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Republican US Senator Susan Collins announces bid for re-election

By David Morgan
February 10, 2026 4:38 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced on Tuesday that she will seek a sixth term in November’s midterm elections, setting up a high-stakes battle for her seat in Maine.

Her decision to run defies recent attacks from President Donald Trump, whose opposition to Collins complicates the Republican strategy to keep its fragile Senate majority. She presented her candidacy as a choice between problem solving and counterproductive confrontation.

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“At a time when Washington seems broken and trust is low, Maine needs experienced, steady leadership and a senator committed to the hard work it takes to get things done,” Collins said in an op-ed column in the Bangor Daily News.

The 73-year-old centrist, seen as the most vulnerable Senate Republican in this year’s campaign, faces a toss-up bid for re-election in a state that Trump lost by nearly seven points in 2024. Her top Democratic contenders include Maine Governor Janet Mills and progressive Graham Platner, who have both polled strongly against Collins, according to RealClearPolitics.com, which tracks political polls.

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Collins’ formal declaration dispelled uncertainty about her plans, after Trump attacked her and four other Senate Republicans over their support for a resolution to bar him from taking further military action in Venezuela without congressional authorization, following the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.

Republicans have a 53-47 seat majority in the Senate and are favored to keep control of the chamber in the final two years of Trump’s presidency. But in recent months, Democrats have become more hopeful about their chances of reducing the Republican majority or even taking control of the chamber, with Collins viewed as a leading target for ouster.

Trump maintains a tight hold on the Republican Party and his influence in party primary elections can often make or break a candidate. On his Truth Social website, the president attacked the five Republicans who supported the Venezuela resolution, saying they “should never be elected to office again.” Of the five, only Collins faces re-election this year.

Collins, seen as the only Republican who can win the November general election in Maine, responded to news of the Trump attack by telling reporters that she guessed Trump “would prefer to have Governor Mills or somebody else.”

Trump’s attack on Collins helped raise Democratic hopes of capturing the seat. But there has been no sign of the president backing a primary challenger.

Collins, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, was able to win re-election in 2020 despite Trump attacks over issues including her opposition to Republican healthcare legislation and his Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Lisa Shumaker

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Governors to skip Trump meeting after White House invited only Republicans, source says

February 10, 2026 6:50 PM UTC / Reuters

By Jasper Ward

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WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – The National Governors Association cancelled a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump later this month after the White House excluded Democratic governors, chairman Kevin Stitt told members on Monday, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Governors from across the U.S. gather every year in Washington for the NGA meeting. It is tradition for the president to host the governors at the White House for a session with Cabinet secretaries, among other officials, and a black-tie dinner for the governors and their spouses.

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“To disinvite individual governors to the White House sessions undermines an important opportunity for federal-state collaboration,” Brandon Tatum, CEO of the bipartisan association representing U.S. governors, said in a statement.

“At this moment in our nation’s history, it is critical that institutions continue to stand for unity, dignity and constructive engagement.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The White House meeting, which was scheduled for February 20, was slated to be part of the association’s annual winter gathering. The association’s leadership is made up of nine members, including Republican Stitt and Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who serves as vice chairman.

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The New York Times reported last week that Trump still planned to hold a separate, bipartisan dinner for governors and their spouses at the White House.

However, according to the newspaper, Trump personally blocked invites for Moore and Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is also a member of the association.

“The National Governors Association has a long tradition of bipartisan gatherings to trade best practices and ideas, regardless of party affiliation. It’s what Americans expect and deserve and unfortunately, the White House does not seem to feel the same,” said David Turner, a spokesperson for Moore.

A spokesperson for Polis did not immediately respond when reached for comment.

Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; editing by Michelle Nichols and Mark Heinrich

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Trump allegedly thanked police for probing Epstein in 2000s, warned Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘evil’: FBI doc

February 10, 2026 11:24am EST / Fox News

President Donald Trump allegedly called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department in the mid-2000s to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein while simultaneously warning them to stay focused on “evil” Ghislaine Maxwell, according to an FBI document recapping an interview with the local department’s former chief.

“TRUMP called the PBPD (Palm Beach Police Department) to tell him ‘thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,’” reads an FBI document reviewed by Fox News Digital recounting a 2019 interview with former Palm Beach, Florida, Police Chief Michael Reiter.

