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The AP [10/11/2025 5:05 PM, Staff, 31753K] reports National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can’t be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals court ruled Saturday. The decision comes after federal Judge April Perry on Thursday ruled to temporarily block the National Guard deployment for at least two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois during Trump’s immigration crackdown. The appeals court on Saturday granted a pause in the case until it can hear further arguments. The on-again, off-again deployments stem from a political and legal battle over Trump’s push to send the Guard to several U.S. cities. His administration claims crime is rampant in those cities, despite statistics not always supporting that. If a president invokes the Insurrection Act, they can dispatch active duty military in states that fail to put down an insurrection or defy federal law. However, Perry said she found no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois during Trump’s immigration crackdown. The Chicago Tribune [10/11/2025 4:55 PM, Jason Meisner, 4829K] reports a federal appeals court in Chicago on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state. The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals did, however, grant a temporary stay on a portion of U.S. District Judge April Perry’s order involving the federalization of the National Guard within Illinois. "Members of the National Guard do not need to return to their home states unless further ordered by a court to do so," the court order said. The ruling keeps in effect Perry’s granting of a temporary restraining order Thursday halting President Donald Trump’s plan to send federalized National Guard troops into the Chicago area to act as a security force during the administration’s controversial immigration enforcement action known as "Operation Midway Blitz.” The Department of Justice argued in a filing Friday night that Perry’s order "improperly impinges on the Commander in Chief’s supervision of military operations, countermands a military directive to officers in the field, and endangers federal personnel and property.” The 20-page motion asked the higher court to freeze Perry’s order while an appeal is pending, saying the National Guard should be allowed to "protect federal personnel and property" while the litigation continues to play out. CNN [10/11/2025 9:55 PM, Michelle Watson, 18595K] reports that troops in the Chicago area are now engaged in "planning and training," but "not conducting any operational activities at this time," US Northern Command said in a Friday update. There were 300 members of the Illinois National Guard and 200 members of the Texas National Guard activated under Title 10 and in the Chicago area as of Wednesday, the command previously said. The Trump administration had filed a notice of appeal this week against US District Court Judge April Perry’s decision Thursday to grant a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s National Guard deployment in Illinois. "I have seen no credible evidence that there has been rebellion in the state of Illinois" that would justify federalizing National Guard soldiers, Perry said in her ruling, calling Department of Homeland Security assessments of the protests "unreliable.” NBC News [10/11/2025 7:54 PM, Gary Grumbach and Alexandra Marquez, 2218K] reports that in response to Saturday’s ruling, a White House spokesperson indicated that a further appeal was coming. “Amidst ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like Pritzker have refused to step in to quell, President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers and assets," Abigail Jackson said in a statement. "President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities and we expect to be vindicated by a higher court.” Representatives for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

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The Chicago Tribune [10/11/2025 10:43 AM, Talia Soglin, 4829K] reports federal immigration officials targeted a parking lot near O’Hare International Airport where rideshare drivers wait between trips on Friday, advocates said. 18 people were arrested at O’Hare as part of an operation carried out by Border Patrol officers on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said. In a statement, the Illinois Drivers Alliance - a labor coalition seeking to organize rideshare drivers - said it was "deeply concerned that the drivers’ due process rights were violated at O’Hare." DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the operation was "targeted" and claimed in a statement that the people arrested Friday were "all in violation of our nation’s immigration laws." McLaughlin said those arrested would remain in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "pending removal proceedings." Univision Chicago WGBO [10/11/2025 11:10 AM, Staff, 5004K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted an operation this Friday in the “Alpha” parking lot at O’Hare Airport, which is intended for ride-hailing drivers. There were two interventions during the day, the most recent around 2:15 p.m., where officers asked drivers if they were U.S. citizens and requested proof of identity. Several drivers were handcuffed and taken into custody, while others looked on in surprise at the presence of authorities. The union representing app drivers issued a statement expressing concern about the violation of procedural rights and criticizing current immigration policy as an attack on immigrant families. The Department of Homeland Security has not released the number of people detained or the exact reasons for the arrests. This operation adds to the immigration crackdown that, according to the Department of Homeland Security, has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests of immigrants in the Chicago area since the measure began a month ago.

Chicago Tribune [10/11/2025 7:54 PM, Christin Lazerus, 4829K] reports a video that went viral Thursday of a man being detained by federal immigration agents at an East Chicago bakery marked a significant moment for many of those who gathered Saturday to protest at East Chicago City Hall. "I think it has been happening for months in the Chicago area, but what really angered me was the video of the man being detained at La Rancherita bakery," said Grecia Alcantar, a 2022 East Chicago Central high school graduate and senior at the University of Notre Dame. "The way that they cuffed him against the Virgin Mary — that in juxtaposition was absolutely crazy." Alcantar posted the video on Facebook and was one of many who called the office of East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland, demanding a response. Copeland later said that the city was dismayed by the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents but couldn’t kick them off the city-owned parking lot where they were staging. "Even though what was said in the press release wasn’t necessarily what we were looking for, I do think that there was power in … the community response. And we practiced one of our rights, being able to voice our opinion."

Chicago Tribune [10/11/2025 7:57 PM, Kate Perez, 4829K] reports streets outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview that have been the scene of conflict over the last month were instead filled with song and prayer Saturday morning as a local church led a procession to the facility, aiming to commemorate Communion with detainees but they ultimately were turned away. Donning matching yellow shirts that read "God has cast down the mighty from their thrones" and signs condemning ICE, organizers estimated 1,000 members of the procession trekked more than a mile from St. Eulalia Catholic Church in Maywood to the processing facility, singing and praying softly in both English and Spanish along the way. For participant Dave Linhares, the recent ICE raids and arrests have struck him at his core, he said. Having worked with migrant families in the past, Linhares said the processional for detainees was one way he could get involved and give back. "It’s kind of just been obviously top of mind and horrifying, but also strengthening to know there’s a big community out here to fight back," Linhares said. Michael Okinczyc-Cruz, an organizer and executive director for the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, said the procession’s aim was to commemorate Communion and offer hope and encouragement to those detained inside the facility. It’s an effort to bring light to what he described as inhumanity at the detention center during "Operation Midway Blitz," the Trump administration’s plan to bring in more federal agents to Chicago.

Politico [10/11/2025 9:09 PM, Gregory Svirnovskiy and Josh Gerstein, 2100K] reports a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily lifted a judge’s order blocking White House efforts to federalize National Guard troops for use in Chicago, but left her block on their deployment in the city. The troops can now remain at their base, the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about an hour outside Chicago. “Members of the National Guard do not need to return to their home states unless further ordered by a court to do so,” the one-page order from the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said. The appeals court reversed part of a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry, who on Thursday barred the White House from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops from Illinois and Texas in the city, rejecting the administration’s argument that they were needed to quell protests and unrest that President Donald Trump has complained is interfering with federal immigration enforcement. The appeals court’s move resembles one by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week, which indicated it may soon overturn a judge’s decision holding that Trump’s push to federalize 200 National Guard troops to Portland was illegal. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have consistently opposed Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops to Chicago as part of his nationwide crackdown on crime. On Saturday, Pritzker lashed out specifically at Trump’s call-up of National Guard troops from Texas.

Chicago Tribune [10/12/2025 6:00 AM, Rich Pearson, 4917K] reports the nation has been given a split screen view of Chicago. On one side, President Donald Trump declares the city a war-torn "hellhole" requiring deployment of National Guard troops to help enforce his administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement efforts as the Department of Homeland Security posts propaganda videos on social media. On the other, more than a million people, largely tourists from around the world, are gathering across the city and at Grant Park to urge on runners in the Chicago Marathon after tens of thousands had converged in Wrigleyville to cheer on the Cubs. "This is JB Pritzker reporting from war torn Chicago," the state’s Democratic governor said Thursday in a mock field report for "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" wearing body armor while walking along a quiet sidewalk on the riverfront’s Wacker Drive. "As you can see, there’s utter mayhem and chaos on the ground. It’s quite disturbing," he said. "The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them and our deep dish pizza, well, has gone shallow. So it’s a challenge to survive here in the city of Chicago, but there’s no hellscape that I’d rather be in.” Pritzker’s "report" came as U.S. District Judge April Perry on Thursday handed the governor, along with other Illinois Democrats and administration opponents, a major victory by issuing a temporary restraining order that blocked the president’s federalized Illinois and Texas National Guard troops from duty to assist with immigrant enforcement activities.

