Honorary Chamber President Says Conviction Could Bar Far-Right Leader From Running.
On Tuesday, Didier Guerin, the president of the honorary chamber of the French Supreme Court, expressed doubts about the possibility that far-right leader Marine Le Pen could run in the 2027 presidential elections following her conviction for misappropriation of European Parliament funds.
In an interview published by Le Monde, Guerin, who presided over the Supreme Court’s criminal chamber between 2014 and 2017, said she will not be able to run in the April-May elections if the appeal in cassation of the sentence handed down on appeal against Le Pen succeeds.
According to his thesis, if the Supreme Court annuls the appeal verdict, the ruling issued at first instance on March 31, 2025, will apply, which sentenced the far-right leader to two years of house arrest and five years of ineligibility with preventive application.
Le Pen was convicted of misappropriation of European Parliament funds, after having paid party workers and even domestic employees with European funds intended for parliamentary assistants.
Guerin considers that an appeal to the Supreme Court annuls the appeal judgment and imposes the first-instance sentence, so that de facto Le Pen is ineligible.
Le Pen launched her candidacy after the appeals court reduced the sentence to one year of house arrest and only 15 months of ineligibility, which she has already served.
Guerin affirms that the jurisprudence of the court to which he belongs supports his theory, contrary to what other jurists think, including the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Remy Heitz.
The Supreme Court magistrate notes that the only possibility Le Pen has to run in the 2027 elections is, paradoxically, for the court to reject the appeals of the sentence and confirm her conviction.
If the Supreme Court’s decision is delayed beyond March 26, 2027, the deadline for validating candidacies for the first round on April 28, the far-right candidate will not be able to seek her fourth run for the Elysee, according to Guerin.
Marine #LePen is betting on public anger over rising prices, unrest, and immigration to propel her presidential bid, promising tougher borders and a sweeping return to law and order in France.https://t.co/inACuFz4DA
For her part, Le Pen has filed a complaint with the French Superior Council of the Judiciary against Judge Guerin over his statements about her ineligibility, considering that they violate magistrates’ duty of discretion and contain evaluations of a political nature, according to a statement from her six lawyers.
The lawyers of the far-right leader maintain that his interpretation contradicts current law on the provisional execution of sentences and the effects of judicial appeals.
They also note that the attorney general of the Supreme Court has defended a position contrary to that expressed by Guerin.
The statement also questions that an honorary magistrate publicly comments on a judicial decision of his own and considers future political scenarios, including the possibility that her candidacy be prevented or that she be removed if elected.
For this reason, Le Pen has asked the Superior Council of the Judiciary to remind Guerin of his ethical obligations, considering that his statements exceed the legal sphere and could compromise the image of the judicial institution.
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Os candidatos que vão fazer o Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) 2026 já podem consultar os locais de prova, conforme informações divulgadas pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), por meio do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (Inep), nesta terça-feira (27).
A menos de duas semanas da realização das provas, estudantes cobraram, nas redes sociais, um posicionamento do Inep sobre a divulgação dos locais de aplicação do exame. Mesmo após o anúncio, no entanto, muitos candidatos relataram dificuldades para acessar as informações na Página do Participante.
Como consultar os dados
Ao acessarem o Cartão de Confirmação de Inscrição, os candidatos poderão ver o número de inscrição, a data, o horário e o local de aplicação das provas, além de informar se o participante tem direito a atendimento especializado ou ao tratamento pelo nome social.
As provas do Enem 2026 serão aplicadas nos dias 8 e 15 de novembro, nas 27 unidades da Federação. No primeiro dia, os participantes farão a redação e as provas de linguagens, códigos e suas tecnologias, e de ciências humanas e suas tecnologias. No segundo dia, serão aplicadas as provas de ciências da natureza e suas tecnologias e de matemática e suas tecnologias. Cada área do conhecimento contará com 45 questões.
O Enem 2026 além de continuar sendo uma das principais portas de acesso ao ensino superior e um instrumento de certificação, ele também passa a integrar o Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica (Saeb). Com isso, o exame também se consolida como referência para a avaliação da qualidade do ensino médio em todo o país.
As notas do Enem podem ser utilizadas para concorrer a vagas pelo Sistema de Seleção Unificada (Sisu) e a bolsas do Programa Universidade para Todos (ProUni). Os participantes também podem utilizar os resultados em processos seletivos relacionados ao Fundo de Financiamento Estudantil (Fies), conforme as regras vigentes.
Last week, Israeli soldiers detained me for harvesting olives in a grove near Bethlehem. I was one of about 70 people — rabbis, American and Israeli Jews, and Palestinians — helping Palestinian farmers harvest trees their family has owned for generations.
My detention made headlines. But it’s not the story. The story is the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
The olive grove we were harvesting as part of the Protect the Harvest effort belongs to families from Nahalin, a Palestinian village south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. The villagers have not been able to harvest their olives for three years, because of attacks by Israeli settlers.
Brad Lander on a bus after he was detained during the olive harvest.Courtesy Brad Lander
In recent weeks across the West Bank, settlers have attacked Palestinian farmers, volunteers, European diplomats and a Washington Post journalist. In our case, though, when security guards from the adjacent settlement of Beitar Illit spotted us, they didn’t confront us themselves. Instead, they called the Israeli army, and soldiers detained us for harvesting olives on private Palestinian land at the invitation of its owners. In other words, we were doing nothing illegal nor anything that required coordination with the Israeli government.
Of the 70 folks I was detained alongside, the IDF soldiers held a Palestinian woman from the family who owns the land longest of all. Their message was clear: don’t try to harvest that land again.
What I saw in Nahalin is part of a broader pattern I have seen across the West Bank: settler violence and state power working hand in hand to dispossess Palestinians of their land and expel them from their homes.
In Mughayir, the sister village of my Brooklyn synagogue, families once farmed olives and dates and grazed flocks on land stretching down into the Jordan Valley. Today, the village has been stripped of nearly all of it — by a government order that uprooted its olive trees, by a permanently locked gate cutting it off from the main road and by attacks from nearby settler outposts. One older man was assaulted and pepper sprayed earlier this month by settlers, just for walking into one of his few remaining fields.
In Taibe, a shepherd showed me a video of settlers and soldiers raiding his compound at night, beating his family and taking 40 of his sheep on a newly arrived settler’s claim that they were his.
These are not isolated incidents. A recent report from Peace Now and Kerem Navot found that settler violence, combined with Israeli government policy, has made more than 1 million dunams — roughly 18% of the West Bank — inaccessible to Palestinians, and has displaced over 100 communities.
In Al-Walaja, in eastern Jerusalem, villagers have sought approval of a zoning plan for more than a decade. The Israeli authorities have refused to grant it without explanation — a recurring dynamic in Palestinian communities — only to then cite the missing zoning plan as an excuse to demolish their homes. Half the village is under demolition orders. Residents pay taxes to the Jerusalem municipality. But the main government service they receive is the bulldozer.