When approached for comment, however, an official with the Department of Justice pushed back Tuesday that the office was “not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago.”

Reiter served as the police chief in Palm Beach from 2001 to 2009. Reiter’s name was redacted from the FBI document released by the Department of Justice (DOJ), but confirmed to the Miami Herald that he was interviewed by the FBI in 2019 and that Trump called the police department regarding Epstein in July 2006, according to the outlet.

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President Donald Trump reportedly called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department in 2006 to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein.(Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to Reiter and a security and crisis management firm he operates, called Michael Reiter and Associates, Tuesday morning. Reiter declined to comment on the matter.

The FBI document was among the millions of files, photos and emails released by the DOJ following Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act in late 2025. The DOJ released its latest batch of files on Jan. 30.

The Florida police department began investigating Epstein in 2005 after receiving a call that a 14-year-old girl was allegedly molested by the financier, the Miami Herald reported. The call led to police uncovering other similar sexual abuse allegations and pulled Reiter into the investigation, the outlet wrote Monday.

The FBI document recapping Reiter’s reported interview with federal officials contends that Trump allegedly called Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate, “evil” and warned that police should “focus on her.”

“TRUMP told him people in New York knew [EPSTEIN] was disgusting,” the FBI document continued of the interview with the former police chief. “TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’”

“TRUMP told (redacted) that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP ‘got the hell out of there.’ TRUMP was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN.”

Fox News Digital also reached out to the White House Tuesday morning for comment on the alleged phone call and FBI document.

The Department of Justice released a trove of Epstein documents on Dec. 19, 2025, following President Donald Trump’s signature on the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025.(Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

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Trump long has maintained that while he did at a time brush elbows with Epstein, he “threw him out” of his Mar-a-Lago resort back in the 2000s as details of his web of sex trafficking and pedophilia circulated.

Reiter’s interview with the FBI also backed up Trump’s long-standing comments that he ended any ties to Epstein in the early 2000s.

“Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everyone,” the FBI document reads. “DONALD TRUMP told (redacted) that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club.”

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a well-connected financier with a lengthy Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated in and out of his orbit across the years.(Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Epstein was a well-connected financier with a lengthy Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated in and out of his orbit across the years. He was convicted of sex trafficking minors in 2008 and served just more than one year of incarceration, which also included a controversial work-release arrangement under a plea agreement.

He was arrested again in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking before he was found dead by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.

Jeffrey Epstein was seen in a handful of personal images in the second data set released by the Department of Justice on Dec. 19, 2025, including on boats and near helicopters.(Department of Justice)

Reiter’s interview with the FBI was held just two months after Epstein’s death, according to the Herald.

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Trump signed legislation in November 2025 that required the Justice Department to release files related to the late convicted sex offender, with the DOJ releasing tranches of the documents since December 2025.

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Unearthed docs undercut Dem warnings of harm from Trump executive order blocking trans surgery for minors

VP of America First Legal slams ‘unfounded attempts to clog the federal courts as part of state lawfare against the Administration’

By Alec Schemmel
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Published February 10, 2026 10:57am EST

FIRST ON FOX: Conservative lawfare group America First Legal (AFL) has been filing records requests after 15 Democratic-led states and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, D, sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order banning sex changes for minors, in an attempt to find out whether the harm being alleged in their lawsuit is actually happening.

Fox News Digital reported last month on how AFL’s more than a dozen records requests to state departments of health were either ignored, or did not include any responsive records documenting the harms the Democratic states’ lawsuit warns stem from the president’s executive order.

One of the states that AFL said ignored its records requests, Connecticut, did subsequently return to them with responsive records. However, according to AFL, the documents provided by Connecticut’s health department continue to lend evidence that the harm being cited in Democrats’ multi-state lawsuit is nonexistent.

“I don’t see any impact to HSS funding or federal grants related to this executive order,” said an email that was among what appeared to be three records that the Connecticut Department of Public Health provided to AFL, plus an additional final page that was entirely redacted.

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Protesters wave pride flags outside the Supreme Court as it hears arguments on a case involving transgender athletes, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

The email came from Elizabeth Frugale, a section chief for health statistics and surveillance at the Connecticut public health department, in response to a question from a grants management and budget supervisor, Aaron Knight, inquiring whether President Trump’s executive order on transgender surgeries “adversely impacts any of your Federal grants.”