Univision [10/11/2025 9:08 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports volunteers from the United Giving Hope church in Waukegan joined forces to deliver more than 50 free food parcels to people who are afraid to leave their homes due to federal raids in Illinois. Although many families benefited, the volunteers are urging other churches and organizations to join forces to help the migrant community. You may be interested in: Immigration policies threaten agricultural production: concerns about rising food prices. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [10/11/2025 8:44 AM, Alex Nitzberg, 40621K] reports Portland Mayor Keith Wilson ordered the removal of police tape near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility this week despite the federal government’s call for the establishment of a perimeter around the ICE location, according to a report on oregonlive. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the ICE facility on Tuesday and Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day noted that authorities had the vicinity cordoned off for the occasion. But the perimeter was removed on Wednesday, according to the report. According to the City of Portland, a message to Day from U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford stated, in part, that "all federal officers must be able to come and go from the ICE office without harassment or hindrance" and that "Portland must create a perimeter around the ICE office." He specified that this "perimeter must be at least as large as the perimeter state and local police set up today for the Secretary’s visit." The city also indicated that in a message to General Counsel for DHS James Percival, Mayor Wilson noted, in part, "You have requested that federal officers be able to ingress and egress from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility without hindrance. The Mayor and our local public safety professionals will continue to evaluate the situation on the ground, and they will continue to make public order decisions based on what they believe will be in the best interest of Portland and our community."

FOX News [10/12/2025 2:21 AM, Stepheny Price, 40621K] reports a call to shine laser lights into the sky in an effort to disrupt federal helicopters flying over South Portland has prompted serious safety concerns and forced a key trauma hospital to reroute air ambulances. The online flyer, posted on the homepage of Rose City Counter-Info, a self-described "anarchist counter-info platform in so-called Portland, Oregon," encourages participants to take part in a "laser tag" event aimed at federal aircraft. The post urges individuals to mask up, coordinate with others, and take steps to avoid identification – including cleaning laser pointers with alcohol, wearing gloves, and removing potential DNA traces before disposal. As a result of the planned activity, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) reported that multiple air ambulance providers declined to land at the hospital’s rooftop helipad on Saturday night, according to KGW. Instead, they redirected their helicopters to nearby airports, requiring patients to be transferred to OHSU by ground ambulance — a process estimated to add 45 to 60 minutes to travel time. "For most patients, that will be an acceptable delay. However, for some sensitive situations, such as unstable trauma patients, STEMIs and strokes, the delay could have real impacts," OHSU said in an email to KGW. The hospital also advised staff to "incorporate additional transit time into their decision-making," and strongly urged the public not to participate in the laser event, calling it "extremely dangerous.” The Port of Portland, which oversees general aviation in the region, acknowledged the uptick in helicopter and propeller aircraft activity. "We are aware of the higher volume of helicopter and propeller airplane activity over South and Southwest Portland," the Port said. "This appears to be related to federal law enforcement and/or military activity and is not a development the Port of Portland can control.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has also condemned the call to target aircraft with lasers, warning that the act is a federal crime. "Aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft is a federal crime. This is incredibly dangerous for the aircraft personnel and for the public’s safety," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a previous statement to Fox News Digital. "Antifa domestic terrorists WILL NOT overrun our cities. We will bust their networks and bring every one of them to justice.” Federal officials cited a recent incident as evidence of the risks such actions pose. On September 30, DHS reported that four Mexican nationals living in the U.S. illegally were arrested in Portland after allegedly shining a laser at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter, endangering both the crew and people below.

Washington Post [10/12/2025 6:00 AM, Robert Klemko and Joshua Partlow, 32099K] reports during the four hours Nick Sortor sat in jail on the morning of Oct. 3, the conservative influencer wondered if anyone even knew he’d been arrested. He had no cellphone. He could make local calls, but he didn’t know anyone’s number in Portland. Outside, though, his online allies were blaring the news: A right-wing journalist — and not the leftists who assaulted him at an ICE protest — had been arrested by Portland police. Within hours of his release, Sortor had a message from Donald Trump, via a White House aide: “Nick, I saw you on television,” the message read. “Great job. We’re behind you 100%. Let us know if there’s anything we can do. … President DJT.” Over the next few days, conservative media spotlighted Sortor’s arrest to amplify Trump’s claims that leftists were engaging in destructive mayhem in Portland. By Wednesday, Sortor himself was at the White House, addressing a roundtable where Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem compared antifa — a catchall concept used to describe loosely affiliated far-left groups — to the Islamist Hezbollah, one of the most heavily armed non-state military forces in the world. “The fact that we are here today, on such short notice, shows how serious you guys are taking this issue,” Sortor told Trump and other Cabinet members. He continued: “The Portland politicians are literally willing to sacrifice their own citizens just to appease these antifa terrorists. It’s sickening. I’ve seen it first-hand, obviously.”

Blaze [10/11/2025 12:30 PM, Candace Hathaway, 1442K] reports the American trucking industry is facing numerous underreported challenges that directly impact national security, supply chain integrity, and road safety, among other critical issues that were exacerbated by the Biden administration’s open-border crisis. While the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation, under the leadership of Secretary Sean Duffy, has already moved to address some of the many challenges related to the issuance of commercial driver’s licenses, often referred to as CDLs, the American public remains largely unaware of the extent of those looming dangers from years of insufficient oversight in this area. Bill Skinner, the president of Skinner Transfer Corp., a mid-size carrier that has been operating for 93 years, shed light on a portion of that reality in a September 22 X post, where he described a recent collision involving Werner Enterprises, a major American trucking company. Skinner claimed that a Werner driver with a non-domiciled CDL ran into one of his trucks on the I-80 in Ohio. Skinner stated that the accident involving the Werner driver represents only a fraction of a much larger issue facing smaller and mid-size American trucking companies like his own. Skinner explained that he has "multiple" ongoing insurance claims from other trucking companies whose drivers have caused accidents. He noted that many of the claims involve "ghost" trucking companies that are "set up in America from people overseas." The majority of incidents occur on private property, such as truck stops or shipper and receiver loading docks, which often means law enforcement does not respond to mediate the situation. When asked about what recourse his company can take to recoup damages by ghost companies, Skinner responded, "Just document what we have and hope and pray somebody has integrity." However, he noted that "very rarely" occurs.

New York Post [10/12/2025 12:58 AM, Nicholas McEntyre, 42219K] reports Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons slammed New York officials for issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, including an Indian national caught with an ID that didn’t identify him. Lyons was left outraged after the now-detained truck driver Anmol Anmol was driving across the US with a license that read "No Name Given" before being arrested in Oklahoma last month. "It’s really scary," Lyons told Fox News’ "The Big Weekend Show" Saturday. "To see that on a driver’s license issued by the state, ‘No Name Given." And the worst part, there’s a REAL ID star right up there in the corner. "I don’t know about you all, but it was like going through a security clearance for me to get my REAL ID.” Lyons was referring to the CDL license Anmol was found with after the illegal migrant was stopped for a routine inspection at an I-40 truck scale in Oklahoma. The New York State issued ID only identified Anmol by his last name, with the first and middle name spaces filled in with the moniker "No Name Given.” Anmol was arrested by federal agents after it was discovered he had crossed into the country illegally under the Biden administration in 2023, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Anmol was placed into removal proceedings after his arrest. "I can’t believe we are giving illegal aliens, who have no right to be here, these driver’s licenses," Lyons said. REAL IDs allow holders to board domestic flights and enter federal facilities without a passport. New Yorkers must provide several documents at the DMV to prove their identity, Social Security number, and residency in the state. Officials have not revealed how Anmol obtained the ID, but the New York Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed to The Post that the license, issued on April 14 and set to expire May 26, 2028, was real. "We have these sanctuary states that want to go ahead and try to just make it welcoming to these people who we don’t even know who they are," Lyons said. "Again, these are CDL licenses. These people are transporting hazardous goods, materials at times. And in some cases, we don’t know exactly what they are doing.” Lyons called the situation dangerous, claiming people have died from such drivers. "Look how many American citizens have lost their lives because of individuals like that, who have these driver’s licenses," he said. Three Haitian migrants were killed when Indian national Harjinder Singh made a rogue U-Turn in an 18-wheeler on a Florida highway, causing the fatal crash back in April. Singh obtained a driver’s license and work permit in California and was issued a driver’s license from both The Golden State and Washington State. Before acquiring the licenses, Singh failed an English language proficiency test and a highway sign exam after the August 12 crash. Lyons revealed the DHS has been working with local and federal law enforcement to crack down on such licenses. "Homeland Security Investigations has dedicated to working with the state police departments and our own federal agencies to make sure we get these IDs off the street," he said.