Al-Walaja in eastern JerusalemCourtesy Brad Lander
In the Jordan Valley near Jericho, I saw the ruins of what were, until recently, the Bedouin communities of Mu’arrajat and Ras Ein al-Auja, where hundreds of families lived. After the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, settlers began a campaign of harassment that escalated to an attack on the village elementary school. Residents pleaded to soldiers for protection, and they were told it would be provided — but only during the day. So one night, settlers — no, let’s call them terrorists — came and burned the homes, one by one. When the pogrom was over, every house was destroyed, and every family gone.
The term for that is ethnic cleansing.
A young Bedouin woman named Aliya, who lived through it, told me the story. She now lives with her family in a refugee compound without running water. Despite it all, she’s studying remotely for her master’s degree. It should not take the arrest of a U.S. congressional candidate or a group of rabbis to bring attention to her story. But American media provides little opportunity for Palestinians’ voices to be heard.
The West BankCourtesy Brad Lander
None of the Palestinians I met in the West Bank can vote in this week’s Israeli elections, even though the resulting government controls their lives. I devoutly hope Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party loses, and that a new government will take steps to rein in settler terrorism like this. But neither prospective coalition is promising to stop settlement construction, end ongoing occupation and apartheid or protect the human rights of Palestinians — much less recognize a Palestinian state.
Here in the United States, though, the midterm elections do offer an opportunity to demand change. We are not bystanders to ethnic cleansing in Israel and Palestine: our tax dollars help underwrite it.
In Congress, I will work to end U.S. military aid to Israel while it violates international law and Palestinian human rights. I will support the Stop the Settlements bill to ban trade and impose sanctions on companies who build and bankroll the settlements — something U.K. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband recently announced. I will support recognition of a Palestinian state as U.S. policy. I will work with a broad coalition of American Jewish and Muslim groups that don’t always agree with one another, but who are committed to ending the occupation.
Before I left the West Bank, I spoke with a group of Palestinian high school students at the Talitha Kumi school in Beit Jala. Most speak Arabic, Hebrew, German and excellent English. They experience injustice on a daily basis. Their families can’t vote, but still they told me about their Model UN. They were glad to learn I’m Jewish, and they thanked me for being there. They want a free Palestine, but they also believe in democracy and want to live peacefully alongside Israelis.
Brad Lander with a group of Palestinian high school students at the Talitha Kumi school in Beit Jala.Courtesy Brad Lander
There are, to be sure, many complex issues in resolving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
But don’t let anyone tell you these young people are raised on hatred. That they deserve freedom and opportunity any less than your kids or mine. That it is in any way “democratic” that their families can’t vote. That stealing their land is consistent with Jewish values. That it’s a good use of our tax dollars to fund their subordination. Or that we can’t find partners for peace.
Previously, U.S. Ambassador Waltz urged member states to reject Havana’s annual resolution against the blockade.
On Oct. 27 and 28, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) holds, for the 34th time, a debate and vote on a resolution presented by Cuba titled “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba.”
On Tuesday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the U.S. government of lying “in a crude and permanent manner” to the countries represented at the UNGA.
“With its crude lies at the UNGA, the U.S. government has launched a new desperate attempt to justify its economic aggression against Cuba and its criminal energy blockade,” he said, lashing out at U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz and criticizing his “arrogance and haughtiness.”
“He forgets that he is at the United Nations. He is not at the U.S. National Security Council, in a Green Beret unit, or in a Signal group, where he has repeatedly demonstrated his incompetence and inability,” Rodriguez stated.
The Cuban diplomat said Waltz’s remarks before the General Assembly “are part of a media circus, threats and an election campaign” to which Washington “devotes substantial financial and human resources.”
“There is no justification for maintaining the act of collective punishment to which the Cuban people are subjected,” Rodriguez stressed.
Waltz Seeks to Put a Positive Spin on the U.S. Blockade
During his address, Waltz called on countries to vote against the text presented by Cuba, arguing that doing otherwise would contribute “to the mistreatment of the Cuban people.”
He also accused Cuban authorities of using the annual UN resolutions against the blockade as though they were international endorsements of the revolutionary government.
On Wednesday, more than 30 countries are expected to deliver speeches before the vote on the 34th resolution concerning the blockade against Cuba.
Since 1992, Cuba has presented this nonbinding resolution annually. In 2025, it received 165 votes in favor, seven against and 12 abstentions.
France is gearing up for another round of anti-austerity mobilizations on Saturday, October 31. As the weekend approaches, President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu have still not substantially addressed the protest demands tabled by the student movement.
For the past weeks, students and their organizations have taken to the streets in the hundreds of thousands, denouncing the state of the education sector, including overcrowded classrooms, overworked teachers, and dilapidated buildings. Authorities have responded with a full-blown crackdown – police violence, curfews, and protest bans – while avoiding meaningful conversation about the protests’ causes.
“The authorities’ top priority is to strip the movement of the political meaning it carries: the condemnation of the neoliberal policy that has ruined the French education system,” presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pointed out in a recent interview. “Young people are pulling at the thread of a larger unraveling.”
Government tried to break student unity
Lecornu and his ministers called a meeting with high school and university student groups on Monday, announcing the government was ready to open dialogue on their demands. Yet even before the meetings kicked off, a list of government-proposed measures published by the media only fueled frustration.
These measures included a transparency-oriented reform of the higher education recruitment platform Parcoursup, the creation of 15,000 additional higher education placements, low-interest loans to regional authorities for renovating school infrastructure, and the indexation of grants to inflation.
Students criticized the officials for attempting to set a negotiation agenda before even speaking to them. They also called them out for trying to break their unity by organizing separate meetings with different groups instead of a joint discussion. In this process, they emphasized, crucial voices were left out.
Among others, the Fédération Lycéenne des Quartiers (FLQ), representing high school students from working-class neighborhoods – the demographic group from which the protest wave originated – was not invited to meet Lecornu. Students interpreted this as yet another sign of the government’s failure to grasp what is at stake. “They see us first and foremost as ‘young people from the banlieues,’ rather than young people who, like everyone else, want to make their voices heard,” FLQ’s Soumaya Sarré told Mediapart.
“Crumbs” instead of solutions
The way meetings were set up was not the only problem. Following the publication of the government’s proposals, the university students’ association Union Étudiante described them as “crumbs” and detailed how they fail to address the movement’s concerns.
“There are not 15,000 places missing but at least 250,000,” the organization warned. “Where are those 250,000 places needed for young people who have been denied their right to education because of classist and racist selection?”
Union Étudiante similarly criticized the lack of clarity surrounding proposed financing for infrastructure investment, employment plans, and the promise to “reform” rather than abolish Parcoursup.
Roughly 800,000 people participated in nationwide protests on October 24. Source: Union Étudiante/X
This last demand has become emblematic for the student movement over the past weeks of protest. Young people on the streets have repeatedly explained how the tool allows university selection to maintain racist and classist tones – all while pushing tens of thousands of students without placements toward the private sector.