Frugale’s response stands in contrast to claims in the lawsuit against the president’s executive order on sex changes, which argued the directive had “immediately” jeopardized federal funding and disrupted public health systems.

“If Connecticut was not financially impacted by the Executive Order, it should have declined to join a lawsuit,” said Dan Epstein, vice president of America First Legal. “To challenge, without cause, Executive Order 14187’s assurance that taxpayer dollars are not used for chemical and surgical mutilation of children, forces the courts to adjudicate political grievances, not actual disputes. AFL will continue to expose unfounded attempts to clog the federal courts as part of state lawfare against the Administration.”

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The third record given in response to AFL’s records request was just an employee notice asking folks to review a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) halting Trump’s executive directive on trans surgeries for minors.

A nationwide preliminary injunction halting Trump’s executive order on transgender surgeries was issued just a few months after it came down.

Minnesotans hold a rally at the Capitol on March 6, 2022, to support transgender kids around the country.(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

When asked how plaintiffs could show proof of harm for a policy measure that has been halted by the courts, Epstein said the plaintiffs in the case still must show “standing” for a court to provide a remedy. He noted that just because the plaintiffs filed their suit early does not mean this responsibility disappears.

“Because standing is necessary for any federal court to provide a remedy, plaintiffs must plead concrete evidence of harm in their complaint,” Epstein asserted. “Here, plaintiffs’ complaint failed to show an actual, traceable loss tied to the federal action, beyond merely speculative claims of harm or generalized concerns. Filing suit early does not eliminate this requirement to establish standing.”

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AFL’s records requests to all the health departments belonging to states listed in the lawsuit, which was filed on Aug. 1, sought an array of records. Among them were documents showing the states had actually experienced the harms they claimed in their lawsuit, such as evidence of prosecutions or penalties for providers, clinic closures, reduced services and increased medical or mental-health crises for transgender adolescents.

The group also asked for records showing higher costs for services like counseling, crisis intervention or hospitalizations, worsened mental and physical health outcomes or the states’ inability to meet legal obligations to provide medical care for minors in state custody. AFL asked for any internal communications specifically referencing the executive order and its alleged effects as well.

Democrat-led states that are suing over alleged “harm” caused by one of President Trump’s executive orders tied to transgender minors are being pressed for proof of their claims.(Getty Images)

Only four states — Massachusetts, Illinois, Nevada and Connecticut — have provided any sort of response thus far. Furthermore, the responses that did arrive indicated there were no responsive records relating to AFL’s requests, even though they asked for documents pertaining to precisely what the multi-state lawsuit against Trump’s executive order alleges.

Trump’s Executive Order 14187 is also being challenged for alleged discrimination in a lawsuit against the Health and Human Services Department led by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Fox News Digital reached out with questions to the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office and the state’s public health department in response to AFL’s allegations, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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Democrats introduce ‘Virginia’s Law’ alongside Epstein victims

By Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan
February 10, 2026 5:49 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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[1/3]Epstein survivors and the family of Virginia Giuffre attend a press conference to introduce Virginia’s Law, legislation that aims to eliminate the statute of limitations for sex traffickers and abusers, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 10, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats introduced legislation on Tuesday that they said would eliminate the statute of limitations that has shielded sex traffickers such as the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez announced the proposal alongside Epstein victims and Virginia Giuffre’s family. The proposal — Virginia’s Law — is named after Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, who died by suicide last year.

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The bill’s fate in the Senate and House of Representatives, which are both controlled by Republicans, is unclear.

However, a bipartisan effort was successful last year to compel the Department of Justice to release all unclassified files in its Epstein investigation.

“Virginia’s dream was to inspire and empower survivors to come forward in a world that too often turns away from abuse and pushes it into the shadows. She wanted to bring light,” said Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s brother.

A teary-eyed Roberts, speaking at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol, was asked about a photograph that has been made public showing former UK Prince Andrew with his arm around Giuffre.

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“I think he should show up in front of our Congress,” Roberts responded, adding, “He has a lot of questions he needs to answer.”