CNN [10/11/2025 12:00 PM, Devan Cole, Angelica Franganillo Diaz, Holmes Lybrand] reports officials from three different African nations have said they won’t let the US deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to their countries, potentially frustrating the Trump administration’s plans to keep him in custody. The rejections – two of which were revealed by a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in a Maryland courtroom on Friday – could lead a federal judge to order the administration to release Abrego Garcia from immigration custody for now, if she decides that his deportation does not appear imminent. The countries – Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana – have said at various points in recent weeks that they would not allow Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to El Salvador in mid-March and later brought back to the US to face human smuggling charges, to be put on a plane and sent to their territories. US District Judge Paula Xinis did not rule Friday on the request from Abrego Garcia to be released from the detention facility he’s being held at in Pennsylvania. But in a lengthy hearing, she appeared at times to be unconvinced that the government had shown a compelling reason to keep him detained. The hearing was the latest episode in Abrego Garcia’s ongoing attempt to get courts to intervene in his immigration case to ensure the Trump administration doesn’t run roughshod over his due process rights months after he was wrongly deported. Several states away on Friday, another set of attorneys for Abrego Garcia went before a federal judge in Nashville to sort out how much they can pry into the Trump administration’s innerworkings as they seek to have his criminal charges thrown out based on their claim that he’s being unfairly prosecuted.

Washington Examiner [10/11/2025 8:00 AM, Christian Datoc, 1394K] reports President Donald Trump, just nine months into office, has all but fulfilled his campaign promise to bring the war on drugs to the cartels’ doorstep. The president’s recent strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, coupled with his widespread efforts to secure the southern and northern borders and deport illegal immigrants, have yielded major progress on stemming the flow of narcotics into the United States, according to senior Trump administration aides and former Drug Enforcement Administration officials. And though Trump has yet to authorize special forces operations against Mexican cartels on their home soil, something he repeatedly proposed throughout the 2024 campaign cycle, he has reviewed plans to strike at gangs, including Tren de Aragua, inside Venezuela, which the Trump administration has begun to fashion as a narcostate. The Treasury Department has also taken significant steps to dismantle international narco networks, with the Washington Examiner identifying at least 25 distinct actions carried out by the Treasury since Secretary Scott Bessent was sworn into office in February. Department of Homeland Security officials could not provide full statistics for drug busts, seizures, or arrests the administration has carried out through the fall, but, as of the end of July, officials take credit for more than 3,600 fentanyl-related arrests, the seizure of more than 2,200 pill presses, and the confiscation of more than 27,000 pounds of illicit fentanyl. The DHS’s investigative wing additionally opened nearly 6,000 narcotics-related inquiries across that same time frame. In late September, DHS officials claimed that fentanyl trafficking at the southern border had fallen 56%, compared to 2024. In total, they claimed to have seized more than 55,000 pounds of illicit drugs during the month of August alone. Still, Trump’s drug policies have produced a number of speed bumps. Furthermore, concerns are growing that Trump’s war on drugs will soon spill over into a full-on war with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a dictator whom the administration has accused of working hand-in-hand with Venezuela’s narcogangs.

Washington Post [10/12/2025 6:00 AM, Naftali Bendavid, 32099K] reports President Donald Trump’s move to cancel projects in Democratic states during the government shutdown has prompted a furor and cries of partisanship. But it is only the latest example of his administration’s efforts to use power in ways that damage blue states and help red ones. In May, for example, the administration shifted millions of dollars from Army Corps of Engineers projects in Democratic-led states, notably California and Washington, to Republican-run ones. Last month, Trump announced he was moving U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado, which voted for Kamala Harris, to Alabama, which voted for him, though he said that was not the reason for the move. The Department of Health and Human Services, meanwhile, is closing five of its 10 regional offices — all of them in states that voted for Harris. Four of the five regional offices that HHS is keeping open are in states that backed Trump. The White House has also been seeking to block energy projects off the coasts of heavily Democratic Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. But a wind project off Virginia, which has a Republican governor, has been left unchallenged. Funding is also not the only area fueling the allegation among Democrats that blue America is being targeted. The president has ramped up his plans to send National Guard troops into Democratic states such as Illinois and Oregon over their governors’ objections, citing perceived crime and immigration issues. The White House says all those decisions have been based on the merits, the result of a careful calculation about what is best for the country. But Democrats see a pattern of using the machinery of the federal government to inflict pain on places the president considers politically unfriendly, and Trump himself has often declared his intent to hurt Democratic areas and policies. “This has been true of Donald Trump’s whole approach to politics — he doesn’t want to unify America,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland). “He governs by division, he stokes anger, and obviously in a perverse way that has worked for him in the past. But I think it is one thing to do that in a campaign, and another to govern through division.” A request to the White House for comment yielded an automated email saying a response could be delayed “due to staff shortages resulting from the Democrat Shutdown.”

NewsMax [10/11/2025 1:47 PM, Jim Thomas, 4109K] reports President Donald Trump’s Labor Department is warning that his administration’s tough immigration enforcement could trigger a food crisis, citing "immediate dangers to the American food supply" caused by a collapse in the migrant farm labor force, The American Prospect reported. In a Federal Register filing, the Department of Labor said that stricter immigration enforcement and deportations have severely disrupted the nation’s agricultural workforce, leaving growers without enough workers to harvest crops. The agency’s new rule on farmworker wages argues that without swift action to expand the foreign guest worker program, the U.S. risks "supply shock-induced food shortages." "The near-total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatens the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers," the filing states. It adds that "this threat will grow" as new immigration funding takes effect under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

San Diego Union Tribune [10/11/2025 11:00 AM, Terry Kupers, 1538K] reports we are witnessing the geometric expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the community, the crowding of correctional facilities with ICE detainees, and the rapid construction of large immigration detention facilities. ICE has a long and ugly history of heavy reliance on solitary confinement in detention. As a forensic psychiatrist who testifies in court about the research-proven harm of solitary confinement, and a law professor who has studied the human rights of incarcerated individuals, we are quite concerned about this massive increase in the use of solitary confinement in ICE detention facilities. Research shows that solitary confinement has devastating effects on the health and safety of individuals and communities alike. In addition to inducing severe anxiety and panic, disturbed thinking including paranoia, great difficulty concentrating, impaired memory, and despair, solitary confinement also exacerbates all forms of mental illness and often leads to self-mutilation, heart disease, anxiety, depression, psychosis, and a very high prevalence of suicide. Research also proves that solitary worsens safety, and that people who spend time in solitary are more likely to be re-arrested and have a higher mortality rate after returning to the community. Solitary confinement inflicts long-lasting psychological and neurological harm similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. Brain imaging technologies show that the prolonged anxiety and anger in solitary lead to structural changes in the brain, which makes the emotional problems more severe and long-lasting. But what exactly is happening inside ICE detention facilities? The U.S. detains nearly 60,000 people in immigration detention daily, the most in the world. And from April 2024 to May 2025, ICE placed more than 10,500 people into solitary confinement. During the first nine months of 2025 the population in solitary confinement in ICE facilities grew by leaps and bounds. Among detainees with mental illness, disabilities, or other vulnerabilities, solitary use in 2025 rose by 56% compared to 2022, and the average length of placements more than doubled.

Breitbart [10/11/2025 11:15 AM, John Binder, 2416K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien fugitive who was on the run from law enforcement in California and Texas, accused of two separate murders. ICE agents arrested illegal alien Savin Seng of Cambodia on October 3, Breitbart News has exclusively learned, following a manhunt after he was accused of murdering a woman in Victoria, Texas. Seng, a gang member affiliated with Asian Boys, was also wanted for the 2022 murder of a man outside of a Los Angeles, California, strip club. When arrested, Seng was found with a loaded firearm and an extra 32-round magazine. As a result, he was referred to the Department of Justice for felony illegal possession of a firearm. "Savin Seng’s multiple victims across California and Texas should be alive today — but this depraved criminal illegal alien and Asian Boys gang member savagely took their lives," the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. Seng, who will face murder charges in California and Texas, has already been convicted of burglary twice, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

NPR [10/12/2025 3:00 AM, Staff, 28013K] reports President Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations. Since he took office in January, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, have been increasing detentions to try to meet that goal. Today on The Sunday Story, hear how ICE is changing under the Trump administration from two people who have been working inside the immigration system for decades. [Editorial note: consult audio at source link]

CBS Boston [10/11/2025 6:31 PM, Paul Burton, 39474K] reports dozens of people gathered outside the ICE facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, for a 14-hour protest that called attention to the agency’s actions against migrants. The organizers said that they wanted to address the conditions that people are experiencing inside the facility after 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes was detained and who said he slept on a concrete floor with several older men. "This problem is not going away; it’s only going to get worse. They are detaining people without due process, they are racially profiling people and just grabbing them up off the street," said Brian Winter, who works at Mass. 5051. The protest remained peaceful, with several organizations giving speeches to the people gathered, "I feel I have a responsibility to help protect these immigrants who most of whom are not criminals and who should not be snatched off the streets and sent to God knows where," said nurse Janet Boivin.

