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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to an 1868 federal law that bars distilling spirits at home, after two appeals courts reached opposite answers. Behind the whiskey question is a larger one about how far Congress's taxing power reaches.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and more than 100 elected officials have sent a letter asking private parking lot owners not to make their property available to federal immigration agents. The Department of Homeland Security says ICE operations will continue.
The NFL says the Oct. 25 Steelers-Saints game at Stade de France will go ahead as scheduled, after mass protests in France that the BBC, as relayed by Front Office Sports, said brought at least 1,200 arrests. The league's statement reached us through Front Office Sports and ESPN.
A 24-year-old from Clearwater, Kansas, is charged with threatening the president over Facebook comments that allegedly said he wanted to shoot Trump and had mapped out roofs near his Wichita speech. Everything in the case so far is allegation, drawn from secondary reports of the complaint.
President Trump gave Benjamin Netanyahu his full endorsement on Sunday, nine days before Israel votes, and in the same post said America would have to do the work in Iran itself if Israel had a different leader.
Treasury told Fox Business that a FinCEN review found about $270 million in suspicious activity possibly tied to student aid fraud, and that the findings went to federal investigators. No suspects, charges or confirmed losses have been made public.
Kristi Noem marked South Dakota's pheasant opener with a photo of herself, a rifle and a dog named Foster. The post drew 2.2 million views on X by Saturday afternoon, per Newsweek, and thousands of comments pointing back to the dog she wrote about shooting.
The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries both left the court for the national anthem before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals and jogged back right after it ended. No team or league statement explains the exit.
Barack Obama, in a social media post as reproduced by CNN, said the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on Rep. Ilhan Omar. President Trump says the matter is up to the Justice Department, and Omar has not been charged.
President Trump signed an order suspending many provisions of the Russia sanctions law he signed in September, saying he is negotiating peace. Ukraine's president calls siding with Putin a historic mistake.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Trump's waiver of a Russia sanctions law on Meet the Press, saying the only thing lifted was the embargo on Russian diesel. Zelensky and members of Congress have criticized the waiver, and whether a waiver amounts to lifting sanctions is contested.
California voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to levy a one-time 5% surtax on billionaires' wealth, with most of the money going to healthcare. The New York Post reports that Gov. Gavin Newsom is among the opponents, though that detail could not be independently confirmed.
