Palestinians mourn for their relatives after Israeli forces targeted a vehicle carrying residents returning to inspect their home in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on October 18, 2025.
October 15, 2025, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)’s guidance and other related documents regarding President Trump’s lethal strikes on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
For the Trump regime, the brutality is the point. It’s the means to the end of a violent, single-party state that they’re openly proclaiming, even though our media insists on turning away from it.
Back in the 1980s, I lived with my family and worked in Germany for a bit short of two years. The international relief agency I worked for (and lived at the HQ of) jumped through all the necessary hoops to get me a work permit, but if I’d overstayed my permit/visa nobody would have kicked in my front door or invaded my home with flash-bangs and automatic weapons drawn.
Three U.S. journalists have been abducted from aid flotillas bound for Gaza and detained by Israel. All three reported experiencing or witnessing abuse and even torture.
On July 1, 2025, the Indiana General Assembly effected the House Enrolled Act 101, a new Indiana budget bill that brings major changes to higher education. The Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that six universities across the state have been affected, with 74 programs eliminated, 101 suspended, and 229 pending mergers.
At IU Indianapolis, several programs face suspension, including those of students like Rianna Vanhook, Laura Riley, and Phillip Wozniewski.
On Sept. 12, the U.S. Department of Education unexpectedly canceled a $35 million grant that Purdue had been awarded in 2024 as a result of the end of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs statewide. The grant was intended to prepare low-income Indiana students for college through a program called GEAR UP.
When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.
“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”
Israeli soldiers burn a home in Gaza City on the night of October 9. Source: social media. Faces obscured by Drop Site.
In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that both Hamas and Israel had signed off on an agreement to stop the fighting, the Israeli military launched an arson spree, setting fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in Gaza City. After publication, the Israel Defense Forces told Drop Site it “is aware of the incident and it is being reviewed.”
People march behind a ‘No Trump, No Troops’ banner during a demonstration against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and planned deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago, Illinois, on September 9, 2025.(Photo by Kamil Krzacynski/AFP via Getty Images)
On October 9, President Donald J. Trump’s office issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13, “Columbus Day.” The proclamation says that the day is one on which “our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus—the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth.
Gil Dezer and Donald Trump Jr pose at Mansion Nightclub in December 2007 in Miami Beach, Florida. Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images
A private jet owned by an Israeli-American billionaire family with close ties to President Donald Trump appears to have been used to fly 10 immigrants to a brutal prison in the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, according to flight data.
Multiple Republican lawmakers on Friday lobbed smears against the upcoming “No Kings” rallies scheduled to take place on October 18 across the US.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) described the “No Kings” events as “a hate-America rally,” which he said would include “the Antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists.”
Our voices are strongest when we rise harmoniously with one purpose.
A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects.
Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Chicago. This morning, the Defense Department announced the federal activation of about 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and about 300 from the Illinois National Guard, saying they would be protecting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal agents “who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.”
Global Sumud Flotilla activist Greta Thunberg speaks following her arrival at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens on October 6, 2025 after being abducted and briefly jailed by Israel.
Right now, the government is shut down. Why? Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House. It is their responsibility to fund the government.
But, for the first time, despite needing bipartisan support, Republicans have refused to negotiate, choosing instead to push through a bill that would devastate millions of Americans.
International students can no longer work at the student paper at Purdue University after the administration made a host of changes to distance itself from the outlet.
Hours after delivering his delusional and offensive speech to the United Nations yesterday, President Donald J. Trump did an about-face on his previous support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. After he met with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, his social media account posted: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” which would be before Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea.
This article has been updated with new information.
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, some fellow conservatives and prominent social media accounts have gone after educators who made posts that were critical of Kirk or made light of his death.
Donald Trump addresses the United Nations general assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on 23 September 2025. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images
Donald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday.
Here are the facts on some of the false claims offered during Trump’s speech.
The Trump administration has said it will require Pentagon reporters to “pledge they won’t gather any information—even unclassified—that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey,” the Washington Post (9/19/25) reported. It added that even being in possession of “confidential or unauthorized information, under the new rules, would be grounds for a journalist’s press pass to be revoked.”
Charlie Kirk, July 24, 2023: “Joe Biden is a bumbling dementia filled Alzheimer's corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America.”
Journalists and defenders of press freedom are expressing alarm and condemnation after the Pentagon, under the command of President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, announced new restrictions on reporters that include pre-approval of stories that include even unclassified material and a new pledge not to publish any material without permission from government officials.
The foreign ministers of 16 nations on Tuesday implored Israel to not attack the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of around 40 boats attempting to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to the embattled Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are suffering 22 months of US-backed genocidal war and forced famine.
Six newborns, at least two of whom were premature, lie crammed into a single crib at Gaza City's Al-Ahli Hospital, mere days before Rosh Hashanah. It would have been better had they not been born. These are harsh words, but they are realistic.
On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation. The BLS has been under stress since President Donald J. Trump fired its head, Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report showed far weaker hiring statistics than expected as well as a downgrade for previous months. Officials at the BLS said the new report will be “rescheduled to a later date.”
