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The GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison corporation, announced Monday that it had sold the detention facilities, including the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, totaling 2,644 Beds. LA Times
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The outcome of the Colorado case could affect California's 2023 lawsuit against the five largest oil companies and other similar litigation. LA Times
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An overlooked risk factor for heart attack and stroke, especially in women, can be detected with a simple test. New York Post
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A high school student and the driver of a Jeep involved in the early morning crash were killed. New York Post
By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us. New York Times
Democrats are increasingly confident they will have a record number of women serving in the House next year, after backing women in competitive districts they are now positioned to win. New York Times
The offensive is an effort to wrest control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait from the Houthis, a militia in Yemen backed by Iran. New York Times
The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia. Rumors and unconfirmed reports sounded a more ominous note. New York Times
The United States military struck another alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing four suspected narco-terrorists, according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). OANN
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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has called off the search for the six people aboard the air ambulance after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lost contact with the aircraft over the weekend. OANN
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy floated a potential 2028 presidential run. OANN
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The Coast Guard will restore full maritime rescue and law enforcement capabilities at six stations next year. Washington Times
Nearly 12,000 bans took place in public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five years ago. For the second straight year, Stephen King was the author most likely to have his work withdrawn. Washington Times
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FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the pair announced in a post to X on Sunday evening. Washington Times
It was sometime around Xavier Rogers' second birthday that his mom and Early Head Start teachers noticed a shift in his demeanor. Xavier, usually a happy baby, now mostly wanted to play alone and would sometimes bite and hit other kids in his class. Washington Times
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. says he has a pretty good idea who was behind the unprecedented leak of his draft of a Supreme Court opinion. Washington Times
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President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence. Washington Times
Investigators in Washington state said they arrested and charged an 18-year-old man in connection with the deadly shooting of a Coast Guard officer in the Seattle suburbs in August. Washington Times
A new expedition is underway, hoping to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. CBS
Mortgage rates have reached three-year highs, which is pushing down housing sales. CBS
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Two people were killed and another 35 were hospitalized with injuries after a shooting broke out at a neighborhood block party in Georgia, authorities said. CBS
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All U.S. bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been returned to their home stations in the United States. CBS
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was arrested on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. CBS
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Debris has been found of a medical jet with six people on board that went missing near Nantucket while flying from Bermuda to Boston early Saturday. CBS
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Trump is ramping up pressure on South Korea over Alaska LNG as Seoul remains cautious over investment projects announced by the U.S. president. CNBC
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Trump is promoting two federal payment programs already underway while reiterating a $5,000 dividend promise contingent on Republicans retaining Congress. CNBC
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The Senate could flip to Democrats after November's midterm election, jeopardizing a potential Supreme Court nomination by President Donald Trump. CNBC
Experts say the offensive is not a decisive breakthrough, but demonstrates how Ukraine’s expanding use of robotic systems is reshaping frontline warfare. CNBC
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Investments in ADAS calibration equipment, computers and software subscriptions can drive up the cost of even a windshield replacement or an oil change. CNBC
As Hollywood's financing structures diversify, private capital is increasingly funding the big screen and changing the types of movies that are being made. CNBC
Retired Air Force and Delta Air Lines pilot Buzz Patterson said terror cells could infiltrate foreign airlines after a FlyDubai copilot attacked a captain. FOX News
K-9 Otis sniffed out roughly 440 pounds of cocaine during a California traffic stop after the driver's shifting stories raised red flags to responding officers. FOX News
FBI records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal Thomas Matthew Crooks sent cryptic coded texts and took drone photos of Pittsburgh stadiums before the attack FOX News
The Department of Homeland Security says four illegal immigrants from four countries were among 11 suspects caught in an Indiana sting operation. FOX News
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies said Sunday they would leave crude output unchanged in November. UPI
Police in Okinawa arrested a U.S. Marine accused of robbing and killing a local Japanese woman, officials said. UPI
Frank Strada, the Tennessee Bureau of Prisons commissioner, has resigned just days after the failed execution of Christa Pike. UPI
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A federal judge allowed the Pentagon to move forward with terminating three employees of the Stars and Stripes military newspaper. As he should.
In a 24-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden turned down a request by the newspaper's publisher, editor-in-chief and Middle East reporter to halt their firings while a lawsuit challenging the terminations works its way through the court system. McFadden found the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights by firing them last month.
The plaintiffs — publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte — were given separation notices in August and placed on administrative leave over allegations of insubordination. The move raised questions about the future of the Stars and Stripes, which is operated by the military and is partially funded by taxpayers, but has traditionally operated independently of military leadership or the White House.
For Slavin and Korte, the alleged insubordination cited in their termination notices was related to interviews they gave to CBS News for a piece on "CBS Sunday Morning" that aired in July. In the story, Korte said that she worked for Stars and Stripes, "not for the Pentagon, not for any administration, not for any policymaker."
The firings took place shortly after the newspaper published a piece detailing flagging mental health concerns and food and water shortages aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which had been deployed for nine months. A day after that story ran, the lawsuit said, Pentagon officials ordered Lederer, the Stripes' publisher, to issue notices of separation to Slavin and Korte. Lederer declined to present them and opted to resign, but he was fired before he could do so.
Parts of McFadden's ruling analyzed whether Korte and Slavin spoke with CBS News in their capacity as Stars and Stripes employees. Prior Supreme Court cases have found that government employees' right not to be fired for their speech hinges partially on whether they were speaking as private citizens or as part of their official job duties. McFadden found Korte and Slavin's speech was likely the latter.
"[At] bottom, on the current record, Plaintiffs' real complaint seems to be that they were victims of a cruel bait-and-switch. They are being fired for giving pre-approved interviews on their paper's behalf in which they largely toed the company line," the judge wrote. "Whatever else such a scheme may violate, it does not clearly offend the First Amendment." The ruling came shortly after lawyers for the three fired Stars and Stripes employees squared off against Justice Department attorneys in federal court earlier Friday, arguing that the Pentagon had unlawfully terminated the journalists in violation of their protected free speech.