The Democrats’ new bill would end the statute of limitations for adult victims or their survivors bringing civil suits, which would include many of Epstein’s alleged victims. It broadens victims’ legal recourse in additional ways, including covering applicable sex crimes occurring beyond U.S. soil if a U.S. court has jurisdiction.

Though Epstein died in 2019, transparency and accountability for victims of his abuse have led to oversight investigations and passage of the Epstein files law.

DOJ said it has released nearly 3.5 million pages of documents, though some files are heavily redacted. Members of Congress began reviewing unredacted files on Monday.

Schumer has been calling for all the unreleased files, which he said number in the millions, to also be made public.

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The House Oversight Committee interviewed Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell virtually on Monday in a private deposition. Maxwell, who was found guilty in 2021 for her role in helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, refused to answer questions. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to testify separately behind closed doors in the committee’s Epstein investigation later this month.

Reporting by Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan; Editing by Alistair Bell

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Grassley: Biden DOJ bypassed constitutional safeguards by subpoenaing senator phone records

Chuck Grassley and Marsha Blackburn lead hearing targeting Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile over subpoenas issued during Trump investigation

By Ashley Oliver
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Published February 10, 2026 10:15am EST | Updated February 10, 2026 10:18am EST

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Phone records of sitting members of Congress were secretly obtained in a way that blocked lawmakers from invoking constitutional protections, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, alleged Tuesday during a hearing.

Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who is leading the hearing, signaled that their panel planned to grill hearing witnesses, who included executives from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, about the disclosure of the phone data.

Grassley noted in his opening remarks that the three companies received a total of 10 subpoenas for 20 current or former Republican Congress members related to Arctic Frost, the FBI probe that led to Smith bringing charges against President Donald Trump over the 2020 election.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (C) speaks alongside Sen. Bill Hagerty (L), and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2nd L) as they announce that an FBI whistleblower says the FBI during the Arctic Frost investigation had subpoenaed the records of Republican elected officials in Congress, during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2025.(SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Blackburn, in her opening remarks, called the disclosures an “invasion of privacy and violation of our constitutional rights.” Blackburn pointed to the speech or debate clause, which gives Congress members an added layer of protection from prosecution.

“It’s critical that each of these carriers go on the record about the decisions they made and why — or why not — they enabled with Jack Smith’s weaponization of government,” Blackburn said.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn believed that the “common thread” in former special counsel Jack Smith’s alleged spying on congressional Republicans was their support of President Donald Trump.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The hearing will offer the first public opportunity for Republican committee members, several of whom had a narrow set of their phone data turned over to Smith’s team, to seek answers from each of the phone carriers on how they handled the subpoenas upon receiving them.

Grassley noted that a federal statute said phone carriers cannot be barred from giving notice to a Senate office about a subpoena unless the member is the target of an investigation. He also said Verizon, in particular, was under a contract that required it to notify the Senate Sergeant at Arms about subpoenas related to senators.

The subpoenas were accompanied by court-authorized gag orders, which ordered the phone companies not to alert the senators to the records request. Blackburn, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, are among those on the committee who had their records subpoenaed as part of Arctic Frost.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 22, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Al Drago/Getty Images)

While the phone companies come under scrutiny, Grassley also blamed Smith. Smith received the greenlight from DOJ’s Public Integrity Section to seek the senators’ records as part of his investigation, according to emails, but an official from the section also floated that the subpoenas could expose the DOJ to constitutional challenges.

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“Smith and his team irresponsibly steam0rolled ahead while intentionally hiding their activity from Members of Congress. … Smith’s deceitful conduct was a substantial intrusion into the core constitutional activity of constitutional officers,” Grassley said.

Smith, meanwhile, has repeatedly defended the subpoenas, pointing out that they aligned with DOJ policies at the time.

Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to US to visit President Trump | Fox News

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Published February 10, 2026 12:05pm EST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to discuss Iran and Gaza with President Donald Trump during their upcoming visit.

Netanyahu, who is traveling to the U.S. to meet with Trump, indicated that the two nations share a close bond, and that he and Trump are close as well.

“I am now leaving for the United States for my seventh trip to meet with President Trump since he was elected for a second term. This, of course, does not include his unforgettable visit to Israel and his speech in the Knesset,” Netanyahu noted, according to the Israeli government.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Vice President JD Vance on Oct. 22, 2025, in Jerusalem.(Nathan Howard/Pool/Getty Images)

“I think these reflect the unique closeness of the extraordinary relationship that we have with the United States, that I personally have with the President, that the State of Israel has with the United States — unprecedented in our history,” he said.

