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TDFP News Roundup 10/8/26
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Trump says US will not attack Iran before midterm elections:
President Trump said his administration is “having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran” and vowed that “we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections,” the New York Post reported Thursday. Trump said the blockade “will remain in full force and effect,” and his Truth Social post came after an Atlantic report claimed he had been weighing strikes before the Nov. 3 vote.
Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi airports kill at least three:
Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen claimed responsibility Thursday for a ballistic missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, while Saudi officials said the airport in Abha was also hit, Breitbart News reported. Saudi authorities said three civilians were killed and 36 wounded across the two cities, and the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted several missiles and destroyed a Houthi launch platform near Sanaa.
72 arrested as Israel’s ISA exposes terror network in southern Israel:
Israel’s Security Agency revealed a series of terror investigations in the Negev, including five Bedouin residents of Segev Shalom who allegedly planned an armed cell modeled on Palestinian terror battalions in Judea and Samaria, Israel National News reported. The suspects allegedly plotted attacks on security forces, the Segev Shalom police station and Beersheba’s central bus station; 72 Negev and southern Israel residents have been detained since the start of 2026, with about 50 indicted.
Trump administration cuts Microsoft off from major visa program, accusing it of fraud:
The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from the PERM program that lets foreign workers move from work visas to green cards, the New York Post reported. “For every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” Vice President JD Vance said, as Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling added Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini and Adobe to the suspension.
Trump administration investigating Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT and five other universities for visa fraud:
Vice President JD Vance announced that Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State and MIT are under federal investigation for allegedly exploiting the J-1 visa program to undercut American grad students and researchers, the New York Post reported. “Something weird is going on at these universities,” Vance said, as the Labor Department set up a visa fraud strike team and sent subpoenas to the schools.
Maduro and wife charged with conspiring to torture Americans:
Manhattan federal prosecutors unsealed a new indictment Thursday accusing ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores of conspiring to torture detainees, including US citizens, the New York Post reported. The indictment alleges torture including electric shock, simulated drowning, rape and starvation, adding to the drug trafficking charges the couple already faces ahead of their summer 2027 trial.
US slapping fresh sanctions on ‘unaccountable’ International Criminal Court:
The State Department will impose “further sanctions” on the International Criminal Court over its attempts to charge American service members, according to a US official and an internal memo reviewed by the New York Post. The memo calls the ICC an “unaccountable global arbiter” trying to “persecute American servicemen and officials at will,” and says “the United States has no choice but to impose further sanctions.”
Mamdani dined at Palestinian restaurant blasted for ‘openly genocidal’ menu on Oct. 7 anniversary:
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ate dinner on the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre at Ayat Hinds Hall on the Upper West Side, part of a chain whose Brooklyn sister restaurant was blasted for a menu section titled “From the River to the Sea,” the New York Post reported. The restaurant is named after Hind Rajab and nods to the anti-Israel Columbia protesters who renamed Hamilton Hall “Hind’s Hall.”
Columbia University offered ‘October 7 Blush Sauce’ on massacre anniversary:
Columbia University’s John Jay Dining Hall listed a tomato-based “October 7 Blush Sauce” at its pasta station on the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks, sparking backlash from critics who said it glorified the massacre, the New York Post reported. None of the other sauces carried an “October 7” label, and critics demanded the person responsible be fired and the Ivy League school be “defunded.”
Anti-Israel protesters label Mamdani a ‘traitor’ outside Oct. 7 vigil:
More than 100 anti-Israel protesters swarmed NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani at an October 7 vigil in Union Square, calling him a “traitor,” accusing him of “genocide” and saying he “cannot weaponize being Brown anymore,” Fox News reported. The crowd beat drums outside the barricades to drown out speakers as Mamdani held a candle.
Ex-NY prosecutor says Letitia James pushed Trump probe after investigators found nothing:
Daniel Wiesenfeld, a prosecutor in the New York Attorney General’s Investor Protection Bureau, told the New York Post he was ordered to keep building a case against President Trump and his allies even after a year-long probe found no wrongdoing. “Tish was the boss and what Tish wanted, Tish got,” Wiesenfeld said, adding that his bureau chief agreed the case should be closed but said it was James’ call.
Epstein associate Reid Hoffman bankrolling Talarico’s Texas Senate run:
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, a former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has contributed at least $11.5 million to Lone Star Rising PAC, a super PAC backing Democrat James Talarico’s Senate bid against Ken Paxton, including a $10 million check in June, the New York Post reported, citing FEC filings. Talarico has campaigned against “the Epstein Class,” declaring it “has no place in Texas.”
Trump slams El-Sayed as ‘terrorist sympathizer’:
President Trump attacked Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Truth Social, calling him a “RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer, and no different from his best friend, America Hating Hasan Piker,” Just the News reported. Trump urged voters to back Republican Mike Rogers in one of the most competitive Senate races of the cycle.
GOP accuses Walz allies of burying $52M Medicaid fraud report before election:
Minnesota Republicans accused Democrats of withholding the full state-commissioned Medicaid review that flagged more than $52 million in improper payments, Fox News reported. “Fraud here has exploded under the Walz administration,” said House Speaker and GOP gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth, noting the state released only a heavily redacted version in February.
Armed man shot dead after attempted attack inside Nashville federal courthouse:
A man in his 40s armed with a pistol and knife was shot and killed Thursday at a security checkpoint inside the federal courthouse in Nashville after he tried to fire his gun but failed, Fox News reported, citing Metro Nashville Police. Police said a security officer fired on the man, who was believed to be from out of state.
WHO chief says Russia not giving ‘full picture’ on suspected plague:
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that Russia has not been fully forthcoming about a suspected plague case after a 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died, Breitbart News reported. Russia said no plague case was reported and about 200 contacts were quarantined, but Tedros said WHO still needs lab results and details before it can assess the risk.
Russian bomb attack on Ukrainian city kills at least 33:
A Russian bomb attack on Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine killed at least 33 people and wounded 18 on a street where two city buses were operating, the New York Post reported, citing Reuters. Ukrainian officials called it a targeted strike on civilians and one of the largest single attacks this year.
‘Dangerous, life-threatening’ Hurricane Isaias strengthens as it heads for the Gulf Coast:
Hurricane Isaias rapidly strengthened to a Category 1 storm with 80 mph winds Thursday and could near Category 3 strength before weakening ahead of landfall late Friday, the New York Post reported. Forecasters warned of up to 10 inches of rain from Louisiana to Florida, with evacuation orders issued for some coastal cities.
Jobless claims fall to 197,000, near lowest levels in 57 years:
New claims for jobless benefits fell to 197,000 last week, 3,000 below forecasts, the Labor Department said Thursday, Breitbart News reported. The four-week average dropped to 198,000, a level last hit in 2022 and before that not seen since 1969.
Feds bust massive Skid Row drug network in series of raids:
FBI agents and police went after 28 suspected drug dealers Thursday in two raids aimed at cleaning up Los Angeles’ Skid Row, targeting alleged fentanyl, meth, cocaine and PCP distributors at their homes before a sweep of street pushers, the New York Post reported. Investigators seized drugs, guns and luxury cars and made numerous arrests.
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