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FTC to refund more than $47 million to consumers allegedly deceived by Invitation Homes

March 11, 2026 / 4:14 PM EDT / CBS News

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it will send a total of $47.2 million in refunds to hundreds of thousands of consumers who the agency alleges were deceived by Invitation Homes, the largest single-family home leasing company in the U.S.

Invitation Homes agreed to issue the refunds as part of a settlement with the FTC, which sued the Dallas-based company in 2024. Regulators alleged in the suit that Invitation Homes deceived consumers about leasing costs, charged undisclosed junk fees, failed to inspect homes before residents moved in and withheld tenants’ security deposits after they moved out.

Invitation Homes did not immediately respond to a request for comment. As of December 2025, the publicly traded company owned or managed more than 110,000 properties across the U.S., according to a financial disclosure.

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The FTC said it will mail payments to 444,131 consumers who paid Invitation Homes $45 or more in fees or charges between January 2021 and September 2024.

The agency advised recipients to cash their checks within 90 days of receipt. Delivery dates will vary depending on where a person lives, an FTC spokesperson said.

Anyone with questions about refunds can contact Rust Consulting toll-free at 800-804-6915 or by email at info@InvitationHomesRefund.com.

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The FTC spokesperson told CBS News that refund amounts will be based on a number of factors, including the number of eligible recipients and how much they paid for covered fees and charges. Based on the settlement amount, eligible consumers will receive an average payment of $106.

Consumers who have already received a credit or refund from Invitation Homes are not eligible for a payment.

What was Invitation Homes accused of?

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The FTC’s 2024 lawsuit alleged that Invitation Homes advertised home rental prices that failed to disclose the cost of mandatory junk fees, which the agency said could add up to $1,700 each year.

Invitation Homes also collected more than $18 million in application fees for deceptively priced rental houses, according to regulators. These mandatory fees, which were allegedly presented to consumers as service, utility and internet charges, were

Trump administration estimates Iran war cost at over $11 billion in six days, source says

March 11, 2026 10:02 PM UTC / Reuters

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Officials from ​President Donald Trump’s administration estimated during a congressional briefing this week that the ‌first six days of the war on Iran had cost the United States at least $11.3 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

That figure, from a closed-door briefing for senators on Tuesday, ​did not include the entire cost of the war, but was provided to ​lawmakers as they have clamored for more information about the conflict.

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Several ⁠congressional aides have said they expect the White House to soon submit a request ​to Congress for additional funding for the war. Some officials have said the request ​could be for $50 billion, while others have said that estimate seems low.

The administration has not provided a public assessment of the cost of the conflict or a clear idea of its expected duration. ​Trump said during a trip to Kentucky on Wednesday that “we won” the war but that ​the United States will stay in the fight to finish the job.

The $11.3 billion figure was first reported ‌on ⁠Wednesday by the New York Times.

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The campaign against Iran began on February 28 with U.S. and Israeli airstrikes and has so far killed around 2,000 people, mostly Iranians and Lebanese, as the conflict has spread into Lebanon and thrown global energy markets and transport into ​chaos.

Administration officials also have ​told lawmakers that $5.6 ⁠billion of munitions were used during the first two days of strikes.

Members of Congress, who may soon have to approve additional funding ​for the war, have expressed concern that the conflict will ​deplete U.S. ⁠military stocks at a time when the defense industry was already struggling to keep up with demand.

Trump met executives from seven defense contractors last week as the Pentagon worked to ⁠replenish supplies.

Democratic ​lawmakers have demanded public testimony under oath from administration ​officials about the Republican president’s plans for the war, including how long it might last and what his ​plans are for Iran once the fighting has stopped.

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Senate Republicans, Democrats clash in rare floor fight over ICE, DHS funding | Fox News

By Alex Miller | Fox News
Published March 11, 2026 4:29pm EDT

The Senate floor erupted Wednesday as Republicans and Democrats sparred over funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with one point becoming clear: neither side was close to reaching a deal.

While senators met behind closed doors just steps from the chamber, party leaders accused each other of refusing to negotiate over reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the key sticking point in the standoff.

“You can cry about it. You can whine about it. You lost an election over it,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said. “The White House has dealt with you in good faith. You want to prolong this until you get another incident, while your activists are on the street confronting ICE agents in sanctuary jurisdictions, hoping they get some viral moment.”

So far, Senate Republicans have delegated final say over any agreement to the White House, though the back and forth between both sides has slowed to a grinding halt.

