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Under President Donald Trump, immigration officials have been unleashed to terrorize immigrants as they wish, often sending masked and unidentified agents to whisk them into vehicles. But things could be about to get a whole lot worse, National Immigration Center fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick fears.

That's because, according to Fox News, the Trump administration is moving forward with massive leadership changes at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that throw out all the remaining people who might have been a constraint on his agenda.

Democratic analyst Brian Tyler Cohen unmasked what he sees as a GOP plot underpinning the government shutdown during a new episode of the "Brian Tyler Cohen" podcast on Monday.

The federal government has been shut down for almost a month, which has put government services from food stamps to air traffic control in jeopardy. Republicans have blamed Democrats for not signing their government funding bill. Democrats have said they are using the shutdown to re-negotiate cuts to Medicaid that were part of Trump's budget.

A social media exchange between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and conservative activist Riley Gaines ignited a firestorm among MAGA Republicans on Monday.

Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer and vocal critic of transgender women in women's sports, shared a photo on the social platform X of Ocasio-Cortez with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) at a rally in New York held Sunday.

Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica, and Melissa Dai, Medill Investigative Lab

Entire Kansas congressional delegation voluntarily halts their paychecks amid shutdown

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector
October 27, 2025

Former Trump administration press official Sarah Matthews had a blunt message on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" for how Democrats should fight back against President Donald Trump's ongoing threats to meddle in elections.

This comes as Trump moves to send election monitors into California and New Jersey, where crucial elections are taking place next week. Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, also on the panel, suggested Democrats call the bluff and demand election monitors in a bunch of Republican-favoring areas.

California is hitting back at President Donald Trump's plan to flood the blue state with election monitors — by having those monitors watched.

The Trump administration last week said it would send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey for the upcoming Nov. 4 elections. The move was to be carried out by the Justice Department, which said it would deploy observers to several counties in the states following requests from Republican officials who reported irregularities.

A once self-proclaimed "super Trump supporter" was deported by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in Africa after he was erroneously mislabeled as a killer, according to a new report.

The Daily Beast reported on Monday that a Cuban man named Roberto Mosquera, 59, was deported to Eswatini along with five other people. Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X that Mosquera was “convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated battery," a claim that Mosquera's daughter refuted to the outlet.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board ripped a pair of Trump administration officials in a new editorial on Monday over their efforts to kill a drug that treats melanoma.

"Our editorials criticizing the Food and Drug Administration for torpedoing promising treatments must be hitting an intracranial nerve," the editorial reads in part. "Proof of their potency: Commissioner Marty Makary and his deputy Vinay Prasad devoted much of a recent FDA podcast to mischaracterizing them."

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Sunday that his country’s security forces captured a group of mercenaries aligned with the US Central Intelligence Agency, less than two weeks after President Donald Trump confirmed his authorization of covert CIA action against the South American nation.

Venezuela “reports that it has captured a mercenary group with direct information from the US intelligence agency, CIA, being able to determine that a false-flag attack is underway from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidad or Venezuelan territory itself,” the Venezuelan government said in a statement.

President Donald Trump withdrew another one of his particularly controversial nominees, Axios reported on Monday — this time for the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.

Joel Rayburn, who served as a special envoy to the Middle East for Trump in his previous term, "was controversial due to his alleged involvement in obscuring U.S. troop levels in Syria from President Trump in his first term, when he served as Trump's special envoy for Syria," according to the report.

Long-time GOP strategist Sarah Longwell exposed the real reason President Donald Trump appointed Lindsay Halligan to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia during a podcast interview on Monday.

Longwell, who publishes "The Bulwark," discussed Halligan's appointment on a new episode of the podcast, "George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)."

As President Donald Trump is in the midst of a trip to multiple Asian countries, one Virginia-based soybean farmer is accusing him of weakness in standing up for the American agricultural sector.

During a Monday segment on MSNBC, John Boyd — who operates Boyd Farms out of Baskerville, Virginia — said Trump abandoned his "America first" agenda by bailing out Argentina to the tune of $40 billion while leaving American farmers out to dry. He pointed out that China, which used to be the top buyer of American soybeans, now buys most of its soybeans elsewhere due to Trump's tariffs.