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The New York Post [11/23/2025 3:21 PM, Ryan King, 42219K] reports President Trump on Sunday revealed his plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization amid recent revelations about the Islamist group’s radicalism and growing influence in the West. "It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms," Trump told Just the News. "Final documents are being drawn.” The move comes on the heels of advocacy from think tanks and lawmakers in Congress. Last week, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations in the state. The designation by the federal government seeks to cut off financing and any other means of support to the targeted group, among other things. The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1928, has been cited as having ties to numerous terrorist groups. Hamas, for example, billed itself as "one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine" in its founding charter. Just the News reported that there had been growing momentum within the Trump administration to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, before the president revealed his plan to do. A chilling analysis from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy last week found that the Muslim Brotherhood is halfway through its plan to "transform Western society from within.” "We are now 50 years into the Brotherhood’s 100-year plan to entrench themselves into key institutions in the United States and other Western societies to undermine and destroy our democracy," ISGAP’s director, Dr. Charles Asher Small, said. "This is not simply a political movement but a transnational ideological project that adapts itself to Western systems while working to undermine them.” Breitbart [11/23/2025 3:28 PM, Amy Furr, 2416K] reports that the U.S. Department of State lists Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) on its website. "Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business," the agency said. Among those groups are Antifa, Tren de Aragua, ISIS, Boko Haram, and Hamas. The News article said the president has been considering designating the Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO since his first administration. "The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist group founded nearly a century ago in Egypt but with chapters, parties, and affiliated movements around the world," the article said. The Muslim Brotherhood has historically been linked to radical Islamist movements, with affiliates fueling terrorism and undermining key U.S. allies, the congresswoman highlighted. More recently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that a British journalist suspected of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood was in ICE custody and facing deportation, Breitbart News reported in October. NewsMax [11/23/2025 5:31 PM, Brian Freeman, 4109K] reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for his plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror group, The Jerusalem Post reported. "I commend President Trump for outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood," he said. "This is an organization that endangers stability in the Middle East and beyond. That is why the State of Israel has outlawed parts of the organization and will continue to do so.” Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as "foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations," according to Just The News. Republicans in the House and the Senate, as well as some Democrats, have urged the State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled in August that the designation was "in the works," but emphasized that the process is lengthy because the Muslim Brotherhood has numerous branches and affiliates that must be examined individually.

CNN [11/24/2025 5:02 AM, Betsy Klein, Natasha Bertrand, Kevin Liptak, and Kylie Atwood, 18595K] reports the Trump administration could have expanded authority to take action in Venezuela starting Monday, as the US designates Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization. The designation of “Cartel de los Soles,” a phrase that experts say is more a description of allegedly corrupt government officials than an organized crime group, as a foreign terrorist organization will authorize President Donald Trump to impose fresh sanctions targeting Maduro’s assets and infrastructure. It doesn’t, however, explicitly authorize the use of lethal force, according to legal experts. Still, administration officials have been making the case that the designation — one of the State Department’s most serious counterterrorism tools — will give the US expanded military options for striking inside Venezuela. Cartel de los Soles is used to describe a decentralized network of Venezuelan groups within the armed forces linked to drug trafficking, experts say. The Venezuelan president has always denied any personal involvement in drug trafficking, and his government has repeatedly denied the existence of the alleged cartel, which some experts suggest technically doesn’t exist in a conventional sense. The designation, announced November 16, comes as the US military has amassed more than a dozen warships and 15,000 troops into the region as part of what the Pentagon has branded “Operation Southern Spear.” The US military has killed dozens of people in boat strikes as part of the anti-drug-trafficking campaign. Trump has been briefed by top officials on a range of options for action inside Venezuela, including strikes on military or government facilities and special operations raids. The option of doing nothing also still exists. There is some public opposition to US involvement in the region. According to a CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday, 70% of Americans oppose the US taking military action in Venezuela, compared with 30% who favor action. Seventy-six percent of respondents say the Trump administration has not clearly explained the US position on military action. Officially, the Trump administration says it is working to cut down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs — but regime change is a possible side effect of those efforts. Trump is hoping that the pressure is enough to force Maduro to step down without taking direct military action, according to a US official. Bloomberg [11/23/2025 8:18 PM, Oscar Medina, 18207K] reports that the decision was published Sunday evening in a federal registry notice dated Nov. 24. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, arrived in the region in November, sparking fears within the Maduro administration that the US may be preparing to strike targets inside Venezuela. In recent weeks, Washington has already taken direct actions, destroying vessels near Venezuela’s coast suspected of drug trafficking. As the standoff intensified, repercussions followed during the weekend, as several airlines canceled all flights to and from Venezuela in response to a US Federal Aviation Administration advisory urging operators to “exercise caution” due to the spiraling crisis. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the FTO designation grants the US government “a whole bunch of new options” to confront narco-terrorist groups. Cartel de los Soles now joins a list of designated foreign terrorist organizations that includes Islamist groups, as well as powerful drug syndicates like Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Colombian cartels, and Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua.

AP [11/24/2025 12:02 AM, Regina Garcia Cano, 28013K] reports President Donald Trump’s administration is set to ramp up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday by designating the Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization. But the entity that the U.S. government alleges is led by Maduro is not a cartel per se. The designation is the latest measure in the Trump administration’s escalating campaign to combat drug trafficking into the U.S. In previewing the step about a week ago, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, of being “responsible for terrorist violence” in the Western Hemisphere. The move planned Monday comes as Trump evaluates whether to take military action against Venezuela, which Trump has not ruled out despite bringing up the possibility of talks with Maduro. Land strikes or other actions would be a major expansion of the monthslong operation that has included a massive military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and striking boats accused of trafficking drugs, killing more than 80 people. Venezuelans began using the term Cartel de los Soles in the 1990s to refer to high-ranking military officers who had grown rich from drug-running. As corruption later expanded nationwide, first under the late President Hugo Chávez and then under Maduro, its use loosely expanded to police and government officials as well as activities like illegal mining and fuel trafficking. The “suns” in the name refer to the epaulettes affixed to the uniforms of high-ranking military officers. The umbrella term was elevated to a Maduro-led drug-trafficking organization in 2020, when the U.S. Justice Department in Trump’s first term announced the indictment of Venezuela’s leader and his inner circle on narcoterrorism and other charges. “It is not a group,” said Adam Isaacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America organization. “It’s not like a group that people would ever identify themselves as members. They don’t have regular meetings. They don’t have a hierarchy.” Up until this year, the label of foreign terrorist organization had been reserved for groups like the Islamic State or al-Qaida that use violence for political ends. The Trump administration applied it in February to eight Latin American criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking, migrant smuggling and other activities. The administration blames such designated groups for operating the boats it is striking but rarely identifies the organizations and has not provided any evidence. It says the attacks , which began off the coast of Venezuela and later expanded to the eastern Pacific Ocean, are meant to stop narcotics from flowing to American cities. But many — including Maduro himself — see the military moves as an effort to end the ruling party’s 26-year hold on power. Since the arrival of U.S. military vessels and troops to the Caribbean months ago, Venezuela’s U.S.-backed political opposition also has reignited its perennial promise of removing Maduro from office, fueling speculation over the purpose of what the Trump administration has called a counterdrug operation.

NewsMax [11/23/2025 11:26 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports Washington’s designation of an alleged Venezuelan cartel as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) takes effect on Monday, opening the door to new forms of US pressure on President Nicolas Maduro. The FTO list, which includes Islamist groups, separatists, guerrillas, and more recently, gangs and drug organizations from Mexico and Colombia, is overseen by the State Department. From Monday, the list will include "Cartel de los Soles" ("Cartel of the Suns"), which Washington claims is run by Maduro. The shadowy group is responsible for "terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The move is part of the Trump administration’s campaign against drugs and illegal immigration from Latin America. No evidence has been made public to support the accusation of Maduro’s involvement in the group. However, with a major military presence now deployed in the Caribbean, including an aircraft carrier, the FTO designation will give legal cover for more pressure on the Venezuelan authorities. Already, US forces have killed at least 83 people in air strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs in international waters since September, according to an AFP tally of publicly released figures. Again, no evidence has been made public that drugs were in the boats. Trump earlier this month stated that Maduro’s days are "numbered" and US media outlets claim the Republican leader has authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela. The State Department’s FTO list definition does not mention military actions, but in an interview Friday Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that the new classification would bring "a whole bunch of new options.”

New York Times [11/24/2025 3:20 AM, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, 330K] reports President Trump intends to strip hundreds of Somalis living in the United States of the protected status they have had for decades under a program for immigrants from countries in crisis. Mr. Trump specifically targeted “Somalis in Minnesota” in a social media post on Friday, writing that he was terminating their eligibility for the Temporary Protected Status program. More Somalis live in Minnesota than in any other state. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said in Minneapolis on Sunday that her office would evaluate whether to end protection for Somalis under the program. Doing so would require giving 60 days’ notice. Ms. Noem suggested that, if the status was revoked, the change would apply to Somali immigrants across the country, and not just in Minnesota. Temporary Protected Status allows people from countries in turmoil because of a civil war, natural disaster or other crisis to live and work in the United States. Technically, the status is temporary, and meant to last about 18 months unless it is renewed — but it has often been renewed, and for several groups including the Somalis, it had become all but permanent. Protected status was first granted to Somalis in 1991, when the country was torn apart by civil war and its national government collapsed. The designation has been extended many times since, including under the prior Trump administration. The most recent renewal was to last until mid-March. Though there are an estimated 42,500 foreign-born Somalis living in Minnesota, only a small number of them are covered by the Temporary Protected Status program. As of March, there were 705 Somalis in the whole United States who were covered by the status, according to the Congressional Research Service. Counting people from other covered countries as well, Minnesota has about 8,460 people with the protected status. On his social media platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump wrote on Friday that “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people” of Minnesota, and said that the state was a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.” Several Somali immigrants in Minnesota have been convicted in fraud schemes in recent years, including embezzlement of government funds from food-aid programs for hungry children. Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, said on social media that Mr. Trump had chosen to “broadly target an entire community." Mr. Walz suggested that the president’s move was an attempt to distract attention from other issues in the administration. About 73 percent of Somali immigrants in the United States are naturalized U.S. citizens, according to the Census Bureau. Mr. Trump has moved to end T.P.S. protection for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from other countries, including Venezuela, Honduras, Afghanistan and, earlier this month, South Sudan.

