Trump News for Tuesday, October 7, 2025

The ‘SNL’ Dress Rehearsal Audience Reportedly Chose Kam Patterson Over Jane Wickline

Opheli Garcia Lawler, Cracked.com

The newbie won out over a song from the second-year player

US National Guard troops arrive in Illinois as Trump escalates crackdown

Abby Rogers, Al Jazeera English

Troops arrive despite active legal challenges from Chicago and the state of Illinois in the courts.

Pam Bondi Grilled by Senator Over Alleged Trump-Epstein Compromising Photos

TMZ Staff, TMZ

President Trump can't seem to shake the Jeffrey Epstein plague ... because U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi got into a fiery exchange over the "Epstein Files" with a senator during a congressional hearing. Bondi faced off Tuesday with the Senate…

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

United States Department of Homeland Security Responds to Anti-ICE Lyrics in Zach Bryan Song Snippet

Walden Green, Pitchfork

DHS assistant secretary of public affairs Tricia McLaughlin told TMZ that Bryan should “stick to ‘Pink Skies’”

Eric Dickerson Says If Bad Bunny Dislikes U.S., 'Keep His Ass In Puerto Rico'

TMZ Staff, TMZ

Eric Dickerson is urging Bad Bunny to pull out of the Super Bowl halftime show if he is, indeed, not a fan of the United States ... saying the "Tití Me Preguntó" crooner should straight up "keep his ass where he's at" if he truly feels some type of way about …

Trump pulls a Mariah Carey move on Bad Bunny: “I don’t know who he is”

Angelina Mazza, Salon

Despite claiming to not know who he is, Trump calls the choice for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show “ridiculous."

DOJ adds 2 out-of-state attorneys to Comey case ahead of his arraignment

Alexander Mallin, Katherine Faulders, Peter Charalambous, ABC News

The DOJ has added two assistant U.S. attorneys from out of state to work on the case against former FBI Director James Comey ahead of Comey's arraignment on Wednesday.

It Definitely Looks Like I Was Wrong About The Iowa School Superintendent Arrested By ICE

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

A lot has happened since last week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent Ian Roberts being arrested by ICE first hit the front page here at Techdirt. A lot of new information has come to light, almost all of it obtained by Des Moines Regist…

Are Trump’s voters turning against him?

Christian Paz, Vox

Tariffs. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. National Guard deployments. Epstein files. Strikes on Iran. Gaza and Ukraine. Sticky inflation. The first year of President Donald Trump’s time in office has been a firehose of unpopular polici…

The Supreme Court Is Ruling on Conversion Therapy. What Could Go Wrong!

Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone

The nation's highest court is hearing Chiles v. Salazar, and could overturn a ban on the discredited practice of conversion therapy.

Tensions remain high at Columbia. This experiment asks students to come to the table.

Jessica Gould, Gothamist

Columbia University students and faculty are participating in weekly listening tables set up on the campus The Trust Collaboratory launched “Listening Tables” to promote understanding. But its champions worry about the impact of Columbia’s deal with the fe…

Hamas seeks ‘guarantees’ that Israel will end Gaza war as talks continue

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Senior Hamas official says group intends to release captives in stages linked to the withdrawal of Israel's military.

Jon Stewart Calls Chuck Schumer ‘A Human Flat Tire’ After Terrible Healthcare Joke

Keegan Kelly, Cracked.com

We’d tell Schumer, ‘Don't quit your day job,’ but that would actually solve a lot of our problems

“Not going to discuss anything about that”: Bondi dodges Epstein questions in Senate hearing

Blaise Malley, Salon

The attorney general spent Tuesday dodging questions from senators about her tenure at the DOJ.

Jon Chait Thinks Kamala Harris Went Too Far Left. He's Just Falling for Trump's Demagoguery.

