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#1 Military Plane Carrying Pete Hegseth Declares Emergency While Over Atlantic Ocean - Cheyenne Ubiera for The Mirror US, Wake Up World, Nick Sortor, Hodler, Sean Parnell, and Eric Daugherty on X
A military plane carrying Pete Hegseth had to declare an emergency, prompting the aircraft to turn back. The Department of Defense Secretary was leaving Belgium on Wednesday when the aircraft declared a squawk code 7700 emergency over the Atlantic Ocean and had to return to the U.K. The aircraft dropped altitude from 34,200 feet to 10,000 feet before landing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. It comes after Hegseth's own mother made an accusation against him in a damning email...#2 Judge Orders Trump Administration to Pause Shutdown Layoffs - Aoife Walsh for BBC, Jeffrey A Tucker, The Washington Times, AFP News Agency, Vanguard Newspaper, and The Beacon on X
A judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from laying off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown. It comes less than a week after the administration confirmed several agencies had begun laying off about 4,000 workers. US District Judge Susan Illston granted a request by two unions to block layoffs at more than 30 agencies. During the hearing, Illston said she agreed with the unions that the administration was unlawfully using the lapse in funding, which began on 1 October, to carry out its plans to downsize the federal government...
#3 AOC and Sanders Joke About Not Trusting Trump on Shutdown Negotiations - CNN, Shompy, Mizz Trojakova, Donna Matthews, Michael J Franklin, and The Daily Beast on X
During a CNN town hall, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that they do not trust President Donald Trump to negotiate in good faith to end the government shutdown.#4 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Argues for Race-Based Redistricting, Citing the Americans With Disabilities Act: ‘They’re Disabled’ - Victor Nava for New York Post, Breitbart News, Sandy, Apinions Vary, UncoverDC and Not The Bee on X
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday compared efforts to draw congressional districts along racial lines to the way disabled people were granted easier access to buildings after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law. “The idea in Section 2 [of the Voting Rights Act] is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don’t have equal access to the voting system, right?” Jackson said, as she questioned a lawyer representing Louisiana voters who argued the court-ordered creation of a second majority-black district in the state violated the 14th Amendment by prioritizing racial composition in its boundaries. “They’re disabled,” the justice said of minority voters in the state...
#5 US Is Working on Doubling Aid to Argentina to $40 Billion by Tapping Private Funding Sources - Fatima Hussein and Andrea Vulcano for AP News, Renna, EndGame Marco/Zerohedge, Brad Waldera, Times Radio, Lieutenant Colonel Reagan, and The Lincoln Project/Patrick 01 on x
The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina through a mix of financing from sovereign funds and the private sector. That would come on top of the $20 billion credit swap line that the U.S. Treasury pledged to Argentine President Javier Milei and his government this month to bolster the South American nation’s collapsing currency. “We are working on a $20 billion facility that would complement our swap line, with private banks and sovereign funds that, I believe, would be more focused on the debt market,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Wednesday. He called it “a private-sector solution” and said “many banks are interested in it and many sovereign funds have expressed interest.”
#6 The ‘Arc de Trump’: President Shows off Plans for His Latest Grandiose D.C. Construction Project - Callum Sutherland for TIME, Martin Rosenkranz, halifaxidocious, Byron, This is the Conversation Project, and 𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 on X
President Donald Trump has unveiled detailed plans to build a large triumphal arch in the capital to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence next year. Speaking to donors at a dinner in the East Room of the White House, the President displayed renderings of the project, plus a range of models differing in size. “This would be small, medium, and large… I happen to think the large by far looks the best,” joked Trump as he held up different models of the structure...
#7 Trump and FBI Director Patel Tout Crime-Fighting Efforts - Associated Press/PBS, FBI Director Kash Patel, Diane Morgan, Ted Bryant, David Perrault, and Modernity on X
President Donald Trump and the FBI Director Kash Patel kicked off an event Wednesday to announce the results of a law enforcement effort called “Operation Summer Heat.” Operation Summer Heat was a three-month initiative to crack down on violent crime across the country between June and September. “Just as we’re forging peace and stability abroad, we’re also restoring peace and safety and stability at home,” Trump said...#8 US-China Rare Earth Minerals Fight - Selina Wang and Michelle Stoddart for ABC News, Stephen Moore, Datrixa, CSIS, Erudite Risk, and Scott Lincicome on X
Just weeks before the planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, China dramatically expanded its restrictions on rare earth minerals, a move the Trump administration sees as a sharp escalation in China's efforts to tighten its grip on global manufacturing. China's new rules, which apply to all countries, are set to take effect in phases on Nov. 8, then Dec. 1.
#9 Canada Threatens Stellantis With Legal Action Over Jeep Move to U.S. - Vipal Monga and Paul Vieira for The Wall Street Journal, Stellantis North America, @amuse, Mario Zelaya, Melissa Lantsman/Raquel Dancho, Dan Knight, and Pierre Poilievre on X
Canada’s Industry Minister Melanie Joly threatened Stellantis STLA 2.12%increase; green up pointing triangle with legal action over the car company’s plan to make midsize Jeeps in Illinois instead of Ontario. Joly on Wednesday sent a letter to Stellantis Chief Executive Officer Antonio Filosa, in which she said the carmaker is in danger of defaulting on agreements it made with the Canadian government to keep intact its factory footprint in Ontario, in exchange for billions of dollars in subsidies...
#10 Dem Governor in Hot Seat After Whistleblower Rips Disturbing Sentencing Pattern for Illegal Child Rapists - Peter Pinedo for Fox News, 匕工êれ 丹れムモ, News News News, Noddy, Austin, and The Patriot Ledger on X
A former Massachusetts shelter director-turned-whistleblower is calling the sentencing of yet another illegal alien for raping a child at a taxpayer-funded shelter further evidence of a "total government failure" in the sanctuary state. Haitian illegal alien Cory Alvarez, 27, was found guilty of aggravated rape of a child at a migrant shelter in Rockland, Massachusetts, and sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, according to NBC 10 Boston. Alvarez was arrested by Rockland police in 2024 on suspicion of sexual assault on a 15-year-old female victim. Both Alvarez and the victim were living at a state-run shelter at a Comfort Inn...
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