Breitbart [10/11/2025 6:44 PM, Staff, 2416K] reports one minute Maria was selling tamales from her food cart in Chicago’s West Side. The next, her son told AFP, she was bundled into a van, the latest victim of President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on immigrants. Maria’s family was left to pick up the pieces, removing her cart, food containers and umbrella before launching a frantic search for the Mexican-born mother of seven who has lived in the United States for two decades, albeit undocumented. By Saturday morning, 24 hours after her arrest, her family had still learned "nothing" about her status from US Immigration and Customs Enforcemnt (ICE), the federal agency conducting aggressive raids in and around the nation’s third largest city. "It could be days, it could be months, it could be years, or we may never see her again," Eduardo Santoyo, 22, said of his mother. Maria’s detention in broad daylight — witnesses posted video online — fit a recent pattern: Agents swoop in without warning, snatch an unsuspecting resident and drive off, with relatives left to panic over the fate of their loved ones. This week saw scores of immigration detentions in Chicago, many of which only came to light after witnesses posted footage of the arrests on social media. Alerts about raids are popping up regularly online as activist groups warn residents about sweeps in Latino-heavy neighborhoods like Cicero, Little Village and Pilsen. Migrants reportedly have been detained at Chicago-area construction sites, near a university building, along strip malls and outside schools.

Chicago Tribune [10/11/2025 12:58 PM, Gloria Casas, 4829K] reports four agencies are joining forces to form the Elgin Area Immigrant Alliance, a group that vows to create strategic ways to educate, empower and support the immigrant community as federal agents continue to descend on the area. "Migra Watch," made up of volunteers from made up of Casa Michoacan, Centro de Informació, YWCA Elgin, and Chicago Workers Collaborative, is canvassing neighborhoods to hand out Know Your Rights flyers, connect people with legal help and assist with paperwork. "We provide similar services, but there is a lot of demand," said Maya Pena, director of Casa Michoacan. "We started talking about ways to work together and collaborate." The alliance held its first public town hall meeting Thursday night at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. One of the biggest concerns they have is immigrants not knowing what to do if they encounter an agent for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Pena said. The fear is "paralyzing," she said. Knowing their rights remains one of the most important things that need to be committed to memory, she said. If detained, don’t say anything: "It can save lives. It can save families from being destroyed," she said.

Chicago Tribune [10/12/2025 6:00 AM, Laura Rodríguez Presa, 4917K] reports on a recent humid morning in Michoacá, Mexico, hundreds gathered to mourn Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His body had finally come home after getting shot and killed by an ICE agent in Franklin Park after he allegedly tried to run him over. The small town where he was born and raised was filled that late September day with neighbors, friends, and relatives, many of whom have family members working or living in the United States. Among them were Silverio’s elderly parents, dressed in white, leaning on others for support as they made their way through their town, paying homage to Villegas Gonzalez. Their faces were etched with sorrow; their steps heavy not just from age, but from the weight of a grief that may never leave them. At 38 years old, he was the youngest of their 10 children. "Mi hijo era un buen hombre. Por qué me lo mataron así?" cried Esperanza Gonzalez, 77, his mother, on a phone call with Tribune. "My son was a good man. Why did they kill him that way?"

Chicago Tribune [10/12/2025 6:00 AM, Kate Armanini, 4917K] reports Monica Perez scanned the street as she left Funston Elementary, five of her children in tow. She kept her head down, her family close. After school pickup was once a familiar routine - in recent weeks, though, fear had crept into the family’s life and festered. "Rápido," Perez told her children, ushering them along Logan Square sidewalks. "Quickly." Perez came to Chicago from Mexico in 2007 without authorization. All seven of her children, ages 7 to 16, were born in the U.S. But as federal immigration enforcement intensifies across the city, even the short walk from school feels dangerous. Perez mentally mapped their route, again and again: one block west, a few blocks north. They moved fast. Just the day before, she had kept her younger children home after hearing reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity near campus. "Ahorita, ando con miedo, pero los tuve que traer," Perez, 36, said in Spanish. "I’m scared right now, but I had to bring them." Across Chicago Public Schools and surrounding districts, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has left families on edge - including the city’s youngest residents. School staff have scrambled to offer support in the classroom, while volunteers have organized ICE watch groups and student escorts for safe arrival and dismissal.

Houston Chronicle [10/12/2025 5:10 AM, Sam González Kelly and Matt deGrood] reports Houston police officers have called federal immigration agents on civilians over 100 times since President Donald Trump took office in January — a jump of more than 1,000% from any of the previous five years, according to public records obtained by the Houston Chronicle. The vast majority of those 107 calls to Immigration and Customs Enforcement came as the result of a traffic stop. In only three offense reports — for responses to domestic violence, aggravated robbery and narcotics complaints — did officers indicate that the subject had been suspected of a serious crime. Incident reports indicate that ICE came to arrest the subject in at least one out of four cases. Those numbers could be higher, however, as many incident reports lack details about why the subject was stopped or whether ICE responded. By comparison, Houston police called ICE nine times in 2024 — the most of any year prior to Trump’s second term in office, records show. Police officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about their cooperation with ICE. Local immigration advocates say the department’s willingness to involve ICE in non-criminal proceedings could deter immigrants, who make up more than a quarter of the city’s residents, from reporting crimes to law enforcement. Already this summer, Houston police officers called ICE on a Salvadoran woman who reported her abusive ex-husband to police.

Houston Chronicle [10/11/2025 1:48 PM, Ashley Soebroto, 2983K] reports six days after a Houston-area mother reported that her 15-year-old son with autism was missing, she was told Friday that Houston police had found the boy and worked with U.S. immigration officials to place him in a refugee facility. On Oct. 4, Maria Garcia had been selling fruit with her son Emmanuel Gonzalez-Garcia at the corner of Clay and Hempstead Road in northwest Houston. After chatting with a customer for a few minutes, Garcia turned around to find that her son had disappeared. After reporting her child missing, Houston Police on Friday called Garcia to tell her he had been found on Oct. 5 and was being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility. Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL Houston, an immigrant aid organization helping Garcia, said the group on Saturday morning received an emailed statement from the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement explaining that Houston police had found "a minor they had picked up who claimed to be homeless and from another country." In its email, ICE said it "helped" Houston police place Gonzalez-Garcia with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement. Espinosa said neither police nor ICE have informed FIEL of the boy’s physical location. The only contact Garcia and her son have had so far was a 30-minute video call during which Gonzalez-Garcia said he was scared. Espinosa said FIEL is considering legal action to get Gonzalez-Garcia released.

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Wall Street Journal [10/11/2025 7:00 PM, Joe Barrett and Michelle Hackman, 646K] reports Rev. Michael Woolf had stood for hours on the uneventful front lines of a demonstration at the ICE processing center in the suburb of Broadview, when things suddenly shifted. “It went from honestly, ‘Nothing’s gonna happen today,’ to like, ‘Oh, wow. It looks like a lot’s gonna happen,’ “ he said. Greg Bovino, a high-ranking U.S. Customs and Border Protection official, had materialized from the complex, flanked by dozens of armed agents. Many wore gas masks or otherwise concealed their faces. But Bovino’s face remained clearly visible—as it has throughout the Trump administration’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants in major Democratic-run cities. In just a few months, Bovino, 55 years old, has vaulted from chief of one of the Border Patrol’s quietest sectors to tactical commander of high-profile operations in Los Angeles and now Chicago. The nearly three-decade veteran of the force thrust a finger skyward, pivoted toward protesters and hollered: “You get one warning and one warning only. Everybody will move down the block and to the right or you’re gonna be arrested.” Minutes later, Bovino’s agents joined state police on the front lines, pushing demonstrators back and arresting several. “It was swagger like the biggest, baddest military movie you ever saw,” said Woolf, 35, senior pastor at Lake Street Church of Evanston.