Telemundo [11/24/2025 12:13 AM, Staff, 2218K] reports the Secretary of Homeland Security pointed out that the measure aims to verify that the law has been properly enforced. She also noted that this program was always intended to be temporary and was never a means of obtaining asylum in the United States. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [11/23/2025 8:38 PM, Sophia Compton, 40621K] reports Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday announced a $1 billion nationwide upgrade to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) equipment and awarded $10,000 bonus payments to select employees. Speaking at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota, Noem praised TSA workers for their dedication during the recent 43-day federal government shutdown, which ended earlier this month. "What we saw during that time period was remarkable," Noem said. "… We saw people who recognized that their purpose … was to serve people, was to go out and continue to show up for work — sometimes taking on extra shifts, taking care of other individuals, but still making sure that we were keeping people safe and keeping our security systems and standards high.” Noem said the $10,000 bonuses were intended to reward employees who went above and beyond during the shutdown. "We have $10,000 bonus payments that we will be paying to each of the individuals behind us — recognizing that they are examples," Noem said. "… We will continue to work to train every single individual under the department to do and to serve, such as they did during this last challenging and difficult time.” The secretary also announced a $1 billion TSA modernization initiative to strengthen airport safety and allow TSA workers to do their jobs "well, accurately, efficiently.” "We will be putting over $1 billion into new scanning equipment, new X-ray equipment, [Advanced Imaging Technology] equipment," she said. "… It’s been over a decade, maybe 15 years, since the department has put this kind of resources into new technologies to keep our transportation system secure, so that will be coming and being deployed over the next many months.” Noem first announced the TSA investment a day earlier during remarks at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, saying the funds would go toward "new technology and advancements in security systems," according to the Washington Examiner. On Thursday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford announced that hundreds of air traffic controllers and technicians who worked during the government shutdown would receive bonus checks. The Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a statement that 776 air traffic controllers and technicians would be awarded $10,000 for their "patriotic work.” "These patriotic men and women never missed a beat and kept the flying public safe throughout the shutdown," Duffy said in a statement. "Democrats may not care about their financial well-being, but President Trump does.” DHS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Breitbart [11/23/2025 11:36 AM, Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby, 2416K] reports a U.S. Department of Justice employee has been hit with state terrorism charges after allegedly doxxing a federal agent during a border raid. This week, investigators with the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office arrested Karen Olvera De Leon on charges stemming from a criminal indictment. Olvera De Leon is an employee with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville and is charged with one count of terrorism and one count of tampering with physical evidence. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz, the case began on June 9, when federal agents conducted a raid in Brownsville. During the operation, bystanders began recording and livestreaming. Various social media users began commenting on one of the livestreams when one of the commenters made what authorities considered a death threat against the agent being shown in the video. Moments after, another commenter revealed the identity of the agent in the video. The doxxing triggered a federal investigation, where authorities were able to track down and identify the commenter as Olvera De Leon. According to Saenz, Cameron County investigators arrested Olvera De Leon after determining that she was the one who had doxed the federal agent. Jail records at the Carrizales Rucker Detention Center in Cameron County revealed that a local judge set a total bond for Olvera at $20,000 personal recognizance, meaning that she did not have to post a bond and was released with her signature, but if she fails to appear in future court dates, she would be responsible for paying the bond amount. The doxxing case in South Texas comes at a time when federal agents, particularly those with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol, have been the target of numerous attacks and threats over immigration enforcement actions.

CNN [11/24/2025 4:09 AM, Zoe Sottile, 18595K] reports in New Orleans, people are used to having their resilience tested. There was Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, a major hotel collapse, a vicious early pandemic surge and a terror attack during the 2025 New Year’s celebrations. Now immigrants and organizers say they’re preparing for what feels like may be another disaster heading for their community: Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and roughly 250 federal agents are expected to launch an immigration enforcement operation in the city starting the first week of December, according to two sources familiar with the planning. Advocates and residents told CNN they’re preparing a bit like they would for one of the hurricanes that have ravaged the sinking city. “The immigrant community is feeling absolute panic and terrified,” Rachel Taber, a volunteer with Unión Migrante, an immigrant-led advocacy group, said. “People are treating it like a hurricane as much as they can, buying groceries, staying in the house, planning not to be able to go to work.” The 307-year-old city, a blue enclave in a Republican-led state, will be the latest target of the Department of Homeland Security’s operations, according to those two sources, part of the president’s pledge to enact mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. In response to questions from CNN about the operation, DHS sent a statement from Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: “For the safety and security of law enforcement, we’re not going to telegraph potential operations.”

NPR [11/24/2025 4:48 AM, Steve Inskeep and Michael McEwen, 34837K] reports New Orleans residents are preparing for a possible deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents to the region, even though the agency won’t say whether or not it is actually coming. [Editorial note: consult audio at source link]

Univision [11/23/2025 6:19 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports an appeals court has so far upheld a block on the expedited removal of undocumented immigrants detained far from the border without due process. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals rejected a request from the Trump administration to lift a lower court’s hold on such deportations while its appeal is being reviewed. The panel upheld the main part of the decision issued on August 29 by Judge Jia Cobb of the District Court of Columbia following a lawsuit filed by the organization Make the Road New York. "On January 21, 2025, the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security extended expedited removal to include all persons located anywhere in the United States who, at the time of their arrest, cannot demonstrate continuous presence in the United States for the preceding two years," the court document reads. "That order to expand (this process) extended the expedited removal scheme to a new and far-reaching geographic area that includes major population centers such as Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, and St. Louis. (...) The order to expand (the process), as well as the guidance issued by the acting secretary two days later, determined that department personnel should apply throughout the United States the same systems and procedures that the department had applied on the coasts and within the first 100 miles of the land border," he adds. The court document adds that the guidance calls for asking detainees if they fear harm from being removed from the United States, but not whether they have been present in the United States for two years or more. The guidance also does not stipulate that they be given the opportunity to contest expedited removal, according to the court document. "It is not likely that the department will be able to show that its systems and procedures are constitutionally adequate to provide detained individuals with the opportunity to demonstrate their ineligibility to be removed on the basis that they have resided continuously in the United States for two years or more," the appeals court stated. In August, Judge Cobb did not question the constitutionality of the law that allows for expedited removal in its application at the border. “I simply believe that, in applying the statute to a large group of people who live in the interior of the country and who have not previously been subject to expedited removal, the government must afford them due process,” he wrote. “Prioritizing speed above all else will inevitably lead the government to wrongly expel people through this flawed process,” he added.

CBS News [11/23/2025 1:11 PM, Staff, 39474K] Video: HERE Republican U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter is advocating for increased federal law enforcement presence in metro Atlanta, describing the situation as "alarming" and urging the Department of Homeland Security to intervene. Carter told CBS Atlanta on Friday that Atlanta needs additional federal agents because of crime and what he claims is a growing number of undocumented immigrants living in Georgia. "We found out that there are over half a million illegal immigrants in the state of Georgia, the sixth most in any state in the country," Carter said. "That’s alarming, and this is something that should be addressed now.” Carter’s office referenced a 2023 report from the Migration Policy Institute estimating that about 479,000 people without legal status live in Georgia. While Carter’s district covers southeast Georgia — not Atlanta — he said the city remains a focal point for his concerns. "Atlanta is the most populous area in our state… and that’s where a lot of the illegals are at. So that’s where we should focus," he said. Carter also echoed past comments from Gov. Brian Kemp, who has supported efforts under former President Donald Trump’s administration to remove what he described as "dangerous criminals" from Georgia communities. "I don’t know of any citizen who doesn’t want to feel safe and who doesn’t deserve to feel safe in their city and in their state," Carter said. "That’s exactly what we’re trying to do here.” The request is already drawing pushback from Atlanta residents and immigrant advocates who worry increased federal presence could lead to immigration raids and disrupt families. One resident who spoke with CBS Atlanta said the proposal is causing fear in immigrant communities. "We don’t want ICE to come to Atlanta," she said. "We are a community of workers and there is nothing wrong with us.”

Breitbart [11/23/2025 12:22 PM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports Governor Greg Abbott confirmed Saturday that Texas National Guard troops deployed to Illinois in October to support the federal Operation Midway Blitz immigration enforcement have been ordered to return to the Lone Star State before Thanksgiving. According to information released by Nexstar, Governor Abbott revealed that the troops who were deployed by President Donald Trump have received orders to return to Texas this week. The governor made the announcement during a campaign event in San Marcos on Saturday, KXAN reported. "They’ve already been ordered to return before Thanksgiving," the governor stated. Last weekend, the Department of War ordered the Texas and California National Guard soldiers to return to their home states, Breitbart Texas reported. The governor’s statement put a timeline on their return to the Lone Star State. In Chicago, 200 Texas National Guard soldiers were deployed to the Chicago area in October in response to violent protests and actions against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and facilities. Texas Governor Greg Abbott authorized the federal government to deploy the National Guard, which has been patrolling the nation’s southern border during the Biden-era border crisis, Breitbart Texas’ Randy Clark reported. The Guardsmen were deployed under the president’s Title 10 authority which was challenged by U.S. District Court Judge April Perry, CNN reported. The U.S. Supreme Court asked for an additional briefing on the case. Department of War officials reportedly said the soldiers in both deployments did not engage in "forward-facing" operations and instead, remained behind the scenes.

NewsMax [11/23/2025 10:11 AM, Staff, 4109K] reports Operation Charlotte’s Web, a sweeping enforcement initiative in North Carolina’s largest city, highlights a rapidly growing threat that federal agents confront daily, whether on city streets or at the U.S.-Mexico border, former DEA country attaché Wesley Tabor and retired Border Patrol agent and former Terrell County sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland told Newsmax on Sunday. "These types of operations are something we’ve had and conducted for many decades, both under Republican and Democrat administrations," Cleveland said on Newsmax’s "Wake Up America Weekend," adding that criminal suspects increasingly resort to extreme measures. "When we’re trying to apprehend those that are either smuggling illegal aliens or when illegal aliens lead us in those high-speed pursuits, they’ll do whatever it takes, putting the U.S. citizens and public in danger," Cleveland said. Operation Charlotte’s Web has led to more than 350 arrests of alleged criminal illegal immigrants, drawing urgent warnings from former law enforcement officials about escalating threats to officers and the public. Cleveland said the most troubling development is what he views as political rhetoric encouraging hostility toward agents. "The most concerning thing we still see is the rhetoric coming from the left that emboldens these criminals as well as inflames the issue," he said. Cleveland emphasized that while large-scale enforcement actions are necessary, agents are repeatedly placed in harm’s way as criminal networks grow more brazen. Tabor said Charlotte’s Web demonstrates how deeply criminal activity tied to illegal immigration has taken root nationwide.

USA Today [11/23/2025 5:25 PM, Karissa Waddick, 67103K] reports President Donald Trump revived calls to ramp up the federal government’s military crackdown in Chicago after a 14-year-old was killed and eight other teenagers were wounded during weekend shootings in the city’s bustling downtown corridor. In a Nov. 22 Truth Social post, Trump described "massive crime and rioting" in downtown Chicago and argued Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson were "refusing Federal Government help for a situation that could be quickly remedied.” "The people are chanting, BRING IN TRUMP!!!" he said. Gunfire erupted Nov. 21 around 10 p.m. local time just two blocks from Millennium Park, where the popular "Cloud Gate" sculpture sits. Hours earlier, thousands had gathered in the park to watch fireworks and listen to live music during the city’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Johnson said the shots appeared to ring out during a "teen takeover" that brought large crowds of young people into the city. Officers nearby saw a "large group on the sidewalk" that began to scatter after the shots were fired, the Chicago Police Department said in an email to USA TODAY. They are still investigating the cause. When they arrived to the scene, authorities found seven teenagers, aged 13 to 17, wounded. Less than an hour later, officers found two other teenagers with gunshot wounds blocks away. One of them, 14-year-old Armani Floyd, died of his injuries, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. "Incidents like last night set us back as a city, and it evokes fear," Johnson said of the violence during a Nov. 22 news conference. He described the shooting as "emotional whiplash" from the cheerful mood downtown during the tree lighting. "Our young people have to understand that they should not attend these unauthorized events that have been advertised on social media," Johnson said of the teen takeover. The event was promoted on social media a week before the deadly incident, and police had been monitoring the conversation, Johnson told reporters. He said the city placed 700 extra police officers and violence intervention specialists in the streets around the expected gathering place, but admitted the precautions "did not do enough.” "I’m the first person to recognize that we have more work to do in this city to provide safe spaces for our young people," Johnson said. "When we have a setback like this, it just reminds us of the long road we have to build the city we all want to live in.”