Eoin Higgins, The Intercept

A year ago, Chait said centrists were winning. When Harris lost, though, he blamed the left's trans rights agenda. The post Jon Chait Thinks Kamala Harris Went Too Far Left. He’s Just Falling for Trump’s Demagoguery. appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump: US-Israel ‘very close to making a deal’ on Gaza peace plan

Al Jazeera English

Donald Trump says a Middle East peace deal is “very close,” while pledging US security guarantees for Gaza.

Suspected Chinese govt used CHATGPR to shape mass surveillance proposals...

Sean Lyngaas, Jim Sciutto, CNN

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “extremist speech,” ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said in a report pu…

Five takeaways from Pam Bondi's tense, partisan Senate hearing

BBC News

Nerves were raw in a hearing that covered much ground, and saw Trump's attorney general go on the attack.

AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media

Bryan Metzger, Business Insider

"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky's decentralized aspiration isn't reality

Matthew Sheffield, Flux.community

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

Cheryl Hines: ‘Disappointing’ Kennedy family has split with RFK Jr.

Judy Kurtz, The Hill

Cheryl Hines says she finds Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s falling out with his relatives “disappointing,” speaking out against ...

Democrats take legal aim at "the Radical Left" language during shutdown

Kirk Siegler, NPR

Democrats and a federal union argue the Trump administration's language posted on federal agency websites and in some emails blaming the 'Radical Left Democrat' for the government shutdown is in violation of a 1939 federal law.

McGregor given 18-month ban for missing drug tests

Alex Brotherton, BBC News

Conor McGregor accepts an 18-month ban for violating the UFC's anti-doping policy, the organisation says.

Zach Bryan Has a New Song Bashing ICE. Republicans Are Big Mad

David Browne, Rolling Stone

The country songwriter takes a shot at law enforcement in "Bad News," earning a response from Department of Homeland Security and MAGA singers like John Rich

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

Oren Peleg, The New Yorker

Oren Peleg on the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, a group in Los Angeles that monitors the movements of federal agents in and out of a Coast Guard facility on Terminal Island.

Jimmy Kimmel Gloats About Beating Donald Trump in Popularity Polls

Keegan Kelly, Cracked.com

As Kimmel admitted, his lead should probably be even higher

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions

Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

US activist from Gaza flotilla alleges ‘psychological torture’ by Israel

Ali Harb, Al Jazeera English

David Adler says Sumud Flotilla activists were 'kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded' and sent to prison camp.

The Real Reason You Might Be Unable to Tag Portland on TikTok During Trump’s Invasion

Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com

Trump is falsely claiming an "insurrection" is underway in the city, so it's understandable that people are on edge.

Right-Wingers Are Getting Mad at (and Misunderstanding) ‘One Battle After Another’

Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone

Paul Thomas Anderson's celebrated family drama and political thriller is far from the "apologia for radical left-wing terrorism" its conservative critics claim it is

Diddy wants to serve his sentence at a NJ prison previously home to 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli and mobsters

Natalie Musumeci,Laura Italiano, Business Insider

FCI Fort Dix has what's known as a Residential Drug Abuse Program that Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer suggested would be beneficial to him.

Jon Stewart Joins ‘South Park’ in Making Fun of Trump’s Manhood

JM McNab, Cracked.com

By JM McNab Published: October 07th, 2025

Trump says trade talks 'complicated' but Canada will be 'very happy' with eventual deal

BBC News

Despite the warm words, Canada remains the only G7 country not to have reached a trade deal with Trump this year.

‘This is an outrage’: GOP senator demands answers from embattled Trump official

Rachel Cohen, nj.com

The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee released a new report related to a probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Canada’s Carney makes second White House visit as trade tensions loom

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

US's Trump said the two leaders would discuss trade as tariffs weigh on the Canadian economy.

RFK’s New CDC Chief Wants to Break Up the MMR Vaccine. Here’s Why That’s Such an Awful Idea

Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com

U.S. President Donald Trump has also called for the shot to be broken up into three separate jabs, echoing a major goal of the antivax movement.

