Fox News Politics Newsletter: Shutdown continues as White House slams Democrats
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics coverage. Here’s what’s happening… -Could Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize after the Israel-Hamas deal? -NJ Showdown: Following a bitter debate, Ciattarelli spotlights the disastrous Sherrill interview -Federal judge limits ICE arrests without an arrest warrant or probable cause The White House slammed Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for making a “disgusting and revealing” comment about the ongoing shutdown. Schumer spoke with Punchbowl News, an outlet based in Washington, D.C., and said that as the shutdown continues, things keep getting “better” for the Democrats. “Every day gets better for us,” Schumer reportedly told Punchbowl News. “It’s because we’ve thought about this long in advance, and we knew that health care would be the focal point on Sept. 30, and we prepared for it… Their whole theory was — threaten us, bamboozle us, and we would submit in a day or two.” … Read more FOLLOW THE MONEY: ‘Riot Inc.’: Trump launches ‘whole-of-government’ push to expose Antifa funding networks, dark money sources DEAL OR NO DEAL: Trump teases trip to the Middle East as Gaza peace deal talks continue EXIT STAGE LEFT: Trump predicts Schumer will retire before losing primary to AOC amid shutdown showdown TROOPS HELD HOSTAGE: Senate Democrats block GOP plan again to reopen government as military pay deadline looms PRAYER VS. POLITICS: Hakeem Jeffries leads prayer event over the shutdown after passing on Charlie Kirk vigil ‘FAR-LEFT’ FEARS: GOP blames Schumer for shutdown to appease ‘Marxist flank’ amid AOC primary challenge buzz WAR ON DRUGS: Two Republicans vote with Dems as Senate GOP spikes bid to block Trump’s strikes on drug-smuggling boats NO NUKES: Senate GOP resists ‘nuclear option’ as Dem shutdown standoff deepens ‘IRONCLAD’: Ardently pro-Israel Dem Sen. John Fetterman congratulates Trump for ‘historic peace plan’ ‘FAR-LEFT’ FEARS: GOP blames Schumer for shutdown to appease ‘Marxist flank’ amid AOC primary challenge buzz GROUND ZERO CHAOS: ‘Operation Midway Blitz’: Inside DOJ’s push to tackle crime, illegal immigration in Chicago FEDS DOUBLE DOWN: Noem: Trump administration doubling down with new federal facilities in Chicago, Portland POWER REVERSAL: Democrats flip the script on ‘states’ rights’ in fight against Trump’s National Guard plan TRAVEL TURMOIL: Noem airs clip blasting Democrats for government shutdown in every airport in America GLOVES OFF: ‘Getting desperate’: Governor debate gets personal after Democrat is mocked for cheating scandal NO TROOPS ALLOWED: U.S. soldiers in city streets “makes people less safe,” says Democratic candidate CAPITOL CHAOS: Screaming match erupts between Mike Lawler, Hakeem Jeffries as government shutdown chaos continues Get the latest updates on the Trump administration and Congress, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
‘Untethered from reality’: Lawyers for Trump, Oregon, spar over National Guard deployment in court clash
Lawyers for President Donald Trump and the state of Oregon clashed Thursday before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over Trump’s push to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, a high-stakes showdown marked by sharp accusations that the president’s actions were unlawful and unnecessary. A three-judge panel, composed of two Trump appointees and one Clinton appointee, seemed deeply skeptical of the case made by Oregon Assistant Attorney General Stacy Chaffin, including her assertion that Trump’s descriptions of the violence in Portland were hyperbolic and “untethered from reality.” Judges sharply questioned Chaffin about the specifics of the protests in Portland. Many of them focused on specifics, including dates of protests and number of arrests, in asking why — in the state’s view — these conditions failed to meet the standard needed to justify Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. “I’m not sure even President Lincoln would have been able to authorize the use of force right now” if his actions were to be scrutinized under the “much more stringent reviewability standard” implied by Oregon here, Judge Ryan Nelson, a Trump appointee, interjected loudly, one of several times he cut off Chaffin as she attempted to answer the court’s questions. TRUMP IS THREATENING TO ‘FEDERALIZE’ DC WITH NATIONAL GUARD AND MORE. HERE’S HOW THAT COULD PLAY OUT Chaffin argued that the protests in Portland are a far cry from a definition of a “rebellion,” one of two conditions Trump needs to satisfy to meet the legal pretext for National Guard deployment. The 9th Circuit Court agreed to take up the Trump administration’s request to hear the case just days after a federal judge in Oregon issued a temporary restraining order halting the president from immediately sending Oregon National Guard troops to the city of Portland, describing the action as one that risks “blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation.” Rebellions “are unusual and extreme emergencies,” Chaffin said, noting that the bulk of