Washington Times [11/23/2025 8:29 PM, Matt Delaney, 852K] reports President Trump says Chicagoans are clamoring for federal law enforcement assistance with shouts of “Bring in Trump” after two weekend shootings left one teen dead and several others wounded downtown. Mr. Trump reiterated his desire to crack down on crime in Chicago and called out “massive crime and rioting” after seven teenagers were injured Friday in a shooting outside the Chicago Theatre. Less than an hour later, a 14-year-old boy was killed in a separate shooting, police said. “Multiple Police Officers attacked and badly injured. 300 people rioting, 6 victims shot, one critical and one dead,” the president posted Saturday on Truth Social. “In the meantime, Governor [J.B.] Pritzker and the Low IQ Mayor of Chicago are refusing federal government help for a situation that could be quickly remedied. The people are chanting, BRING IN TRUMP!!!” Police have not confirmed if any officers were injured in either of the shootings. Mr. Trump appeared to be taking cues from Alderman Brian Hopkins, the 2nd Ward Democrat who posted about 300 juveniles rioting downtown and officers being assaulted with mace and stun guns. Mr. Hopkins said one officer had to be hospitalized. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said 18 people were arrested and five weapons recovered amid the violence. However, the Democratic mayor said none of the suspects was thought to be the triggermen in the two shootings. “It is, quite frankly, frustrating and quite upsetting when this type of violence takes place because it does engender and evoke fear,” Mr. Johnson said. “So we will have a strong police presence. We’ll have stronger control over how traffic flows.”

FOX News [11/23/2025 11:42 AM, Emma Colton Fox, 40621K] Video: HERE reports a legal fight is brewing over a Maryland county board of elections’ heavy redactions to the voter registration records of an illegal immigrant who served as superintendent of Iowa’s largest school system until he was arrested by federal authorities this year, Fox News Digital has learned. "This was shocking," Justin Riemer, CEO and president of the conservative legal group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview on Friday. "When I saw the news reporting, and they showed screenshots of the registration applications with all this information redacted, I was just shocked.” Riemer was reacting to Prince George’s County’s Board of Elections’ recent release of voter registration documents belonging to illegal alien Ian Andre Roberts, which included blacking out Roberts’ sex, whether he checked the citizenship box, his date of birth and other information. The election attorney is representing RITE and conservative research group the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) in their efforts to receive the voter registration documents with fewer redactions. Roberts, who is originally from Guyana and first entered the U.S. in 1994, was working as the superintendent of the Des Moines public school district when Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in September. Roberts was not legally permitted to work in the country after an employment authorization card expired in 2020, Fox News Digital previously reported. The arrest of an illegal immigrant working in such a high-profile position shocked conservatives and others. Additional details surrounding his lengthy rap sheet surfaced as journalists and other investigators looked into his history. It was soon discovered that he was listed as a registered Democratic voter in Maryland, where he previously lived, and that he had a conviction for reckless driving in 2012, the Department of Homeland Security reported in October. The Maryland State Board of Elections previously said Roberts did not vote in elections.

Breitbart [11/23/2025 11:26 AM, Amy Furr, 2416K] reports the group of Democrat lawmakers who told military members to disobey orders should be locked up, President Donald Trump proposed Saturday. Trump made his statements after those lawmakers, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), were featured in a video on Tuesday urging troops to ignore orders in the clip that said "Don’t give up the ship," per Fox News. In his post on Truth Social, Trump said, "THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK. IT WASN’T, AND NEVER WILL BE! IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!". In a subsequent post, the president wrote, "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS AGREE THAT THE DEMOCRAT TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS, AS PRESIDENT, HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME OF SERIOUS PROPORTION!". During an interview after the video of the Democrats was posted online, a senior advisor to Trump, Stephen Miller, said it was insurrection. "It’s a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States, by Democrat lawmakers.” Miller added, "We have seen the Democratic Party nurse the flames of violence and insurrection against the federal government for the last ten months. When you see this continuous campaign of violence against ICE officers and Border Patrol agents, when you see Democrat sanctuary politicians and Democrat sanctuary governors side with the rioters, side with the assaulters over federal law enforcement, and that spills even into juries and grand juries. When you see Democrat jurors engage in nullification to let off violent attackers who are engaging in physical violence, physical assault against federal officers, this is a dangerous moment.”

Breitbart [11/23/2025 2:15 PM, Pam Key, 2416K] Video: HERE reports Sunday on CBS’s "Face the Nation," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said President Donald Trump calling Democratic lawmakers traders whose comments warrant the death penalty was "reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible.”

NewsMax [11/23/2025 1:46 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to designate a major Venezuelan drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), warning that the move risks bypassing Congress and creating what he called a de facto state of war. Speaking on CBS News’ "Face the Nation," the Kentucky Republican said the designation, which takes effect Monday, would allow the administration to claim expanded military authority without the constitutional debate required for launching armed conflict. "They are pretending as if we are at war," Paul said. "When you have war, the rules of engagement are lessened.” On Monday, the list will include "Cartel de los Soles" ("Cartel of the Suns"), which Washington claims is run by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The group is responsible for "terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The FTO list includes Islamist groups, separatists, and guerrillas, and recently, gangs and drug organizations from Mexico and Colombia were added. It is overseen by the State Department. Paul argued that applying wartime authorities to antidrug operations would be unlawful and dangerous, noting that not all vessels the Coast Guard stops on suspicion of drug trafficking contain narcotics. He added that about one in four boats boarded off U.S. coasts are not carrying drugs. "It actually would be unlawful if the Coast Guard started blowing up boats," he said. "But for some reason, they say we are at war off the coast of Venezuela.” The senator, who serves on the Senate Homeland Security and Foreign Relations committees, said he and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pressed the administration to seek an official war declaration if it believes Venezuela constitutes a wartime environment. "The administration refused," he said. "They want it both ways.”

FOX News [11/23/2025 10:47 PM, Greg Wehner, 40621K] reports two of the U.S. military’s top leaders will visit Puerto Rico on Monday to meet with troops and express gratitude for their work supporting missions across the Caribbean and Latin America. Pentagon officials announced the visit in a memo on Sunday, saying the trip will include meetings with service members stationed in Puerto Rico and sailors operating in the Caribbean. "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and SEAC David L. Isom are visiting Puerto Rico on November 24, 2025, for the second time to engage with service members and thank them for their outstanding support to regional missions," the media advisory read. "They will also visit and thank Sailors operating at sea for their dedicated, unwavering service in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility.” Caine and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth marked the first visit in September, when they stopped by on behalf of the Trump administration to show support for troops training on the island. The meeting took place at Muñiz Air Base in Carolina, outside San Juan, and drew top brass including Puerto Rico National Guard Adjutant General Carlos José Rivera-Román, Public Safety Secretary Brig. Gen. Arthur Garffer, and other senior military leaders. Hegseth spoke to nearly 300 soldiers at the base, thanking and describing them as "American warriors." The secretary of war also affirmed that those serving in the Armed Forces will be the best equipped and prepared in the world. The latest visit comes amid rising tensions in the Caribbean Sea, as the U.S. military expands its naval footprint near Venezuela, part of President Donald Trump’s push to choke off drug flows from Latin America. Earlier this month, Hegseth announced the official launch of Operation Southern Spear, a mission targeting narco-terror networks across Latin America. Hegseth said on X at the time that U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force Southern Spear will lead the mission to defend the homeland and dismantle narco-terrorist networks across the Western Hemisphere. "This mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people," Hegseth said. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [11/24/2025 2:11 AM, Neil Munro, 2416K] reports the Department of Homeland Security is detaining document-fraud migrants who inflict massive economic and civic damage on ordinary American families. New York Times sketched the identity theft damage done to Dan Kluver, a married father of two in Olivia, Minnesota. The damage was done by a migrant who worked long hours in another state until his arrest by the Department of Homeland Security in March. The Guatemalan migrant used Kluver’s ID to get a job. The employer reported the wages to the IRS, which then demanded extra taxes from Kluver’s family. The identity theft also dragged Kluver into a wrongful death lawsuit after the migrant killed an American in an auto accident. The author wrote: “Some years the other [fake] Dan Kluver had earned more than his own salary at a local sugar beet factory, which pushed the total income under [the real Kluver’s] Social Security number into a higher tax bracket as the debt started to mount. Twice, he’d contacted law enforcement and filed an identity theft report with the federal government, where it landed in a pile along with tens of thousands of similar reports filed each year. He waited for relief while the I.R.S. docked his annual tax returns and garnished a few of his paychecks, costing him thousands. Finally, a few months before their wedding in 2012, Kristy decided to pay off the balance, emptying her savings and sending in a check for $6,000. Their relief lasted until the next tax season, when a new [tax] bill arrived — this one for $22,000 [because of the migrants’ income].” In a note attached to the article, author Eli Saslow said: “Daniel and his family actually spent tons of time and an insane amount of energy (and money) trying to untangle this mess. I think there’s a misconception that it’s easy to solve identity theft. He protested his debts, went to the I.R.S., visited Social Security offices around the state and filed police reports three times. There were a few years (likely when [the migrant] was deported), when his taxes were normal and he thought the problem had been solved, but then it would start all over again. The issue is that the system is overwhelmed with these cases.” "Dan Kluver is in debt and has 15 years of hardship that he didn’t deserve," Saslow added. However, the article approved by New York Times’ pro-migration editors does not disclose how much Kluver — and his wife and children — were required to pay the IRS due to the fraud perpetrated by the migrant, his employers, and Congress. Deep in the article, New York Times admitted that the IRS’s oversight system "was backlogged with a million suspicious numbers and almost 80,000 reports of Social Security fraud in the last six months alone.” The Times soft-pedalled the damage done to Kluver under sympathy for the Guatemalan migrant, Romeo Pérez-Bravo: By the start of 2025, [the Guatemalan] was preparing for another graveyard shift in St. Joseph, Mo., lacing his work boots in the darkness of his drafty rental while his wife and five children slept. He packed their school lunches for the next day, drove to the dog-food factory and gathered with his co-workers to say their nightly prayer. Then he swiped his badge to begin another 12-hour shift as Daniel Kluver, sinking deeper into an identity that wasn’t really his own. By the time Trump was elected to his second term, there were five children in Perez-Bravo’s house who also depended on the money that came each Friday in Kluver’s name. Most were U.S. citizens, ranging in age from 4 to 19, who answered his Spanish with English and hosted birthday parties at Olive Garden.