USA Today [10/11/2025 3:14 PM, Eduardo Cuevas, 67103K] reports federal Border Patrol agents on Friday, Oct. 10, detained a Chicago news producer during an immigration enforcement operation. Video of the incident shows masked agents holding Debbie Brockman, of WGN-TV, face down in the middle of a North Side street as they handcuff her. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes Border Patrol, has accused her of throwing an object at a Border Patrol car. WGN reported that she hasn’t been charged with a crime. A man recording the incident asked for her name. Brockman, whose LinkedIn lists her as a producer, identified herself and said she works for WGN, a Chicago-based news station. "Let them know," she said. Agents then placed her in the back of an unmarked gray Chrysler minivan with tinted windows as onlookers yelled at them. News producer ‘threw objects’ at Border Patrol agent’s vehicle, DHS says. In a statement, Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of public affairs at DHS, said Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations at the time of the incident. She said "agitators" used their cars to block agents, and agents then hit a suspect’s vehicle to create an opening. As agents were driving, Brockman, an American citizen, "threw objects" at the car, McLaughlin said. Agents then placed her under arrest on suspicion of assault on a federal law enforcement officer, she added.

FOX News [10/11/2025 8:53 AM, Lori A Bashian, 40621K] reports "Family Matters" star Darius McCrary was arrested near the U.S.-Mexico border in California. According to arrest records obtained by Fox News Digital, the actor was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol on Sunday, Oct. 5, on felony charges and is being held in a San Diego jail. He has not yet been sentenced and is not currently eligible for bail. The records list it as a "fugitive arrest.” McCrary’s rep, Ann Barlow, told Fox News Digital, "Darius was picked up at the Border of Mexico because he was partnering with a real estate developer that is building homes for the homeless in Tijuana, Mexico. Darius was doing a GOOD DEED when he discovered he had a felony warrant at the Border of Mexico for a missed court appearance.” She continued, "The missed court appearance was for an ongoing child support dispute, whereas Oakland County mailed the notice to appear to Darius PO BOX giving him only 3 days to appear in Michigan Court. Unfortunately, Darius had COVID therefore did not check his PO Box until the day after his court date.” "However, he immediately notified the judge with a doctor’s note diagnosis of COVID," his rep added. His first court date is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 15.

NewsNation [10/11/2025 2:30 PM, Michael Bartiromo, 6811K] reports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is rolling out a new video of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown, with plans to show it to travelers making their way through TSA checkpoints throughout the U.S. The video was first obtained Thursday by Fox News. A DHS representative later confirmed plans for the “public service video” in a statement obtained by Nexstar. “It is TSA’s top priority that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience as possible while we keep you safe,” Noem is seen saying in a clip published by Fox News. “However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted, and most of our TSA employees are working without pay. “We will continue to do all that we can to avoid delays that will impact your travel,” Noem continues, “and our hope is that Democrats will soon recognize the importance of opening our government.” When contacted, a representative for the DHS provided a statement confirming that Noem’s remarks would be shown “in airports across the country.” The remainder of the statement closely mirrored the language Noem used in the video. The DHS did not respond to questions concerning the timeframe of the implementation of the video, or where, exactly, it would be shown at TSA checkpoints.

CNN [10/12/2025 6:33 AM, Linda Lam and Mary Gilbert, 18595K] reports an impactful nor’easter is strengthening as it tracks up the mid-Atlantic coast and unleashes damaging wind gusts and heavy rain. The storm is packing a serious punch as it slowly moves north and threatens to disrupt air travel at major Northeast airports and push the ocean into homes and onto roads along the mid-Atlantic coast. This coastal storm is called a nor’easter due to the prevailing wind direction from the northeast ahead of its center. These northeast winds push water toward the coast, causing it to erode beaches and pile up and cause flooding. Wind gusts over 50 mph have been observed in North Carolina, with a gust of 61 mph measured at Cape Lookout. Strong winds gusts will spread farther north Sunday. Water levels along portions of the New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia coasts could rise to levels not seen in nearly a decade Sunday afternoon into Monday. The major coastal flooding could inundate roads and homes, as well as cause beach erosion when combined with the heavy rain and strong winds. More than 20 river gauge locations are expected to reach moderate or major flood stage, the most severe level, from this nor’easter. Areas from the Virginia Tidewater into Delaware and southern New Jersey are of particular concern. Water levels could climb to major flood stage Sunday afternoon at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and then rise above 8 feet Monday, which would be the highest level observed since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Levels at Cape May, New Jersey, are projected to reach over 8 feet and would be the third-highest on record and the highest since January 2016. The slow movement of the nor’easter will result in multiple rounds of coastal flooding and increase the beach erosion potential up and down the East Coast.

Univision [10/11/2025 6:06 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports New Jersey will enter a state of emergency Saturday night, declared by Acting Governor Tahesha Way, "in preparation for the dangerous nor’easter storm," which is expected to hit the state on Sunday, October 12, and continue to affect it on Monday, October 13. The measure will take effect at 10:00 p.m. (local time), the governor’s office reported. The storm is expected to cause coastal flooding, inland flash flooding, sustained winds exceeding 60 mph, heavy rainfall, and very high waves that could cause significant beach erosion and dune failure. "Beginning Sunday, a dangerous coastal storm will begin moving through our state, bringing severe weather conditions to several counties, especially those along the coast," said Acting Governor Way. "In preparation for this storm, I’m declaring a state of emergency in all 21 counties out of an abundance of caution, authorizing our state’s emergency services personnel to act as needed," Way said.

The Hill [10/11/2025 8:29 AM, Jaclyn Ramkissoon, 12595K] reports with expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday. A press release from Abbott’s office said he amended and renewed Texas’ wildfire disaster declaration to now include 179 counties. "Elevated wildfire conditions and flood risk continue to pose a threat across the state of Texas," said Abbott in a statement. "Today, I directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to deploy additional resources in preparation for potential wildfires in the eastern half of the state and severe flooding in West Texas.” He added, "Texas will remain vigilant and continue to provide all necessary resources to protect Texans from wildfire and flood threats.” Texas A&M Forest Service (TAMFS) said the expanded wildfire danger comes from dry vegetation in East Texas paired with increased winds and above-average temperatures. The Wildland Fire Preparedness Level was raised to Level 3 as a result. Texans are urged to avoid activities that create sparks, according to the governor’s press release. TAMFS is being bolstered with more than 350 state, local, and out of state firefighters and support personnel if needed, according to the press release. The service is also gaining more than 125 pieces of equipment at the ready, including fire engines, bulldozers, and motor graders. The governor’s office said that the National Weather Service is expecting a risk of heavy rain from storms in the eastern Pacific moving north over Mexico and into Far West Texas. This could result in flash flooding.

Houston Chronicle [10/11/2025 11:00 AM, Justin Ballard, 2983K] reports for the first time in 12 years, the United States has recorded an EF5 tornado, the most powerful type of twister on the Enhanced Fujita wind and damage scale, the National Weather Service confirmed this week. A deadly tornado in late June that struck near Enderlin, about 40 miles west of Fargo in southeast North Dakota, has been upgraded to an EF5, with estimated winds of more than 200 mph, the weather service said. The storm leveled homes, scoured fields and left a path of destruction nearly 12 miles long. Before this twister was upgraded, the last EF5 in the United States had occurred in 2013 when a devastating tornado in Moore, Okla., killed 24 people. While North Dakota is far from Tornado Alley’s southern reaches in Texas, the new EF5 designation is a reminder that violent tornadoes can happen anywhere under the right conditions — especially in Texas, which regularly leads the nation in the total number of tornadoes each year.

CBS Colorado [10/11/2025 6:42 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports heavy rainfall across southwest Colorado has caused rockslides and flooding that prompted evacuations Saturday. Due to the intense flooding, local officials signed a disaster declaration for La Plata County. Evacuations were ordered along Vallecito Creek due to flood waters breaching the levee. The Grimes Creek has also seen significant flooding. As of Saturday afternoon, 383 homes north of Vallecito Lake have been evacuated. The rainfall is expected to continue through Sunday, with the potential of another 1-2 inches. County Manager Kevin Hall said there is an imminent threat of widespread or severe damage to property and road infrastructure. Hall said six public and private bridges, as well as La Plata Electric Association infrastructure, are at risk.