agents’ complaints on record are focused instead on them being short-staffed. Administrative difficulties “are not a reason to bring the military into the streets of Portland or any other U.S. city,” Chaffin added. Still, the court’s two Trump appointees took a much more critical view of the state’s case during oral arguments, which lasted roughly 90 minutes. BONDI CLASHES WITH DURBIN ON NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT: ‘LOVE CHICAGO AS MUCH AS YOU HATE PRESIDENT TRUMP’ Justice Department attorney Eric D. McArthur, meanwhile, spent the bulk of time reiterating the two tenets of the Trump administration’s core arguments in deploying National Guard troops. The first is that there is a threat of “rebellion” underway, and the second is that the federal government cannot carry out the law without the help of the National Guard. McArthur argued that Portland meets the criteria of an “active threat,” regardless of the weeks that passed between Trump’s June memo authorizing the federalization of National Guard troops and his September attempt to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland. Asked by the Clinton-appointed Judge Susan Graber whether Trump could hypothetically rely on any violent event that “post-dates” the administration’s National Guard mobilization to justify its deployment, McArthur said yes. “I think we can rely on later evidence to show there was a colorable factual basis for the president’s determination,” he told judges for the 9th Circuit. “It demonstrates the very kind of risk that can materialize at any time with this sort of violent crowd.” The court did not specify when it planned to issue a ruling. In the meantime, dozens of National Guard troops — roughly 200, as lawyers testified Thursday — remain just outside the city’s limits, pending possible deployment. The case is just one of several challenging Trump’s authority to federalize the National Guard over the objections of state and local leaders.
Top insurance CEO in the hot seat after scathing ad campaign exposes China ties
FIRST ON FOX: Consumers’ Research, a leading nonprofit dedicated to consumer information and taking on woke corporations, launched a new campaign Thursday targeting insurance giant Chubb Limited and its CEO Evan Greenberg, alleging “deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” The campaign, which is facing pushback from a Chubb official and a pair of renowned China hawks accusing the nonprofit of misrepresenting Greenberg’s view, is part of a seven-figure initiative titled “China Chubb.” The campaign accuses the insurance company and its chief executive of “cozying up to the CCP” and “using their market power and resources to push a woke, political agenda on the American people.” The effort falls under Consumers’ Research’s Consumers First Initiative, aimed at exposing companies the group claims put politics ahead of consumers. Chubb’s business reaches across 54 countries, including China, territories and all 50 states and employs over 40,000 people worldwide. Consumers’ Research says the campaign will include a national 30-second television advertisement titled “China Chubb,” which will begin airing across the country following the launch. TOP INSURANCE COMPANY IN HOT SEAT AS BLISTERING NEW AD CAMPAIGN EXPOSES ‘RADICAL WOKE IDEOLOGY’ The campaign also features a new website, ChinaChubb.com; a mobile billboard that will circulate throughout Washington, D.C., including Capitol Hill and Chubb’s Washington office; and a targeted digital push with sponsored content on social media platforms and online news outlets. The ad campaign received a sharp rebuke from a Chubb spokesperson, who called it “completely dishonest” in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Evan has called out China’s authoritarian approach and predatory practices. He has repeatedly called for the U.S. to stand up and defend its interests,” the spokesperson said. Robert O’Brien, former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, also pushed back on the ad in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I’ve worked with Evan Greenberg for several years now on American relations with China,” O’Brien said. “In my dealings with Evan, he has been a proponent of U.S. interests in the region. Through its operations in China, his company has contributed to shrinking the U.S. trade deficit.” However, a Fox News Digital review found that Greenberg has personal and professional entanglements with the CCP, including meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and offering public statements praising the CCP’s global vision. Earlier this year, Greenberg reportedly attended China’s prestigious China Development Forum alongside executives like Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and Mastercard’s Michael Miebach. The annual forum, which includes delegates from all over the world, also includes access to dozens of top CCP officials, according to a list of delegates released earlier this year. During this same week, Greenberg was pictured in a press release posted by the Chinese government showing him shaking hands with Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a top CCP position. The press release paraphrased Greenberg saying, “U.S.