New York Times [11/23/2025 8:18 AM, Eli Saslow and Gabriela Bhaskar, 135475K] reports Dan Kluver saw the police lights flashing in his rearview mirror late last year and eased his car onto the shoulder, thinking there had been some kind of mistake. He had spent four decades in rural Minnesota without ever getting into trouble. He prided himself on a life built around dependability and routine, working at the same factory where his father once did and spending his weekends coaching baseball and teaching Sunday school. He had never fired a gun, or smoked a cigarette, or missed a payment, or been arrested. “License and registration, please,” the officer said. Kluver, 42, handed them over and waited while the officer went back to his patrol car. He listened to the church bells that rang every hour and watched sunlight reflect off the grain silos in downtown Olivia, where he knew most of the 2,400 residents, including the officer who was walking back to his car. “It’s strange, but it looks like your license has been suspended,” the officer said. “You’ve got another driver’s license with some issues down in Missouri.” “What?” Kluver said. “I’ve barely ever been to Missouri. How’s that possible?” The officer had no answers, but Kluver feared he might know what was happening. Over the years, there had been signs that something wasn’t right — stray letters about wages earned in unfamiliar towns and collection notices for debt that wasn’t his. Kluver had tried to untangle the mess several times by hiring tax specialists and driving to government offices across the state only to run into the same bureaucratic dead ends. But now the problem was bigger than unpaid taxes. Someone was impersonating him, moving through the world as Dan Kluver, building a life in his name with a government-issued ID. His case was one version of a problem that’s been spreading across the country for years. The government estimates that as many as one million undocumented workers are using fraudulent or stolen Social Security numbers — a survival tactic used to pass background checks and get jobs. The numbers are skimmed from data breaches, sold in black markets online for as little as $150 or handed out in border towns by human smugglers. Many numbers connect back to U.S. citizen children, dead people or Puerto Ricans whose numbers circulate easily across the mainland. But thousands of others belong to people like Kluver, Americans whose names and identities are no longer theirs alone.

Washington Examiner [11/24/2025 5:00 AM, Staff, 1394K] reports the foreign-born population of the United States has fallen by roughly 2 million since President Donald Trump took office, reversing the more than 7 million increase under President Joe Biden. Recent reporting shows why these deportations cannot come quickly enough, and new polling reveals a striking reality: although many legal immigrants are frustrated by the removals, they also overwhelmingly acknowledge that they are "necessary." The Current Population Survey, administered by the Census Bureau but published by the Labor Department every month, was not designed to track the foreign born population of the United States, but it is the best dataset we have and the most recent report, released this past Thursday shows that the foreign-born population aged 16 and older has fallen by 2 million since January of this year. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the total foreign-born decrease, including children, is 2.4 million. This would be the first decrease in over 50 years and comes after a record 7 million increase under Biden, most of whom had no legal right to enter. By the end of Biden’s term, a record high 52 million immigrants were in the United States, comprising another record high 16% of the total population. And many of these immigrants are perfectly law-abiding people with a valid legal presence. But millions are not. This week, the City Journal uncovered widespread fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, which took advantage of the state’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program to enrich not only themselves, but also fund terrorists back in Africa. Created by Gov. Tim Walz, the HSS Program used federal and state taxpayer dollars to provide "housing services," such as "housing consultation" and "moving expenses," to people with disabilities, mental illness, and substance use disorders. This all comes after federal and Minnesota taxpayers were fleeced by the Feeding Our Future program in 2020, where members of the Somali community pocketed hundreds of millions in tax dollars for school lunches that were never provided. Trump’s mass deportations may be difficult, but the alternative is a country that tolerates rampant fraud, classrooms overwhelmed by non-English speakers, soaring housing costs, and a foreign-born population growing faster than the nation can absorb. Increasingly, even legal immigrants understand that real sovereignty demands enforcement, not empathy. Restoring order to the immigration system isn’t cruelty; it’s the necessary first step toward restoring strength and stability.

FOX News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo [11/23/2025 10:41 AM, Staff] reports Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso discusses Democrats posting a video urging service members to refuse illegal orders, Republicans pushing back on President Donald Trump’s tariff rebates and the potential for another shutdown.

CBS’ Face The Nation [11/23/2025 11:55 AM, Staff, 1292K] reports Colorado Democratic Representative Jason Crow is one of the six lawmakers who released a recoded video earlier last week that urged service members to defy illegal and unlawful orders. This video prompted the President to respond in a way that concerns many. Crows office had concerns over a bomb threat against his office in Aurora Colorado and his family have received death and murder threats. When asked if the threats were credible. Crow said that he’s going to take the threats very seriously. "When you have the president of the United States threatening to execute and to hang and to arrest using this rhetoric, people listen to it. We have seen before a pattern of inciteful, dangerous rhetoric being used by the president and then people acting on that. I lived through an experience January 6, a very similar dynamic. He’s been doing this for years, saying things, and in total disregard for the outcome and what might happen when he throws this stuff out in the world." Crow stated. President Trump walked back some of his threats, saying he wasn’t threatening death but was saying "sedation" was often in the past, punishable by death.

CBS’ Face The Nation [11/23/2025 11:55 AM, Staff, 1292K] reports earlier last week six democrats released a video calling on service members to remember their oath and not follow unlawful orders. Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly was one of them. President Trumps initial reaction was to call for the execution of these individuals but has since walked back, saying he wasn’t threatening death but was saying "sedation" was often in the past, punishable by death. "What the president said is very serious. I didn’t think he would step over that line, calling for the execution of members of Congress. And his words carry tremendous weight, more so than anybody else in the country, and he should be aware of that. And because of what he says, there is now an – increased threats against us. I’m not going to get into details on my personal security. But, as the husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, we – I understand what political violence is. The president should as well. Just like Gabby, somebody tried to assassinate him, and he should understand that his words have – you know, could have serious, serious consequences." Kelly stated. This comes as just weeks ago the President and other Republicans urging people to dial back the violent rhetoric after the tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk.

NBC’s Meet the Press [11/23/2025 12:01 PM, Staff] reports the Democratic senators, Congresspeople who recorded that video telling members of the military, the intelligence community that they can refuse orders that violate the law. The president called this “seditious behavior, punishable by death”. Speaker Mike Johnson commented, "Everybody knows that was wildly inappropriate. It is very dangerous. You have leading members of Congress telling troops to disobey orders. I think that’s unprecedented in American history." Secretary Bessent just said this was a complete mistake, they should retract it. "What is dangerous is not restating what is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which says that our troops cannot follow unlawful orders, very clearly. What is dangerous is the president of the United States threatening these members of Congress with death. Literally, saying that they should be executed. As Mark Kelly said, he is someone who has flown a plane, that’s had missiles land nearly on that plane. He has taken anti-aircraft fire. He has launched into space, into orbit on behalf of his country. And he never thought that a president of the United States would try to execute him or to tell people. This is not at all a game. My dear friend, Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker of the House, and her husband, were killed in cold blood by someone who was engaging in political violence. That was the shooter. Or my other friends there, took between them, a husband and wife, 17 shots. Or what happened to Charlie Kirk, that assassination. Members of Congress threats have gone from 1,600 to over 14,000 in just a few years. And that is every year. That’s what we’re dealing with right now." Senator Amy Klobuchar states.

ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos [11/23/2025 10:41 AM, Staff, 1824K] reports Senator Elissa Slotkin has been receiving death and bomb threats. President Trump calling Slotkin and her colleagues’ traitors and sedition at the highest level. This all started on Thursday. Donald Trump saying, "it’s called seditious behavior at the highest level. Each one of these traitors to our country should be arrested and put on trial." Continuing, "this is really bad and dangerous to our country. Seditious behavior from traitors. Lock them up. Seditious behavior, punishable by death." He also reposted, "Hang them, George Washington would." "I think almost immediately, you know, the security situation changed for all of us. Leadership climate is set at the top. So, if the president’s saying things like that, you can imagine people on the ground, what they’re doing, the calls into our office, et cetera, et cetera, into our teams, the calling of police. You know, I think I’ve been through dangerous situations before, so it doesn’t change, you know, my feeling about speaking my mind. But obviously, the president took issue with one sentence in a video and was calling for our death. I think that’s inappropriate, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or an independent." Slotkin states. The White House says President Trump wasn’t threatening death but thinks you and the other members are in serious trouble. Slotkin says that there is no secret that the president is trying to weaponize the Justice Department, and has gone after many people already.

ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos [11/23/2025 10:41 AM, Staff, 1824K] reports Representative Michael McCaul says that he doesn’t speak for Trump in terms of hanging members of Congress. McCaul says that the orders that the Democratic leaders are calling to not follow are not illegal stated the orders are based on Article Two, self-defense, of the Constitution, to stop a threat. He is saying that in this case the threat of drugs coming into the country and killing Americans. These lawmakers now have 24/7 increased security due to the President calling for their execution. McCaul is asked what he would say to President Trump about the threats that are continuing? "My advice, though not on his White House, but I would tone down the rhetoric and tone down the theme here. I would emphasize more what I discussed, and that is, these orders are not illegal. I mean they have been sent down on a mission to stop drugs from coming into the United States." McCaul states.

FOX News Sunday [11/23/2025 10:41 AM, Staff] reports Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., discusses President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, negotiations over extending health care subsidies and more on ‘Fox News Sunday.’

Washington Times [11/23/2025 4:31 PM, Stephen Dinan, 852K] reports ICE is shattering records for immigration enforcement, setting new high-water marks for arrests, deportations and detention. The agency reported holding more than 65,000 migrants as of Nov. 15, a record by far. It had fewer than 60,000 in late September, just before the government shutdown, and fewer than 40,000 in January when President Biden turned over power to President Trump. Fueling the rise is a surge in arrests. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement averaged nearly 1,200 arrests daily since Oct. 1, a record pace. ICE is deporting illegal immigrants at an even higher rate, more than 1,250 daily. If that held for 12 months, it would exceed 450,000 for the entire year, surpassing the record set in 2012. The number is still shy of the 1 million mark the administration has set. “They need to ramp it up,” said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project. “There’s a big population that should be easier to remove, and we need to get to those and remove them. Americans are willing to support mass deportation, but it has to be mass deportation.” The numbers were released as part of a periodic update of ICE detention data. Releases were suspended during the government shutdown, so this was the first data for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. From Oct. 1 to Nov. 15, the date the data was current, ICE reported that its personnel recorded 54,735 book-ins, which serves as a yardstick for overall arrests. Customs and Border Protection reported another 7,066 book-ins. During the Biden administration, those numbers were reversed. CBP book-ins were dramatically higher than those of ICE. The border chaos left ICE scrambling to deal with the migrants picked up by the Border Patrol and unable to focus on its arrests in the interior. The vast majority of ICE activities were pickups of migrants from prisons and jails. Nearly 95% of ICE arrestees in detention in 2024 had either criminal convictions or pending charges. That number has now dipped below 60%, fueling complaints that ICE is not focusing on the “criminal aliens” who Mr. Trump said were his priority. Ms. Jenks said she wasn’t bothered by the decreased criminal ratio. “I couldn’t care less how many of them have committed extra crimes. We need to deport all of them,” she said. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said ICE has funding to hold up to 100,000 migrants on any given day under Mr. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. She said the funding helps deportations. “With innovative partnerships like Alligator Alcatraz, Speedway Slammer, Louisiana Lockup, and Cornhusker Clink, we’ve significantly expanded detention space. Despite a rapid number of injunctions, DHS is working rapidly to remove these aliens from detention centers to their final destination — home,” she said. She also provided numbers that appear to differ from ICE’s published data. Ms. McLaughlin said 70% of the illegal immigrants ICE has arrested have had criminal convictions or pending charges and that the administration is on pace for 600,000 deportations this year. That 600,000 figure appears to include CBP border ousters, which are not part of ICE’s formal removal numbers.

