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- 📊 Poll: YouGov asked Americans whether the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis was justified. 🔵 Democrats: 83% say not justified ⚪ Independents: 50% say not justified 🔴 Republicans: 13% say not justified
- BREAKING: ICE agents involved in fatal shooting of Alex Pretti placed on administrative leave. ground.news/article/bord...
- President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a federal agent during a confrontation in Minneapolis, should not have been carrying a gun or loaded magazines. ground.news/article/trum...
- Massachusetts police are investigating the fatal shooting of MIT nuclear fusion professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, found at his home in Brookline. Authorities said a homicide investigation is underway and no arrests have been made. ground.news/article/an-m...
- UNDERREPORTED: Newly released police body-camera footage was shown in a London courtroom, capturing the moment a member of Palestine Action allegedly fractured Sgt. Kate Evans’s spine during a break-in at Elbit Systems UK’s Bristol site.
- The FBI has asked to interview six Democratic lawmakers who released a video telling U.S. service members they must reject illegal orders, a Justice Department official told Reuters. ground.news/article/fbi-...
- Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has been dissolved eight months before its charter expired, ending an effort the administration once promoted as a major push to shrink federal agencies. ground.news/article/trum...
- Reporter: “Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?” Mamdani: “I’ve spoken about—” President Donald Trump: “That’s OK. You can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it. I don’t mind.”
- The U.S. Coast Guard issued a new policy on Thursday that bans the display of swastikas, nooses and other hate-based symbols after The Washington Post reported that an earlier draft had classified them as “potentially divisive.” ground.news/article/coas...
- A spokesperson said the mayor-elect plans to raise “public safety, economic security and the affordability agenda” when he meets the president. ground.news/article/trum...
- 🟥 Blindspot for the Right: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify Nazi swastikas, nooses or the Confederate flag as hate symbols, instead labeling them “potentially divisive” under a new policy reported by @washingtonpost.com ground.news/article/us-c...
- Trump has demanded the arrest and trial of six Democratic members of Congress over a viral video urging troops to refuse illegal orders, calling their actions seditious and punishable by death on Truth Social. ground.news/article/trum...
- 🟦 Blindspot for the Left: Disney removed all references to “diversity” and “DEI” from its 2025 annual business report, marking the first time in six years the company’s filing included no mention of those initiatives. ground.news/article/disn...
- Anthropic said it uncovered what it believes is the first large-scale cyberespionage campaign directed by artificial intelligence with minimal human involvement. ground.news/article/chin...
- Dana Williamson, a former chief of staff to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, was indicted on federal charges alleging she helped divert money from a dormant campaign account tied to Xavier Becerra. ground.news/article/news...
- California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized President Donald Trump’s absence from the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, calling it “an absence of leadership.” ground.news/article/gov-...
- BELOW: Three emails released today by House Democrats which allegedly show Epstein writing in 2011 that “the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” later telling journalist Michael Wolff in 2019 “of course he knew about the girls.”
- BREAKING: Democrats offer to end shutdown in exchange for extending ACA tax credits for one year
- France has warned the Chinese retailer Shein that it could be barred from the country after authorities accused the company of selling “sex dolls with a childlike appearance.” ground.news/article/shei...
- Egypt has officially opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project two decades in the making that now stands as the world’s largest museum devoted to a single ancient civilization. ground.news/article/the-...
- 🟥 Blindspot for the Right: New York City will become the first school district in the United States to directly link public schools with 911 services through a new emergency alert system designed for rapid police response during active shooter situations. ground.news/article/nyc-...
- JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump administration from suspending SNAP food aid benefits
- For the first time in more than three decades, there are no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. ground.news/article/no-r...
- Trump limits refugee admissions to record-low 7,500, prioritizing white South Africans. ground.news/article/trum...
- Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have killed 460 patients and companions inside a Darfur hospital after seizing the city of el-Fasher, according to the WHO. ground.news/daily-briefi...
- ISRAEL: Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Haredi Israelis protest IDF draft in Jerusalem 🇮🇱
- PHOTO: Reuters images from Gaza show the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes that killed 104 people, including 46 children. The strikes followed Israel's accusations that Hamas staged a false handover of hostage remains and opened fire on troops in Rafah, killing an Israeli soldier.
- Israel says Gaza ceasefire back on after strikes kill more than 100
- 🟥 Blindspot for the Right: A federal judge ordered Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino to appear in court daily through Nov. 5 to report on Chicago enforcement operations. ground.news/article/judg...
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Johnson & Johnson and its spinoff Kenvue, accusing them of hiding alleged links between Tylenol and developmental disorders. ground.news/article/texa...
- More than 40 million Americans will lose food assistance starting Nov. 1 as the government shutdown halts SNAP benefits. ground.news/article/gove...
- JUST IN: Amazon is reportedly planning to cut up to 30,000 jobs, or about 9% of its global office workforce, marking what would be the company’s largest ever round of layoffs. ground.news/article/amaz...
- PHOTO: Pakistan using 'anti-smog guns' to fight air pollution in its cultural capital Lahore 🇵🇰.
- 🇻🇪 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the United States of “fabricating a new eternal war” as the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford moved toward the country. ground.news/article/vene...
- Donald Trump has declined to rule out seeking a third term, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that he hadn’t “really thought about it,” adding, “I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever.” ground.news/article/trum...
- Among nearly 1,000 patients studied, vaccinated lung cancer patients were almost twice as likely to survive three years after treatment began. Flu and other non-mRNA vaccines did not produce the same effect. ground.news/article/stud...
- 🇦🇷 Argentine President Javier Milei’s libertarian party, La Libertad Avanza, won a decisive midterm victory, expanding its presence in Congress and solidifying support for his economic overhaul. ground.news/article/mile...
- Amazon is reportedly preparing to replace more than 600,000 U.S. warehouse workers with autonomous machines over the next two years, according to internal documents obtained by the New York Times. ground.news/article/amaz...
- BREAKING: President Donald Trump has ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group to Latin America, expanding the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean with eight warships, a nuclear submarine, and F-35 jets amid rising tensions with Venezuela.
