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Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Miami as part of the ​U.S. Justice Department's investigation into former officials who ‌have previously probed and prosecuted President Donald Trump, CBS News and Axios reported on Thursday, citing sources.

The investigation has produced more than 130 ​subpoenas since cranking up last year, and targets ​top officials who worked under former presidents Barack Obama ⁠and Joe Biden, Axios reported.

The Justice Department did not ​immediately respond to a request for comment. A representative of ​Comey could not be reached. Comey's attorneys declined to comment to CBS News.

Reuters reported late last year federal prosecutors were preparing grand jury subpoenas ​to investigate Obama-era intelligence officials who produced an assessment ​that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election that Trump won.

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Dozens of Democrats told the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to stop the “continued targeting” of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist who was detained and released last year but still lives under the threat of deportation.

Immigration agents arrested Khalil, a Syrian-born legal U.S. resident, last March after he played a prominent role in demonstrations at Columbia University against Israel’s war in Gaza. The government accused him of stoking antisemitism and detained him for 104 days.

Though a federal judge ordered Khalil released from custody last year, the Trump administration is still trying to deport him through immigration proceedings.

“Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the Administration’s detention of and efforts to deport Mr. Khalil have violated his constitutional rights to free speech and due process,” the 43 lawmakers, led by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), wrote in a Friday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and outgoing DHS Sec. Kristi Noem.

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A federal judge on March 20 blocked the Pentagon’s press policy that sought to bar news outlets from reporting information not officially sanctioned for release by agency heads.

The policy put forth in October 2025 by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth aimed to limit reporters’ coverage of the Pentagon to official statements. Journalists seeking information outside official government channels would be deemed security risks and have their press credentials revoked, according to the policy.  The White House argued the policy was in the interest of national security.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in his ruling acknowledged the importance of protecting American troops and war plans but said it was "more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing" given President Donald Trump's recent into Venezuela and war with Iran.

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Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris has died, his family said Friday. He was 86. 

Norris' family said on Instagram that his death was sudden but that "he was surrounded by his family and was at peace." He had been hospitalized recently. The family said they wanted to keep the circumstances of his death private and did not share any updates about the cause.

"To the world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a symbol of strength. To us, he was a devoted husband, a loving father and grandfather, an incredible brother, and the heart of our family," the family wrote. "He lived his life with faith, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved. Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the world and left a lasting impact on so many lives."

Norris was born Carlos Ray Norris in Oklahoma on March 10, 1940, and his family moved to California when he was 12. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, where he began practicing martial arts.

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Two Oklahoma firefighters were killed the morning of March 20 when a fire tanker crashed on the way to battle a blaze, officials said.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol said it responded to a call at 3:17 a.m. and found the Goldsby Fire Department tanker had overturned and struck a tree. The firefighters had been responding to a structure fire, officials said.

The two Goldsby Fire Department volunteer firefighters were identified as Fire Chief Earl Bryan Jenkins, 64, and Todd Pendleton, 62, a longtime journalist with The Oklahoman, part of the USA TODAY Network.

"The loss of these individuals is devastating to our town and the entire firefighting community. We ask that you please keep their families and our first responders in your thoughts and prayers during this unimaginably difficult time," the town of Goldsby shared on Facebook.

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At least three Palestinian women have been killed and eight more injured when a beauty salon in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was hit during an Iranian missile attack.

The Israeli military told the BBC the women were killed "by a direct hit from a cluster munition missile". The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said there was a "direct impact of missile shrapnel".

The incident happened in the town of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, on Wednesday night.

The women are the first Palestinians killed in the West Bank as a result of the Iran war.

At around the same time, a Thai worker was also killed from shrapnel which hit a farming community in Israel, Israeli medics said.

The Israeli military had said it was working to intercept an Iranian missile attack shortly before the strikes.

The salon was in a prefabricated metal structure close to a house. Locals said a bomb or part of a bomb landed yards away and ricocheted into the salon.

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On Tuesday, lists of names were nailed to wooden boards outside the gates of the Omid rehabilitation center, some typed on A4 sheets and others handwritten. Their edges curled quickly in the damp air, blurred by rain and a crowd of men running their fingers down the pages again and again, whispering names under their breath, as if repetition might produce a different outcome.

Behind the gates, officials in white medical gowns read names through a megaphone. In front of them, the crowd pushed forward waiting for confirmation of whether their family member was injured, dead, or missing.

"I came from Jalalabad to find my father,” said Shafiq, a teenager holding a crumpled piece of paper. “His name is Delaram.” He pointed to a number on a list. “It says he is alive. But…I don’t know where he is.”

On Monday, an airstrike by Pakistani jets hit the center at the precise moment when hundreds of patients gathered to break their fast. No official figure has captured the full scale of the attack. According to Hamdullah Fitrat, the Taliban’s deputy spokesperson, 400 patients were killed by the strike and 250 injured. But the medical staff and witnesses who handled the bodies insist the true toll is far higher than what has been publicly acknowledged. Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing, insisting that its operations targeted Taliban-affiliated sites.

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For over a year, Israel, Washington and even Lebanon’s government have been speaking as if Hezbollah has been broken for good.

Yet the Lebanese armed movement is once again at war with Israel, striking its enemy in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Its performance on the battlefield and ability to strike deep into Israeli territory shows that Hezbollah treated its 15 months of ceasefire with Israel not as an end to war, but as a narrow and urgent window to rebuild, reorganise and prepare for what it believed would inevitably come next.

When a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel took effect on 27 November 2024, after more than a year of conflict sparked by the Gaza war, the public narrative was blunt.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campaign had “set back” Hezbollah “decades”, destroyed most of its rockets and eliminated its top leadership.

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