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World & Nation
Trump Diverts Anti-Terror Funds From Dem Strongholds to GOP States
The Trump administration plans to shift terrorism prevention funding
from Democrat-led states toward those led by Republicans, government
records show, as it overhauls a $1 billion program created after the
9/11 attacks.
Twelve Democrat-led states are suing to block the cuts, alleging that
the Trump administration is trying to punish them for not cooperating
with federal immigration agents.
The Trump administration released estimates in late summer for how much
money each state should expect to receive from the program. But it
later changed the totals, according to notices the states received in
late September from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
US-Backed Gaza Aid Foundation to Close Under Peace Plan
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which was established in May
with support from the U.S. and Israel, is set to be closed down per the
as yet unpublished humanitarian annex to the Gaza ceasefire agreement
between Israel and Hamas, officials told The Times of Israel (TOI).
However, despite reports that three of the four GHF aid distribution
sites had already been abandoned, GHF Executive Director John Acree
said that the organization's "commitment remains the same: to deliver
aid consistently and directly to as many families in Gaza as possible,
for however long it takes."
According to an excerpt from the annex cited by TOI, "UN agencies,
other organizations, the Red Crescent and countries operating in the
Strip will receive and distribute aid."
Trump Mulls Venezuela Land Strategy After Drug Boat Strikes
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. is now “looking at
land” in Venezuela as part of its efforts to crack down on drug cartels.
He also acknowledged that the CIA is authorized to carry out strikes inside the South American country.
Trump made the comments at the White House, one day after the U.S. struck another boat that he said was carrying drugs.
Trump, Putin to Speak Thursday Before Zelenskyy Meeting
President Donald Trump will reportedly hold a call Thursday with
Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine amid
talk of supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to NATO, which could then
provide them to Ukraine.
The conversation, as reported by a source to Axios, comes one day
before Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy at the White House to discuss the potential transfer of
Tomahawks.
Trump said last week he told Zelenskyy he might issue Putin an
ultimatum: either engage in serious peace talks or face Ukraine being
armed with Tomahawks.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The back-to-back engagements highlight the administration's attempt to
pressure Moscow while keeping diplomatic options open.
AOC dodges question on healthcare for illegal immigrants during CNN town hall
CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed the Dem 'Squad' member whether illegal immigrants should receive free healthcare
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., repeatedly sidestepped a
question about whether she believed illegal immigrants should receive
taxpayer-funded healthcare during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.
Ocasio-Cortez, who continues to generate buzz as a possible 2028
presidential contender or a potential primary challenger to Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared alongside Sen. Bernie
Sanders, I-Vt., to address questions about the ongoing government
shutdown.
Jill Ireland, identified by CNN as a California Democrat who works in
insurance, submitted a pre-taped question: "Do you think taxpayers
should be paying for the medical care of immigrants who are in the
country illegally?"
Ocasio-Cortez responded by calling out what she described as a "common
lie" from Republicans who accuse Democrats of shutting down the
government to provide free healthcare to illegal immigrants.
Republicans push to pay troops, reopen government as Democrats balk
Thune aims to jump-start the appropriations process by pairing multiple funding bills
Senate Democrats wanted an equal say in crafting spending bills before
the shutdown and are about to get a chance to do so, but they’re
unlikely to support Republicans' latest effort to jump-start the
government funding process.
The Senate on Thursday is set to move through a procedural hurdle on
the annual defense spending bill, which, among other things, would
ensure that military service members would get their paychecks.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., teed up the bill earlier
this week as the shutdown raged on to pressure Senate Democrats to make
good on their desire to fund the government in a bipartisan manner, and
in the hopes of getting the appropriations process moving again.
Trans athlete's attorneys respond after judge strikes down attempt to end SCOTUS battle over women's sports
The athlete filed the lawsuit in 2020 but tried to drop it after SCOTUS agreed in July to hear the case
Former NCAA athletes Lainey Armistead and Madison Kenyon talk to Fox
News Digital about how they ended up in a lawsuit to protect women's
sports in a case that's now going all the way to the Supreme Court.
The attorneys for Lindsay Hecox, the transgender athlete at the center
of an impending Supreme Court battle over the protection of women's
sports, have responded after a federal judge ruled against Hecox's
attempt to have the case dropped.
Hecox initially filed the lawsuit in 2020 to block an Idaho state law,
HB 500, which prohibits males from competing in women's sports, in
order to compete for the Boise State women's cross-country team. The
Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in July, alongside a similar case
in West Virginia involving a trans athlete, West Virginia v. B.P.J.
Fetterman says he knows and loves Trump voters: 'I'm the only Democrat in my family'
'I grew up in a conservative part of Pennsylvania,' Sen John Fetterman said
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said that he knows and
loves individuals who voted for President Donald Trump, noting that
"they are not fascists" or "Nazis."
"I'm the only Democrat in my family. I grew up in a conservative part
of Pennsylvania," he noted during a NewsNation Town Hall while wearing
a hoodie.
"I would never compare anybody, anybody to Hitler, and those things," Fetterman declared.
New survey shows how gender madness ‘non-binary’ was just a fad pushed by radical activists
Has the gender madness fever finally broken among America’s youth?
Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham,
compiled a report for the Centre for Heterodox Social Science titled
“CHSS Report No. 5, The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young
Americans.”
The report draws on data from several sources, including annual campus
surveys done by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a
Higher Education Research Institute survey of incoming college
freshmen, as well as various other studies.
Kaufmann found that the “share of young people not identifying as male
or female (typically ticking the non-binary or questioning options) has
declined substantially since its 2022-23 peak across 3 of 5 data
sources.”
Miranda Devine: Trump Derangement Syndrome is on the way out – prez’s alpha-male greatness shines after peace deal
It’s early days but there are signs that Trump Derangement Syndrome is
on the way out. And the Middle East peace deal Donald Trump pulled off
with sheer force of personality is part of the reason.
In a whirlwind 36 hours, the president addressed the Knesset in
Jerusalem to hail a “new dawn in the Middle East,” and then flew to
Sharm el-Sheikh to sign the Gaza peace deal, flanked by the leaders of
Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, who had helped forced Hamas’ hand.
European leaders took a back seat and meekly kowtowed to Trump.
On the sidelines in Egypt, Trump gave weasely Emmanuel Macron a
bone-crusher handshake that lasted an excruciating 26 seconds, as the
French president tried not to wince.