“We are not asking for a reform that offers more transparency or clarity; we already know how the selection process works, and it will remain unjust even if the selection criteria are made public,” Union Étudiante wrote. “The problem is selection itself. Why should young people be denied the right to pursue higher education? We must abolish all forms of selection while keeping a centralized platform for enrolling in academic programs.”
Mobilizations against racism and the far right
Trade unions and progressive organizations continue to support the students ahead of Saturday’s demonstrations, while building toward a general strike on November 5. The networks remain connected over shared austerity-related problems, linking budget cuts in public services, attacks on pensions, and precarious working conditions.
In between regular nationwide mobilizations, the past few days have also seen significant protests against racism and the far right. After a racist attack in the Trappes working-class suburb of Paris last Friday – where one person was killed and five, including a 12-year-old, were seriously injured – calls are circulating for solidarity assemblies.
“This crime did not come out of nowhere,” wrote Saint-Denis mayor Bally Bagayoko. “For years, the perpetrator blamed ‘Black people and Arabs’ for all his misfortunes.”
“He claimed he wanted to avenge a looting that never actually happened – a piece of false information broadcast on television,” he added.
“This hatred has its architects: those who, hour after hour on the airwaves, designate our neighborhoods as the problem and ‘the other’ as a threat.”
The far-right National Rally – whose program ahead of the 2027 presidential election endorses exactly this vision of “the other” – held its congress in Orléans over the October 24-25 weekend. Approximately 26,000 people joined a local march against the policies endorsed by the party, signaling continuous resistance in the lead-up to the April 2027 presidential election.
Peru’s human rights prosecutors closed the criminal case over the forced sterilizations of thousands of women during Alberto Fujimori’s government, extinguishing charges against 52 former officials despite acknowledging that the mass surgeries amounted to crimes against humanity.
The Fourth Supra-National Criminal Prosecutor’s Office specialized in Human Rights issued Fiscal Provision No. 25 on October 22. The ruling, which runs more than six thousand pages, formally declared the case time-barred and ordered the file closed.
In its decision, the Public Ministry recognized evidence of crimes against humanity and harm suffered by more than 4,000 victims of forced sterilization. Even so, criminal liability was declared extinguished for 52 people, a decision that protects the former officials who designed and implemented the program.
The case was closed under Law 32107, approved in 2024 with the backing of lawmakers allied to former President Alberto Fujimori. The statute imposes strict time limits on the prosecution of crimes against humanity, setting aside the protection those abuses have long held under international treaties.
Under international law, crimes against humanity are not subject to statutes of limitation. Law 32107 introduced a domestic exception to that principle, and its application extinguished the proceedings for all 52 defendants at once.
🚨 La Fiscalía archivó la investigación contra 52 personas por las #EsterilizacionesForzadas durante el gobierno de Alberto Fujimori, entre ellas Alejandro Aguinaga, exministro de Salud y actual senador. Lo más grave: reconoce indicios de crímenes de lesa humanidad, pero declara… pic.twitter.com/dSaeConv1P
Text reads: “The Public Prosecutor’s Office closed the investigation against 52 people for the forced esterilizations during the government of Alberto Fujimori, including Alejandro Aguinaga, former Minister of Health and current senator. Most serious: it recognizes indications of crimes against humanity, but prescribes the crimes by applying a law driven by fujimorismo. Thousands of women are still waiting for justice.”
The law’s application halted the criminal proceedings overnight and favored senior officials who held ministerial posts during the 1990s. Among them is Alejandro Aguinaga Recuenco, who served as Health Minister under Alberto Fujimori’s administration and now holds a Senate seat for the Fuerza Popular party.
The resolution shielding Aguinaga does not conceal the gravity of what occurred. Prosecutors acknowledged that the mass surgical interventions were performed without the free, prior and informed consent of the women affected.
Former Ministers Eduardo Yong Motta and Marino Costa Bauer were also released from the process. According to the document, the operations constituted a widespread and organized practice directed by the State against poor women in rural areas.
The investigation officially covered 4,172 people harmed by serious injuries. Five women lost their lives. Celia Edith Ramos Durand, María Mamérita Mestanza Chávez, Alejandra Aguirre Auccapiña, Reynalda Betalleluz Aguilar and María Genoveva Espínola Otiniano are named in the case file.
Victims Denied Justice
Between 1996 and 2000, more than 272,000 women and 22,000 men were subjected to family planning programs. Pressure, deception and quotas reported by the State to the presidency marked those campaigns, and forced sterilization became official reproductive health policy.
The case ranks among the most emblematic human rights violations of Peru’s 1990s. Its closure shuts down a judicial avenue that had remained open since the first complaints against the state-run birth control program emerged.
In December 2025, the Transitory Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court declined to apply Law 32107 in parallel proceedings to guarantee that investigations could continue. That ruling prompted disciplinary inquiries by the National Board of Justice against the magistrates involved.
The legal wrangling is not over. Parallel investigations have stayed alive under the high court’s stance, but the main case over the program’s architects and executors has now been closed for good.
Nearly three decades after the first allegations, the criminal path has been extinguished. The closure leaves no one criminally accountable for the officials who designed and executed the forced sterilizations. The file now ends under a norm that Peru’s own judiciary had questioned, while the fight over its reach continues.
Paris 2024 Olympic champion Erislandy Álvarez (65 kg) will headline Cuba’s squad for the Guizhou International Boxing Tournament, to be held in China from November 3 to 12.
The Cuban delegation will consist of seven men and six women, according to national commissioner Robinson Poll, as reported by the digital publication Jit.
Álvarez returns to competition following his recovery from a surgical procedure that kept him out of the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo and the recent Continental Championship in Puebla. The 2023 Tashkent World Championship silver medalist leads a team aiming to continue Cuba’s strong performance in this international event.
In the men’s division, alongside Álvarez, the roster includes Ángel Sober (50 kg), Deibys Abreu (55 kg), Rolando Martínez (60 kg), Keilor García (80 kg), Fredisney Morales (90 kg), and Joel Duvergel (+90 kg).
The women’s squad features Dayira Mesa (70 kg)—a champion at the 2026 Santo Domingo Games—as well as bronze medalists from that same regional event: Dinaibys de las Nieves (51 kg), Carysney García (54 kg), Magda Massó (57 kg), and Keilor García (80 kg). Rounding out the team are Melani Girado (60 kg) and Naybel Morado (75 kg).
The text reads, “Erislandy Álvarez to reappear at Guizhou tournament He leads the squad of seven men and six women entered by #Cuba.”
The squad will train under the guidance of coaches Julián González Cedeño, Fermín Espinoza, and Yuri Echevarría. In the previous edition of the tournament, Cuba secured three gold titles—won by Saidel Horta (57 kg), Jorge Cuéllar (71 kg), and Nelson Williams (92 kg)—along with two bronze medals, earned by Arianne Imbert (66 kg) and Yoana Rodríguez (75 kg).
The 2026 Guizhou International Boxing Tournament marks the competitive return of Erislandy Álvarez and offers a new opportunity for Cuban boxing to achieve international success in China.