Washington Post [11/24/2025 5:01 AM, Justine McDaniel and María Luisa Paúl, 32099K] reports the effects of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Charlotte tore through schools last week, disrupting learning as more than 20 percent of students stayed home from class. At many schools, children were either missing or rattled. One wore a tag that read “I’m a U.S. citizen”; another carried an American passport to elementary school. Two kindergartners showed up to class with whistles around their necks to blow if they saw immigration agents. “You can’t get ready for this type of disruption,” said Amanda Thompson, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg teachers union. “All of our students are being affected.” Charlotte became the latest example of how the Trump administration’s sweeping campaign to deport undocumented immigrants — including activity by immigration agents near schools in some places — has traumatized kids, put new burdens on teachers and administrators and dramatically altered the school year in the communities it has touched. The federal government does not release comprehensive data showing where arrests or detentions are taking place, but a Post review of news reports found instances of parents arrested near campuses in at least 10 states so far this year. In other instances, immigration agents’ actions near campuses — which include shooting a man, releasing tear gas and engaging in a car chase — have prompted lockdowns and alarm. And attendance often drops temporarily following Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity, or rumors of it, school officials say. The Department of Homeland Security is not conducting enforcement operations at schools, spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to The Post. The agency has repeatedly said it is not raiding schools, and no reports have surfaced of such. But in interviews with 22 teachers, administrators and school staff members in affected areas from California to Maine, The Post found that federal officers are operating close enough to school campuses to upset students and families, regardless of whether they are citizens.

Telemundo Amarillo [11/23/2025 2:09 PM, Staff, 4K] reports Home Depot said Sunday that it does not receive notifications about immigration operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The store chain told Telemundo News that it does not collaborate in any way with ICE agents. The statements were made after a group of activists stormed a store of the chain in Burbank, California, as part of the ‘We Ain’t Buying It’ campaign. Activists are demanding that companies report actions that harm their customers. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Univision [11/23/2025 12:18 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Canal Street created tensions with the New York Police Department (NYPD) following the capture of a Senegalese national with a history of selling counterfeit goods. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), federal agents went to the Canal Street and Broadway area at noon Saturday to detain Abdou Tall, identified as an undocumented immigrant with multiple previous arrests linked to the illegal trade. According to the official version, the man tried to escape for several blocks, fell to the ground and continued to resist before being handcuffed. Federal authorities criticized the NYPD, saying police had detained Tall twice during October for crimes related to trademark forgery, both classified as felonies. ICE maintains that in neither of the two arrests the police handed him over to his custody, despite a request to detain him for immigration reasons. DHS said that after being released, the suspect immediately returned to the streets, where he was arrested again days later for similar behavior. ICE called this situation an example of what it considers a policy of revolving doors in the city and questioned the lack of cooperation with the immigration authorities.

Post Millennial [11/23/2025 3:30 PM, Hayden Cunningham, 519K] reports dozens of anti-ICE protesters were arrested Saturday after blocking the entrance to an ICE detention facility near the Alligator Alcatraz site in Florida. The demonstration took place outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade and involved protesters associated with the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing activist group. Protesters blocked the gate to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies. They held a banner reading “abolish ICE” and wore shirts that said “ICE kidnapped my neighbor.” “ICE is a criminal organization that is terrifying everyday people on behalf of fascist billionaires. They have no right to kidnap our neighbors, and it’s time for each of us to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let’s shut it down,” the Sunrise Movement said in a social media post. The organization further stated that 30 young people were arrested. The organization said online that it is demanding all ICE facilities be shut down, that the government “bring our neighbors home,” and that ICE be abolished entirely. A video posted by the group showed one woman being handcuffed, telling the camera she was being arrested for “peacefully protesting the horrible treatment of human beings by ICE agents,” before an officer responded, “It’s called obstruction. Obstruction of justice.” NBC 6 South Florida reported that Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded after protesters blocked the gate and refused repeated requests to move. Officials said the group ignored multiple orders to disperse and was arrested for trespassing. The sheriff’s office added that while it supports peaceful expression, protesters cannot jeopardize safety or block access to critical facilities. The protest is the latest in anti-ICE demonstrations occurring nationwide as the Trump administration continues deportation efforts. The administration has primarily focused on arresting criminal illegal immigrants, and DHS has highlighted arrests of illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes such as murder, rape, drug trafficking, and child sex crimes. “Every day, the brave men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American streets. Just yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and drug traffickers,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement last week. “Secretary Noem is delivering on the President’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens—many let in by the previous administration—from our country.”

Telemundo [11/23/2025 7:54 PM, Staff, 182K] reports authorities reported that 31 people were arrested on Saturday during a protest at the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade. According to the county Sheriff’s Office (MDSO), officers responded after several people blocked the front door and refused to vacate it after repeated requests. According to an official statement from the Sunrise Movement (organizing the protest): During the demonstration, attendees carried photos of people who have died in ICE detention centers and signs that read "ICE kidnapped my neighbor ." Participants spoke of the cruel and inhumane treatment the agency inflicts on members of the community. " ICE is a criminal organization that terrorizes ordinary people on behalf of fascist billionaires . They have no right to abduct our neighbors, and it’s time for every American to stand up to their intimidation tactics," said Carly Shaffer, organizer of the Sunrise Movement . Manu Guerrero of Sunrise Movement Miami stated, " As young people, we refuse to accept a future where our friends and family can disappear without warning. We are taking action because our communities deserve safety and the freedom to live without fear ." Authorities stated that, while they fully support the right to peaceful expression, it is necessary to guarantee security and access to critical facilities. After repeated orders to disperse were ignored, several people were arrested for trespassing, according to officers. No injuries were reported. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Law Enforcement Today [11/24/2025 1:53 AM, Trevor Bachman, 82K] reports that, in yet another case among the growing number of motor vehicle deaths caused by illegal aliens, federal officials confirmed that 8-year-old Mora Gerety was killed Saturday by an illegal alien who should have been deported nearly a decade ago. The suspect, 33-year-old Elvin Elgardo Ramos-Caballero of Honduras, had been released into the United States by the Obama administration in 2015 and later granted a driver’s license by the sanctuary state of Oregon, according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Department said Ramos-Caballero entered the country illegally in September 2015, failed to appear for his immigration hearing, and was ordered removed by an immigration judge in May 2016. Despite this, Oregon’s sanctuary policies allowed him to legally obtain a state-issued license. He remained in the country unlawfully for nearly ten years before the tragedy that ended young Mora’s life on November 11 in Boise. Authorities said Ramos-Caballero was driving a pickup truck and attempted a right-hand turn at an intersection when he struck Mora as she was crossing the street. The child was pronounced dead shortly after. Ramos-Caballero allegedly fled the scene but was arrested later that day and charged with hit and run, as reported by Fox News. "Eight-year-old Mora Gerety’s precious life was taken by an illegal alien who should have never been in our country, let alone issued a driver’s license by the sanctuary state of Oregon," said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement on November 22. "Mora’s classmates, teachers, friends, and our nation will carry this loss forever. We ask every American to lift this family up in prayer, and we ask God to grant them courage as they face the hardest days a family can endure. Decades of open border policies have turned every community into a border town. These policies have deadly consequences.” The case reignited outrage over state-level sanctuary laws that allow illegal immigrants to obtain driving privileges and commercial licenses despite existing federal deportation orders. Representative Byron Donalds of Florida called for an immediate federal crackdown, warning that these policies endanger innocent Americans. "You have the American people, they’re doing the right thing, and now they’re subject to losing their lives or being in an auto accident with a CDL driver who cannot read our signs, who doesn’t know our laws.” The DHS statement noted that Ramos-Caballero’s release was part of a broader pattern dating back to the Obama years, when thousands of migrants who entered illegally were allowed to remain pending court hearings, many of which they never attended. ICE confirmed that Ramos-Caballero was ordered deported "in absentia" in 2016 after failing to appear.

Telemundo [11/23/2025 12:15 PM, Staff, 2218K] reports Vicente Ventura Aguilar, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, was detained by federal immigration agents in a corner of southern Los Angeles, according to witnesses to the arrest. A day later, while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, he suffered a medical emergency: he lost consciousness and fell to the ground with tremors in his limbs, according to a man who claims he was detained next to him. Since then, Ventura has been missing. It’s been more than six weeks. ICE told his family that he is not in his custody, and his loved ones and lawyers have been unable to locate or contact him. They have searched hospitals and morgues and asked for help tracking him in Mexico. They have even filed a missing person’s complaint with the Los Angeles Police Department. "The whole family is worried, especially our mother in Mexico," said Felipe, Ventura’s brother. "We’re afraid he’s dead," he adds. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that there was no person with the name of Ventura in its custody that day. 73 people from Mexico were arrested in the Los Angeles area "between October 7 and 8," DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to MS NOW, Telemundo’s sister network. "None of them were Ventura Aguilar," he said. The family and lawyers claimed that it is possible that Ventura gave authorities a different name when arrested, which would explain why it has not appeared in the ICE system. In his opinion, ICE and the Customs and Border Protection agency, who could have had it in custody, should do more to find him. “They should conduct a search beyond a simple consultation by name and date of birth,” said Laura Urias, a family attorney. For example, authorities could search for it using his photograph or other biometric data, Urias suggested.

Breitbart [11/23/2025 8:28 PM, Staff, 2416K] reports Southern California lawmakers are demanding answers from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about 25 detainees who died in the custody of immigration and Customs Enforcement this year, two of whom were from Orange County. Policy makers have cited unfit medical care and system failures at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County for a lack of quality care for detainees. They have questioned whether the facility is capable of processing a surge in immigrants tied to President Donald Trump’s push to deport undocumented immigrants. Rep. Dave Min, D-Irvine and Rep. Judy Chu, D-Pasadena, wrote a letter to Noem asking the secretary for an explanation of the deaths of more than two dozen people while in ICE custody. The number of in-custody deaths has set an annual record, a number officials began tracking in 2018. "These are not just numbers on a website, but real people – with families, jobs and hopes and dreams – each of whom died in ICE custody," the lawmakers wrote to Noem. "The following cases illustrate systemic patterns of delayed treatment, neglect and failure to properly notify families," the letter continued. Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, died Sept. 22 after being apprehended at the Fountain Valley Auto Wash where he worked, his family, which established a GoFundMe account, said. His relatives and federal lawmakers have alleged that Ayala-Uribe was denied proper medical care. Ayala-Uribe lived in Westminster from the age of four, and had been protected from deportation by the Deferred Arrivals and Childhood Arrivals program. His application for continued protection was not renewed in 2016. Documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times showed that ICE Adelanto officials were aware of his medical condition and later acknowledged his death in the facility. Gabriel Garcia-Aviles, 56, who lived near Costa Mesa, died Oct. 23, a week after being detained by ICE, which said he was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol for an outstanding warrant, and was subsequently sent to the Adelanto center. ICE officials said he was only in detention for a few hours before being taken to Victorville hospital for "suspected alcohol withdrawal symptoms" where his condition worsened rapidly and later died. The deaths have raised questions about the treatment of detainees at Adelanto, among the largest federal immigration detention centers in California. "These deaths raise serious questions about ICE’s ability to comply with basic detention standards, medical care protocols, and notification requirements, and underscores a pattern of gross negligence that demands immediate accountability," Min and Chu wrote in their letter to Noem and Todd Lyons, acting, ICE director. The letter was signed by 43 other lawmakers, including four from California in addition to Min and Chu.

