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Spotify hit with boycott calls after airing Trump's ICE ads: 'Don’t stream fascism'

Outrage over Spotify running advertisements for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramped up on Tuesday, with the progressive advocacy group Indivisible urging users to cancel their subscriptions until the ICE ads are removed, engage in peaceful protests outside the streaming giant’s offices and events, and call on artists to boycott the platform.

Aiming to deliver on President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this summer launched an ICE recruitment campaign, with incentives including a $50,000 signing bonus, student loan repayment and forgiveness options, enhanced retirement benefits, and more.

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Trump fears Supreme Court may soon deal a 'seismic blow' to his administration: analyst

Matt Ford tells The New Republic that Trump is furious at an anti-tariff ad from the Canadian province of Ontario because he knows his tariffs are on shaky ground.

Ontario aired a commercial during the games that used a 1987 speech by then-President Ronald Reagan to oppose Trump’s tariff-blasted trade policy.

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'Whoa': RFK Jr.'s wife reveals husband's bizarre diet

Heath Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's wife, Cheryl Hines, shed light about his bizarre diet during a podcast interview on Tuesday.

Hines joined Katie Miller, who is married to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, on her show, "The Katie Miller Podcast," to discuss her journey into the Make America Healthy Again movement. She also discussed the diet that her husband has created, which involves only meat and fermented vegetables.

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Top Indiana Republican faces grand jury probe into fraud and salacious ‘deepfaked’ images

A grand jury is investigating Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith over a number of alleged wrongdoings in his office, reported NewsNation on Tuesday.

According to the report, a Marion County grand jury heard testimony in August and September “in the original investigation into the distribution of an intimate image(s) and ghost employment in the office of the Indiana lieutenant governor.”

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Appeals court makes major decision on Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland

The Trump administration saw a court loss on Tuesday night as a federal appeals court agreed to reconsider a major case that previously "paved the way" for the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, while the case against it plays out.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday agreed to rehear the case en banc, with a new slate of judges present.

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Trump's true 'goal' is 'worse' than a dictatorship: expert

In an article for the Los Angeles Times published Tuesday, columnist Jonah Goldberg argued that President Donald Trump’s claims of emergency powers to impose tariffs reflect a dangerous strain of “Caesarism” – the age-old tendency of republics to surrender extraordinary authority to one man in the name of solving crises.

Titled "Donald Trump isn't a dictator, but his goal may actually be worse," the article drew a historical parallel between Julius Caesar’s rise from temporary problem-solver to “dictator for life” and Trump’s efforts to justify sweeping trade powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977.

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Red state shocks with massive ‘internment camp' to fulfill Trump order

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor.

Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.

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Netanyahu blows up ceasefire and orders 'powerful strikes' on Gaza

Following Israel’s 125 reported violations of the October 10 Gaza ceasefire in attacks that have killed or wounded hundreds of Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered “powerful strikes” in response to an alleged Hamas breach of the deal in which no one was physically harmed.

Netanyahu’s office said the right-wing prime minister instructed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to immediately carry out the attacks on the flattened strip, where two years of genocidal war and siege have left at least 248,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing, hundreds of thousands of others starving; and the vast majority of Gaza’s more than 2 million people forcibly displaced.

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5 Senate Republicans defect to 'rebuke' Trump over unilateral Brazil tariff

Five Republicans in the Senate bucked their party to join a resolution condemning President Donald Trump's tariffs against Brazil on Tuesday evening, according to CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju.

The defecting Republicans included Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

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'This is not normal': Analysts astounded by Trump's 'obscene' new ballroom move

Political analysts were stunned Tuesday after The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump had fired an entire independent commission tasked with overseeing his ballroom project.

The Post reported that Trump fired the entire six-member Commission on Fine Arts, which is staffed with architects and urban planners. The commission would have reviewed Trump's plans to build an arch in Washington, D.C. bearing his name, according to the report.

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'Cruel': Trump taken to court by dozens of states to prevent millions from going hungry

More than two dozen Democratic state attorneys general on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for withholding emergency food assistance that could help prevent 42 million people from going hungry next month, arguing that the US Department of Agriculture is legally obligated to ensure federal nutrition aid gets to people who rely on it.

With the US government shut down since Oct. 1, the USDA said weeks ago that it could reprogram an emergency reserve held by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ensure people don’t lose their benefits on Nov. 1. But last Friday a memo from the department said the emergency funds were to be used during disasters such as hurricanes and floods, and were “not legally available” for families set to lose their benefits due to the shutdown.

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'Irresponsible': Conservative ex-judge believes Republicans bought in on 3rd Trump term

A conservative former federal judge warned MSNBC viewers on Tuesday that Republicans appear to have wrongly bought into the idea that President Donald Trump can run for a third term.

J. Michael Luttig joined host Alicia Menendez on "Deadline: White House" to discuss Republicans' thoughts on Trump possibly seeking a third term.

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Trump fires entire panel expected to review his construction projects: report

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the entire Commission of Fine Arts, a six-member independent agency that was expected to review the president's plans to build a Trump arch in Washington, D.C., according to a new report.

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the commission is a mix of urban planners and architects who were selected by President Joe Biden. Several of the members' terms extended beyond 2028, according to the report.

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