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> https://www.thewrap.com/bari-weiss-talent-moves-cbs-news/

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NEW ORLEANS — Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the U.S. on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick last week ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, in the United States while he presented what the judge called his “substantial claim of U.S. citizenship,” court records show. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand but was granted lawful permanent residence in the U.S. before his first birthday, according to court filings.

But Souvannarath on Sunday messaged his wife on WhatsApp and told her he was in Dongmakkhai, Laos, according to a screenshot she shared with The Associated Press. The message ends with “love y’all.”

“It is very unfortunate, especially for the children that we have together,” Beatrice Souvannarath told AP.

Emails, phone calls and text messages sent to ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.

The ACLU of Louisiana, which is representing Souvannarath, called the deportation a “stunning violation of a federal court order.” Before his deportation, Souvannarath had been detained at a newly opened ICE facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

“ICE just ignored a federal court order and tore yet another family apart,” said Alanah Odoms, executive director for the ACLU of Louisiana, in a statement. “This administration has shown it will ignore the courts, ignore the Constitution and ignore the law to pursue its mass deportation agenda, even if it means destroying the lives of American citizens.”

>https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/man-deported-to-laos-despite-court-order-blocking-his-removal-attorneys-say-00626802

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President Trump on Wednesday impersonated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his absence during a stop in South Korea.

“He’s a killer, he’s tough as hell,” Trump said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Changing his voice, Trump said, “‘No we will fight!’ I said, ‘Whoa, is this the same man that I know?'”

Trump was referring to the brief conflict between India and Pakistan in May. He called Modi “the nicest-looking guy” and said both countries were “nuclear nations” that wanted to fight each other.
“They both said that,” Trump said. “They’re warring — they’re strong people.”

Modi did not attend the summit over the worry that Trump would bring up Pakistan, Bloomberg reported. Indian officials worried that Trump would take credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, fueled by Pakistan nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

India denies Trump’s involvement in the four-day conflict with Pakistan, Bloomberg wrote.

Trump and Modi spoke on Wednesday about India no longer buying oil from Russia. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was “not happy” about India buying Russian oil, but Modi assured him that oil purchases had ceased.

>Modi did not attend the summit over the worry that Trump would bring up Pakistan


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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-trump-tariffs-canada/
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/28/congress/senate-votes-against-trumps-50-percent-tariff-on-brazil-00626437
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-narrowly-passes-bill-repeal-trumps-tariffs-brazil/story?id=126955639

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve a resolution that would block President Trump's tariffs on Canada, a day after the chamber rebuked the president with another vote to block tariffs on Brazil.

In a 50 to 46 vote, four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the measure, which would terminate the national emergency used to impose tariffs on some goods from Canada. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky broke with their party to vote in favor of the resolution, which required a simple majority and was not subject to the 60-vote threshold needed for most legislation.

The move is mostly symbolic, since it is unlikely to be taken up in the GOP-controlled House. Republican leaders have taken steps to prevent lawmakers from forcing a vote on the president's tariffs in the lower chamber.

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Fact check!
Did Democrats vote against funding SNAP during the Schumer Shutdown?
Spoiler alert: yes
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-democrats-vote-against-funding-snap-benefits-10953995
Fact Check: Did Democrats Vote Against Funding SNAP Benefits?

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has accused Senate Democrats of voting “12 times to not fund” Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as the multiweek government shutdown continues.

The federal government has been shut down for nearly a month after Congress could not come to an agreement on a funding bill.

A funding bill passed the House, but stalled in the Senate, where it must clear the 60-vote filibuster to advance. Republicans currently control the Senate by a 53-47 margin, and only two Democratic senators have supported the temporary funding bill. Democrats have said they will not support the bill because it does not address their concerns about health care subsidies, specifically those established in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), that are set to expire at the end of the year.

The shutdown extending into November would have critical implications for SNAP Benefits starting November 1.

Tens of millions of Americans would not be paid benefits on time due to a lack of funding. Democrats and Republicans have cast blame toward each other for not taking steps to secure the program's funding.