NPR [11/24/2025 5:00 AM, Yuki Noguchi, 34837K] Audio: HERE reports Michael Liu grew up in Toronto, Canada, then moved to the U.S. for college and medical school because, to him, America was the premiere destination for fulfilling his aspirations to become a physician and researcher. "You know, in chase of the American Dream, and understanding all the opportunities — that was such a draw for me," says Liu, who attended Harvard University. He is now 28 and has deep personal and professional roots in Boston, where he’s an internal medicine resident at Mass General Brigham. But this spring, he was shaken by the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific research at the National Institutes of Health and staff at the Department of Health and Human Services. "That was a really striking moment for me," Liu says. "It made me question where, professionally, it made most sense for me. I still have strong connections to Toronto and mentors." Then, in September, Liu was doing rounds with two doctors from Mexico and Costa Rica, when the administration hiked fees nearly 30 fold for H1B visas, which are for highly trained professionals, to $100,000. He watched his colleagues’ tearful reactions to the sudden uncertainty that thrust on their careers, knowing that employers like hospital systems are unlikely to be able to afford to pay for such dramatic increases. "It was terrible to see," Liu says. He has a green card, having married an American citizen earlier this year. But, he says, the Trump administration’s actions affect him. "It feels like my contribution is — just because I was not born in this country — less valued," Liu says. "I really hadn’t thought so deeply about going back home before, but definitely it’s been much more top of mind." [Editorial note: consult audio at source link]

Washington Post [11/23/2025 9:21 AM, Teo Armus and Arelis R. Hernández, 24149K] reports the gourmet pasta shop surrounded by million-dollar Colonials might not be the most obvious spot for clues about how hundreds of U.S. Border Patrol officers have swept across this city in recent days. Pasta & Provisions, a longtime local favorite in the Myers Park neighborhood, is more popular among well-to-do bankers who populate the city’s soaring financial office buildings than with the working-class immigrants who flocked here to help build that skyline. There is little Spanish spoken outside the shop’s kitchen. But as armed federal agents in unmarked SUVs poured into North Carolina’s largest city, the store was not immune from the Trump administration’s targeted immigration enforcement operation that launched Nov. 15. “It’s taking a toll everywhere,” said the pasta store’s owner, Tommy George, who took shifts washing dishes after one employee’s husband had been detained in the sweep. “In a way, the consequences are in every neighborhood.” Local officials said they were told the operation has ended, although the Department of Homeland Security — which said it had arrested about 370 people as of Friday — said that “Operation Charlotte’s Web” will continue indefinitely. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin suggested in a statement that the Trump administration set its target on Charlotte in response to more recent moves by local officials to cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “This DHS operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to the Tar Heel State because they knew sanctuary politicians would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets,” she said.

Univision [11/23/2025 2:12 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports Miguel Ángel García Martinez, 24, was arrested and charged with attacking Border Patrol agents in Charlotte during the Charlotte’s Web operation. This week, a video and official case documents raised questions about the official version of the incident were revealed. The defendant faces charges of: assault, resisting arrest, and preventing the work of a federal agent. These are the new details of what happened during the preliminary hearing in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina on November 20. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [11/23/2025 3:30 PM, Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando, 19051K] reports Chicago has entered what many consider a new uneasy phase of a Trump administration immigration crackdown that has already led to thousands of arrests. While a U.S. Border Patrol commander known for leading intense and controversial surges moved on to North Carolina, federal agents are still arresting immigrants across the nation’s third-largest city and suburbs. A growing number of lawsuits stemming from the crackdown are winding through the courts. Authorities are investigating agents’ actions, including a fatal shooting. Activists say they are not letting their guard down in case things ramp up again, while many residents in the Democratic stronghold where few welcomed the crackdown remain anxious. “I feel a sense of paranoia over when they might be back,” said Santani Silva, an employee at a vintage store in the predominantly Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen. “People are still afraid.” For more than two months, the Chicago area was the focus of an aggressive operation led by Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol commander behind similar efforts in Los Angeles and soon Louisiana. Armed and masked agents used unmarked SUVs and helicopters throughout the city of 2.7 million and its suburbs to target suspected criminals and immigration violators. Arrests often led to intense standoffs with bystanders, from wealthy neighborhoods to working-class suburbs. While the intensity has died down in the week since Bovino left, reports of arrests still pop up. Activists tracking immigration agents said they confirmed 142 daily sightings at the height of the operation last month. The number is now roughly six a day. “It’s not over,” said Brandon Lee with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “I don’t think it will be over.”

CNN [11/23/2025 11:20 PM, Caroline Baxendale, 18595K] reports that, in an exclusive interview, CNN’s Omar Jimenez speaks with Marimar Martinez, a United States citizen who was accused of ramming the vehicle of a Customs and Border Protection agent in Chicago before he shot her several times. A judge dismissed charges against Martinez after a reversal by federal prosecutors in one of the most high-profile cases connected to Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Politico [11/23/2025 4:00 PM, Ari Hawkins, 2100K] reports President Donald Trump has yet to follow through on his threat to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Canadian imports, four weeks after he halted “all trade negotiations” over an anti-tariff ad the province of Ontario ran during the Major League Baseball World Series. “Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Oct. 25, after announcing two days earlier that he was terminating trade talks over the”egregious” ad. Trump’s announcement had Canadian exporters preparing for a worst-case scenario: a sweeping levy layered on top of existing double-digit duties, which would have been particularly painful for industries like autos, where components cross the border multiple times before reaching their final form. But to date, the Trump administration hasn’t sent any official documentation ordering U.S. Customs and Border Protection to enforce the new, higher duty, and U.S. importers have not received any new regulatory guidance. “We monitor the federal registry and follow executive order activity on a regular basis and haven’t seen any changes,” said Flavio Volpe, the president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, which controls over 90 percent of independent parts production in Canada. The White House did not say whether it still plans to impose the tariff when asked for comment. But a separate U.S. official suggested the Trump administration had opted to hold off on additional duties — which would have sent tariffs on Canadian goods to 45 percent — and instead continue to dangle the threat as the two sides gear up for future talks. “The Canadians know what’s on the table,” said the official, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.

FOX News [11/24/2025 3:01 AM, Olivianna Calmes, 40621K] reports a nationwide air traffic controller shortage has put new attention on a growing training option the FAA now approves for certain colleges. The recent federal government shutdown highlighted how thin staffing has become, especially as delays and reroutes stacked up across the country. The FAA says it wants to hire at least 8,900 new controllers by 2028. According to FAA workforce data analyzed by USAFacts, about 3,000 controller positions were vacant nationwide as of late 2024 — though not every facility is equally understaffed. That shortage is driving interest in a newer FAA-approved college pathway designed to streamline controller training at a small group of universities — including Middle Georgia State. The Enhanced AT-CTI program allows students to train to the same standard as the FAA Academy, and if hired and meeting FAA requirements such as passing the Air Traffic Skills Assessment (ATSA), medical and security clearances, they can go directly to a facility instead of completing the full academy in Oklahoma City, which can involve long waitlists and multi-month courses. Graduates still undergo facility-specific training and must be certified on-the-job before becoming full controllers. Only about nine schools nationwide have been approved to offer the new Enhanced AT-CTI program as of 2025, according to Kemarie Jeffers, the department chair of aviation science and management at Middle Georgia State. Inside Middle Georgia State’s tower simulator, air traffic control student Brooke Graffagnino says the job’s intensity is what drew her in. "It kind of gets your chest beating, because with how much traffic there is, sometimes it is intense," she said. She says students quickly find out whether they’re suited for the job. "You can kind of tell who does not [love it]. There have been quite a few, and they are no longer here. It takes a lot to get through it," she said. Graffagnino says the importance of the work became clearer as she learned how controllers keep busy airspace organized. "Once you get in the airspace that is super crowded or approaching the larger airports like Atlanta, you need someone to help coordinate and keep everything separate and safe," she said. Middle Georgia State was approved as an Enhanced AT-CTI school in mid-2024. Jeffers says the impact was immediate. "Before our program had maybe about 17 to 20 students. Right now we have 54. So we have already, in that short amount of time, almost tripled in size the amount of students that we have," he said.

USA Today [11/23/2025 11:03 AM, Karissa Waddick, 67103K] reports heavy rain and snowstorms expected across wide swaths of the United States this week could muck up Thanksgiving travel for millions of Americans taking to the roads and skies. Much of the country, from Seattle to Dallas, could be hit with heavy rain, wind and thunderstorms throughout the week, according to AccuWeather meteorologists, and some areas in the northern United States may see several inches of snowfall. The storm is expected to begin dropping rain and mountain snow in New Mexico and Colorado on Sunday, before moving east over the Plains region early in the week and toward the Midwest and East Coast closer to Thanksgiving. "The best chance of severe weather will be in the South Central and Southeastern states," AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok predicted. The chances of downpours and lightning come during what’s expected to be one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. AAA predicts more than 81 million people will leave home to celebrate with loved ones for the holiday. Early in the week, rainfall and thunderstorms could be intense enough to impact flights in Texas and Arkansas, including at airports in Austin, Dallas and Little Rock. As the storm moves toward the central United States Tuesday, major airports in Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis, Houston and Minneapolis could see delays, according to AccuWeather forecasters.

NPR [11/23/2025 8:08 AM, Ayesha Rascoe, 28013K] Audio: HERE reports NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to New York Times reporter Scott Dance about efforts to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency. President Trump’s review panel failed to meet a deadline last week.

Axios [11/23/2025 7:20 AM, Alex Fitzpatrick, 12972K] reports the 2025 hurricane season is about to end on Nov. 30 without a single mainland U.S. landfall for the first time in a decade. That’s welcome news for hurricane-prone states, but doesn’t mean future years will be equally calm — especially as climate change continues to warm the oceans, essentially creating hurricane fuel. Just because this year’s Atlantic hurricanes steered clear of the continental U.S. doesn’t mean it was a gentle season. Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as a category 5 hurricane on Oct. 28 after rapidly intensifying over warm ocean waters, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. It was one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record, with a lowest recorded pressure of 892 mb. (Lower pressure is correlated with stronger storms; only a handful on record have made it below 900 mb.) Melissa caused at least $10 billion in damage and nearly 100 known deaths as it ravaged the Caribbean; those numbers may yet rise.

CBS News [11/23/2025 9:51 PM, McKenna King and Jeff Ray, 39474K] Video: HERE reports rounds of heavy rain arrive late on Sunday night and continue to midday on Monday. The rain clears out for Thanksgiving, but returns next weekend. Just three days ago DFW recorded the wettest November day in history, 3.95". We are expecting more heavy rain to come in from the west on Sunday night. The flood risk is high due to saturated grounds and many rivers at bank full. There is a risk of strong to severe storms the rest of the day into early evening in our western counties; storms have been going on there since mid-afternoon. So far, lighting is the greatest threat from them. The heavy rain enters the metroplex later Sunday night, most of it arriving after midnight. A flood watch continues to 3 p.m. Monday. We are expecting a prolonged period of heavy rain moving across our area. The worst of it will fall from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. Ponding on roads, flooding in low spots, standing water at construction zones and ongoing heavy rain will make for difficult travel conditions. If you can, please delay your morning travel. As we get later in the morning and across the afternoon, there will be a small but significant window for severe weather to start up. The favored area will be just east and southeast of the metroplex down the I-45 corridor. This includes a low tornado risk.

