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TDFP News Roundup – 11/10/26

Writer: Yossi Schmidt
Yossi Schmidt
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Today’s 20 stories from The Digital Free Press: War Secretary Pete Hegseth calls the impeachment push against him “sabotage,” consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, U.S.-Russia-Ukraine peace talks open in Abu Dhabi, and four TDFP reports, led by the Supreme Court letting Big Bend border wall work resume, plus Washington state prosecutors no longer defending some immigration habeas cases, the Justice Department’s suit over Glendale’s $2,000 concealed carry permits and the TDFP review of James Rosen’s Scalia biography.



Part 1: Top 10 Stories


1. Supreme Court lets Big Bend border wall work resume, says “there is no such thing as a ‘constitutional’ major-questions claim”

The Supreme Court on Monday let the Trump administration resume building border barriers and roads in Texas’s Big Bend region while a legal challenge continues, according to the court’s five-page unsigned opinion in Mullin v. Friends of the Ruidosa Church, read by The Digital Free Press. The justices paused an Oct. 2 injunction from a federal judge in Texas, saying the government is “exceedingly likely to prevail” because the lower court lacked jurisdiction. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted she would have denied the request.


2. Hegseth calls Massie’s impeachment push “sabotage” in his first press conference since May

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) effort to impeach him is “not patriotism. This is sabotage,” the New York Post reported. Hegseth argued impeachment is not a proper remedy for policy disagreements, while Massie has argued the Iran war was pursued without congressional authorization. Massie’s impeachment motion was scheduled for a test vote later Tuesday, according to the Post.


3. Consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, BLS says

The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis in October after a 0.6% rise in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. Energy rose 0.7% and food 0.5%, while prices excluding food and energy rose 0.3%. Because no survey data were collected in October 2025 during the funding lapse, BLS said it cannot publish 12-month changes for most October 2026 indexes.


4. Judges order immigration detainees released after federal prosecutors in Washington state stop defending some habeas cases

At least two federal judges in Washington state ordered immigration detainees released last week after the U.S. Attorney’s Office there stopped appearing in some of their cases, according to two Nov. 7 orders read by The Digital Free Press. In an Oct. 26 letter attached to both rulings, Acting U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd wrote that his office “does not have the available resources” to appear in “every one of the dozens” of habeas petitions filed each week. Under the letter, judges may rule on a detainee’s papers alone if no prosecutor appears within seven court days.


5. House Oversight report says prosecutorial failures and preferential treatment let Epstein’s abuse continue for years

The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), released a report concluding that prosecutorial failures, preferential treatment and institutional negligence allowed Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to keep exploiting victims for years, Fox News Digital reported. The report identifies two former federal prosecutors whose roles in the original investigation raised potential conflicts of interest. It also faults financial institutions that it says overlooked warning signs.

Source: Fox News


6. Kushner and Witkoff open U.S.-Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi

U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are meeting Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday, the first trilateral peace talks in nine months, Fox News reported. A U.S. official said the administration has asked Russia to accept an “Article Four and an Article Five-like security guarantee” for Ukraine that would be “effectively very similar to NATO.” The official said President Trump has not decided what guarantee the U.S. itself would provide.

Source: Fox News


7. Justice Department sues Glendale, Calif., over $2,000 concealed carry permits

The Justice Department has sued Glendale, California, alleging its concealed carry permit process is so costly and open-ended that it violates the Second Amendment, according to the 15-page complaint read by The Digital Free Press. The complaint puts a first-time permit at about $2,000, including a $1,078 police fee, and says the city “charges, by far, the highest fees in the nation.” It relies on the same 1994 police misconduct law a Maryland federal judge ruled the same day could not be used against Montgomery County’s gun law.


8. U.S. becomes the first country to skip its U.N. human rights review

The United States on Tuesday became the first country to skip a review of its human rights record before the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Washington Examiner reported. The Trump administration’s absence marked the first time a country has refused to take part in an entire cycle of the council’s Universal Periodic Review, a process that has run for nearly two decades and covers all 193 U.N. member states.


9. U.S. pulls aircraft from a second British base over a threat from Iran

The U.S. military moved some aircraft off RAF Mildenhall in England on Monday following a threat from Iran, the New York Post reported, citing the Wall Street Journal. Two refueling tankers headed to Mildenhall were diverted to Germany, and other tankers left the base later in the day, according to the report. In early October, 12 B-1 bombers were moved from RAF Fairford after an Iranian drone attack plot was exposed.