#Cuba | Cuba is moving forward with reforms to give state-owned enterprises greater autonomy, attract investment, and boost production amid energy shortages and US sanctions. The measures aim to modernize the economy while preserving public control of strategic sectors.… pic.twitter.com/DUCF3XxafR
If there’s one story MSNOW’s Rachel Maddow is known for, it’s her tenacious, years-long focus on a broad theory that Trump is a compromised agent of Russian intelligence installed by Russia via a shady patchwork of direct funding, loose connections, opaque meetings, election interference, Facebook ads, innuendo, and genuinely strange behaviors. From 2016 to 2025, Maddow mentionedRussia 6,126 times on her primetime program The Rachel Maddow Show.
This analysis isn’t a commentary on the validity of the “Russiagate” story, as such. I think it was inflated, and served the ends of some of the worst elements in the US security state, but there was certainly an element of truth to it. (Trump is brazenly venal, and would presumably take bribes from anyone). At the same time, the conspiracy mongering veered into Loose Change territory and was, ultimately, contradicted by Trump’s own policies which—while rhetorically critical of Ukraine—have largely continued to arm and support the country in its four-year-and-a-half war against Russia’s aggression.
The state of Israel is running what could very well be construed as GOTV commercials for the Republican Party during an election season.
What’s noteworthy is less that Maddow has covered Trump’s connections with Russia, and the associated seemingly weekly breathless developments. It’s that, over the past two years in particular, she has very conspicuously avoided a major story about another country influencing domestic politics in service of Trump and a pernicious reactionary agenda: that of Israel’s influence over the president, and its broader attempts to influence politics in the US. A report in Zeteo last week details how Israel is directly funding ads in swing states that not only advertise Israel’s alleged security benefits to the US, but show images of Trump’s 250 year celebration, the White House, and Trump’s ambassador to Israel, painting them in a heroic light. In other words: the state of Israel is running what could very well be construed as GOTV commercials for the Republican Party during an election season.
This is, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. A Quincy Institute report in June calculated $1 billion in influence operations since 2023 directly backed by the state of Israel targeting the American public via lobbyists, TV ads, media campaigns, AI output-altering fake websites, propaganda delegations, building “business ties” with Silicon Valley, and a host of other, more opaque efforts. Israel’s attempt to influence US politics has exploded in recent years, and this is just what is disclosed:
And all of this is one top of the decades-long multibillion dollar informal network of pro-Israel propaganda groups like the Anti Defemation League (ADL), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Christians United for Israel (CUFI), organizations largely funded by American donors with ideological commitments to Israel, though not directly by the state of Israel. These groups frequently align messaging with and coordinate with the Israeli government, but there was always a thin veneer of plausible deniability. These latest efforts are not even bothering to maintain this veneer: Israel is, increasingly, directly funding influence operations—many of which have explicit ties to the Trump White House. Indeed, Trump has taken the unusual step of openly endorsing Netanyahu in his upcoming election, and several of Trump’s advisors, including his own son-in-law, are heavily invested in Israeli companies. His former campaign manager Brad Parscale literally runs one of the aforementioned Israeli influence operations. Put another way: Trump’s “ties” to Israel and the influence the state of Israel has over Trump is far better documented, much clearer, and much more consequential than any ties he has or ever had to Russia.
Yet Maddow only covers one of these angles.
Maddow rarely talks about Israel in general—much less its influence over Trump. And, on the rare occasion she does, it’s safely within the confines of “Netanyahu Bad/Israel Good” or “Netanyahu wants Trump to win the election” safe pseudo-criticism. As Mondoweiss’ Michael Arria noted in 2021, even before Oct. 7, 2023, Maddow understood how avoiding the topic would benefit her burgeoning career, mentioning Israel only six times from 2011 to 2021 in over 2,000 shows. As I document in my book on liberal media’s role in helping destory Gaza, How To Sell a Genocide, Maddow largely avoided the subject in the first year of the Gaza genocide, and didn’t mention it at all for seven of the first twelve weeks of the Gaza assault, despite over 3,000 Palestinians being killed a week by American bombs. And when she did bring up Gaza, unlike her broad, deep, and sympathetic portrayal of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine, Maddow’s coverage was superficial and hurried. The one major exception among MSNBC primetime stars who did have the courage to center Palestine as something more than a box to check, Joy Ann Reid, was subsequently fired for what she says was her coverage of the genocide.
Trump’s “ties” to Israel and the influence the state of Israel has over Trump is far better documented, much clearer, and much more consequential than any ties he has or ever had to Russia.
The most Orwellian moment of Maddow’s conspicuous silence on Israel was when she did a long, detailed segment on foreign powers’ influence on Trump’s attack on Iran on the first day of the bombing, entitled “Follow the money.” To kick off the segment, Maddow bizarrely handwaved away Israel’s involvement, telling her viewers, “There’s a lot of attention on Israel, and indeed Israel and the United States have worked together in the bombing campaign… but it is the Gulf Arab states that are arrayed against Iran.” She then proceeded to pin the nefarious influence entirely on “Gulf Arab states, countries like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in Qatar.” This isn’t to say these countries don’t unduly influence the Trump clan—this is well documented—but their influence is relatively small compared to that of Israel and the Trump family connection with Israel and pro-Israel donors and it’s not particularly close.
Maddow’s defenders could argue that the major difference is that Israel is an “ally” of the US, whereas Russia isn’t. But, despite the fact that the majority of Americans do not agree with this sentiment in the normative sense, the “Gulf Arab states” Maddow accuses of corrupting Trump are also US allies, so this is obviously not the reason. The real reason is that she knows discussing the elephant in the room of Israeli influence over both Trump and US body politic more broadly would pretty much spell the end of her career, as it did with Reid and, to a lesser degree, other MSNBC/MSNOW personalities that were demoted or pushed out after October 7 for having the temerity to veer off the safe script of pseudo-criticisms of Israel. As I also document in my book, the first, last, and only time MSNBC/MSNOW’s parent corporation (then Comcast) directly intervened in MSNBC/MSNOW’s coverage was to dress down network executives for letting anchors Ayman Mohyeldin and Ali Velshi attempt to contextualize the October 7 on the day of the attack. Saying anything meaningfully critical of Israel would also compromise Maddow’s access to high status arch-zionists like Hillary Clinton, with whom Maddow is doing an event in two weeks at the pro-Israel Streicker Center. Whatever the reason, the liberal media personality who built her large, intense media following sowing paranoid visions of dark, reactionary foreign influence operations is clearly determined to not mention the most brazen, obvious, and deleterious one.
Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn't MSNOW's “foreign influence” sleuth covering it?
The vote for the 26th Knesset serves as a crucial referendum on the state’s institutions, economy, and military strategy.
The legislative elections for the 26th Knesset, the legislative power, take place at a critical political crossroads for Israel. Scheduled as the first parliamentary contest since the outbreak of hostilities against Gaza following the events of October 7, 2023, these elections serve as a national referendum on the governance model of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The outgoing 25th Knesset became the first Israeli legislature since 1988 to complete its full four-year term without early dissolution, surviving despite severe domestic turmoil, mass protests over judicial reforms, and persistent coalition instability.