-China relationship is the most significant bilateral relationship in the world.” In 2024, Greenberg was photographed not only shaking hands with Xi in Beijing as Chair of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He was also offering glowing remarks about China’s “resilience and vitality.” THINK TANK FOUNDER FACES SCRUTINY OVER CHINA CORPORATE TIES DESPITE DECOUPLING ADVOCACY “China’s exceptional economic growth and transformation over the past decades speak to its strong resilience and vitality,” Greenberg said. In November 2023, he introduced Xi at a San Francisco event. “Like many others in this room, I believe that a strong and prosperous China that supports and invests in the international system can be a force for good in the world,” Greenberg said at that event. “We are gathered today to gain insight from President Xi into his vision for the future of his country and of the relationship between the United States and China. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in warmly welcoming President Xi Jinping.” That same month, Evan Greenberg was elected board char of the National Committee onU.S.-China Relations after having been “an exemplary” board member and officer of the National Committee and “supporting the Committee’s mission.” The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations sold $40,000 tickets to Americans and American businesses to sit at Xi Jinping’s table during the welcome banquet in San Francisco featuring several other senior CCP officials and guests, which got slammed in a scathing letter from the House Select Committee on the CCP. In 2022, Xi sent personal greetings to a gala honoring Greenberg. Meanwhile, Greenberg sits on the advisory board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, an institution tied directly to China’s national security and defense apparatus. That university operates under a wing of the Chinese government known for defense tech development, a connection that would likely raise red flags for any U.S. executive overseeing sensitive insurance data. Greenberg is not the only prominent American business leader serving on that board, a group that includes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein and Apple CEO Tim Cook. Greenberg has also called on the U.S. to “tone down rhetoric about Taiwan” and slammed efforts to contain the CCP as “self-isolating” and doomed to fail. In shareholder letters, he’s warned against treating U.S.-China competition as a “new cold war” and labeled some American trade protections as “wrongheaded” and “unwise.” Greenberg has acknowledged the complicated nature of the Taiwan situation, however. “Taiwan presents the most proximate risk of conflict for the U.S.-China relationship,” he said in 2022. “Beijing has made its ambition clear that it wants to pull Taiwan into its orbit and, increasingly, is matching resources to its ambitions. Washington is improving coordination with allies to collectively deter China from using force, while at the same time supporting Taiwan’s efforts to improve its self-defense.” Also in 2022, Chubb secured Chinese government approval to acquire majority control of Huatai Insurance Group, a Chinese firm with over $10 billion in assets. That stake has since grown to 85.5%. Meanwhile, Greenberg’s father, Hank Greenberg, orchestrated business deals and meetings with CCP officials, including a Xi-endorsed event ahead of a key U.S.-China summit. That same
Palestinians in Gaza worry and wait for Israel to implement ceasefire
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – A cautious relief seems to hover over central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah as people stand outside their tents, talking to each other about the ceasefire that is set to come into force after approval by the Israeli cabinet. Some people are celebrating, while others are worrying that this respite will prove brief and incomplete, like past ceasefires that Israel violated. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list This ceasefire has been touted by United States President Donald Trump as a lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Israel has said it will cease bombing Gaza 24 hours after being approved by the Israeli cabinet, which is meeting on Thursday to discuss it. ‘I think he’ll go with it’ Nasser al-Qernawi, 62, sat cradling his radio on the bed in his family’s shelter, patched together from plastic sheeting and a bit of blue tarp. He has listened to it every day for the past two years, and seems almost in awe of the latest news he heard coming through it. “Yesterday the news was tough, in the morning. But now, it’s better,” he said. “I feel it’s closer, but he didn’t say the word ‘peace’, Netanyahu didn’t. The others said the word ‘peace’, but he didn’t. “So we’re still not sure what he’s thinking, but I think he’ll go with it… if Trump comes and he signs it, that’s it.” Many hopes seem to be riding on Trump, either due to confidence in the US president’s diplomatic skills or to a deep distrust in the motivations and actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I have doubts about this, about 90 percent, because Netanyahu is a dirty traitor,” Khamis Othman, who has been displaced from Bureij camp, told Al Jazeera. Advertisement “He just thinks this is a winning card for executing his missions. The [Israelis could] take what is theirs and attack us again.” In January, Hamas had released 33 Israeli and five Thai nationals who were held captive in Gaza as part of a ceasefire deal. However, Israel unilaterally violated the ceasefire in mid-March, resuming its genocidal war on Gaza. “If they truly cared about their captives,” Othman exclaimed, “they wouldn’t have attacked them along with the resistance fighters.” Khamis Othman, 42, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, on October 9, 2025 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera] Regardless, he seems at least willing to wait and see what happens next: “From what we last heard, they’re saying Friday is when it happens, so hopefully, on Friday, it’ll start.” ‘We can’t go back home’ Ilham al-Zaanin (Umm Mahdi), 60, has been displaced with her five children and 10 grandchildren since the war began, and has mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, she told Al Jazeera, she is filled with relief that the bloodshed may now stop, yet on the other hand, she is mourning the fact that they cannot go back home. Umm Mahdi and her family are from Beit Hanoon in the northernmost governorate of Gaza, a zone that will remain occupied by the Israeli army during the first phase of the ceasefire, so the family will be displaced, and she doesn’t know for how long. “We went back to our house in Beit Hanoon during the [January] truce,” Umm Mahdi said. “Our home was gone, though, everything was gone. So we came back here and are staying with my husband’s family. “Everything is destruction, loss … God compensate and help everyone; everyone has their own affliction … honestly, we’re hurting,” she said sadly. The hurt is afflicting all generations in Gaza, her cousin Itidal al-Zaanin (Umm Mohammad) said, pointing to her grandchildren whose future, she fears, is already lost. “My son’s children, instead of dreaming of what they want to be when they grow up or playing with toys, they’re walking around with knives, carrying heavy water jugs over long distances to sell. “Some days they come and tell me and their mother about the human remains they see flung around after attacks … ‘Grandma we found them in pieces,’ they would tell me,” Umm Mohammad shook her head. “Tomorrow we’ll be shocked by the real numbers of the martyrs and the wounded and the missing, those under the rubble,” Umm Mahdi said. “Over these two years, I’ve seen everything imaginable, everything painful. We saw slaughter, death, trucks full of dead people, animal carts.” Advertisement To trust or to doubt? Everyone who spoke to Al Jazeera expressed happiness and relief that, at the very least, the bloodshed would stop and some people would have an opportunity to return to their homes, or what remains of them. Othman is going to wait and see. “You hear it so often … there’s been an accomplishment, then it fails … optimism is something that sits in the shadows,” he said. Itidal al-Zaanin (Umm Mohammad), in Deir el-Balah on October 9, 2025 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera] Umm Mahdi is also waiting to see: “[Israel] cannot be trusted. You see, in Lebanon, they bomb them every day. We hope that the mediators will intervene to preserve our safety. Even in the best-case scenario, Umm Mohammad isn’t sure anything will be the same again. “My sisters lost their children, and our homes were destroyed. Our lives and our whole future have been lost. There’s no true joy in our hearts, but at least the bloodshed stopped,” she said. “We’ve been begging Arab nations, foreign countries and Muslims who share our faith for two years, but no one cared about us or our children, children who saw bodies torn apart near Al-Aqsa Hospital, and who saw children like them, martyrs.” Al-Qernawi held on to his optimism about as tightly as he held his radio, which has kept him company in more ways than one through two years of genocide. “People come to listen with me sometimes, my daughters, or our neighbours,” he said. “God willing, people will go back to their homes. God willing, the war is over,” al-Qernawi insisted. “The
US federal court to weigh Trump’s deployment of National Guard to Chicago