CBS News [10/11/2025 9:12 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports Luigi Mangione’s lawyers asked a New York judge to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In papers filed Saturday in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack, in which a gun and ammunition were found. They said Mangione was not read his rights before he was questioned by law enforcement officers, who arrested him after Thompson was fatally shot as he arrived at a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024. They added that officers did not obtain a warrant before searching Mangione’s backpack. Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the fatal shooting. The killing set off a multi-state search after the suspected shooter slipped away from the scene and rode a bike to Central Park, before taking a taxi to a bus depot that offers service to several nearby states. Five days later, a tip from a McDonald’s about 233 miles away in Altoona, Pennsylvania, led police to arrest Mangione. He has been held without bail since. In September, lawyers for Mangione asked that his federal charges be dismissed and the death penalty be taken off the table as a result of public comments by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. In April, Bondi directed prosecutors in New York to seek the death penalty, calling the killing of Thompson a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.” Last month, a Manhattan Criminal Court judge dismissed Mangione’s state terrorism charges after his lawyers argued the parallel cases amounted to double jeopardy. Murder cases are usually tried in state courts, but prosecutors have also charged Mangione under a federal law on murders committed with firearms as part of other "crimes of violence." It’s the only charge for which Mangione could face the death penalty, since it’s not used in New York state. The papers filed early Saturday morning argued that this charge should be dismissed because prosecutors have failed to identify the other offenses that would be required to convict him, saying that the alleged other crime -- stalking -- is not a crime of violence. The assassination and its aftermath has captured the American imagination, setting off a cascade of resentment and online vitriol toward U.S. health insurers while rattling corporate executives concerned about security. After the killing, investigators found the words "delay," "deny" and "depose," written in permanent marker on ammunition at the scene. The words mimic a phrase used by insurance industry critics. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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The New York Times [10/11/2025 10:25 AM, Richard Fausset, Aishvarya Kavi, and Audra D. S. Burch, 153395K] reports at least eight people were killed across rural Mississippi after shootings broke out in three towns on Friday night and early Saturday morning during the heart of high school football season. Two of the shootings, in Heidelberg, Miss., and Rolling Fork, Miss., occurred on public high school campuses that were hosting games. The deadliest of the three incidents occurred around midnight Friday in the Mississippi Delta town of Leland, where six people were killed and others were injured as a large crowd celebrated homecoming weekend on Main Street. As of Saturday afternoon, no arrests had been made. In Heidelberg, a town of about 600 some 80 miles east of Jackson, the state capital, two people were killed late Friday, according to Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi. Authorities in Rolling Fork would not say whether anyone had been injured. “Our state is praying for the victims and their families,” Mr. Reeves said in a statement. The shootings cast a pall on what is normally a jubilant season in the Mississippi countryside, as stifling heat gives way to cooler autumn days and former residents return to reconnect with the community of their youth. Instead, shock and grief spread across close-knit communities around the state on Saturday as news of the shootings trickled out. The AP [10/11/2025 7:54 PM, Katie Adkins and Jeff Martin, 31753K] reports that six were killed in downtown Leland after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state’s western edge, according to the county coroner. On the east side of the state, a pregnant woman was among the dead, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said. In Leland, four people were killed and two died later at a hospital, according to a statement from Washington County Coroner La’Quesha Watkins. Some 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in the downtown area following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of those, four were in critical condition and were flown from a hospital in nearby Greenville to a larger medical center in the state capital, Jackson, Simmons told The Associated Press. He was being updated on developments from law enforcement authorities in the Delta. Meanwhile, police in the small Mississippi town of Heidelberg in the eastern part of the state are investigating a shooting during that community’s homecoming weekend that left two people dead. Both of them were killed on the school campus Friday night, Heidelberg Police Chief Cornell White said. He declined to say whether the victims were students or provide other information about the crimes. “Right now we’ve still got a subject at large, but I can’t give specifics,” White said Saturday morning. In Sharkey County, Mississippi, also in the Mississippi Delta region, the local sheriff was investigating yet another shooting after a high school football game in the area, authorities said. Two people have been arrested in that shooting, which happened at a local school after its game Friday night, Sharkey County Sheriff Herbert Ceaser Sr. said in a statement.

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ABC News [10/11/2025 11:51 PM, Alexandra Faul, Charlotte Slovin, and Jack Moore, 30493K] Video: HERE reports officials in Leland, Mississippi, are calling on the public’s help after four people were killed and 12 others wounded in a mass shooting that broke out at a gathering in the small town’s downtown area Friday night. Leland Mayor John Lee, speaking at a Saturday evening news conference, said the city was experiencing a "great loss" and asked for prayers. On Friday, state Sen. Derrick Simmons told Jackson ABC affiliate WAPT the people were at a gathering following the Leland High School homecoming game when the shooting happened. Aside from providing the number of dead and wounded, the mayor did not provide many other details about the shooting. "Everything else is under investigation," he said during Saturday’s news conference. "We don’t have any information as far as who did the shooting or any of that. But we are here to get to the bottom of this.” Robert Eickhoff, special agent in charge of the Jackson, Mississippi, FBI Field Office, did not provide specifics but said multiple times that authorities were searching for "subjects" in connection with the shooting. "People who were enjoying themselves last found themselves faced with violence that no community should be faced with," Eickhoff said, urging members of the public to come forward with any information they may have. "You may have seen something," he said. "You may have heard something or know someone who did.” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also assisting in the investigation, providing DNA analysis and also working to potentially match shell casings to other firearms using a national automated system. "This could have easily been in another city just like it was here in Leland, Mississippi," Lee, the mayor, said. The city of about 3,600 people is located about 115 miles north of Jackson.

San Diego Union Tribune [10/11/2025 8:00 AM, Alex Riggins, 1538K] reports in the weeks since President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled "Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization," he and his administration have repeatedly and forcefully sought to describe left-wing protesters, both peaceful and violent alike, as domestic terrorists. But the question of who actually constitutes antifa and the legal and political consequences of Trump’s executive order remain murky. For starters, antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is an ideology whose adherents are not part of any unified organization. And more importantly, experts said Trump has no legal authority to designate a group as a domestic terrorist organization, since the U.S. government only designates alleged foreign terrorist organizations but keeps no such list of domestic groups. In late 2021, District Attorney Summer Stephan charged 11 defendants described as "antifa supporters" with conspiracy to riot and other crimes stemming from their actions fighting and assaulting Trump supporters at a "Patriot March" earlier that year in Pacific Beach. All 11 defendants pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial, and after sentencing last year, Stephan’s office touted the accomplishment as the "first criminal case in the nation where crimes committed by members of Antifa were brought to justice and held accountable." It’s too early to know just how significant the Pacific Beach antifa case could be in the new light of Trump’s executive order and a related national security memorandum seeking to link a wide array of liberal organizations to terrorism. But the case holds lessons about the nature of antifa and could potentially be looked to nationally as a road map for prosecution.

Breitbart [10/11/2025 4:11 PM, Amy Furr, 2416K] reports the U.S. State Department is warning travelers about going to the Maldives, raising its travel advisory to a level two. In its advisory on Tuesday, officials advised people to "Exercise increased caution in Maldives due to terrorism." The department also said, "Terrorist groups may attack with little or no warning" in areas such as tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets, shopping malls, and local government facilities. Authorities warned of attacks on remote islands where the response time of authorities would be longer due to the location.

Wall Street Journal [10/11/2025 10:00 PM, Sune Engel Rasmussen, 646K] reports Greenland lurked in the distance as Capt. Donald Gibson rushed to the bridge of his cargo ship amid a sudden Arctic storm. Snow lashed against the pilothouse windows while he and his crew struggled to control the vessel and steer clear of icebergs. Down in the ship’s hold was construction material needed to upgrade the northernmost military outpost, a Canadian spy station providing crucial intelligence on Russia’s military. After nine days traversing 2,500 nautical miles, pitching on swells from Hurricane Erin, the Canadian-flagged Nunalik had reached its destination—30 minutes late. It was Friday, and dockworkers in the port of the U.S.’s Pituffik Space Base had already gone home for the August weekend. The delivery would have to wait. “I’d have thought they would have taken us in and welcomed us after a long journey,” said 66-year-old Canadian Gibson, who has sailed since he was 18. The West is racing to catch up with Russian and Chinese expansion in the Arctic, one of the world’s most contested places, in a new era of geopolitical conflict. It is also working out its priorities. Defending the Arctic—an environment that for centuries has thwarted ambitions of explorers and governments—will demand big budgets, unprecedented resources and determination. Even the most basic elements of operating a military base in the high Arctic are extremely cumbersome. As the Nunalik’s lost weekend suggests, the West is only awakening to the challenge. Russia, Gibson said, probably wouldn’t leave a cargo ship of military supplies drifting in a blizzard because port workers had gone home. “We want to develop the north, we want to compete,” he said with frustration. “But there’s no rush.”