However, the upcoming vote occurs under international scrutiny and severe domestic polarization. Official data from the Israeli Central Elections Committee shows the number of ballots needed across the country to fill all 120 seats in parliament.
Political analysts note that the campaign reflects deep fractures within Israeli society regarding military strategy, economic priorities, and the future shape of the state’s institutional structure.
Social and Geopolitical Context of the 2026 Elections
The socio-political environment surrounding the current electoral moment is marked by the prolonged attacks on Gaza and wider regional escalations involving Lebanon and Iran.
These conflicts have heavily strained the Israeli economy, accelerated militarization across public life, and deepened existing social divides.
Economic pressures, driven by soaring military expenditures and disruptions across key industrial sectors due to a labor crisis resulting from the movement of Palestinians, the trade blockade, and the brain drain, have intensified Israeli public debate concerning state budgets and resource allocation.
Simultaneously, domestic divisions have intensified around long-standing structural issues, most notably the military conscription exemptions granted to the ultra-Orthodox Haredi population, generating coalition crises and widespread friction between secular citizens and religious factions.
On the diplomatic front, the state faces unprecedented international isolation, underscored by ongoing proceedings at the International Court of Justice and arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, former Israeli Defense Minister, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Despite mounting global pressure and civil society accountability campaigns, the political establishment continues to rely heavily on strategic diplomatic and military backing from Western allies, maintaining an insular focus on security doctrines as voters head to the polls.
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The Electoral System: Proportional Representation and Coalition Dynamics
Israel uses a closed-list nationwide proportional representation system to elect the 120 members of the Knesset. The entire country forms a single electoral district.
Voters select a political party slate rather than individual constituency representatives. To gain representation in parliament, a party list must clear an electoral threshold of 3.25 percent of the total valid votes.
Because no political party in Israeli history has ever won an absolute majority of 61 seats on its own, every administration requires a multi-party governing coalition.
Following the Central Elections Committee, official vote tallies determine seat allocations using the d’Hondt method, which allocates parliamentary seats among the various candidate lists based on the votes received.
Parties frequently enter formal surplus vote-sharing agreements before election day to capture remaining unallocated seats.
Once results are certified, the President of Israel holds consultations with elected party leaders before tasking a chosen candidate, typically the head of the largest faction or coalition bloc, with forming a government within a 28-day timeframe.
This framework gives smaller sectoral and single-issue parties significant leverage during post-election negotiations. Far-right, religious, and nationalist slates often demand key ministerial posts, policy concessions, or budget allocations in exchange for their critical coalition votes.
Political analysts note that institutional features of the system, combined with state policies, impact electoral participation among Palestinian citizens of Israel. Electoral threshold adjustments and legal challenges against Arab-led party slates continuously shape voter turnout in Palestinian municipalities.
While Palestinian citizens account for roughly 20 percent of the population, their representative parties face ongoing systemic exclusion from executive coalition agreements, restricting their influence within the parliamentary framework.
As Arab voter turnout rises, Israel’s far-right leaders are sounding the alarm. War criminal Netanyahu accused “supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood” of raiding polling stations and “stealing the elections,” saying Israel is “in a war for the home.”
The candidate field for the 26th Knesset reflects a fragmented political landscape divided into distinct ideological camps, which we will detail:
The Right-Wing and Religious Coalition
• Likud: Led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ruling party centers its platform on national defense, state security, and maintaining its long-standing parliamentary dominance.
• Otzma Yehudit: Headed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, this far-right faction advocates for expanded settlements, strict law-and-order policies, and hardline security measures.
• Religious Zionist Party–Zehut: Led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich alongside Moshe Feiglin, this nationalist alliance focuses on West Bank administration, land policies, and conservative social programs.
• Ultra-Orthodox Parties: Shas, led by Aryeh Deri, and United Torah Judaism (UTJ), led by Yitzhak Goldknopf, prioritize state funding for religious institutions and maintaining draft exemptions for Haredi seminary students.
The Opposition Alliances
• Together (Beyachad): A political alliance formed by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid. The joint platform focuses on institutional stability, economic reform, and governance changes.
• Yashar: A new political movement launched by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot. The party presents a technocratic platform focused on national security, military management, and state administration.
• Yisrael Beiteinu: Headed by Avigdor Lieberman, this right-wing secular nationalist party focuses on mandatory military conscription for all demographic groups and civic policy reforms.
• The Democrats: Formed through the merger of the Labor and Meretz parties under the leadership of former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan, this unified center-left party emphasizes judicial independence and social-democratic domestic policies.
Arab-Majority Parties
• Joint List: Re-established by Hadash, Ta’al, and Balad under the leadership of Yousef Jabareen, the alliance campaigns on civil rights equality, an end to house demolitions, legal recognition for unrecognized Bedouin villages, and opposition to military occupations.
• United Arab List (Ra’am): Led by Mansour Abbas, this pragmatic Islamist faction focuses on securing municipal development funds, infrastructure investments, and crime-reduction programs for Arab communities.
Netanyahu: Governance Record, Systemic Corruption, and Legal Jeopardy
Benjamin Netanyahu, with more than 15 years, is the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israel. Netanyahu governance has consistently centered on maintaining military administration over occupied Palestinian territories, expanding West Bank settlements, and privatizing state assets.
Netanyahu administrations restructured national tax policies, deregulated key economic sectors, and prioritized defense spending over social welfare initiatives. Netanyahu’s political trajectory remains deeply entwined with ongoing legal proceedings across both domestic and international courts. In domestic tribunals, he faces active criminal charges across three separate indictments known as Cases 1000, 2000, and 4000.
– Case 1000 involves charges of fraud and breach of trust regarding allegations that he received expensive gifts from wealthy business figures in exchange for political favors.
– Case 2000 includes fraud and breach of trust charges related to negotiations with media publishers to secure favorable press coverage in return for legislation restricting competing news outlets.
– Case 4000 contains the most severe charges, bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, alleging that Netanyahu granted regulatory concessions to telecom giant Bezeq in exchange for positive coverage on the Walla news platform.
Netanyahu consistently denies all allegations, maintaining that the investigations represent a politically motivated campaign by law enforcement authorities. In early 2023, his government introduced a major judicial reform initiative designed to restructure judicial appointments and limit Supreme Court oversight over executive decisions.
Opposition figures and legal experts argued that these proposals aimed to undermine judicial independence and stall his ongoing trial, prompting widespread domestic protests and deep institutional instability.
On the international stage, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, determining that reasonable grounds exist to hold him criminally responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The court cited specific charges, including the deliberate use of starvation as a method of warfare and intentional attacks directed against civilian populations.
Although the Israeli government rejects the jurisdiction of the tribunal, the warrants impose severe diplomatic constraints and travel limitations on Netanyahu across states parties to the Rome Statute.
Voter turnout in Israeli elections as of 16:00 GMT surpassed all votes cast in the 2022, as per data released by the Central Elections Committee.