“On this trip we will discuss a range of issues: Gaza, the region, but of course, first and foremost, the negotiations with Iran. I will present to the President our outlook regarding the principles of these negotiations — the essential principles which, in my opinion, are important not only to Israel, but to everyone around the world who wants peace and security in the Middle East,” Netanyahu said.

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President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly declared, “President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have a great relationship and Israel has had no better friend in its history than President Trump. We continue to work closely with our ally Israel to implement President Trump’s historic Gaza peace agreement and to strengthen regional security in the Middle East.”

Trump issued a Truth Social post last month warning that the U.S. will attack Iran if it does not negotiate a nuclear deal.

“Iran will quickly ‘Come to the Table’ and negotiate a fair and equitable deal – NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS – one that is good for all parties,” Trump noted in the post.

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‘As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and there was ’Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again,” he warned.

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National Guard soldier leaves rifle in New Orleans bathroom

February 10, 2026 / 1:10 PM EST / CBS News

A Louisiana National Guard soldier left his service rifle inside a Bourbon Street bathroom in New Orleans’ French Quarter, where he had been on patrol, CBS affiliate WWL reported, citing a National Guard spokesperson who confirmed the incident.

“The weapon was returned to the Louisiana National Guard, and the soldier and incident are being handled internally,” said Lt. Col. Noel Collins.

The weapon appeared in a photo that surfaced on social media, which showed an AR-15 rifle leaning against a sink, according to WWL. It was taken inside the Lafitte Hotel on Bourbon Street, at the center of the French Quarter, after a guardsman used the bathroom on Sunday night.

CBS News has reached out to the Louisiana National Guard for more information.

The guardsman who left his rifle behind is among the 350 soldiers who were deployed to New Orleans by the Trump administration at the end of December. Under the command of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, they have supported federal and local law enforcement in the city since just after Christmas and are expected to remain there through the end of February, according to the Louisiana National Guard. Their arrival came one year after a terror attack during a New Year’s Eve celebration on Bourbon Street killed 14 people.

Local residents said they were concerned when they saw the photo of the guardsman’s rifle. Bob Simms, who lives in the French Quarter and co-founded a neighborhood task force that aims to reduce crime and increase security in the area, called it an unfortunate mistake.

“These guardsmen are here for an extended period of time and they’re working many, many hours a day,” Simms told WWL. “So, it’s a mistake. It’s a pity it happened but mistakes happen.”

与俄有石油贸易 欧盟拟制裁印尼等第三国港口 | 联合早报

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欧盟计划对与俄罗斯有原油贸易往来的第三国港口实施制裁，包括格鲁吉亚的库勒维港和印尼的卡里汶港。 （路透社）

（布鲁塞尔路透电）欧盟委员会提出第20轮制裁俄罗斯方案，提议将格鲁吉亚的库勒维港（Kulevi）和印度尼西亚的卡里汶港（Karimun）列入制裁名单。这是欧盟首次计划针对第三国港口实施对俄制裁，以限制俄罗斯通过第三国港口出口石油。

制裁方案若获批，欧盟企业和个人将被禁止与上述港口进行任何交易。

这项制裁方案由欧盟对外行动署与欧盟委员会共同提出，并已提交成员国审议，须经成员国一致同意才能生效。

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩说，新一轮制裁将加大力度，包括对俄罗斯原油实施全面海运服务禁令，取代此前七国集团设定的价格上限机制。

方案还新增对镍条、铁矿石及精矿、未精炼和加工铜，以及多种废金属（包括铝）的进口禁令，也禁止进口盐、氨、卵石、硅和皮毛制品。

此外，欧盟首次对第三国动用“反规避工具”，拟限制向吉尔吉斯斯坦出口金属切削机床及通信设备，并将两家当地银行列入制裁名单，指它们向俄罗斯提供加密资产服务。老挝和塔吉克斯坦的部分银行也被纳入制裁，两家中国贷款机构则从名单移除。

在现有资产冻结和旅行禁令制裁框架下，欧盟还提议新增30名个人和64家公司，包括俄罗斯石油公司旗下巴什石油公司及八家炼油厂。

Irish man Seamus Culleton held for months by ICE says he had U.S. work permit, and now fears for his life

Updated on: February 10, 2026 / 12:57 PM EST / CBS News

An Irish man who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years has been detained by U.S. immigration officials for almost five months despite insisting he had a valid U.S. work permit and a pending green card case as the spouse of an American citizen. Seamus Culleton has said he fears for his life due to the conditions in the detention center where he’s being held in Texas.