CNN [10/11/2025 6:38 PM, Veronica Stracqualursi, 18595K] reports President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we have identified funds" to pay military troops on October 15 as the government shutdown is headed into a third week. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said he will "direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th." The funds for military paychecks will be pulled from the Pentagon’s research and development money that’s available for two years, according to a spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget. The Pentagon said in a statement that it "has identified approximately $8 billion of unobligated research development testing and evaluation funds" from the prior fiscal year that will be used to issue paychecks if the shutdown continues past October 15. The move to redirect funds that lawmakers have already appropriated could open the Trump administration up to legal challenges, because Congress holds the power of the purse. As service members were in danger of missing their first paychecks, congressional GOP leaders had rejected the idea of voting on a standalone bill for military pay, marking the most dramatic step yet to attempt to force Democrats to end the shutdown.

Reuters [10/11/2025 2:35 PM, Marc Frank, 45746K] reports Cuba’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said U.S. claims that its troops were fighting in Ukraine were unfounded and released for the first time information on legal proceedings against Cubans for mercenary activity in the war in Eastern Europe. Communist Cuba has openly sided with its ally Russia in the conflict in Ukraine while also calling for peace talks. Reports of Cubans on the battlefield first surfaced in 2023, resulting in an investigation in Cuba. Havana later stated that these Cubans were mercenaries. "In the period from 2023 to 2025, nine criminal proceedings have been presented to the Cuban courts for the crime of mercenarism, against 40 defendants," Saturday’s statement said. "Trials have been held in eight cases, of which five resulted in convictions against 26 defendants, with sentences ranging from five to 14 years’ imprisonment. Three processes are pending the Court’s ruling, and one case is pending trial," the foreign ministry said in the statement. The United Nations is preparing to vote this month on a nonbinding resolution calling on Washington to lift its decades-long embargo on Cuba. The resolution has been passed in the General Assembly with wide margins year after year since 1992.

Washington Post [10/11/2025 5:23 PM, Claire Parker, Louisa Loveluck, and Lior Soroka, 24149K] reports Israeli hospitals prepared to receive hostages who have been held in Gaza for more that two years. Israel’s prison service transferred “national security prisoners” overnight to prepare them for release. The United Nations and other organizations prepared to surge humanitarian aid into the war-battered enclave. One day in, the fragile, hard-fought ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appeared Saturday to be holding. But key steps to be executed in the next few days will determine whether the deal brokered in this Red Sea resort can lead to a lasting peace. Israeli troops withdrew from parts of Gaza when the ceasefire took effect at noon Friday. On Saturday, Israeli commanders led U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and U.S. commanders on a “field tour” of the enclave, the Israel Defense Forces said. Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, and Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, discussed “preparations along the updated lines in the Gaza Strip.” Cooper visited as part of preparations for a U.S.-run “civil-military coordination center” in Israel to “support post-conflict stabilization,” he wrote on X. He said troops will “deliver peace in the Middle East” with “no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza.” The parties also visited an Israeli base that was preparing to receive hostages, the IDF said.

Los Angeles Times [10/11/2025 5:04 PM, Lee Keath, Julia Frankel, and Jalal Bwaital, 14862K] reports the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal. Israel has also rejected freeing other high-profile prisoners whose release Hamas has long sought, though it was not immediately clear if a list of about 250 prisoners issued Friday on the Israeli government’s official website was final. Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk told the Al Jazeera TV channel that the group insists on the release of Barghouti and other high-profile figures and that it was in discussions with mediators. Israel views Barghouti as a terrorist leader. He is serving multiple life sentences after being convicted in 2004 in connection with attacks in Israel that killed five people. But some experts say Israel fears Barghouti for another reason: An advocate of a two-state solution even as he backed armed resistance to occupation, Barghouti could be a powerful rallying figure for Palestinians. Some Palestinians view him as their Nelson Mandela — the long-imprisoned anti-apartheid icon, whom the South African government cast as a terrorist before he was freed and became the country’s first Black president. With the ceasefire and Israeli troop pullback in Gaza that came into effect Friday, Hamas is to release about 20 living Israeli hostages by Monday. Israel is to free some 250 Palestinians serving prison sentences, as well as about 1,700 people seized from Gaza the last two years and held without charge. The releases have powerful resonance on both sides. Israelis see the prisoners as terrorists, some of them involved in suicide bombings. Many Palestinians view the thousands held by Israel as political prisoners or freedom fighters resisting decades of military occupation.

Wall Street Journal [10/11/2025 4:30 PM, Sudarsan Raghavan, Suha Ma’ayeh, and Michael R. Gordon, 646K] reports President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Gaza on Saturday as postwar planning stepped up, Hamas police re-emerged on the streets, and Palestinians began returning to their homes en masse following the withdrawal of Israeli troops. As part of a cease-fire deal that is bringing an end to two years of war, Palestinians are awaiting a surge of humanitarian aid and Israel is preparing for a handover of around 20 living hostages held by Hamas. Both are expected in the coming days as part of the deal orchestrated by Trump and Arab and Muslim countries. Witkoff and Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who helped negotiate the agreement, were taken on a tour of Gaza by the Israeli military, along with Adm. Brad Cooper, the top U.S. commander in the region. They later stopped at an Israeli military base where preparations were being made to receive the hostages, and held talks on the military situation in Gaza with commanders, according to a statement by the Israeli military. “Just returned from a visit inside Gaza to inform how we are moving forward” on a U.S.-led civil-military coordination center, Cooper said on social media. The center is being established in Israel to support postconflict stabilization and will operate without “U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza,” he said. Witkoff has previously traveled to the enclave in his role as Trump’s envoy, though visits by senior U.S. officials remain rare. Nearly 200 U.S. troops are due to arrive in Israel by Sunday to staff the center, which will monitor the cease-fire and organize humanitarian aid, logistics and security assistance to Gaza. Those troops include planners, transportation and engineering specialists, and security experts.

Washington Examiner [10/11/2025 2:57 PM, Ross O’Keefe, 1394K] reports Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky openly hoped President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace deal could also lead to peace in his country. Trump helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas earlier this week and also aims to broker peace in Eastern Europe. Zelensky said he called the president to congratulate him on the deal and suggested that the Israel-Hamas peace can spread to his country. "I had a call with US President Donald Trump—a very positive and productive one. I congratulated @POTUS on his success and the Middle East deal he was able to secure, which is an outstanding achievement. If a war can be stopped in one region, then surely other wars can be stopped as well—including the Russian war," he wrote in a post on X. The war in Ukraine has been continuing for more than 3.5 years, with at least hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers dead. Trump tried to jumpstart peace talks with Russia with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an Alaskan summit in August, but negotiations have stalled.

Reuters [10/12/2025 3:33 AM, Yazhini MV, 36480K] reports the U.S. has been helping Ukraine mount long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities for months in a joint effort to weaken the economy and force President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. U.S. intelligence has helped Kyiv strike important Russian energy assets, including oil refineries, far beyond the front line, the newspaper said, citing unnamed Ukrainian and U.S. officials familiar with the campaign. The White House, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office and Ukraine’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. There was no immediate comment from the Russian foreign ministry. Moscow said this month that Washington and its NATO alliance were regularly supplying intelligence to Kyiv in the war Putin launched in February 2022. "The supply and use of the entire infrastructure of NATO and the United States to collect and transfer intelligence to Ukrainians is obvious," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters then. The FT said U.S. intelligence helps Kyiv shape route planning, altitude, timing and mission decisions, enabling Ukraine’s long-range, one-way attack drones to evade Russian air defences. The United States is closely involved in all stages of planning, it said, citing three people familiar with the operation. A U.S. official was quoted as saying Ukraine selected the targets for long-range strikes and Washington then provided intelligence on the sites’ vulnerabilities. Early this month two U.S. officials told Reuters that Washington would provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets in Russia, as it weighs whether to send Kyiv missiles that could be used in such strikes. The U.S. also asked NATO allies to provide similar support, the U.S. officials said. Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had discussed Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy system in a "positive and productive" call with U.S. President Donald Trump. "We discussed opportunities to bolster our air defense, as well as concrete agreements that we are working on to ensure this. There are good options and solid ideas on how to truly strengthen us," Zelenskiy posted on X.