The final distribution of seats in the 120-member Knesset will determine whether the incumbent coalition or opposition alliances secure the 61-seat majority required to govern.
If the right-wing and religious coalition retains power under Netanyahu’s leadership, the administration is expected to immediately revive paused judicial reform packages to restructure judicial selection processes and restrict legal oversight of executive actions.
Under this outcome, state policy would focus on expanding West Bank settlement infrastructure, maintaining long-term military control over Gaza, and preserving military conscription exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox population to maintain internal coalition stability.
Alternatively, if an opposition alliance formed by figures such as Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, or Yair Lapid captures a parliamentary majority, executive authority would shift toward institutional stabilization. An opposition-led government would likely halt proposed judicial overhauls, reinstate traditional oversight mechanisms, and launch official state inquiries into military and intelligence failures.
Regarding military service, an opposition government would attempt to implement universal conscription policies that include Haredi citizens, a move likely to provoke significant resistance from religious sectors.
Striped of executive protections, Netanyahu’s domestic criminal trials would proceed without executive delays, while international legal pressures stemming from International Criminal Court warrants would remain active.
In the event that neither political bloc achieves a clear 61-seat threshold, the Knesset would enter a state of severe parliamentary deadlock. Under Israeli electoral law, Netanyahu would remain in power as caretaker Prime Minister while political factions negotiate prospective coalition agreements or initiate procedures for new legislative elections, extending the prevailing political uncertainty.
Sources: TeleSUR – Al Jazeera – Al Mayadeen – Press Tv – Anadolu Agency – TRT World – RT – The Times of Israel – Reporteros Sin Fronteras – BBC – DW – EFE – AP News – AFP
Sessantaquattro anni dopo la morte di Enrico Mattei, l’Italia paga il gasolio oltre 2,26 euro e non decide più nulla sul proprio petrolio. A Levante questa sera, 27 ottobre 2026, Margherita Furlan dialoga con Nino Galloni, economista; Mario Apicella, agronomo e direttore tecnico di AltragricolturaBio; Vincenzo Maddaloni, giornalista. Mattei raccontava di un gattino ucciso dai grossi cani attorno alla ciotola: l’Italia era il gattino, il petrolio la ciotola, le sette sorelle i cani. Il 27 ottobre 1962 il suo aereo cadde a Bascapè: la magistratura ha accertato il sabotaggio, mai i responsabili. Affrontiamo insieme: L’eredità di Mattei: l’Eni, l’accordo con l’Iran del 1957, il greggio sovietico, il Piano Mattei di oggi tra memoria e propaganda. Il caro carburanti: gasolio a 2,261 e benzina a 2,017 euro al litro, Brent sopra 115 dollari, e un governo che dichiara «superata» l’emergenza. La protesta degli agricoltori: trattori a Montecitorio e in Valdichiana, olio pagato sottocosto, latte a pochi centesimi, il tavolo al Mit e lo sciopero del 30 ottobre. Israele al voto: le prime elezioni dopo il 7 ottobre, Netanyahu contro Eisenkot, e la coalizione che piacerebbe a Washington. Cosa significa, oggi, un’Italia che decide da sé. CASA DEL SOLE TV | Informazione libera e indipendente Casa del Sole TV non ha editori privati né finanziamenti pubblici: siamo sostenuti da voi, il nostro pubblico. 35.000 euro entro il 29/11/26 DONA ORA Dona tramite bonifico bancario: IBAN IT63P0326822300052392596590, intestato a LA CASA DEL SOLE EDIZIONI, causale Erogazione liberale Casa del Sole TV Dona tramite PayPal: paypal.me/casadelsoletv Sostegno ricorrente: casadelsole.tv/sostienici Membership YouTube: Analista Multipolare €5/mese, Inviato della Verità €15/mese, Architetto del Futuro €25/mese Anche un piccolo contributo fa la differenza. Grazie di cuore! I LIBRI DI MARGHERITA FURLAN BRICS Scacco Matto (disponibile in italiano, inglese, russo) SEGUI CASA DEL SOLE TV YouTube: @CasadelSoleTVChannel Sito: casadelsole.tv #Levante#CasadelSoleTV#MargheritaFurlan#Geopolitica#Multipolarismo#EnricoMattei#NinoGalloni#Petrolio#CaroCarburanti#Agricoltori#ElezioniIsraele
Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will receive a monthly compensation of R$ 17,562.80—equivalent to approximately 3,200 US dollars—as financial reparation for the political persecution, illegal detentions, and physical and psychological torture she endured during Brazil’s military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985.
The measure was published this Tuesday, October 27, in the Official Gazette of the Federal Government (in Portuguese Diario Oficial da União) and follows a final ruling by the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF1).
The resolution was issued by Brazil’s Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. In addition to the permanent monthly payment, the ministry calculated retroactive payments totaling R$ 6,616,492.19 for the period recognized by the judiciary, with financial effects dating back to October 21, 1997. Any amounts previously received by Rousseff as reparation must be deducted from this total.
The monthly payment was calculated based on the salary scales for professionals at the former Foundation for Economics and Statistics of Rio Grande do Sul (FEE)—a state-linked institution where Rousseff worked as an economist prior to her arrest. The reparation acknowledges the loss of her employment with that foundation as a consequence of political persecution during the military regime.
This month marks 60 years since Brazil's military coup ushered in 21 years of US-backed, authoritarian dictatorship. This weekend people came out to protest the amnesty law which protects military torturers & murderers from prosecution. My story @telesurenglish#23MSemAnistiapic.twitter.com/cxISd0tpQi
The judicial decision, issued in December 2025, mandated that the former president receive a permanent, ongoing monthly allowance, based on the remuneration for the position she held before her arrest. This new resolution replaces a previous measure from August 2025, which had established a one-time compensation payment of R$ 100,000.
Dilma Rousseff was detained in 1970, at the age of 22, for her involvement in a resistance organization against the Brazilian military dictatorship. During her captivity, she was subjected to physical and psychological torture and spent nearly three years in prison. The judicial system acknowledged that she had been persecuted and prevented from working from the day of her arrest until October 21, 1997.
The former president was a member of the Armed Revolutionary Vanguard Palmares (Vanguardia Armada Revolucionaria Palmares), a group that opposed the military regime. Financial reparation is a measure provided for under Brazilian law for individuals recognized as victims of political persecution during that period.
Rousseff joined the Workers’ Party (PT) in 1999, and four years later, she was appointed as a minister by then-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In January 2011, Lula handed the presidential sash to her following her electoral victory with 56.01% of the vote, making her the first female president in the history of Brazil.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has secured a fourth term with 51.77% of the valid vote, marking a decisive moment in Brazil’s political landscape.
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In una giornata vissuta nell’attesa dei risultati delle elezioni in Israele, a tenere banco nella politica interna è la legge di bilancio che domani alle 15 dovrebbe essere approvata in Consiglio dei Ministri, ma soprattutto la data delle elezioni, che si sta trasformando in un rebus nel quale ogni ipotesi è valida. “Radiochigi” nelle ultime ore sembrava propendere per una data: 23 maggio, accorpando le Amministrative (Milano, Torino, Roma, Napoli, Bologna ecc.) alle Politiche.
