’s president to return Abrego Garcia

President Trump said he has not asked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to hand over Kilmar Abrego Garcia to U.S. custody, though the U.S. has admitted deporting him to El Salvador was a mistake. In an interview published Friday Mr. Trump called Abrego Garcia’s case “another men in women’s sports thing for the Democrats.” “I haven’t

DOJ rescinds policy against seizing journalists’ records in leak cases

Washington — The Justice Department on Friday reversed a Biden administration policy that prevented federal officials from seeking journalists’ records and compelling their testimony in leak investigations.  Attorney General Pam Bondi indicated that reporters’ records could be subpoenaed for reasons broader than unauthorized disclosures of classified information, according to an internal memo obtained by CBS

Health agencies “not creating an autism registry,” official says

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the National Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism.  “We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform will

Hegseth’s Pentagon office set up system so he could access Signal messages, sources say

The Pentagon set up a system in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office that enabled him to check messages on the encrypted messaging app Signal while at the office, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Two of the sources said the system bypasses standard Defense Department security protocols.  A computer monitor in Hegseth’s office