Trump Pardon For Sean Combs “Still Under Discussion” As Diddy Seeks Move To Cushy Prison For 4-Year Sentence

Dominic Patten, Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: A potential presidential pardon is still in the mix for Sean Combs, as the Grammy winner and former Donald Trump pal stares down a four-year prison stint. At the same time, after Combs complained at length at his sentencing hearing last week about …

White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law

Stephen Fowler, NPR

A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.

Bipartisan US governors' group faces division over Trump's deployment of troops to states

GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB, Yahoo Entertainment

The Democratic governors of California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association because of its silence on President Donald...

The government shutdown is snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse

Rachel Treisman, NPR

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

WATCH: Trump says Sean 'Diddy' Combs asked him for a pardonvv

ABC News

President Donald Trump said that Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached out to ask him for a pardon following his conviction on two prostitution-related charges.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will continue to sponsor H-1B visas and cover fees. Read his memo to staff.

Geoff Weiss, Business Insider

In an internal message, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reiterated his support for Trump's H-1B changes and shared personal reflections on immigration.

Why are US medicines so darn expensive?

Kelli Wessinger, Sean Rameswaram, Vox

Standing next to Pfizer CEO Albert Borla in the Oval Office last week, President Donald Trump announced that the pharma giant had made a startling concession: It would voluntarily lower the prices it charges Americans for its medicines. At the same time, the …

DOJ Moves Goalposts To Send Troops To Portland, Gets Shut Down By A Federal Court

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year by the state of California for commandeering California’s National Guard to shut down anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. Trump justified this by declaring the city to …

Tariffs have potential to reshape US beer market, says study

Phil Ciciora, Phys.Org

The ripple effects of increased tariffs under President Trump could extend to the $117 billion U.S. beer market, according to new research from a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign agricultural economist who studies food supply chains.

TikTok’s MAGA Overlords Return to Their Conquered Territory

Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com

Trump and Vance have returned to TikTok after almost a year of posting no videos.

What to know about the Tomahawk cruise missiles Trump says he might give Ukraine

Jake Epstein, Business Insider

Tomahawks are powerful, long-range missiles that would give Ukraine a major boost in its ability to strike deep into Russia.

Texas National Guard headed to Illinois, as Pritzker decries 'authoritarian march'

Peter Charalambous, ABC News

Gov. JB Pritzker accused the president of using troops for political gain.

Environmentalists Warn About AI Data Centers and ‘Forever Chemicals’: ‘This Issue Has been Dangerously Understudied’

Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com

The surge in new AI data centers has sparked concern among environmentalists and public health experts alike.

Jon Stewart rips Schumer over joke: ‘What the f‑‑‑ are you doing?’

Ashleigh Fields, The Hill

Comedian Jon Stewart ripped Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday over a flat joke. Stewart played a clip of Schumer’s remarks during “The ...

Italy to propose global ceasefire for 2026 Winter Olympics

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

A global truce for the duration of February's 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will be sought by hosts Italy.

Trump administration argues furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed back pay

Bryan Metzger, Business Insider

The White House says furloughed federal workers aren't automatically entitled to back pay, and Congress may have to pass a law to grant it to them.

What is Insurrection Act, could it help Trump deploy troops to US cities?

Sarah Shamim, Al Jazeera English

Threat to invoke the Act comes amid protests in Portland and legal challenges against his anti-immigration crackdown.

People Think This Clip Of Donald Trump Talking About Osama Bin Laden And 9/11 Is Alllllll Kinds Of Weird

Siena Giljum, Buzzfeed

"Does Trump even know what year it is?"View Entire Post ›

Inside the AI Healthcare Coalition That the Trump Admin Wants Dead

Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com

Coalition for Health AI says they are for AI transparency. Trump admin believes their aim is to stifle startups.

Bondi faces grilling from Senate Democrats on DOJ 'weaponization,' Epstein files

Alexander Mallin, ABC News

The hearing follows a tumultuous summer for the Department of Justice.

