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‘60 Minutes’ broadcast with delayed ‘Inside CECOT’ report pulls in abysmal ratings against NFL playoffs

Critics have said that CBS News and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss were looking to bury the controversially delayed report on a broadcast that was always going to pull low ratings

The Independent UK

Nikki Glaser Stuns CBS News Audience With Savage 'See BS' Jibe During Her Monologue

Comedian Nikki Glaser used her 2026 Golden Globes opening monologue to sharply mock CBS News as 'America's newest place to see BS news'

International Business Times UK

CBS News veterans urge David Ellison to protect 60 Minutes from Bari Weiss’ ‘editorial interference’

‘Weiss’ last-minute proposal that the story be delayed until it included a White House official, despite reported efforts by the 60 Minutes team to get comment from the Administration, was inappropriate,’ the letter states

The Independent UK

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CBS Under Fire For 'Censoring Itself' Just to 'Please' Trump on 60 Minutes Cecot Pullout

CBS News is under scrutiny after shelving a 60 Minutes investigation into Trump-era deportations to an El Salvador prison, prompting accusations of censorship and political influence.

International Business Times UK

CBS Reportedly Tried to Cover Up Story on Trump Sending Migrants to Be 'Tortured' In El Salvador

New CBS News chief Bari Weiss faces internal rebellion after spiking an investigative report on the torture of deported migrants in El Salvador's CECOT prison.

International Business Times UK

60 Minutes episode on brutal El Salvador prison, pulled from air by CBS, appears online

Segment that Bari Weiss had removed provides in-depth look at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prison

The Guardian - US

‘Bari Weiss screwed up’: CBS tried to kill the CECOT expose, actually broadcast it by mistake, Streisand effect now in full force

Cartoonish levels of incompetency.

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Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison

Controversially appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says: ‘I held that story and I held it because it wasn’t ready’

The Guardian - US

‘Holy f***ing dumpster fire’: Bari Weiss sparks ‘revolt’ at ‘60 Minutes’ by spiking CECOT segment

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s going to be fascinating to see how far Bari is willing to double down on the piece ‘not ready’ argument and or/attack Sharyn and [60 Minutes],’ one CBS News staffer told The Independent.

The Independent UK

First Thing: Epstein files shed light on Ghislaine Maxwell’s tactics for luring teenagers

Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do. Plus, was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?

The Guardian - UK

CECOT CBS 60 Minutes Delay Linked to Trump Deportee Plan — Tax Dollars Down $150K+

CBS's 60 Minutes delays costly CECOT prison investigation after Trump praises network owners, raising questions about media transparency on deportation spending.

International Business Times UK

'60 Minutes' Delays CECOT Prison Report as Trump-Era Deportations Face Scrutiny

'60 Minutes' delays a report on El Salvador's CECOT prison as scrutiny grows over Trump administration deportations and ongoing legal challenges.

International Business Times UK

Noem OK'd El Salvador deportations despite court order: DOJ

The Trump team has defended its decision to proceed with the deportations.

Axios

Inside El Salvador’s hellish supermax prison: Migrant detainees deported by Trump tell of harrowing abuse and torture

The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of the US’s migration crackdown

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Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says

Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT deal

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Trump DOJ official’s vulgar courthouse threat just got exposed, and the $5 million deal behind it is even worse

Trump paid El Salvador to torture migrants with zero legal help.

International Business Times

A Venezuelan-US Love Story Crushed By Trump's Migrant Crackdown

Andry Hernandez jumped through hoops to claim asylum in the United States, hopeful of beginning a new life with an American man he met on Instagram -- only to be doomed by an innocent pair of wrist tattoos that landed him in a brutal El Salvador prison.

Al Jazeera

What did a US court rule on Tren de Aragua deportations?

Alien Enemies Act cannot deport Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but deportations proceed under immigration laws.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison

Arturo Suárez and others deported in Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at Cecot

The Independent UK

Venezuelan men deported to notorious CECOT prison say they were raped and beaten by guards

‘There were so many moments of anguish and terror,’ former detainee says

International Business Times

'Welcome To Hell': Freed Migrants Tell Of Horrors In Salvadoran Jail

Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.

The Independent UK

Migrant deported to notorious El Salvador prison demands $1.3M from Trump administration after savage beatings, vile conditions and 24-hour confinement

First legal action after Venezuelans released from CECOT details ‘physical, verbal and psychological’ abuse inside

International Business Times

Tears Of Joy As Venezuelan Migrants Return From El Salvador Prison 'Hell'

Tears of joy and relief flowed freely Tuesday as Venezuelan Maikel Olivera returned home to his mother's embrace after surviving four months of "real hell" in a Salvadoran prison.

The Independent UK

Lawyers say Venezuelan migrant ordered returned to US sent to home country under prisoner exchange

A Venezuelan asylum seeker who entered the U.S. as a child has been sent back to his home country after being deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison earlier this year

The Independent UK

They were freed from a ‘torture prison’ in El Salvador. This is their life now

IN FOCUS: Trump deported dozens of Venezuelans to a brutal Salvadoran jail under the Alien Enemies Act. They were set free five months later — and could fight for their return to the United States, Alex Woodward reports

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