New York Post [11/23/2025 2:37 PM, Anthony Blair, 42219K] reports the FBI had multiple "missed opportunities" to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate President Trump, a former assistant director at the Bureau has told The Post. Last week, The Post reported on multiple extremist social media posts believed to be tied to Crooks, including numerous threats of political violence and a dramatic shift against Trump, after previously expressing his admiration for the Republican. If even "half" of Trump’s would-be assassin’s extremist digital footprint turns out to be true, he should have been on the FBI’s radar long before the 20-year-old opened fired on the then-presumptive GOP presidential nominee during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, said Chris Swecker, a retired FBI assistant director. "It’s clear that he was popping off on the social media sites and saying things that should have garnered attention," Swecker, who served in the FBI for 24 years, said. "That constitutes a miss on the part of the FBI," he added, saying that the Bureau’s handling of the investigation earned a "a C- grade.” Among the disturbing posts that were recently revealed, were comments on YouTube that included, "I always believed being patriotic was lining up a bunch of socialist Jews and blasting their useless brains out with an AR.” He also wrote "KILL DEMOCRATS" and said that members of the "Squad" should suffer a "quick, painful death.” He also commented: "The only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks, sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you, track down any important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to assassinate them.” Swecker — who retired from the Bureau in 2006 — also claimed that the FBI under then-director Christopher Wray was desperate to pin Trump’s would-be assassin as a far-right lone gunman. He said it seemed clear to him that when agents found evidence to the contrary, the Bureau "had its thumb on the scales" of the investigation. This led to a lack of transparency in the investigation, which allowed conspiracy theories to spread and multiply, he said.

Breitbart [11/23/2025 4:19 PM, Amy Furr, 2416K] reports officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly said Thursday the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, acted alone. The FBI’s conclusion came after an intense and global investigation wherein authorities said they left no stone unturned, Fox News reported Friday. The outlet interviewed FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and a senior official who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of his work. Patel said his team has been on the case since they took over the agency, and explained, "We not only had to maintain the chain of command to President Trump, but we had to remind the world that President Trump was the victim — one of the four victims — on that day. There are victims’ rights rules that apply to him, and they don’t get erased because he is the president.” "We fully briefed the president, as a victim of this case, at the White House, providing him with all of the details of our investigation, and the president was satisfied with the results and where we left it," Patel said. The shooter in the case was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who reportedly had an interest in "furries" and used "they/them" pronouns.

San Francisco Chronicle [11/23/2025 8:39 AM, Warren Pederson, 4722K] reports Monterey County recovery crews resumed their search Sunday morning for a man swept into the Pacific Ocean at Garrapata State Beach in Big Sur — the same place where a man and his daughter died after being overcome by waves last weekend. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office was notified around 3 p.m. Saturday that three people were swept off the rocks at Soberanes Point into the ocean. Two women were able to reach land on their own and were taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries, but a man remained in the water, sheriff’s officials said. Rescue teams from the sheriff’s office, California State Parks, Cal Fire, California Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard joined the search. A Coast Guard helicopter spotted what appeared to be a body in the water at 4:24 p.m., but lost sight due to high surf. The crew suspended the search at 7 p.m. due to low visibility, but resumed efforts Sunday morning.

AP [11/23/2025 12:29 PM, Steve Karnowski and Julie Carr Smyth, 19051K] reports since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials how to protect polling places from attacks and gamed out how to respond to the unexpected, such as an Election Day bomb threat or sudden disinformation campaign. The agency was largely absent from that space for elections this month in several states, a potential preview for the 2026 midterms. Shifting priorities of the Trump administration, staffing reductions and budget cuts have many election officials concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be next year, when control of Congress will be at stake in those elections. Some officials say they have begun scrambling to fill the anticipated gaps. "We do not have a sense of whether we can rely on CISA for these services as we approach a big election year in 2026," said Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat who until recently led the bipartisan National Association of Secretaries of State. The association’s leaders sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in February asking her to preserve the cybersecurity agency’s core election functions. Noem, whose department oversees the agency, replied the following month that it was reviewing its "funding, products, services, and positions" related to election security and that its services would remain available to election officials. Simon said secretaries of state are still waiting to hear about the agency’s plans. CISA, as the agency is known, was formed under the first Trump administration to help safeguard the nation’s critical infrastructure, from dams and power plants to election systems. It has been undergoing a major transformation since President Donald Trump’s second term began in January. Public records suggest that roughly 1,000 CISA employees have lost their jobs over the past years. The Republican administration in March cut $10 million from two cybersecurity initiatives, including one dedicated to helping state and local election officials. CISA is still without an official director. Trump’s nomination of Sean Plankey, a cybersecurity expert in the first Trump administration, has stalled in the Senate. CISA officials did not answer questions seeking specifics about the agency’s role in the recently completed elections, its plans for the 2026 election cycle or staffing levels. They said the agency remains ready to help protect election infrastructure. "Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, CISA is laser-focused on securing America’s critical infrastructure and strengthening cyber resilience across the government and industry," said Marci McCarthy, CISA’s director of public affairs. She said CISA would announce its future organizational plans "at the appropriate time.”

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Bloomberg Law [11/23/2025 1:33 PM, Jake Bleiberg, 803K] reports the hack of a technology vendor for real estate financiers left major American banks and mortgage lenders working Sunday to assess whether they were affected by the data breach. The vendor, SitusAMC Group Holdings, LP, said in a statement Saturday that someone compromised its systems and took client data including "accounting records and legal agreements.”

NewsMax [11/23/2025 2:04 PM, Mark Swanson, 4109K] reports Internet disruptions are becoming more frequent and more sweeping, according to experts, after a string of major outages has repeatedly knocked large parts of the online world offline. This week’s crash at Cloudflare — which caused hour-long problems for platforms including X, OpenAI, and Discord — marked the third significant outage in roughly a month, NBC News reported Sunday. The incidents highlight a central vulnerability: much of the modern internet relies on a handful of giant cloud providers. When one makes even a small mistake or misses a hidden software flaw, the fallout can ricochet across millions of users and businesses. "This spate of outages has been uniquely terrible," Erie Meyer, former chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told NBC News. "It’s like what we were told Y2K would be like — and it’s happening more often.” Cloud companies known as "hyperscalers" dominate the modern internet because they can expand infrastructure quickly and cheaply. But critics warn this consolidation creates dangerous single points of failure. "When one company’s bug can derail everyday life, that’s not just technical — that’s consolidation," Meyer said. NBC reports the disruptions began Oct. 20 when Amazon Web Services went down, cutting access to everything from gaming networks to Ring cameras. The outage even affected smart-home beds. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., recently blasted the situation on X, calling it reason "to break up Big Tech.” Nine days later, Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a global outage just before the company’s quarterly earnings. Delta and Alaska Airlines — which rely on AWS and Azure — struggled to check in passengers online. Cloudflare’s outage on Tuesday was the worst the company has seen since 2019, CEO Matthew Prince acknowledged. The company first suspected a massive cyberattack but later traced the failure to a software flaw in its anti-bot system.

FOX News [11/23/2025 8:00 AM, Stepheny Price and Ashley Papa, 40621K] reports federal investigators are examining the online activity of the suspect accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, as questions grow about how digital spaces are fueling a new wave of politically motivated attacks — including last year’s attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. A viral post from the Libs of TikTok account on X listed several recent shootings and noted multiple suspects identified as transgender or nonbinary, calling it "an epidemic of trans violence.” But experts say those claims miss the mark. The real danger, they warn, is playing out in the hidden corners of Reddit, Discord and other chat platforms, where grievance and validation feed off one another and push isolated individuals toward violence. Former homeland security advisor for New York state Michael Balboni told Fox News Digital that assassinations have risen over the past decade and the targets are no longer limited to politicians. "We’re seeing activists and media figures targeted," Balboni said. "These are people who feel aggrieved or insignificant and believe they’ll commit a heroic act. The Charlie Kirk case shows how the threat landscape has widened.” He described online hatred as the spark that turns grievance into action, allowing angry users to find each other and fan the flames. "Like-minded folks feed off one another in social-media spaces until somebody takes the next step and decides to kill. That’s the key to radicalization today.” Investigators are reviewing digital evidence tied to the suspect in Kirk’s assassination, including Discord messages recovered after the shooting, according to court filings and law-enforcement statements. Federal agencies are also examining related chat logs, Homeland Security Today reported.

Blaze [11/24/2025 5:02 AM, Staff, 1442K] reports Antifa radicals have been causing chaos throughout America for years and have finally been designated as a terrorist network by the Trump administration. However, they’re still getting away with crimes. “Antifa radicals in Berkeley, California, disrupted a Turning Point USA event outside of UC Berkeley, punched a conservative in the face. The conservative gets arrested,” BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo tells co-host Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman on “Rufo & Lomez.” “But our policy prescription is, the administration has to dismantle the left-wing terror networks, whether it’s Antifa, other organized militant groups. They have to actually get mugshots, case numbers, inmate numbers,” he continues. “The tangible evidence that these left-wing terror networks, which are essentially saying that we can control the streets in places like Portland, we can veto peaceful conservative speech in places like Berkeley — we have to ensure that they can no longer do so and can no longer exert control through violence,” he adds. While Rufo points out that Antifa is still out there disrupting whatever it can, Lomez notes that it was a “huge step in the right direction” that it has at least been designated as a terrorist network. “The administration is making the right moves and/or saying the right things. What’s missing is the conspicuous action so that your average American, let alone Trump supporter, but just your average American goes, ‘Yeah, I don’t like Antifa, and the administration is doing something about it, and that’s good,’” Lomez says. But the next step is taking the terrorist designation and doing something with it.

CNN [11/23/2025 9:31 AM, Eric Levenson, 606K] reports like any American school, Mooresville High School in Indiana had long since set up security protocols and mental health services to try to prevent violence on campus. Yet those policies didn’t fully prepare them psychologically for the arrest in February of an 18-year-old senior accused of planning "Parkland part two.” "Our reaction – and the community’s – was one of shock," Matt Saner, the president of the Mooresville Schools board of trustees, told CNN in an email. "These aren’t just nameless students that we are responsible for keeping safe, these are our neighbors. Our friends. Our family. Our own kids.” The Mooresville student’s arrest was just one of the many instances around the country, from New York City to Washington state, in which security measures worked as intended, thwarting a potential explosion of violence. CNN and other media outlets have long explored the aftermath of horrific school shootings: The funerals, the physical and psychic damage to survivors, the investigations into what went wrong and the efforts to rebuild. Less explored is what happens when a potential school shooting is successfully thwarted – how the community reacts to the near-tragedy and the lessons learned from a successful intervention. The Mooresville student, Trinity Shockley, now 19, is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit murder on Monday in an Indiana courtroom as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. The "contested" plea hearing – the debate is over the length of the sentence – will include presentations of evidence, prosecutors said. Shockley’s attorney declined to comment.

