NEW: Our portrait of a city in pain, following deadly fire at a Ciudad Juárez detention center. Advocates call for policy change. Migrants ask to be seen as human. “We’re not animals,” he said. "Have mercy on us.” | Latest w @ajcorchado @imegarcia dallasnews.com/news/2023/03/…

New statement from Scott Pelley:   There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.   The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.   “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.   The waste is heartbreaking.   Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.   For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.   At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.   I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.   Scott Pelley

Markwayne Mullin throws Greg Bovino under the bus: "I never met the guy. He's irrelevant to me. I don't know who he is."

BREAKING AXIOS: The Trump admin plans to drop its controversial $1.8 billion slush fund — at least for now, two senior admin officials told Axios. It's unclear whether this would also kill the IRS settlement that protected Trump and his businesses from being audited. axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-w…

#60Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lashed out at the program’s new executive producer Nick Bolton during a Monday meeting, accusing him of “murdering ‘60 Minutes’” and having “slender qualifications for this job.” CBS News hopes to keep Pelley and the remaining correspondents on the show, according to a person familiar with CBS News, despite these conflicts. variety.com/2026/tv/news/sco…

Cecilia Vega, Ousted From '60 Minutes,' Says She Fears 'For The Future of the Legendary Broadcast' variety.com/2026/tv/news/cec…

Cecilia Vega, who was fired today by CBS, tells me: “I very much fear what comes next for and the future of” 60 Minutes. Her full statement below:

JUST IN: A federal judge has rejected the Trump admin’s attempt to block a city ordinance in Boston that restricts cooperation with ICE. storage.courtlistener.com/re…

Pope Leo called for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed” in his first papal encyclical — calling for major regulation to protect against potential risks, including war and economic dislocation. Leo signed the text on May 15 — 135 years after his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, signed his own transformational document on workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution. For nearly 400 years, popes have used encyclicals to impart Catholic teachings. In his more than 42,000-word text, Leo wrote, “It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required… a more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.” @IAmAmnaNawaz spoke with @ChristopherHale, who writes “Letters From Leo” on Substack.

Sally Field memorized the First Amendment as a child. The Oscar winner says she now understands "it like never before," stressing that "this fragile thing called democracy needs to be protected."

New: U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas appeared before Congress after he was held twice by immigration agents. Even though his story went viral, and top immigration officials have claimed citizens are not being arrested, he was detained a third time. propub.li/4uJWiw5

Today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day, sponsored by UNESCO. Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in hidden ways. Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of war and violence.

“The message it sends is that naturalized citizens don’t have the same rights and stability as native-born citizens,” said Amanda Frost, law professor at the University of Virginia. “The government has used this power in the past to target people it views as political opponents.”

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.” - Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, President, USCCB @ArchbishopOKC

Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits. @paulkrugman: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/t…

I spoke to another mother, Griselda, picked up in Florida on her way to work. She was sent to ICE detention in Texas by herself even though she said she told agents about her 1-yr-old US citizen and 4-yr-old, who were with a babysitter. Their separation lasted four months. 4/

Breaking News: Costa Rica’s Coast Guard has taken custody of a critically injured shipwreck survivor and two dead bodies following yesterday’s U.S. military strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Pacific Ocean. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/po…

NEW: Around 72,000 people have self-deported through the Trump administration's "Project Homecoming" program, according to documents reviewed by CNN. The majority of those were in ICE detention. cnn.com/2026/03/18/us/dhs-se…

Afghan man with pending asylum case dies in ICE custody in Dallas. The 41-year-old was picked up taking his children to school on Friday. The next day he was dead. Https://www.texastribune.org…

The AP's most-read piece right now is this analysis by @apwillweissert, saying Trump has "grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war — or how he will end it — that resonates" with the public...

Mike Johnson: "We had a little hiccup with some Latino and Hispanic voters for certain, because some of the immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous. Everybody can describe it differently, but here's the good news: we're in a course-correction mode right now. We're gonna have a new DHS secretary."