10. Sen. Rick Scott withholds support for Thune ahead of Senate GOP leadership elections

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told Fox News Digital he is not ready to back Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) for another term as the top Senate Republican. Scott said any candidate for leader needs to lay out a plan for passing key agenda items in the lame-duck session before Democrats take control of the Senate in January. Scott and other Republicans wanted to delay Tuesday morning’s leadership elections after the party’s Election Night losses, Fox reported.

Source: Fox News


Part 2: 10 More Stories, Only on TDFP


11. France blames Iran for a cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators

French officials said Monday that Iranian hackers remotely changed temperature settings on grocery store refrigeration systems at about 700 sites across France, the Washington Examiner reported. Officials called it the “first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on our national territory,” opened an investigation and vowed retaliatory sanctions. Similar incidents have been reported in about seven other European countries, according to the report.


12. TDFP Review: Rosen’s Scalia biography, how a Queens kid became a justice, earns a B+

The Digital Free Press reviewed James Rosen’s “Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986,” the first volume of a planned three-volume biography that follows Antonin Scalia from his birth in Trenton, New Jersey, and boyhood in Queens to his unanimous 1986 Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court. The review credits Rosen’s deep reporting, including interviews with family, classmates and colleagues, and says the book at times gets protective of its subject. Final grade: B+, 8.7/10.


13. Trump pledges a posthumous pardon for Pete Rose

President Trump said on Truth Social that he will issue a “complete PARDON of Pete Rose” in the coming weeks, saying Rose “only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING” (his claim, not verified), the Daily Caller reported. Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, died Sept. 30, 2024, at 83. A pardon would cover his 1990 federal conviction for filing false tax returns, according to the report.

Source: Daily Caller


14. Congressional investigators accuse Rep. Lance Gooden of billing taxpayers for luxury travel

The Office of Congressional Conduct has accused Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) of “extravagant expenditures,” including luxury hotels, premium airfare and extended car rentals, and of misreporting campaign spending, Breitbart News reported. The report was referred to the House Ethics Committee, whose investigation is ongoing. Gooden called the allegations a “bogus” witch hunt and said the Ethics Committee will expose it.

Source: Breitbart


15. Trump says he expects a three-way meeting with Xi and Putin in China

President Trump told reporters Sunday night that he expects to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin together during his trip to China for the APEC summit, set for Nov. 18-19 in Shenzhen, Breitbart News reported. Trump said they would discuss “a lot of things, including denuclearization,” and pointed to efforts to end the war with Iran.

Source: Breitbart


16. Mexican forces capture a top Jalisco cartel boss and 19 gunmen after a shootout

Mexican security forces arrested Rafael “R2” Alvarez Ayala, described as the leader of the “Rs” cell of the Cartel Jalisco New Generation, after a shootout Sunday in Zapopan, Jalisco, Breitbart Texas reported. He was injured and taken to a hospital under heavy guard, and 19 of his gunmen and close allies were also arrested, according to information Mexico’s security cabinet provided to Breitbart Texas.

Source: Breitbart


17. ICE arrests an alleged MS-13 associate in a small Idaho town

ICE agents arrested Danny Jose Parada-Mendez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, on Nov. 5 in Victor, Idaho, a town of about 3,000, Breitbart News reported. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Parada-Mendez has a criminal history in El Salvador that ties him to MS-13 and includes terrorist organization charges, resisting arrest and deprivation of liberty.

Source: Breitbart


18. Judge sets June 2028 trial for the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk

Utah Judge Tony Graf Jr. on Monday set the capital murder trial of Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, to begin in June 2028, the Daily Wire reported. Prosecutors had asked for a January 2028 trial, and Robinson’s defense lawyers sought a start in late 2029. Prosecutors expect a 17-week trial, according to the report.

Source: Daily Wire


19. California voters reject a one-time 5% billionaire tax

California voters rejected Proposition 40, a proposed first-in-the-nation one-time 5% tax on billionaires, by 52.8% to 47.2%, the New York Post reported, after the race was called Monday. Los Angeles and San Francisco counties backed the measure, while Orange and San Diego counties voted against it, according to the Post.


20. Scalise and Jordan face off for House Republican leader in the next Congress

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are competing to be minority leader in the next Congress, succeeding Speaker Mike Johnson, who decided to step down after last week’s losses, the New York Post reported. It is a rematch of their bids for the top job after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster three years ago, according to the Post.


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