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Republicans want DHS reopened in the short term, while negotiations over reforms to ICE continue. Democrats, meanwhile, have offered a funding proposal that would carve out immigration enforcement but reopen other key functions, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

At the center of the dispute is whether either side will agree to formal negotiations. Republicans say Democrats are ignoring their offers to meet, while Democrats contend they have not received an invitation.

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“We are here today, and we are trying to close a deal that would enable us to fund all the agencies that the Democrats say they want funded with reforms to ICE,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. “And I’ve seen the offer sheet from the White House, and they have gone a lot farther, a lot farther than any Democrat I thought was even possible.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said their demands for reform are straightforward, though Republicans have drawn red lines against proposals that would require ICE agents to obtain judicial warrants and unmask their identities, citing concerns about doxxing.

“But the bottom line is they refused, probably because the right wing doesn’t like it,” Schumer said. “So then let’s fund everything else but ICE and Border Patrol.”

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The floor fight was ignited by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and her attempt to force a vote on a DHS spending bill that stripped out funding for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

But both ICE and CBP are flush with billions in funding for the next handful of years thanks to Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill.”

Still, she argued that Democrats would not be “blackmailed” into funding immigration operations after the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, who were shot and killed by ICE agents in Minnesota.

“I am willing to talk to people, but I’m not willing to sit in a room, have coffee, give away a few things, and have Stephen Miller override whatever we all agreed to in a room,” Murray said.

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There has been little movement in the stalemate over DHS. The White House made its last offer nearly two weeks ago, and Democrats rejected it.

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., who was tapped by Thune to lead DHS negotiations for Senate Republicans, contended that Murray and Senate Democrats’ latest offer “would effectively defund our law enforcement.”

“Look, we’re not going back to the era of ‘defund the police,’” Britt said. “We’re not doing it.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

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Trump administration puts key Biden-era immigration policy on notice: ‘Unsustainable cycle’

The Supreme Court has not yet indicated whether it will take up the case for consideration.

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Haiti leader says country is ‘helpless’ if United States ends TPS

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The Trump administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow it to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the U.S.

It’s the latest effort by the administration to unwind Biden-era protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. as part of the president’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court Wednesday to immediately intervene and overturn a lower court order that blocked the administration’s effort to immediately revoke the temporary protected status designation for some 350,000 Haitian migrants living in the U.S.

A majority of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end the program, citing the “substantial” and “well-documented harms” the migrants would likely face as a result, clearing the way for the administration to appeal the case to the high court.

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In his filing Wednesday, Sauer urged the Supreme Court to review more broadly the issue of whether the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for other migrants living in the U.S.

“Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges — issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide — this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim orders,” Sauer said Wednesday. “This court should break that cycle.”

The TPS program in question allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

Haitians were first granted TPS status in 2010 after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left some 1.5 million in the country homeless.

The protections were extended several times, including under the Biden administration in 2021 after the July assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s last democratically elected president.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaks from a podium as assembled DHS staff watch.(Al Drago/Getty Images)

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced in November that the U.S. would be ending TPS protections for Haitians in the U.S., prompting a group of individuals living in the U.S. with protected status to file suit.

The Trump administration’s Supreme Court filing marks the second time this year the administration has asked the high court to immediately intervene and allow it to strip TPS protections for certain migrants.

Lawyers for the Justice Department also asked the Supreme Court last month to allow it to revoke TPS designations for Syrian migrants in the U.S., though the high court has yet to rule on that request.

The appeal comes just weeks after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Department of Homeland Security from immediately revoking the TPS designations for Haitians in the U.S.

FEDERAL JUDGES IN NEW YORK AND TEXAS BLOCK TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AFTER SCOTUS RULING

D. John Sauer, nominee to be solicitor general, testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building Feb. 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Reyes described the administration’s effort to abruptly wind down the designation as “arbitrary and capricious” and accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of failing to consider the “overwhelming evidence of present danger” in Haiti, which she noted had prompted the Biden administration to extend TPS protections for Haitians in the first place.

“The government cannot name a single concrete harm from maintaining the status quo,” Reyes said. “And so instead it argues that the court’s decision is ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the government.’”

The appeal comes as the Trump administration has sought to wind down most TPS designations, arguing the programs have been extended for too long under Democratic presidents.

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Trump officials have also taken aim at lower courts that have sought to block or pause their efforts to wind down TPS protections, accusing the lower court judges of exceeding their authority and unlawfully intruding on the executive branch’s authority on immigration policy.

Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI and other national news. She previously covered national politics at the Washington Examiner and The Washington Post, with additional bylines in Politico Magazine, the Colorado Gazette and others. You can send tips to Breanne at Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com, or follow her on X at @breanne_dep.

After Trump called for GOP Rep. Massie’s defeat, conservative groups spending over $5 million to try to oust him in May primary

Updated on: March 11, 2026 / 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News

Outside groups are already spending more than $5 million in hopes of unseating GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a May primary after President Trump called for his defeat.

So far, federal campaign finance records show that anti-Massie forces have dominated much of the outside spending picture in the Kentucky contest where the congressman is facing a pro-Trump challenge from Ed Gallrein, whose campaign website describes him as a farmer who has also served in the U.S. Navy. Spending disclosures show that a Super PAC has directed more than $2.8 million towards the contest since late February, while the group MAGA KY has spent around $2.7 million this cycle.

Since he arrived in Congress back in 2012, the Libertarian-minded Massie has taken lonely political stands on Capitol Hill, including voting against spending on the Iron Dome missile defense system for Israel, which has put him at odds with members of his own party. He was also one of the only House Republicans who voted against Mr. Trump’s massive spending and policy bill, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. His opposition towards high-profile GOP issues put him on a collision course with Mr. Trump last year, one that appeared to only accelerate after he helped push through a hard-fought transparency bill that forced the Justice Department to release an enormous amount of records from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

But Massie has benefited from some outside support, too, in his re-election run to the tune of around $1.18 million. Yet that figure is overshadowed by the cash attempting to help his opponent. Massie’s northern Kentucky district is reliably Republican and not expected to be competitive in the general election. This year isn’t the first time Massie has faced a primary challenge, but it is expected to be his toughest race to date, given the national dynamics and the attention of the president.

Massie is at risk of becoming another House Republican to fall in a primary. Earlier this month in Texas, incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was defeated in a contest that saw State Rep. Steve Toth primary the congressman from the right.

Crenshaw failed to secure Mr. Trump’s endorsement, though the president did not publicly side against the incumbent. Around a week before his win, Toth was endorsed by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in a warning signal of the way the race was going for Crenshaw. More than $3.8 million in outside spending went into that primary, a mark already far eclipsed in Kentucky.

The president has crusaded against Massie over the last year, a push that only grew as he prepared to head Wednesday to Hebron, Kentucky, which is in Massie’s district. Writing on Truth Social before his trip, Mr. Trump doubled down on his support of Gallrein, and later in a separate post predicted that “Massie will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress.”

Massie responded Wednesday morning, saying in a post on X, “I predict “President” DJT will begrudgingly sign my beautiful Epstein Files Transparency Act, causing beleaguered princes and ambassadors and prime ministers and CEOs around the world to be arrested or resign in total shame. Oh wait, that already happened.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/massie-on-fbi-doj-leaders-being-criminally-liable-if-trump-doesnt-release-all-epstein-files/

How the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute over AI safeguards escalated

By Reuters
March 11, 2026 8:35 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

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March 11 (Reuters) – A standoff erupted between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic in January after the AI lab refused to loosen safety guardrails on its systems, prompting the Pentagon to label it a ‘supply-chain risk,’ and putting the company’s government contracts in jeopardy.

The Claude maker’s executives warned that the designation, ​which they view as retaliation for opposing the use of their technology in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, could slash their ‌2026 revenue by billions of dollars.

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Legal experts suggest the government’s case may be undermined by a mismatch between the law invoked and Anthropic’s conduct, internal contradictions in the Pentagon’s behavior and evidence that its decision may have been driven by animus rather than security.

Here is a timeline of the ongoing conflict:

