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#1 Appeals Court Allows Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland - Dareh Gregorian and Gary Grumbach for NBC News, Jan Jekielek, Nick Sortor, Libs of TikTok, and Fox News on X
A federal appeals court ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to send National Guard troops into Oregon against the state's wishes, hitting pause on a lower court's order that had barred the deployment. "After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority," the panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling...
#2 Trump’s Wrecking Crew Starts East Wing Demolition for White House Ballroom -Andrew Feinberg Independent, Geiger Capital (community note), Hans Mahncke/Mike Lee/Sophia A. Nelson/Yashar Ali, Nick Schroer/MeidasTouch (community note), John Reeves, and Joe Walsh/S.V. Dáte/Spero News on X
The White House has started tearing down parts of the East Wing to make way for construction of President Donald Trump’s planned $250 million ballroom. Demolition crews on Monday began work on ripping up the facade of the East Wing facing the Treasury Department, a part of the building which housed the White House’s calligraphy office and the entrance that has long been used by visitors arriving for special events or tours. Trump confirmed the demolition work during an event with the NCAA and NAIA baseball championship teams from Louisiana State University and its’ Shreveport, Louisiana satellite campus...
#3 Trump-Backed Former Navy Seal Launches GOP Primary Challenge Against Massie - Paul Steinhauser for Fox News, Poll and Politics Tracker, Mike, Thomas Massie for Congress, Gunther Eagleman/T.A.R.S., Thomas Massie/Beef Initiative/Buddy Smot, and Eric Deters on X
A former longtime Navy SEAL and fifth-generation Kentucky farmer who is backed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared his candidacy in the state's 4th Congressional District, as he challenges Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in next year's GOP primary. "I’ve dedicated my life to serving my country, and I’m ready to answer the call again," Ed Gallrein said in a statement shared first with Fox News Digital. And pointing to Massie, a frequent GOP critic of the president during his second term in the White House, Gallrein emphasized, "This district is Trump Country. The President doesn’t need obstacles in Congress – he needs backup. I’ll defeat Thomas Massie, stand shoulder to shoulder with President Trump, and deliver the America First results Kentuckians voted for."
#4 Trump Administration Agrees to Speed up Student Loan Forgiveness Under New Court Deal - Greg Wehner for FOXBusiness, Jimmie Lincks, Fox & Friends/Paul Ryan, Michael, HKMyers, Graybeard Truth, and Woodrow Williams on X
In a significant win for student loan borrowers, the Trump administration has agreed to a court-supervised plan that will speed up debt cancellation under income-driven repayment programs and protect borrowers from unexpected tax bills next year. The administration and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) reached the agreement Friday in the AFT v. U.S. Department of Education case, resolving months of legal tension over the government’s obligation to cancel student debt for borrowers who have made decades of payments under federal law...#5 Police Intensify Hunt for Louvre Thieves as France Reels From Jewel Heist - Jamie Gray for NBC News, Caleb McMurtrey, John C. Gillespie, Sandra/Ian McGinness, Perros Perdidos Podcast, Alfred E, and Financial Express on X
French authorities raced against the clock Tuesday, intensifying their hunt for the priceless royal jewels stolen from the Louvre, and the thieves whose brazen daylight robbery left the nation reeling. The thieves made off with nine items of jewelry belonging to members of the French royal family. A crown studded with more than 1,300 diamonds was found damaged shortly after the theft on the escape route the four culprits took on a pair of scooters along the bank of the River Seine. That leaves eight royal jewels that police and investigators are searching for, though experts in art security told NBC News it could already be too late to recover the jewels...
#6 Karine Jean-Pierre on Why She Left the Democrats — and Calls Herself Independent - Majd Al-Waheidi and Michel Martin for NPR, PublishingWell, Grammy Blick, Roma52, PatPeters, PhD, Tracey Adamms, and DDALEX on X
For nearly three years, Karine Jean-Pierre served as White House press secretary, the public face of the Biden administration through daily briefings and trips around the world. In a new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, published Oct. 21, Jean-Pierre says that the party's internal dysfunction and disloyalty had helped pave the way for its 2024 defeat. Speaking with Morning Edition host Michel Martin, she reflected on her time in the administration and described why she decided to step away from the party she once represented. Here are five takeaways from the conversation...
#7 Maine Democrat Running to Unseat Susan Collins to Stay in Race After Discovery of Reddit Postings - Patrick Whittle and Kimberlee Kruesi for AP, Linda Brickley, Evie CG/Kaivan Shroff, David Weigel/Book ‘em Dan-o, Lloyd Lofton, and Politics and Poll Tracker on X
Old online comments made by a U.S. Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, dismiss rape in the military, and criticize both police officers and rural America were wrong but not disqualifying from office, the national chair of the Democratic Party said. Graham Platner is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine that has been held by Republican Susan Collins since 1997. He faces a crowded field for the nomination that also includes Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who announced her candidacy last week...
#8 French Ex-President Sarkozy Begins Jail Sentence for Campaign Finance Conspiracy - Paul Kirby for BBC, UMVA BUSINESS Ltd, Daily Star, Hintsa Andebrhan, The Washington Times, and Mj BlackBurn/TVL on X
Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War II, Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945, has any French ex-leader gone behind bars. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison, where he will occupy a small cell in the jail's isolation wing. More than 100 people applauded and shouted "Nicolas!" as he left his villa in the exclusive 16th district of Paris, holding his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy by the hand...
#9 Kenny Loggins Blasts Trump for Using “Danger Zone” in AI Video Mocking No Kings - Josephine Walker for Axios, TheWyomingite, Debra, Rob Stevens/ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ/ JOHNCONNELLY, Variety/Name is Wisco, and SUMITA MIKIO on X
Musician Kenny Loggins demanded that President Trump remove his song from an AI-generated video of the president dumping feces from a fighter jet on protesters at No Kings events. The Trump administration's "ask for forgiveness, not permission" approach to using creators' copyrighted work has repeatedly drawn pushback as the administration leans heavily into a social media campaign filled with AI "This is an unauthorized use of my performance of 'Danger Zone.'" Loggins wrote in an Instagram post on Monday.
#10 Ultimate House of Cards: Hidden $5.1t Debt Bomb Will Dwarf 2008 Crisis - by ITM Trading for Zerohedge, Politike Mikroskopa, Dinar Chronicles, and George Orwell on X
“We’re sitting on the ultimate house of cards,” warns developer Mitch Wexler, exposing what he calls a $5.1 trillion school bond Ponzi scheme propped up by inflated home values and taxpayer naivety. The grift? Municipal debt masked as “education funding,” securitized and sold on fantasy valuations. Wexler paints the nightmare scenario—school districts seizing entire subdivisions as defaults spread. “By definition, that’s an act of war,” he says. When public institutions become predatory creditors, social order itself collapses. The fuse is lit. The only question left: who gets torched when the system finally implodes?
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