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Court filing:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.b3c1c6b0-b390-4c9d-b557-fc5d525fd150/gov.uscourts.ca9.b3c1c6b0-b390-4c9d-b557-fc5d525fd150.88.0.pdf

As a federal appeals court mulls whether to reconsider its decision allowing President Donald Trump to federalize and send the Oregon National Guard to Portland, his administration on Monday made what local leaders fighting a deployment are casting as a remarkable admission:

Part of its testimony justifying the need for troops was wrong.

“We deeply regret these errors,” wrote Justice Department attorney Andrew M. Bernie in a letter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals filed in the court record.

The admission comes as the Trump administration faces a series of legal challenges in its efforts to deploy guard troops in Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago, Democratic-led cities where it has intensified immigration enforcement and crowd control tactics by federal agents.

Shocking video captured Border Patrol agents dragging a 67-year-old man from his car and pinning him to the ground in an immigration enforcement operation during a children’s Halloween parade in Chicago, according to reports.

The man was driving home after a long morning run when he turned a corner in the city’s Old Irving Park neighborhood and discovered Border Patrol agents had blocked off the road leading to his home, his running club, DWRunning Racing Team, posted in a social media statement.

The man, who the club identified as a US citizen, was reportedly dragged out of the car and thrown to the ground shortly after agents “threatened to break his window,” if he didn’t move his car, the club said.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/us-news/us-citizen-suffers-broken-ribs-after-border-patrol-agents-drag-him-out-of-car-while-driving-into-blocked-off-street-in-immigration-operation-during-chicago-childrens-halloween-parade/

Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order

https://www.commondreams.org/news/utah-homeless-internment-camp

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor.

Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.

The genesis of the project began in July, following Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” executive order, which threatened to withhold funding from states and cities unless they criminalized homeless people camping on streets and ordered the attorney general to expand the use of involuntary civil commitment for adults experiencing homelessness.

Despite a large body of evidence showing their effectiveness at curbing crime while keeping people off the street, the order also required the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to end its support of “Housing First” policies that provide unhoused people with homes without the requirement of behavioral health treatment or sobriety.

Less than a week after Trump’s homelessness order, Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, as well as the state Senate president and House speaker—both Republicans—sent a letter to the state’s Homeless Services Board, which was created last year following a legislative push by the Cicero Insitute—a far-right think tank that has proposed aggressive measures to criminalize homelessness and which has had major influence over Trump’s crackdown on the homeless during his second term.

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Senate Democrats are becoming more partial to ending the Democrat Shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5577883-senate-democrats-government-shutdown-pressure/
Democrats wobble as pressure to end shutdown ramps up

Senate Democrats are taking a close look at a Republican proposal to pay all federal employees — including essential and furloughed workers — as they’re under new pressure from the nation’s largest federal workers union to pass a clean continuing resolution to stop shutting down the government.

They also plan to introduce legislation to pay for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and extend funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which provides essential nutrition assistance for lower income mothers.

The developments reveal Democrats are looking for a way to ease the impact of the four-week Schumer Shutdown on federal workers who are struggling to pay their daily expenses and on lower income Americans who may soon run out of food.

Publicly, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and his leadership team are sticking to their arguments that President Trump needs to start negotiating on health insurance subsidies before they agree to reopen the government.

At the same time, Democrats are feeling intense pressure to end the Schumer Shutdown in a way that gives them a political win — or at least a face-saving off-ramp from the stalemate that has stalled Washington for nearly 30 days.

Democratic leaders say they want Trump to negotiate with them over rising health insurance premiums, but they haven’t yet said what exactly it would take to get enough votes for Democrats to agree to reopen the government.