January 29 The Pentagon and Anthropic clash over eliminating safeguards that could allow the ​government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance
February 11 The Pentagon pushes AI companies, including Anthropic, to make their ​AI tools available in classified settings without many of the standard restrictions that the companies apply to other users
February ⁠14 The Pentagon considers ending its ties with Anthropic over the AI lab’s insistence on keeping some limits on how the U.S. military uses its models
February 23 U.S. ​Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for talks on the military use of Claude
February 24 The Pentagon asks Anthropic to get on board, ​or risk consequences, including being labeled a supply-chain risk
February 25 The Pentagon asks defense contractors, including Boeing (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), to assess their reliance on Anthropic
February 26 Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell asks Anthropic to allow the Pentagon to use its technology for all lawful purposes, giving the company until 5:01 p.m. ET on February 27 to decide
February 26 Anthropic says it will not accede to ​the Pentagon’s request to eliminate safeguards from its AI systems
February 27 U.S. President Donald Trump directs every federal agency to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology
February ​27 Hegseth directs the U.S. DoD to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security”
February 27 Anthropic says it will challenge in court the Pentagon’s decision
February 27 OpenAI announces deal to deploy technology in the ‌DoD’s classified ⁠network
February 28 OpenAI says its latest agreement with the Pentagon includes three red lines: its technology cannot be used for mass domestic surveillance, to direct autonomous weapons systems or for any high-stakes automated decisions
March 2 The U.S. Departments of State, Treasury and Health and Human Services move to cease using Anthropic’s Claude
March 3 Lockheed Martin pledges to follow the DoD’s direction, signaling a likely exodus of defense contractors removing Anthropic’s tools from their supply chains to protect their federal contracts, legal experts say
March 4 U.S. ​Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells CNBC that the ​agency will remove Anthropic from ⁠its government systems within days
March 4 Big tech industry group pushes to de-escalate the clash, saying a supply-chain risk designation creates uncertainty for companies and could threaten the military’s access to the best products and services
March 5 The U.S. DoD formally designates Anthropic ​as a supply-chain risk
March 6 Amazon says it is helping customers transition DoD workloads to alternative models on its ​cloud, while customers and ⁠partners could continue using Claude for all non‑Pentagon workloads
March 6 The U.S. General Services Administration draws up strict rules for civilian artificial-intelligence contracts and terminates Anthropic’s OneGov deal, which made Claude available to the federal government
March 9 Anthropic sues to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, saying the designation is unlawful and violates ⁠its free ​speech and due process rights
March 9 Anthropic executives say the U.S. government’s blacklisting of the AI firm ​could cut its 2026 revenue by multiple billions of dollars and cause reputational harm
March 10 Microsoft (MSFT.O)files a brief backing Anthropic’s lawsuit, saying the DoD designation directly affects it and that a temporary restraining ​order is needed to avoid costly supplier disruptions and rushed rebuilding of products that depend on Anthropic

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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says war with Iran has been “effective”

March 11, 2026 / 7:24 PM EDT / CBS News

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Wednesday he believes the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has been “effective” and is moving toward an “appropriate outcome.”

“I think, overall, what’s accomplished is remarkable,” Fetterman told CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett in an interview Wednesday.

Pressed on whether the war was going “well,” Fetterman responded, “Yes, absolutely. I mean, I’m not sure it’s the right word I would choose for war, but I do think it’s very effective. And then I do think it’s moving towards the kinds of appropriate outcome.”

Fetterman argued that the conflict has shown Iran’s military capabilities to be weak, saying it’s “undeniable that Iran really never had the kind of capabilities to respond.”

“Overall, they have been unable to inflict any significant damage on American assets or in Israel,” Fetterman said, adding that Iran has been forced “to resort” to launching strikes on Gulf nations and disrupting the regional oil trade.

Iran has launched missiles and drones at Israel and at several U.S.-allied Arab states, including American bases in those countries — though the Trump administration says the volume of incoming strikes has dropped as Iranian missile launchers are bombed.

Seven U.S. service members have been killed and around 140 have been wounded since the war began, according to the Pentagon. In one attack on a U.S. facility in Kuwait, six Americans were killed and dozens suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, CBS News has previously reported.

Ship traffic through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which normally accounts for the passage of about 20% of global oil, has been crippled by the war, sending oil prices spiking.

Fetterman told Garrett he’s the “only Democrat in the Senate” that supports the war, later adding he was “aware of how punishing it is as a Democrat to agree with him [President Trump] on anything.”

On March 4, a Senate resolution that would have blocked Mr. Trump from continuing to use military force against Iran failed in a 53-47 vote, with Fetterman the only Democrat to cross the aisle and vote against it.

Last summer, Fetterman also joined his Republican colleagues to vote against a measure that would have blocked Mr. Trump from using military force against Iran, the only Democrat to do so.

On Feb. 28, hours after the U.S. and Israel launched their attack, Fetterman took to social media to express his support for the war effort, writing that Mr. Trump was “willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.”

The senator said Wednesday that it is “very clear that” acquiring nuclear weapons is Iran’s “ambition.”

He also alleged that attempts by previous administrations to negotiate with Iran on its nuclear program failed, making the war “necessary.”

“Multiple presidents, through their administrations, have tried this, negotiation, treaties, all other kinds of techniques to work through our other allies in the region and cajole them, no incentives,” Fetterman said.

In 2018, Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an Iran nuclear deal that had been negotiated in 2015 by his predecessor, then-President Barack Obama.