National Guard troops have already arrived in the Chicago area, as President Trump condemns the city as a ‘hellhole’. United States President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Illinois is slated to face legal scrutiny at a pivotal court hearing. On Thursday, US District Judge April Perry will hear arguments over a request to block the deployment of Illinois and Texas Guard members, a day after a small number of troops began protecting federal property in the Chicago area. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and local officials strongly oppose the use of the Guard. An “element” of the 200 Texas Guard troops that were sent to Illinois started working in the Chicago area on Wednesday, according to a US Northern Command spokesperson, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details not made public. The spokesperson did not say where specifically the troops were sent. The troops, along with about 300 from Illinois, arrived this week at a US Army Reserve Center in Elwood, southwest of Chicago. All 500 troops are under the Northern Command and have been activated for 60 days. The Guard members are in the city to protect US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) buildings and other federal facilities and law enforcement personnel, according to Northern Command. Chicago and Illinois on Monday filed a lawsuit to stop the deployments, calling them unnecessary and illegal. Trump, meanwhile, has portrayed Chicago as a lawless “hellhole” of crime, though statistics show a significant recent drop in crime. In a court filing in the lawsuit, the city and state say protests at a temporary ICE detention facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview have “never come close to stopping federal immigration enforcement”. Advertisement “The President is using the Broadview protests as a pretext,” they wrote. “The impending federal troop deployment in Illinois is the latest episode in a broader campaign by the President’s administration to target jurisdictions the President dislikes.” The Republican president said Wednesday that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor Pritzker, both Democrats, should be jailed for failing to protect federal agents during immigration enforcement crackdowns. Also Thursday, a panel of judges in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals was scheduled to hear arguments over whether Trump had the authority to take control of 200 Oregon National Guard troops. The president had planned to deploy them in Portland, where there have been mostly small nightly protests outside an ICE building. State and city leaders insist troops are neither wanted nor needed there. US District Judge Karin J Immergut on Sunday granted Oregon and California a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of Guard troops to Portland. Trump had mobilised California troops for Portland just hours after Immergut first blocked him from using Oregon’s Guard. The administration has yet to appeal that order to the 9th Circuit. Immergut, whom Trump appointed during his first term, rejected the president’s assertions that troops were needed to protect Portland and immigration facilities, saying “it had been months since there was any sustained level of violent or disruptive protest activity in the city”. The nearly 150-year-old Posse Comitatus Act limits the military’s role in enforcing domestic laws. However, Trump has said he would be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows a president to dispatch active duty military in states that are unable to put down an insurrection or are defying federal law. Trump previously sent troops to Los Angeles and Washington, and a small number this week began assisting law enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee. Those troops are part of the Memphis Safe Task Force, a collection of about a dozen federal law enforcement agencies ordered by Trump to fight crime in the city. In contrast to others, Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee supports using the Guard. Adblock test (Why?)
Thousands rally for Gaza in Islamabad after ceasefire agreement
NewsFeed Thousands of students rallied in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, after a Gaza ceasefire deal was announced, expressing solidarity with Palestinians and urging action to support those affected by the war. Published On 9 Oct 20259 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Adblock test (Why?)
Land Rover Defender, with ‘1111’ number plate loses control, crashes into vehicles near Noida Mall, driver in custody, WATCH video
A speeding Land Rover Defender crashed into five cars and a motorcycle after losing control, near Noida’s Mall on Wednesday night (October 9).
Meet man who was India’s first pilot, Bharat Ratna awardee, has this Ratan Tata connection, his name is…
J.R.D. Tata, India’s first pilot and only industrialist to receive the Bharat Ratna, revolutionised the country’s aviation and industrial sectors. He founded Air India, led the Tata Group, and pioneered the 8-hour workday, leaving a legacy of innovation, progress, and social welfare
Private jet skids off from runway at Farrukhabad airstrip, collapses into bushes; pilots, passengers escape narrowly, WATCH
A private jet skidded off from the runway at the Farrukhabad airstrip in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. The jet lost control and collaped into nearby bushes.
THIS state introduces one-day menstrual leave for all female employees, know what the policy offers
The Karnataka government has launched an initiative for female employees. It is likely to roll out the Menstrual Leave Policy (MLP), 2025. The period leave would be provided for one day each month and will be paid leave. The state has become the first one to give period leave.