Seamus Culleton, who lived in Boston, is being held at the El Paso Camp East Montana, an ICE detention facility inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, according to the agency’s detainee locator system. Speaking to Irish state broadcaster RTÉ in a phone interview Monday from the detention center, Culleton described life at the camp as a “nightmare.”

“You don’t know what’s going to happen on a day-to-day basis. You don’t know if there’s going to be riots, you don’t know what’s going to happen,” he told RTÉ. He characterized the detention facilities as “a bunch of temporary tents.”

Irish national Seamus Culleton is seen in a photo posted on his Facebook account in August 2024. Seamus Culleton/Facebook

Culleton said he had rarely been outside in the five months since his arrest.

“I have barely any outside time, no fresh air, no sunshine. We have two TVs on the wall. There are 72 detainees here in total. We get three meals a day, very very small meals — kid size meals, so everybody is hungry,” he said.

Culleton called the conditions “filthy” and said the toilets and showers were “completely nasty” and “very rarely cleaned.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which ICE falls under, denied the allegations about the conditions at the Texas facility on Tuesday, with Assistant DHS Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin telling CBS News in a statement that Culleton’s claims were, “FALSE. ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”

McLaughlin confirmed that ICE agents arrested Culleton on Sept. 9, 2025, calling him “an illegal alien from Ireland” who entered the U.S. in 2009 under the tourist visa waiver program but then failed to depart the U.S. after the permitted 90 days.

“He received full due process and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on September 10, 2025,” McLaughlin said. “He was offered the chance to instantly be removed to Ireland but chose to stay in ICE custody … A pending green card application and work authorization does not give someone legal status to be in our country.”

Under U.S. law, DHS can arrest people with pending immigration applications if they don’t have underlying permanent immigration status, even if they have not been convicted of crimes, but under previous administrations, non-criminals with valid pending applications were rarely arrested, and officials would typically allow a green card case to play out.

McLaughlin said Culleton was offered a chance to be sent to Ireland “instantly.” She claimed he “chose to stay in ICE custody, in fact he took affirmative steps to remain in detention.”

Culleton has said he was going through the legal process to obtain lawful permanent residency, or a green card, and that he had a valid U.S. work permit when he was arrested. Spouses of U.S. nationals can obtain a work permit while their green card applications are processed.

Culleton, a plasterer, said that he was stopped by federal agents while driving home in early September after stopping at a store. He was followed initially by a blue Ford, and then, “out of nowhere, it seemed like there were seven or eight cars and a bunch of officers at the window of the van, telling me to roll down the window.”

“They asked me if I had a green card. I said I didn’t. I said I was married to a citizen and that I had a marriage-based petition in place and I was just about to receive my green card and that I had a work permit to be here and work,” Culleton told RTÉ, adding that none of those details seemed to matter as the officers proceeded to detain him.

Culleton was held after “local police ran a license check on his vehicle outside a Home Depot in Massachusetts,” court records from late January show.

Estimates from the Irish government about a year ago suggested that as many as 10,000 undocumented Irish immigrants were living across the U.S. Many likely came on tourist waivers or temporary work visas but then stayed illegally in the country after those documents expired, effectively living in the shadows.

A spokesperson for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told CBS News on Tuesday that Irish officials were aware of Culleton’s case and were providing consular assistance to him and his family.

“Our Embassy in Washington D.C. is also engaging directly with the Department of Homeland Security at a senior level in relation to this case,” the spokesperson said.

In December, the American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups released a letter demanding the closure of ERO El Paso Camp East Montana, alleging a pattern of abuses at the camp including beatings and sexual abuse by officers against detained immigrants, beatings and coercive threats to compel deportation to third countries, medical neglect, hunger and insufficient food, and denial of meaningful access to counsel, among other alleged rights violations.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.