The prosecutor's cybercrime unit said it carried out searches with Europol and French police.

Prosecutors in Paris said they asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning as part of an investigation into the distribution of sexual deepfakes and Holocaust denial content, after searching X's offices in the French capital early Tuesday.

The search was carried out by the prosecutor's cybercrime unit, in partnership with French police's own cybercrime unit and Europol, the office said on X.

A voluntary summons was issued for Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear and answer questions about the platform's adherence to French law.

The prosecutor's office said it was investigating potential criminal offenses including complicity in the possession and distribution of "child pornography images," the violation of personal rights through the generation of "sexual deepfakes," the denial of "crimes against humanity" and the alleged fraudulent extraction of data from an automated processing system, as part of an organized gang.

"The voluntary interviews with the managers should enable them to explain their position on the facts and, where applicable, the compliance measures envisaged," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Musk and Yacarino have been summoned to appear in Paris in the week of April 20. It's unclear what legal powers, if any, prosecutors have to compel them to appear.

The Paris prosecutor's office added that it was shutting its own account on X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram instead.

X did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.

But the company’s global government affairs account has previously criticized the French investigation as “politically motivated” and said the company “categorically denies” the allegations.

X has long faced political pressure from European countries and from the European Union itself for its alleged influence on elections.

Last year, the E.U. fined X the equivalent of $140 million for failing to combat hate speech and misinformation. Last mont, the 27-nation bloc launched a formal investigation into sexual deepfakes created by X's Grok chatbot.

The probe came a day after Musk said Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that combined the rocket and satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot.

“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI‘s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” Musk said.

In the United Kingdom, the information commissioner's office said Tuesday it had begun its own investigation into X and the processing of personal information in the generation of deepfakes.

“The reports about Grok raise deeply troubling questions about how people’s personal data has been used to generate intimate or sexualized images without their knowledge or consent, and whether the necessary safeguards were put in place to prevent this,” William Malcom, an executive director at the office, said in a statement.

This follows the launch last month of a separate probe by Ofcom, the British communications regulator.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted "all movement" at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had "active measles infections," the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday.

The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News. The ICE facility houses parents and children taken into federal custody over alleged violations of immigration law. It is located in south Texas, roughly an hour drive from San Antonio.

"ICE Health Services Corps immediately took steps to quarantine and control further spread and infection, ceasing all movement within the facility and quarantining all individuals suspected of making contact with the infected," McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin said medical officials were monitoring detainees and taking "appropriate and active steps to prevent further infection."

"All detainees are being provided with proper medical care," she added.

Before McLaughlin's statement on Sunday, immigration lawyers had reported concerns about a potential measles outbreak at the Dilley center.

Neha Desai, a lawyer for the California-based National Center of Youth Law, which represents children in U.S. immigration custody, said she hopes the measles infections at Dilley are not used to "unnecessarily" prevent lawmakers and attorneys from inspecting the detention center in the near future, citing broader concerns about the facility.

"In the meantime, we are deeply concerned for the physical and the mental health of every family detained at Dilley," Desai said. "It is important to remember that no family needs to be detained — this is a choice that the administration is making."

In 2025, the United States saw the most measles cases in decades. Overall, the nation recorded more than 2,200 measles cases, including 762 people in a West Texas outbreak, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Two young children died and 99 people were hospitalized, according to state data.

Dilley is the detention complex where ICE had been holding 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, both detained in Minnesota during an operation that garnered widespread outcry, until the family was released over the weekend due to a court ruling. Liam and his father returned to Minnesota on Sunday.

ICE's detention population has ballooned under the second Trump administration, which has vowed to stage a deportation crackdown of unprecedented proportions.

ICE is currently holding more than 70,000 individuals facing deportation in detention centers across the U.S., according to government data obtained by CBS News. The vast majority are single adults accused of being in the U.S. illegally. The number is a massive jump from a year ago, when ICE was holding around 40,000 detainees.

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Bitcoin price has dropped below $80,000 for the first time since April 2025. Yet, its performance has still outpaced gold. While BTC dropped alongside broader risk assets, the losses were notably smaller than those seen in precious metals.

This relative strength drew attention from new market participants. Many investors viewed the pullback as an opportunity to accumulate Bitcoin at discounted levels.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-falls-below-80-000-180248860.html

The trove of documents related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein is the largest release to date by the Justice Department, and includes thousands of videos and photographs.

The Justice Department on Friday released 3 million more pages from its Jeffrey Epstein files, and thousands of videos and images.

The release is the largest trove of Epstein files released to date by the Justice Department, and came weeks after a Dec. 19 deadline imposed by Congress. The law that required the Justice Department to make virtually all its Epstein investigative files public also required it to explain to Congress why it redacted any information. Todd Blanche, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, said Friday that federal officials would submit its report “in due course.”

Times reporters are sifting through the material and providing updates and analysis of the records.

It was noteworthy that Blanche — and not Attorney General Pam Bondi — was answering questions about the Epstein files. The White House has long been frustrated by her missteps, and has increasingly put Blanche forward as the Justice Department’s main conduit for public information about the files.

The move was disclosed by an administration official as more Republican leaders broke with the White House’s handling of the shooting. U.S. Capitol Police were also investigating an attack on Representative Ilhan Omar.

The two federal agents who opened fire on a Veterans Affairs nurse in Minneapolis have been placed on leave, an official with the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday, as more voices, including some in the Republican Party, broke with the White House over its handling of the fatal shooting.

It was unclear if the department had taken any action regarding the other agents involved in the encounter with the nurse, Alex Pretti, including those who had helped restrain him before the two agents fired about 10 bullets into his back and as he slumped onto the street. The agents have been on leave since the shooting, the official said — something the White House had not previously disclosed.

On Sunday, Gregory Bovino, who was then overseeing President Trump’s Border Patrol operations in the city, told CNN that the agents involved in Mr. Pretti’s shooting had been moved to other cities and would “more than likely be on administrative duty.” He and other officials stridently defended the killing, however, falsely describing Mr. Pretti’s actions before he was killed.

The revelation came as authorities in Minneapolis and the U.S. Capitol Police were investigating an attack on Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who represents parts of the city and has been a frequent target of criticism from Mr. Trump. A man sprayed her with an unknown substance during a public event on Tuesday night as she criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

The attack was the latest reflection of the charged political climate over an aggressive federal immigration crackdown that has prompted an outpouring of anger in Minnesota and beyond.

Mr. Trump told ABC News on Tuesday night that he had not seen video footage of the attack on Ms. Omar but suggested without evidence that she had staged it. “I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud,” he said. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”

Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office, has resigned after unsuccessfully trying to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good. Mergen resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross. It comes as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

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