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5,698 days since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. 14th) laments Republicans have no plan to address rising healthcare costs.
Her grievance comes 27 days into the government shutdown under Republican leadership in the White House and Congress over expiring subsides implemented to keep healthcare costs affordable for millions of Americans.
The Republican majority is demanding Democrats agree to their bill to let the subsides expire and have so far offered nothing in return, going so far as to deliberately close channels for negotaition.
Republicans in the Senate, who could end the shutdown immediately by invoking the nuclear option, have instead chosen to put forth the bill 13 times, each time expecting a different outcome despite changing nothing.
This strategy has so far been unsuccessful.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5577071-greene-johnson-health-care-plans-shutdown/

>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not providing any plans on a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

>“You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” Greene wrote on social platform X, in response to a post from Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman following a recent GOP conference call.

>“And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” she added.

>“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the Georgia Republican continued. “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”

Israel strikes Gaza
Israel has launched strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to immediately carry out "powerful" attacks

At least nine people have been killed, the Hamas-affiliated Gaza Civil Defence agency tells the BBC

Israel and Hamas are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire, while Israel's defence minister says Hamas attacked Israeli soldiers in Gaza - Hamas denies this

It comes as Israel says a coffin handed over by Hamas on Monday did not contain the remains of a deceased hostage

Hamas says Israel is obstructing efforts to search for bodies in the Strip, and says it is postponing a planned handover of another dead hostage

All but one of the dead hostages still in Gaza were among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, when about 1,200 other people were killed

Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 68,500 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c891ex72nj7t

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https://newrepublic.com/post/202339/trump-79-wanders-off-meeting-japanese-prime-minister

He was immediately tested afterward for dementia.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pierre-robert-wmmr-dies/

Pierre Robert, the longtime radio host on 93.3 WMMR in Philadelphia, has died, the Beasley Media Group said Wednesday.

Robert joined the rock station in 1981 and was one of the most recognizable personalities on the airwaves in the region.

He "hosted the midday show with his unabashed love for music, his listeners, and the city." the statement says. "The legendary rock radio personality was best known for his welcoming 'Greetings Citizens' salutation, along with his big heart and warm voice."

His show included daily features such as Pierre's Vinyl Cut and "On This Day" history lessons.

"He truly cared about his listeners and the people of Philadelphia," Beasley Media Group, which owns WMMR, said in the statement.

He supported charitable efforts, including the Aids Walk and Manna's Pie in the Sky fundraiser.

"We all have heavy hearts today," Caroline Beasley, CEO of the media group, said. "Pierre's unwavering love for music and his deep connection with listeners made him one of radio's most enduring and beloved voices. He will be greatly missed."

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The largest federal union in the United States is literally begging Democrats to pass the clean cr and end the Democrat Shutdown.
https://thehill.com/business/5574613-federal-workers-union-demands-end-shutdown/
Largest government union calls for clean CR to end shutdown

The largest union representing federal workers is calling for an end to the government shutdown, as it hits Day 27.

In a Monday release, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley said “it’s time” for Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government.

“No half measures, and no gamesmanship,” Kelley said. “Put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today.”

The AFGE, according to its website, represents more than 800,000 workers in “nearly every” federal government agency. The agencies with the most AFGE members include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and Defense, as well as the Social Security Administration.

The union has filed lawsuits on behalf of furloughed and laid-off workers throughout the shutdown, including Oct. 3, when it sued the Education Department over automatic email responses from agency employees blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown.

The union represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers.

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https://apnews.com/article/navy-nimitz-aircraft-carrier-crashes-8afee8488bd39371350fe0a1dd55374d
A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other on Sunday afternoon, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.

The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued, and the two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet ejected and were recovered safely, and all five “are safe and in stable condition,” the fleet said in a statement.

The causes of the two crashes were under investigation, the statement said.

The USS Nimitz is returning to its home port in Naval Base Kitsap in Washington state after having been deployed to the Middle East for most of the summer as part of the U.S. response to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on commercial shipping. The carrier is on its final deployment before decommissioning.

Another aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, suffered a series of mishaps in recent months while deployed to the Middle East.

In December, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg mistakenly shot down an F/A-18 jet from the Truman.

Then, in April, another F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the Truman’s hangar deck and fell into the Red Sea.


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