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‘Get out of our neighborhood!’: Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block

‘Get out of our neighborhood!’: Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block

Reuters reports: The immigration agents’ tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder. “We don’t want you here,” yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-year-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her apartment when she heard the shrill sound of whistles. “Get out of our neighborhood!” The squad of agents had appeared in Lakeview last month, an upscale neighborhood dotted…

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Strong-arm tactics led by Border Patrol’s Bovino are the new norm in Chicago as ICE leadership gets sidelined

Strong-arm tactics led by Border Patrol’s Bovino are the new norm in Chicago as ICE leadership gets sidelined

Chicago Tribune reports: Cameras rolling, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino sailed down the Chicago River in a convoy of government boats. His men held rifles as videographers filmed the stunt later posted to their social media. The Trump administration had just launched an operation in the city to pursue “the worst of the worst” criminal undocumented immigrants. Homeland Security used the footage for a music video set to Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” ending with Bovino smiling into the distance. In…

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Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel announced never existed

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel announced never existed

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI Director Kash Patel’s allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend. Announcing their arrests on Friday, Patel said more information would be coming soon, however the FBI and Michigan authorities have offered few details about the case. Spokespersons for the state and national FBI and the U.S. Attorney in Detroit did not immediately respond to messages…

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ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants

ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants

The Intercept reports: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country, according to a procurement document reviewed by The Intercept. Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE. According to the document, which solicits information from interested contractors for a potentially forthcoming contract opportunity, companies hired by ICE will be given…

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ICE has powerful Clearview AI facial recognition app that Illinois cops are barred from using

ICE has powerful Clearview AI facial recognition app that Illinois cops are barred from using

Chicago Sun-Times reports: The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from selling to Illinois law enforcement agencies. The ban was the result of a lawsuit filed in Cook County that alleged Clearview AI’s massive database of photographs pulled from across the internet violated a landmark state law protecting people’s personal information. But a settlement of the case didn’t apply…

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Andrew should answer Epstein questions in Congress, Democrats say

Andrew should answer Epstein questions in Congress, Democrats say

BBC News reports: Members of a US congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case have intensified their calls for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to answer questions about his links to the late sex offender. King Charles stripped his brother of his “prince” title on Thursday, following months of pressure over Andrew’s ties to Epstein. Andrew has always denied wrongdoing. At least four Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee have since renewed their calls for Andrew to testify – although the…

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More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory immigrant detention policy

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory immigrant detention policy

Politico reports: It’s one of the most thorough legal rebukes in recent memory. More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal, according to a POLITICO review. The rulings come from judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan, including 12 appointed by President Donald Trump. One of those appointees took the bench just last…

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Epstein: JPMorgan alerted U.S. to potentially suspicious transfers involving Leon Black, Alan Dershowitz et al

Epstein: JPMorgan alerted U.S. to potentially suspicious transfers involving Leon Black, Alan Dershowitz et al

The New York Times reports: Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the U.S. government to tens of millions of dollars of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures. The so-called suspicious activity report that JPMorgan filed identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; Glenn Dubin, a well-known hedge fund manager; the lawyer Alan…

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Political prosecution of Kat Abughazaleh: ‘Today it’s Kat. Tomorrow it could be any one of us’

Political prosecution of Kat Abughazaleh: ‘Today it’s Kat. Tomorrow it could be any one of us’

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win. pic.twitter.com/szOSZa1h3z — Kat Abughazaleh (@KatAbughazaleh) October 29, 2025 Evanston Now reports: The indictment charges all six individuals, including an Oak Park trustee, a Democratic committeeperson from Chicago and a Cook County Board candidate, with impeding a federal officer stemming from the Sept. 26 incident….

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ICE wants Texas to become the backbone of a private industrialized deportation machine

ICE wants Texas to become the backbone of a private industrialized deportation machine

Wired reports: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is exploring plans to launch a privately-run, statewide transportation system in Texas. The agency envisions a nonstop operation, funneling immigrants detained in 254 counties into ICE facilities and staging locations across the state. Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants…

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Paul Newby has turned North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of far-reaching political power

Paul Newby has turned North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of far-reaching political power

By Doug Bock Clark This story was originally published by ProPublica In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.  The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state. Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to…

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Retired law enforcement officer jailed five weeks for reposting a Facebook meme is freed in Tennessee

Retired law enforcement officer jailed five weeks for reposting a Facebook meme is freed in Tennessee

The Intercept reports: More than a month after he was arrested for sharing a meme on Facebook, 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. walked out of the Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee, on Wednesday, where his wife was waiting to take him home. He wore a weary smile and the same white T-shirt he had on the night he was jailed. A reporter from a local news station, which had previously splashed his mugshot on its website, approached for an interview….

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‘Militarized police force’: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

‘Militarized police force’: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

The Guardian reports: A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian. The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size…

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ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, say lawmakers

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, say lawmakers

Ars Technica reports: Social media videos have confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers patrolling US streets are actively using facial recognition technology to verify citizenship, 404 Media reported. In one video posted on a Chicago-based Instagram account, a self-described teenager and US citizen tells officers that he has no government ID. After he offers to show his student ID instead, the officer turns to another and asks, “can you do facial?” As…

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ICE agent assaults woman who asked if he’s a good Christian

ICE agent assaults woman who asked if he’s a good Christian

  HuffPost reports: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers forcibly detained a father and his two children in southwest Colorado on Monday while they were on their way to middle school, sparking a mass protest outside the agency’s Durango field office in an effort to get the kids released back to their mom. Video from the protest outside the facility shows masked and unidentified federal officers tear-gassing protesters on Tuesday afternoon as they stood in the street and attempted to…

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FBI says Gabbard counterintelligence push would cause ‘long-lasting damage to the U.S. national security’

FBI says Gabbard counterintelligence push would cause ‘long-lasting damage to the U.S. national security’

The New York Times reports: The F.B.I. informed Congress last week that it “strongly” opposed a proposal to make the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the lead counterintelligence agency for the federal government, bringing into public view a rift among top national security officials. The disclosure, made in a pointed and unusual letter obtained by The New York Times, underscored the broader concern at other agencies, including the F.B.I., over a House bill that would empower Tulsi Gabbard,…

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