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On Monday evening, an eighth [Vanderbilt] signaled that it had reservations about it.

Only one, the University of Texas, suggested it might be open to signing on quickly.

Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say. Well. Maybe not that shocked.

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Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

After the murder of George Floyd, police violence became an issue that no Minneapolis politician could avoid. The massive protests that followed sparked federal and state investigations and a bevy of major proposals that culminated in a failed referendum, in 2021, to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.

Today, police accountability has largely taken a backseat in electoral debates nationwide, and even in the city that sparked the 2020 protests, clashes between candidates have grown less outwardly contentious. The two leading candidates for mayor this fall were on opposite ends of that 2021 referendum but that has not defined their current contest. Mayor Jacob Frey, who wanted to preserve the MPD that year, is now claiming credit for championing reforms; meanwhile, Frey’s challenger Omar Fateh, who backed the 2021 measure, has emphasized other issues during his campaign this year.

A divided federal appeals court for the 9th Circuit today overturned a temporary restraining order put in place by a federal judge in Portland – removing the legal impediment that was preventing the Trump Administration from sending National Guard troops to Portland.

"After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3), which authorizes the federalization of the National Guard when 'the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,'" the majority wrote in their decision.

John Bolton, who served as national security adviser during President Trump's first term before becoming a vocal critic, was indicted on Thursday on 18 charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.

Details from the indictment filed in Maryland's district court charge Bolton with eight counts for the transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of such information. Each count faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

In a statement, the Justice Department said Bolton illegally transmitted classified information using a personal email and messaging applications, including U.S. "intelligence about future attacks, foreign adversaries, and foreign-policy relations."

The US government shutdown extended into its 20th day on Monday with no resolution in sight, as a prominent Republican lawmaker publicly broke ranks with party leadership over the decision of Mike Johnson, the House speaker, to keep Congress shuttered for weeks.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a representative of Georgia, on Monday morning criticized Johnson’s strategy, calling on the House to return to session immediately.

“The House should be in session working,” Greene wrote on X. “We should be finishing appropriations. Our committees should be working. We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent. I have no respect for the decision to refuse to work.”

"Why do you continue to bend the knee [to Trump]," state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal said, addressing the Adams administration. "We should not be pausing the busway. We should be installing the busway without any delay."

He openly mocked an Oct. 16 letter sent from the Federal Highway Administration to the state and city DOTs that claimed the city failed to properly notify the federal government about its plans to install a busway similar to the existing, and successful, one on 14th Street. The Trump administration letter cites unspecified concerns about the movement of trucks and emergency vehicles along the corridor, though trucks are not banned on the busway, and emergency vehicles are not inhibited.

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CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologized Monday after claiming that Israeli hostages freed from Hamas captivity were “treated better” than Gazans — remarks that provoked furious backlash from Israel supporters.

The longtime international correspondent retracted her statement on air just hours after Hamas released the final 20 living hostages under a cease-fire agreement brokered by the United States and Egypt.

Amanpour’s mea culpa came after she earlier told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that the hostages “were probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had.”

“That was insensitive, and it was wrong,” Amanpour said during a broadcast on Monday.

The FBI is investigating the discovery of a suspicious hunting stand with a line of sight to the area where President Trump exits Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday.

Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT deal