Marjorie Taylor Greene open to healthcare deal with Democrats amid shutdown

Edward Helmore, Yahoo Entertainment

Republican says she is ‘disgusted’ by rising insurance premiums and may defy her party over expired tax credits

WATCH: Near-supermoon lights up American skies

ABC News

Time-lapse imagery captured the nearly full moon, a forerunner to the harvest supermoon, rising and setting over U.S. cities.

WATCH: Former NFL QB Mark Sanchez facing felony charge after physical altercation

ABC News

Former NFL QB Mark Sanchez, who was arrested following a physical altercation this weekend, is now facing a felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury, prosecutors in Indianapolis said.

Trump DOJ sued over alleged Tom Homan bribe recording

Garrett Owen, Salon

White House border czar Tom Homan has been accused of taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents, which he denies

The dangerous symbolism of the Trump coins

Heather Digby Parton, Salon

Trump wants to be on our money — and there's a reason why

Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm

Karl Bode, Techdirt

It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as if their claims of being silenced have always been a bullshit ploy to dominate t…

Is Donald Trump trying to dial back tensions with Brazil?

Alex Kozul-Wright, Al Jazeera English

Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil have strained ties. But experts say he might be smelling the coffee - literally.

Wiley Hodges’s Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding ICEBlock

John Gruber, Substack.com

It's once again time for Apple's CEO to deliver action as lofty as his language

Social Security recipients getting double payments this October due to calendar scheduling quirk

Eric Revell, Fox Business

The Social Security Administration will send two SSI payments in October 2025, with one payment on Oct. 1 and another on Oct. 31 due to the 2025 calendar...

How Did Theo Von Get So Popular?

Keegan Kelly, Cracked.com

By Keegan Kelly Published: October 07th, 2025

New poll shows majority of California voters support Prop. 50

Kate Wolffe, Sacramento Bee

The poll also asked likely voters how swayed they were by arguments on either side of the campaign

War in Gaza moves into its third year. And, Trump's power to deploy the National Guard

Brittney Melton, NPR

The Israel-Gaza war moves into its third year today. And, examining President Trump's power to deploy the National Guard.

NEWSOM RIPS PRESIDENT

Harry Cockburn, The-independent.com

NEWSOM RIPS PRESIDENT (Main headline, 4th story, link) Related stories:FLIGHT DELAYS ACROSS COUNTRY FAA SHORTAGES WORSEN BURBANK TOWER UNMANNED

Trump and Hegseth’s “warrior culture” invades Chicago

Chauncey DeVega, Salon

After the military summit in Quantico, POTUS considers invoking the Insurrection Act

America’s economy is on a ‘sugar high’ warns Ken Griffin, and investors retreating to gold is one sign of a comedown

Eleanor Pringle, Yahoo Entertainment

Ken Griffin said investors want to make the most of the rally in American equities but are hedging their spoils out of U.S. sovereign risk.

How the government shutdown is hitting the health care system

Simon F. Haeder, Salon

Here's what the battle over ACA subsidies means.

Hundreds Are Disappearing from Alligator Alcatraz

Danielle Han, Jezebel

In one of the country’s most notorious detention centers, detainees are disappearing from court records and ICE’s online locator system.

Israel-Hamas war: Glimpses of possible peace after 2 years of systematic, brutal war

Kevin Shalvey, David Brennan, ABC News

The sinews of the conflict have stretched wider in the last year.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

Jaclyn Diaz, NPR

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Bondi set to give testimony to Congress at first hearing since Comey indictment

Ryan Lucas, NPR

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump's perceived enemies.

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

Nate Perez, NPR

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort

Carmela Guaglianone, NPR

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

Natasha Lennard, The Intercept

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it. The post The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump wanted to reduce trade deficits, but at least one has ballooned since he took office

Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider

President Donald Trump's tariffs were aimed at reducing trade deficits, but the travel trade deficit has grown as Canadians avoid the United States.

