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What Happened Today – February 25, 2026

Boxes of classified documents stored in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, from the FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of classified materials

Boxes of classified documents stacked in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom, evidence from the investigation that FBI Director Kash Patel gutted this week by firing the agents who built it. (U.S. Department of Justice photo)

The body count from federal immigration enforcement keeps climbing and nobody is changing that. Tonight we learned Nurul Amin Shah Alam is dead. Shah Alam was a 56 year old Rohingya refugee in county jail, released improperly to Border Patrol. Agents held him four hours, realized they had no reason to, and dropped him at … Read more

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