Reuters [10/11/2025 6:59 AM, Sam Tabahriti, 45746K] reports Britain said on Saturday that two Royal Air Force aircraft flew a 12-hour mission earlier this week alongside U.S. and NATO forces to patrol the border of Russia, amid a series of recent Russian drone and aircraft incursions into NATO airspace. "This was a substantial joint mission with our U.S. and NATO allies," defence minister John Healey said. "Not only does this provide valuable intelligence to boost the operational awareness of our Armed Forces, but sends a powerful message of NATO unity to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and our adversaries," Healey added. An RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic surveillance aircraft and a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol plane flew from the Arctic region past Belarus and Ukraine on Thursday, supported by a U.S. Air Force KC-135 refuelling aircraft. Britain said the operation followed incursions into the airspaces of NATO countries including Poland, Romania and Estonia.

Washington Examiner [10/12/2025 5:00 AM, Robert Schmad, 1563K] reports a corporation with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party and a history of industrial espionage produces hardware used for sensitive medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health, a Washington Examiner review has found. United Imaging is a multinational medical technology company based in Shanghai that has conducted research alongside the Chinese military and cooperates with the state-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition to its government links, three United Imaging employees were charged in 2013 with transferring "nonpublic information" generated at an NIH-funded lab to both the company and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in exchange for payments. Despite United Imaging’s history and despite evidence that some Chinese hardware has backdoors allowing data to be remotely downloaded, public records show that the company’s hardware is present at NIH-funded labs and major research installations across the country. The Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging at the University of Utah, for instance, had multiple United Imaging PET scanners installed in its clinical research lab as of September 2023, per a press release. Mass General Brigham, a Harvard-affiliated hospital that serves as one of the nation’s leading biomedical research organizations, similarly, used an NIH grant to purchase hardware manufactured by United Imaging. Illustrating how widespread the use of these machines is, a search of Google Scholar — a popular repository for academic work — turns up thousands of research articles mentioning United Imaging or uEXPLORER, its flagship PET scanner. The research, some of which occurred in NIH-funded labs, often notes that hardware manufactured by United Imaging was used in the course of research.

CNN [10/12/2025 1:48 AM, John Liu, 606K] reports Beijing has vowed countermeasures against Washington if US President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to impose new 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. Trump’s latest threat came after China unleashed a raft of export restrictions on rare earth minerals last week. The escalating tensions threaten to derail months of progress in trade talks. "Resorting to threats of high tariffs is not the right way to engage with China," a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said Sunday, in Beijing’s first comments on the threat. "If the US persists in acting unilaterally, China will resolutely take corresponding measures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests," the spokesperson added. "Our position on a tariff war remains consistent – we do not want one, but we are not afraid of one.” The rapid escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies has sunk stocks, rattling investors and industries by igniting fears of a repeat of the tit-for-tat tariff battle in spring, when levies on Chinese and American imports soared to around 145% and 120% respectively. It also adds fresh uncertainty into the ongoing trade talks between the two nations. Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping were expected to hold a highly anticipated meeting in South Korea in two weeks’ time but Trump, citing the rare earths issue, has cast doubt on that meeting happening. Beijing shows no sign of backing down, with the ministry spokesperson instead urging Washington to "promptly correct its wrong approach" and "preserve the hard-won progress in negotiations.” The commerce ministry described the new rules on rare earths as a "legitimate move" and blamed Washington for the latest escalation, pointing to the Trump administration’s introduction of a series of new restrictive measures against China within two weeks of the latest round of trade talks in Madrid in September. Since then, Washington has added multiple Chinese firms to its export control list, expanding its controls to cover listed companies’ subsidiaries, as well as imposing special port fees for Chinese ships. "The US actions have seriously harmed China’s interests and undermined the atmosphere of bilateral economic and trade talks. China firmly opposes these moves," the spokesperson said.

CNN [10/11/2025 3:48 PM, Auzinea Bacon, 18595K] reports President Donald Trump’s threat to impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China sparked a massive cryptocurrency sell-off late Friday that exposed risky leverage in the space. Digital currencies bitcoin, ether and solana were among the most affected cryptocurrencies, bringing total liquidations to $18.28 billion as of 3:47 p.m. ET, according to data analysis platform CoinGlass. The losses for cryptocurrencies come amid a broad sell-off, as the Nasdaq and S&P 500 on Friday saw their steepest declines in six months. In the past 24 hours, roughly $5 billion of bitcoin has been liquidated, along with about $4 billion of ether and about $2 billion of solana, according to CoinGlass. It’s the "largest liquidation event in crypto history," CoinGlass said in a post on X.

AP [10/12/2025 4:18 AM, Jim Gomez, 42219K] reports a Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government vessel off an island inhabited by Filipinos in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine coast guard said. There were no injuries among Filipino crewmen of the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, part of the fisheries fleet that provides support to Filipino fishermen. The Chinese coast guard targeted Pagbuaya off the Philippines-occupied Thitu island in the latest flare-up of the long-simmering territorial disputes involving Manila, Beijing and four other governments. The Chinese coast guard accused the Philippine vessels of illegally entering what it called Chinese waters near a cluster of sandbars known as Sandy Cay, which lies between Thitu and China’s artificial island base called Subi and “ignoring repeated stern warnings from the Chinese side.” It said it “took control measures against the Philippine vessels in accordance with the law and resolutely drove them away.” China has repeatedly restated its sovereignty and control over virtually the entire South China Sea, a major trade route, despite a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated its historic claims. That ruling has been rejected by China but supported by the United States and its Western and Asian allies, including Japan, Australia, the European Union and Canada. The U.S. immediately condemned “China’s aggressive actions in defiance of international law” and expressed support for the Philippines, a close Asian treaty ally. U.S. Ambassador to Manila MaryKay Carlson praised the Filipino personnel involved in the incident for their “tremendous valor and skill in the face of China’s dangerous ramming and use of water cannons.” Pagbuaya and two other Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources vessels were anchored in the territorial waters off Thitu, called Pag-asa by the Philippines, when Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships suddenly approached and staged “dangerous and provocative maneuvers,” the Philippine coast guard spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela said in a statement. He added that such aggression would not prompt Manila to “surrender a square inch of our territory to any foreign power.” A Chinese coast guard ship with bow number 21559 “fired its water cannon directly at the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, hitting the vessel,” then rammed the stern of the Philippine fisheries vessel three minutes later, causing “minor structural damage but no injuries to the crew.” Video issued by the Philippine coast guard shows a Chinese coast guard ship firing a water cannon, hitting the vessel and its two Philippine flags. The Filipino-manned ship is seen moving away from the Chinese coast guard ship. “Despite these bullying tactics and aggressive actions, the Philippine coast guard and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources remain resolute,” Tarriela said. “We will not be intimidated or driven away.” In Beijing, Chinese coast guard spokesperson Liu Dejun said in a statement the two Philippine vessels illegally entered waters near Sandy Cay, which China calls Tiexian Reef, “without the permission of the Chinese government.” One dangerously approached the Chinese Coast Guard vessel, causing a scrape, he said.

Reuters [10/12/2025 4:08 AM, Phuong Nguyen in Hanoi, Karen Lema in Manila, Selena Li and Eduardo Baptista, 36480K] reports the Philippines and China accused each other on Sunday of responsibility for a maritime confrontation near disputed islands in the South China Sea, further escalating tensions in the resource-rich waterway. The Philippine Maritime Council, an inter-agency government body, blamed Chinese maritime forces for deploying water cannon and ramming a Filipino vessel near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island, locally known as Pag-asa, "strongly condemning" the incident and vowing to pursue "appropriate diplomatic action". According to Manila’s coast guard, three vessels were anchored near the island early on Sunday as part of a government program to protect local fishermen when Chinese ships reportedly approached and used water cannon to intimidate them. An hour later, a Chinese coast guard ship allegedly fired its water cannon directly at a Philippine vessel before ramming its stern, causing minor damage but no injuries, the coast guard said. China’s coast guard said two Philippine government vessels "illegally entered" waters near Sandy Cay, a coral reef in the northern Thitu Reefs within the Spratly Islands, leading to a collision. Beijing said a Philippine vessel "dangerously approached" a Chinese coast guard ship, for which it held Manila responsible. Manila’s authorities vowed to continue operations in the area, emphasizing the need to protect Filipino fishermen’s livelihood. U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson condemned what she described as China’s "dangerous ramming" of a Filipino vessel, calling the incident "aggressive actions" in the South China Sea, in a post on social media platform X. The disputed area, part of the Spratly Islands, has been the site of repeated confrontations between the two nations over the years. Tensions have heightened recently, particularly over the Scarborough Shoal and other contested regions in the South China Sea, which China claims almost entirely. Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam also assert claims over portions of the waterway, a strategic trade route that facilitates over $3 trillion in annual ship-borne commerce.

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