At the time, Mr. Trump claimed Iran was “on the cusp” of acquiring nuclear weapons. Since the war began earlier this month, the White House and Israeli officials have reiterated their belief that Iran was developing nuclear weapons, though neither the U.S. nor Israel has provided evidence to back up their claims.

In a March 2025 report, the U.S. intelligence community determined that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. While Iran has long said its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes, it enriches uranium to near weapons-grade levels.

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Trump on Iran: We got to finish the job | CNN Politics

Published 7:21 PM EDT, Wed March 11, 2026 / CNN

President Donald Trump claimed in remarks that “we’ve won” the war with Iran, without providing substantial evidence of his claim. Trump also touted an international agreement to release stockpiled oil reserves.

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House Oversight Committee demands depositions from Bondi and Lutnick in Epstein probe

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Published March 11, 2026 7:43pm EDT

The House Oversight Committee has issued a 30-day deadline for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear for a formal deposition

The House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation wants U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear in 30 days for a deposition, Fox News has learned.

The committee also wants Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to appear for a deposition “within the next ten days,” a source close to the committee said.

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Officials downplay risk of Iranian drone attacks off California after FBI memo, but Newsom says state is “prepared”

March 11, 2026 / 7:39 PM EDT / CBS News

An FBI memo warning that Iran may try to launch drones at California in a seaborne “surprise attack” raised concern Wednesday — but law enforcement officials and homeland security experts have cautioned that it may not point to an immediate threat.

Multiple U.S. and California law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CBS News there is no known, specific threat underpinning the memo, which was issued a week ago and distributed to local law enforcement by the FBI’s Los Angeles office.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on X: “While we are not aware of any imminent threats at this time, we remain prepared for any emergency in our state.”

The memo, which was obtained by CBS News on Wednesday, stems from an apparent tip that surfaced prior to the Iranian conflict.

It said the FBI received “unverified” information that early last month, Iran “allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran.”

The memo added that the FBI had no additional information on the potential “timing, method, target, or perpetrators.”

The warning was issued several days into the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, prompting concerns that Iran could seek to retaliate on American soil. Some homeland security experts have pointed to the risk of cyberattacks and to Iran’s alleged history of murder-for-hire plots against dissidents based in the U.S. and prominent American officials.

Samantha Vinograd, a CBS News contributor and former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat protection, noted that the “Iranian regime has a vast and diverse arsenal of drones that it has deployed throughout the Middle East.”

Iran’s retaliatory strikes on U.S. military bases in the Middle East in recent weeks have included drone attacks. The Iranian military is known for its Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drones.

Vinograd also said the U.S. government has sought to prevent malicious drone activity by drug cartels.

Warning is “unverified” and “not actionable,” officials say

A California-based federal law enforcement official told CBS News the warning that was distributed last week about Iranian drones “is not actionable.”

“This is unverified,” another federal law enforcement official told CBS News. “There has been no information given on the timing, source, method or target of any such attack… since then, we have seen no further indications of this.”

Another California law enforcement official said: “All this means is we got this information and we want to get it out to law enforcement executives to make sure they’re up to speed on it. … There is absolutely nothing more to it.”

A law enforcement source familiar with the matter told CBS News that the FBI regularly shares with local law enforcement any intelligence that is gathered. The information suggesting that Iran may be interested in launching drone attacks in California was a component among the information shared last week.

But the source said there is no known specific threat.

The FBI and the White House did not comment to CBS News on the memo.

Vinograd said: “We have no indication that the FBI was sharing information on an imminent threat.”

“It is standard operating procedure — and prudent — for the FBI to share information with its partners to ensure partners are aware of the broader threat landscape,” she said. “Context on credibility and imminence is helpful as a part of these information sharing mechanisms.”

Jeff Harp, a former FBI special agent, said in an interview with CBS News that “there is a directive to over-communicate with all the different agencies out there” about potential threats.

“If they have any inkling that there is information out there, they’re going to broadcast it,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be 100% accurate. But what they want to get out there is at least a warning to make sure that there is some preparation and notice that goes out.”

Officials in California have said they are vigilant but aren’t aware of any immediate threats.

In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department said: “At this time, there are no known or specific threats to Los Angeles.” It added that it “continues to monitor global events and any potential related threats that could impact Los Angeles.”

Newsom’s office told CBS News the memo was “one of numerous security updates the state receives from federal partners daily and disseminates to local law enforcement and emergency responders.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/no-known-specific-threat-underpinning-fbi-alert-iran-targeting-california-officials/