FOX News [11/23/2025 7:48 AM, Paul Tilsley and Efrat Lachter, 40621K] reports the White House has mounted a new verbal attack on South Africa over the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg this weekend. White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly hit back at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa after Pretoria refused to allow a U.S. embassy delegation to take part in the summit’s closing ceremony. The U.S. takes over the G-20’s presidency next year. But Ramaphosa’s spokesperson told reporters here at the summit their president won’t perform the ceremonial handover to a junior diplomat. Washington had asked to send the embassy’s chargé d’affaires to the ceremony. In what is becoming an increasingly fractious back-and-forth of bitter statements between Pretoria and Washington on several issues around the G-20, Kelly told Fox News Digital, "President Ramaphosa initially declared that he would pass the gavel to an ‘empty chair.’ Now, he’s refusing to facilitate a smooth transition of the G-20 presidency at all.” Kelly continued, "This, coupled with South Africa’s push to issue a G-20 Leaders Declaration, despite consistent and robust U.S. objections, underscores the fact that they have weaponized their G-20 presidency to undermine the G-20’s founding principles. President Trump looks forward to restoring legitimacy to the G-20 in the U.S.’s 2026 host year.” Trump withdrew all U.S. participation in the summit over his claims that some White South Africans were being racially discriminated against. Now South Africa’s chief rabbi, Dr. Warren Goldstein, has also lashed out at the G-20, speaking exclusively to Fox News Digital, saying, "How can it be that in the long wish list of items that make up the G-20 Leaders Declaration, there wasn’t space to condemn one of the greatest human rights crises in Africa – the continent wide jihadi war on Christians?". He continued "How can it be that the first G-20 hosted in Africa by an African government ignores how Africa – from Mozambique to Mali, the DRC, Nigeria, Sudan and so many other countries – has become the central front of Islamist terrorism? "Just Friday, more than 300 girls and 12 teachers were kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria," he added. "Who will speak up for these children and save them? The silence of the G-20 declaration on this and other jihadi atrocities on the continent is a moral disgrace, revealing the gathering to be a heartless charade that history will judge harshly. God’s condemnation of Cain following his feeble defense of ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ stands as an eternal accusation against the leaders of the G-20 – ‘What have you done? The blood of your brother calls out to Me from the ground.’".

FOX News [11/23/2025 9:11 PM, Emma Bussey, 40621K] reports Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that discussions over ending the war in Ukraine have entered a productive phase, while claiming "a tremendous amount of progress" had been made. Following a round of talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Geneva, Switzerland, Rubio told reporters negotiators had "a very good day today.” "We had a very good day today. I think we made a tremendous amount of progress, even from the last time I spoke to you," Rubio said. "We began almost three weeks ago with a foundational document that we socialized and ran by both sides, and with input from both sides," he said. Rubio described how negotiators had been refining the 28-point peace framework that outlines potential conditions for a ceasefire and long-term settlement for Ukraine and Russia. "Over the last 96 hours or more, there’s been extensive engagement with the Ukrainian side including our Secretary of the Army and others, being on the ground in Kyiv, meeting with relevant stakeholders across the Ukrainian political spectrum in the legislative branch and the executive branch, and the military and others to further sort of narrow these points.” "We arrived here today with one goal: to take what – it’s 28 points or 26 points, depending on which version, as it continued to evolve and try to narrow the ones that were open items. And we have achieved that today in a very substantial way," he said. The weekend talks centered on a 28-point plan, which is a framework drafted by the U.S. outlining steps for a possible ceasefire and political settlement. The document is said to cover security guarantees, territorial control, reconstruction mechanisms, and Ukraine’s long-term relationship with NATO and the EU. The plan has reportedly evolved through several iterations, narrowing disputes point by point as both sides weigh concessions. "Now, obviously, like any final agreement, it’ll have to be agreed upon by the presidents, and there are a couple of issues that we need to continue to work on," Rubio clarified. While declining to specify unresolved issues, Rubio described the moment as "delicate.” "This is a very delicate moment, and it’s important – like I said, there’s not agreement on those yet. Some of it is semantics or language; others require higher-level decisions and consultation; others, I think, just need more time to work through," he said before touching on some issues. "There were some that involved equities or the role of the EU or of NATO or so forth, and those we kind of segregated out because we just met with the national security advisors for various European countries, and those are things we’ll have to discuss with them because it involves them.” "I don’t want to declare victory or finality here. There’s still some work to be done," he added. Suggesting there is intent to ensure Ukraine’s security, Rubio said that they all "recognize that part of getting a final end to this war will require for Ukraine to feel as if it is safe, and it is never going to be invaded or attacked again.” "I honestly believe we’ll get there," he said, and when asked about next steps, Rubio said a possible call between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy could happen, adding, "I don’t know. It’s possible. I’m not sure.” "The deadline is we want to get this done as soon as possible. Obviously, we’d love it to be Thursday," he added. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Bloomberg [11/23/2025 6:47 PM, Staff, 38K] reports Donald Trump’s proposed Nov. 27 deadline to secure Ukraine’s support for a US-backed peace plan isn’t set in stone and could drift into the following week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, suggesting that plenty of work remains. Rubio’s note of caution followed US-Ukrainian talks Sunday in Geneva that both sides described as making progress toward a deal. Any agreement would require signoff by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as well as Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “It is probably the most productive day we have had on this issue, maybe in the entirety of our engagement, but certainly in a very long time,” Rubio told reporters at the US diplomatic mission in Geneva. “But work remains, and because this continues to be a working process, I don’t want to declare victory or finality here.” The two sides drafted “an updated and refined peace framework” and “agreed to continue intensive work on joint proposals in the coming days,” according to a joint statement from the White House. Neither Rubio nor the White House offered specifics on any progress made in the talks. Andriy Yermak, Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, joined Rubio at an earlier briefing in Geneva but wasn’t present for Rubio’s afternoon comments to reporters. Zelenskiy also took a cautious stance in a video posted on X, saying “it’s important to ensure that the steps to end the war are effective, and that everything is doable.” “Diplomacy has been reinvigorated and that’s good,” he said. “We have our state position, we have our Ukrainian dignity and we must move in a way that strengthens it, not undermines it.” US officials are pushing Ukraine to accept the 28-point proposal to end Russia’s war as a basis for negotiations and to issue a statement saying so, according to two people familiar with the matter. Zelenskiy, faced with a blueprint backed by the US and Russia, replied on X earlier that Ukraine “is grateful to the United States,” including “personally to President Trump” for US assistance.

USA Today [11/23/2025 5:52 PM, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, 67103K] reports Ukrainian, American and European officials gathered in Geneva on Nov. 23 to discuss a draft plan presented by Washington to end the war in Ukraine after Kyiv and its allies voiced alarm over what they saw as major concessions to the aggressor Russia. President Donald Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had until Nov. 27 to approve the 28-point plan, which calls on Ukraine to cede territory, accept limits on its military and renounce ambitions to join NATO. For many Ukrainians, including soldiers fighting on the front lines, such terms would amount to capitulation after nearly four years of Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. On Nov. 22, however, Trump said his proposal for ending the war is not his final offer. Zelenskyy posted a video on X from the meeting in Geneva on Nov. 23 saying that while he was grateful for all the support, it was important to ensure that the steps taken to end the war are effective. "Ukraine has never wanted war, and we will never be an obstacle to peace. Diplomacy has been reinvigorated — and this is good," he said. "We expect the outcome to deliver the right steps. And the first priority is a reliable peace, guaranteed security, respect for our people, and respect for everyone who gave their lives defending Ukraine from Russian aggression.” Since the plan was announced, there has been considerable confusion about who was involved in drawing it up. European allies said they had not been consulted. Before heading to Geneva, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted in a post on X that Washington had written the plan. He posted the remark after Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said Rubio had called him and other senators and explained it was a proposal the United States had received and passed on to Ukraine. "The peace proposal was authored by the U.S. It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations," Rubio wrote on X. "It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.”

NBC News [11/23/2025 6:39 PM, Alexandra Marquez, Courtney Kube, Fiona Glisson, Megan Shannon and Julie Tsirkin, 34509K] reports President Donald Trump inserted fresh tensions into the high-stakes Ukraine-Russia peace talks on Sunday, publicly accusing Kyiv’s leaders of showing "zero gratitude" for U.S. support just as U.S. officials in Geneva were working to show a united front. Trump’s Truth Social comments landed at a delicate moment: His administration is pressing Ukraine to accept a 28-point peace proposal by Thanksgiving, even as confusion over the plan’s authorship and concerns from European allies and U.S. lawmakers have raised questions about whose interests it serves. Senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff, met with Ukrainian officials in Geneva this weekend to move peace talks forward with a goal of ending the war. On Sunday, after a full day of talks, Rubio told reporters "a tremendous amount of progress" had been made. He added, "there’s still some work to be done, but we are much further ahead today at this time than we were when we began this morning and where we were a week ago for certain.” "So it is in my personal view that we’ve had probably the most productive and meaningful meeting so far in this entire process since we’ve been involved in from the beginning," he said. "We have a very good work product that was already built on a foundation of input from all the relative parties involved here, and we were able to go through some of those items now, point by point. And I think we’ve made good progress.” Another U.S. official told NBC News that Rubio, Witkoff and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with a Ukrainian delegation at the U.S. Mission in Geneva. The U.S. officials said the discussions were "positive and constructive.” In a post later Sunday on Telegram, Zelenskyy thanked the U.S. and European allies. "Ukraine is grateful to the United States, to every American heart, and personally to President Trump for the help that, starting with the Javelins, is saving the lives of Ukrainians. We thank everyone in Europe, in the Group of Seven and the Group of Twenty, who is helping us protect lives," he wrote. The White House said Sunday evening in a joint statement on the U.S.-Ukraine meeting that "both sides agreed the consultations were highly productive.” "The discussions showed meaningful progress toward aligning positions and identifying clear next steps," the statement said. "They reaffirmed that any future agreement must fully uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty and deliver a sustainable and just peace. As a result of the discussions, the parties drafted an updated and refined peace framework." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NewsMax [11/23/2025 12:16 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports Israel’s military says it has killed senior Hezbollah terrorist Haytham Tabtabai in its strike in Beirut on Sunday. The military in a statement described Tabtabai as the Iran-backed terrorist group’s chief of staff. Hezbollah did not immediately comment. Tabtabai had led Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Unit. In 2016, the United States designated Tabtabai as a terrorist, calling him a military leader who led Hezbollah’s special forces in Syria and Yemen, and it offered up to $5 million for information about him. Israel on Sunday struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it targeted Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warned the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war. The strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed five people and wounded 25 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Hezbollah said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended that Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened an escalation of attacks — just days before Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to visit Lebanon on his first foreign trip. "We will continue to act forcefully to prevent any threat to the residents of the north and the state of Israel," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement. Government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian did not say whether Israel informed the U.S. before the strike, saying only that "Israel makes decisions independently.” Israel did not issue an evacuation warning before the strike, and did not name the person targeted. Bedrosian said the Hezbollah chief of staff "led the strengthening and arming of the terrorist organization.” Mahmoud Qamati, deputy chair of Hezbollah’s political council, told journalists that a high-ranking militant may have been killed but did not give details.

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