Si tratterebbe dunque di anticipare, seppur di poco, la scadenza naturale del mandato (fine settembre). Il condizionale è d’obbligo, non soltanto per ragioni costituzionali (lo scioglimento delle camere è prerogativa del Presidente della Repubblica), ma perché sull’anticipo, più che sulla data in sé, è necessario trovare l’accordo con gli alleati. E su questo la linea Meloni si scontra con quella di Tajani e soprattutto Salvini. “Se si vota a maggio la vedo molto complicata per l’autonomia differenziata”, insorge il ministro Roberto Calderoli. “L’autonomia sia un pilastro del governo”, rincara la dose Luca Zaia incalzando Salvini. Il ragionamento è semplice: se si vota a maggio non ci sono i tempi per approvare l’autonomia differenziata da parte del Parlamento e dunque meglio votare a settembre/ottobre, a scadenza naturale.
A maggior ragione dopo il congresso di Milano che ha nuovamente incoronato Salvini, consegnandogli però una linea precisa da tenere, quella di approvare l’autonomia, appunto. Il ragionamento che si fa dalle parti di Palazzo Chigi, invece, tende a votare alla prima data ragionevolmente possibile, per due motivi: il primo è evitare il logoramento di una campagna elettorale lunghissima, le avvisaglie della quale già si vedono nelle ultime settimane; il secondo è che prima si vota, meno rischi di bocciatura della legge elettorale da parte della Consulta ci sarebbero. Il secondo punto è però controverso. E’ vero che il famoso Porcellum (la legge elettorale del 2005 con la quale si votò nel 2006, 2008 e 2013) fu bocciato soltanto nel 2014, ma è pur vero che sullo Stabilicum pendono già 25 ricorsi, e la prima udienza, del tribunale di Trento, risulta già calendarizzata per il 16 dicembre, con conseguente sentenza della Corte Costituzionale che potrebbe arrivare già a gennaio ‘27.
Che cosa accadrebbe in questo caso con una sentenza sfavorevole allo Stabilicum? Probabilmente la Corte potrebbe dichiarare la legge elettorale parzialmente illegittima, con conseguente probabile espunzione della parte riguardante il premio di maggioranza. Un bel caos. Eppure dalle parti di via della Scrofa c’è un moderato ottimismo. I sondaggi danno Fratelli d’Italia stabilmente a ridosso del 30%, come scrive anche Affaritaliani, Vannacci sembra aver arrestato la corsa e il Campo largo deve barcamenarsi tra le Primarie e gli imbarazzi del tema sicurezza, compresi gli scontri di piazza delle scorse settimane. Tra gli scontri, lo sciopero generale di venerdì prossimo, gli esiti elettorali a sorpresa in Brasile e l’attesa per le elezioni in Israele e per quelle di midterm negli Stati Uniti, è decisamente un autunno caldo.
Una nueva zona para montar en 'skate' o hacer BMX. La Junta de Gobierno Local (JGL) del Ayuntamiento de Majadahonda aprobó el pasado viernes el proyecto de ejecución de obras para la construcción de un 'skatepark' y un 'pumptrack' en la ciudad. Este tendrá un presupuesto total superior a los 438.000 euros, según el consistorio del municipio de la zona noroeste.
El proyecto se va a ejecutar sobre la esquina sureste de la Avenida Rey Juan Carlos I, en dirección hacia la Avenida Príncipe de Asturias y en una superficie de aproximadamente 5.500 metros cuadrados al aire libre. Además, el plazo de ejecución estimado va a ser de seis meses desde el inicio de las obras, las cuales todavía no tienen una fecha prevista.
Las labores van a permitir crear un espacio deportivo público dedicado a la práctica de deportes urbanos como el skate, BMX o el scooter como "respuesta a una demanda creciente a raíz de la consolidación de algunas de estas disciplinas a nivel olímpico", según afirma el consistorio. Cabe destacar que tanto la bici de cross como el monopatinaje son deportes olímpicos que formarán parte de la programación de los Juegos Olímpicos de Los Ángeles 2028.
Una zona para avanzados y otra para novatos
El recinto va a aprovechar las pendientes naturales de la parcela y se va a dividir en dos zonas. La primera es un 'skatepark', con un 'bowl', el cual es una estructura cóncava diseñada para patinar sobre curvas e impulsarse sin necesidad de tocar el suelo con los pies, y estará orientado principalmente a la disciplina del BMX.
Por otra parte, habrá un espacio dedicado especialmente a los novatos, puesto que está pensado para usuarios principiantes con un circuito de modalidad 'street' y obstáculos de baja dificultad. Además, este tendrá un 'pumptrack', que es un circuito cerrado de asfalto con dos rectas perimetrales y una zona central con curvas, sumadas al acceso desde las rampas en los extremos, que será utilizado por los niños de 12 años. Estas instalaciones estarán interrelacionadas entre sí, generando líneas de patinaje fluidas.
El perímetro se va a completar con un vallado perimetral metálico para el control de accesos, una zona común y una entrada principal, así como con un aparcamiento para bicicletas y una zona de vegetación con arbustos, césped o árboles. De acuerdo a las palabras del Ayuntamiento, el proyecto "cumple de forma estricta con las correspondientes normativas de seguridad nacionales e internacionales, así como las exigencias de accesibilidad para espacios públicos".
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety released bodycam footage from the police officers involved in the deadly shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley in June. The Mississippi Attorney General had previously ruled the use of force as "justified." At the time of publication, Daily Mail (Lean Right bias) was the only coverage from the right AllSides found addressing the new footage, though other right outlets did cover the "justified" ruling.
The Details: Kohen Wiley was shot and killed in a car with his mother and aunt, who were accused of shoplifting from Walmart and were fleeing in their vehicle. Newly released footage shows both store security footage and film from the officers' body cams. The video shows five officers running towards the car with guns drawn as they yelled for the driver to stop. The officers were on the right side of the vehicle as it reversed into another car in the parking lot before pulling forward and turning left. Four gunshots can be heard as the car passed by the officer.
For Context: Officers we called to the Walmart because of calls about shoplifting, though Kohen Wiley's mother nor his aunt, the other two women in the car with him, were never charged. On October 19, Breitbart (Right)reported that the Mississippi Attorney General's office announced that it found the use of force justified, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said that Wiley's aunt drove towards and struck one of the officers. The officer who fired the fatal shots resigned from his position, though he was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. His lawyer said, "The driver of the vehicle was attempting to kill those 5 officers, and Hunter Foster had no choice but to discharge his weapon."
