• Top News
  • AP/NBC News/CNN: US carries out new strike in Caribbean, killing 3 alleged drug smugglers
  • Washington Post: Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes
  • Reuters: Russia denounces ‘excessive’ US military force in Caribbean, backs Venezuela
  • USA Today: Who is the US killing in its boat attacks? Hegseth won’t say, and lawmakers want answers.
  • CBS News: Federal agents allegedly wear Halloween masks during Los Angeles patrol
  • AP: Children tied up, parents arrested, and families traumatized after FBI raid in Idaho
  • Yahoo News: DHS detail arrests made in Albany Park, Evanston, Skokie on Halloween
  • AP: Video shows immigration agent punching restrained man after car collision turns into confrontation
  • CBS Chicago: Shot fired, multiple fights reported as hundreds of teens packed downtown Oak Park, spokesperson says
  • Chicago Tribune: Batavia mulls ordinance banning federal immigration actions on city property
  • Chicago Tribune: Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership
  • FOX News: Florida man nabbed by Homeland Security for allegedly making online death threats against ICE ‘Gestapo’
  • Daily Caller: Federal Judge Rules Trump Cannot Enforce Voter Registration Proof-Of-Citizenship Order
  • New York Times: Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, 80, Dies; Cartel Kingpin Fed Cocaine Boom
• Opinion – Editorials
  • New York Post: Top Democrats’ hateful rhetoric keeps stoking anti-ICE violence
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Univision: ICE will use AI to monitor immigrants through social media, says a lawyer.
  • Washington Post: Documented or not, Latinos are changing habits during ICE crackdown
  • Washington Times: [DC] Baltimore County reaches compact with ICE, no longer sanctuary for migrants
  • Univision: [DC] Deaths at ICE detention centers mobilize activists in DC
  • Breitbart: [IL] Illinois Passes Law Preventing ICE Arrests in Courthouses
  • CNN: [IL] They were arrested at an ICE protest outside of Chicago. Here’s what happened to them next
  • Univision: [IL] Anti-ICE protest in Broadview: assembly declared illegal and arrests reported
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Chicago-area man killed by ICE honored at Franklin Park Day of the Dead celebration: ‘Someone who was wanted’
  • AP: [ID] FBI raid at Idaho horse track shows how immigration is a top focus across law enforcement
  • Breitbart: [AZ] ICE Officer, Illegal Immigrant Injured After Shots Fired
  • USA Today: [CA] ICE arrested 361 migrants at Glass House farms. Bleak confinements, deportations followed
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Deportation fears at Día de los Muertos festivities lead to some cancellations
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Blaze: Trump ramps up vetting of foreign workers to combat Biden’s lax policies
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Border Patrol union chief explains ‘damage’ of Democratic policies
• Transportation Security Administration
  • The Hill: FAA reports increasing air traffic controller call-outs as shutdown enters second month
  • CBS News/Daily Caller: [SC] Rep. Nancy Mace cursed and berated Charleston airport police over escort, incident report says
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • USA Today: Hurricane Melissa death toll tops 50; ‘apocalyptic’ Caribbean damage. Updates.
  • New York Times: [Jamaica] Death Toll Rises From Hurricane Melissa as Many Communities Remain Cut off
• Secret Service
  • USA Today: JD Vance says Secret Service agents are ‘grateful’ family German shepherd doesn’t bite
• Terrorism Investigations
  • FOX News: [MA] ‘Intentional’ explosion on Harvard Medical School campus probed by FBI; 2 people seen fleeing building: police
  • AP: [MI] Michigan lawyer says the Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed
• National Security News
  • FOX News: [Nigeria] Trump threatens to halt all US aid, conduct ‘vicious’ military attack in Nigeria over Christian persecution
  • NBC News: [Nigeria] Trump tells Defense Department to ‘prepare for possible action’ in Nigeria
  • Reuters: [Nigeria] Nigeria welcomes US assistance to fight terrorism, presidency spokesperson says

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