FTSE 100 LIVE: Stocks mixed as Donald Trump announces new 25% large truck tariff

LaToya Harding, Yahoo Entertainment

From 1 November, all medium- and heavy-duty trucks imported into the US will face a 25% tariff rate

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google are gambling $320 billion on AI infrastructure. The payoff isn't there yet

Dakin Campbell, Business Insider

Big Tech is set to spend $320 billion on capex, mainly for AI infrastructure like data centers. It's a construction boom unlike any in living memory.

Best October Prime Day monitor deals: Save big on OLED and more

Michael Crider, PCWorld

One of the easiest ways to enhance your PC experience is to get a better monitor. It doesn’t require any upgrades for your desktop or laptop, and it shines up the primary way you interact with almost everything: the visuals. Amazon’s second Prime Day event of…

Ukraine's Donetsk region seen as Russia’s gateway, not the ultimate prize in war

HANNA ARHIROVA, Yahoo Entertainment

From a bunker in eastern Ukraine, the 33-year-old soldier asks her comrade to fly a reconnaissance drone over her childhood home, hoping for a final glimpse ...

UNESCO board backs Egypt’s Khaled el-Enany as its next chief

Lyndal Rowlands, Al Jazeera English

The Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities will be the first Arab to lead the UN's cultural organisation.

Venezuela’s Maduro says US Embassy ‘false flag’ bombing foiled in Caracas

David D. Lee, Al Jazeera English

President Nicolas Maduro says right wing 'extremists' planned to bomb US embassy and blame his government for attack.

Reports: Israel couldn’t wage wars on Gaza, Lebanon Iran without US support

Justin Salhani, Al Jazeera English

Twin reports from the Costs of War Project find the US has backed Israel with more than $21bn since October 2023.

Why is the US military is being deployed in US cities?

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera's @AlexGatopoulos asks why the focus of the US military appears to be turning inward

Driver stunned after surveillance footage reveals destructive act in parking lot: 'I've filed a report'

James Anthony Bell III, Yahoo Entertainment

Whether this individual was motivated by the value of the copper or something else is unclear.

Trump walks back offer to talk to Democrats as government shutdown extends

Erin Hale, Al Jazeera English

US President Donald Trump says Democrats must end the shutdown before talks can start after six days of gridlock.

OK GOP State Senator, Essentially: Ryan Walters’ Mandates Were Performative Bullshit

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

As we discussed last week, Ryan Walters resigned from his position as the state Superintendent of Oklahoma and the mood across the state was sad and sour as a result. Okay, while it’s very funny that Oklahoma businesses hosted celebration parties for Walters’…

Chinese EV giant BYD sees UK sales soar by 880%

BBC News

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

US visa no longer a passport to love for Indians after Trump H-1B squeeze

Yahoo Entertainment

White House UFC Fight To Take Place On Trump’s Birthday

Tomt, Deadline

It was supposed to celebrate America’s birthday, but now the much-discussed UFC fight at the White House will take place on Donald Trump’s birthday. In late August, UFC chief Dana White announced the deal for the fight had been done and it was set for July 4 …

The aging president has gotten hooked on the “power drug,” his former communications director told The Daily Beast Podcast.

The Daily Beast, Daily Beast

Donald Trump has morphed into a maniacal bully since getting hooked on the drug of power, his former communications director Anthony Scaramucci tells The...

Day one of Gaza peace talks ends on ‘positive’ note in Egypt

Lyndal Rowlands, Al Jazeera English

Sources familiar with the talks with Israel and Hamas say that progress was made on Monday, negotiations to continue.

US warned about possible attack on its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela says

Reuters, Yahoo Entertainment

CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday his government had warned Washington of a "false flag operation" by "extremist sectors...

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,321

Lyndal Rowlands, Al Jazeera English

Here are the key events from day 1,321 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.