How the Media Covered It: The footage was covered more heavily by the left and center, with little-to-no coverage from the right found outside the Daily Mail. The Intercept (Left) wrote that the cop "was not in danger" when he fired the shots and claimed that the officer "positioned himself in front of the vehicle" and fired shots after the vehicle passed him and "posed no threat." BBC (Center) included Wiley's family's response that the shooting was not justified and their lawyer's statement that the allegation of shoplifting "does not warrant the death" of a child. It also noted that the Walmart security footage appears to show that one officer was near the front of the moving vehicle when the other officer opened fire.
For Context: Shortly after the Witkoff-Putin meeting ended, Zelenskyy spoke with Fox News (Right bias) host Brian Kilmeade and said he would accept freezing the conflict along the current lines of control as the first step towards diplomacy and developing a peace plan.
Latest Terms: In an opinion from The Economist (Left), the outlet claimed: "Ukrainian officials lack full details of the latest proposals, but the outline is familiar." The Economist said there would be a demilitarized zone in Donbas, US-Russia business deals, the lifting of sanctions, an investment package for Ukraine, and EU membership in exchange for abandoning its NATO ambitions. It added that the "newest sweetener" is "an offer to restart Russian gas sales to Europe," which are planned to be completely finished by the end of the year. The reported details were mentioned in commentary on X and Ukrainian media, though it remains unclear how much of the information was recently confirmed by The Economist.
Looking Forward: Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov spoke on Russian state television on Sunday, offering further updates on the status of negotiations. Hungarian Conservative (Lean Right)highlighted that he confirmed the US, Ukraine, and Russia will hold trilateral negotiations on November 4. Trilateral negotiations have long been something Ukraine has pushed for, but Putin has rejected. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy also confirmed the trilateral talks. The Washington Times (Lean Right)highlighted that Ushakov believes the European Union should play a bigger role in them than it has so far.
Failed 2023 Effort: Over the weekend, The Financial Times (Center) published a nearly 5,500-word report that chronicled the 2023 back-channel peace efforts of a few influential private citizens. The report claimed a deal was floated to Putin at the beginning of 2023 that he partially agreed to. Russia would withdraw its forces to pre-2022 lines of control, Ukraine would recognize Russian control of Crimea and grant Russia a corridor to access it from eastern Ukraine, Ukraine would get NATO defense guarantees, and Russia would open negotiations with the US on separate security guarantees. Putin reportedly told former East German spy Matthias Warnig, "If we can agree on the border and on NATO, then we can discuss everything else."
Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky reportedly "could barely get" Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and his top adviser Andriy Yermak to look at the proposal, as they were adamant about not giving up territory. Reportedly, according to Putin, the Biden administration did not consider the backchannel legitimate and believed its own diplomatic channels with the Kremlin were sufficient. FT said "former US officials" offered a different account and said Ushakov never mentioned the backchannel in official communications. FT said that Putin's demands have since "ballooned" and that the backchannel participants "believe the US and Ukraine missed a potential opportunity to secure peace on far more favourable terms than Putin is now willing to entertain."
FT Reporting Confirmed: A few days after FT's report, Ukrainian member of parliament Oleksiy Goncharenko confirmed the peace proposal's authenticity and contents and added more context. Goncharenko said Russia would have forfeited "300 billion in frozen assets" for the reconstruction of Ukraine, Ukraine would have adopted a law that made reconquering Crimea via invasion illegal, and that Zelenskyy rejected the deal.
The Details: The hearing was spurred by an appeal by the Trump administration claiming that a district judge did not act on the matter quickly enough to address the allegations of roughly 20,000 potential noncitizen voters on California's voter rolls. Two out of the three judges on the panel were critical of the Trump administration's emergency effort to set aside thousands of California's mail-in ballots tied to alleged noncitizens. The judges questioned the legal arguments provided by the government and whether the court has jurisdiction to make a ruling considering the Constitution's Elections Clause, which states that state legislatures have authority over the times, places and manner of congressional elections, subject to congressional regulation.
'Trickle Of Prosecutions': Outlets on the left like MS Now (Left bias) and ABC News (Lean Left)tended to highlight officials saying that a preliminary analysis of the 20,000 names showed 200 of the names having "a high percentage" of being citizens. MS Now also highlighted the recent arrests of 28 people on the 20,000-name list, saying these 28 cases "represent just over one-tenth of 1% of the 20,000 'likely noncitizens' who DHS claims are registered to vote in California." According to the article, MS Now reviewed the charging documents that have been made public, revealing that "some of the election-related charges loudly touted by DOJ officials in press conferences and on social media appear to have been quietly dropped." MS Now also compared the "trickle of prosecutions" to the nationwide numbers, saying that while the administration is "portraying noncitizen voting as a civil right epidemic," the numbers remain low.
'Already In Jeopardy': Outlets on the right like The New York Post (Right) tended to highlight the urgency behind the issue, saying that "Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor fears noncitizens could be illegally casting ballots in California as dozens of polling places opened across LA County Saturday," adding that he warns "the state could be trying to run out the clock before disputed votes are counted." The First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli also said it is "very highly likely" that the California elections are "already in jeopardy" as "noncitizens have already voted." According to Essayli, the "biggest fear is they're just going to try to run out the clock until all the ballots have been processed, in which case there will be nothing we'll be able to do after the election," explaining that "Once they count the ballots, there's no way to go back and undo that."
CBS News (Lean Left bias) and the Trump administration have offered different accounts of a recent deportation involving a Malian immigrant in Texas.
60 Minutes Segment: Moussa Diawara, 57, lived in Texas for about 25 years before being deported to Ghana in July. He told CBS's 60 Minutes that shortly after arriving in Ghana, Ghanaian officials detained him and forced him onto a flight to Mali where he became homeless and was left without money or identification. According to CBS, Diawara feared persecution in Mali due to his Christian religion. It also reported that documents issued to Moussa by the Department of Homeland Security during his deportation, including luggage tags and a medical form, listed Mali as the destination.
Asylum Application: DHS countered these reports and said Moussa claimed to be gay in his asylum application and that he feared being persecuted for his sexual orientation if he was sent back to Mali. Fox News (Right) reporter, Brooke Taylor, shared Moussa's asylum application on X where he had written, "When I became teenager…I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls" and "Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without an embarrassment no reserve." Moussa had also written in the application that his situation had "worsened" when he switched to Christianity. The Trump administration also said that the tags were produced by contractors at the detention facility Moussa was at and the medical form's destination entry was a clerical error.
For Context: Moussa came to the US when he was 32 on a tourist visa. He overstayed his visa and filed for asylum. In 2012, a US immigration judge ruled that Diawara could be deported but that he couldn't be sent to Mali because he'd likely face persecution. While in the US, Moussa married a woman and had two children.
How the Media Covered It: CBS often described Moussa as "a Texas dad" and framed the instance as an outcome of poor immigration policies and bad execution from the Trump administration. It quoted Moussa describing his detention in Ghana as "kidnapping" and included criticism from immigration attorneys and Democratic lawmakers. James Percival, the seventh general counsel of DHS, said Moussa's claim showed just "how bad the immigration fraud problem is." Washington Examiner (Lean Right) focused on the Trump administration's response to the 60 Minutes segment.
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