Fox News Politics Newsletter: Bill Nye, Buttigieg boost Spanberger amid Jones scandal
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here’s what’s happening… -Winsome Sears responds to JMU fan telling her to ‘go back to Haiti’ after weekend of leftist invective -DOJ argues judge’s decision blocking Mahmoud Khalil’s removal was ‘indefensible’ –Charlie Kirk assassination sparks Senate hearing on ‘left-wing political violence,’ Schmitt vows action Former PBS host and ex-Boeing engineer Bill Nye “The Science Guy” will join former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to headline a rally with Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger on Tuesday in the hometown of their party’s forefather. Spanberger will rally with Buttigieg and Nye in Charlottesville – the city that birthed President Thomas Jefferson – while across town at the college founded by America’s third president, GOP lieutenant gubernatorial candidate John Reid will headline a public “Dome Room” forum hosted by pollster Larry Sabato’s University of Virginia Center for Politics. Spanberger’s rally occurs as she tries to separate herself from scandal-plagued attorney general candidate Jay Jones…READ MORE. ‘CRAZY PLOT’: Trump says Schumer, Senate Democrats holding government ‘hostage’ with shutdown: ‘We will not be extorted’ HILLARY’S TANTRUM: Hillary Clinton fires up voters against Trump’s White House ballroom construction: ‘It’s your house’ SPEAKING HER MIND: Karine Jean-Pierre reveals she never thought Kamala Harris would win DRUG WAR DISPUTE: San Francisco mayor rejects Trump’s National Guard deployment plan over drug dealer arrest authority GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY: US military buildup in the Caribbean sees bombers, Marines and warships converge near Venezuela CYBER CLASH: China accuses NSA of cyberattack on national timekeeping system MEASURE OF SECURITY: Vance warns Hamas as Gaza peace plan’s Civilian Military Cooperation Center opens INFLUENTIAL: Dem senator says Melania Trump is America’s ‘secret weapon’ against Putin’s ‘war criminality’ MONEY TRAIL: National Dems bankroll campaign of ‘Fake Independent’ Senate candidate from Midwestern state LIAR EXPOSED: House Judiciary Committee refers former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for prosecution SENATE FLIP-FLOP: Fetterman calls out Dems’ flip: ‘We ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it’ FISCAL FRICTION: Republicans push to renew Obamacare subsidies while rejecting Democrats’ shutdown tie-in LINKED BY LOYALTY: Blackburn says Trump support was ‘common thread’ among lawmakers reportedly targeted by Jack Smith RULES FOR THEE: Jay Jones murder texts latest case of Democrats circling the scandal wagons HONOR CODE BROKEN: ‘She lied’: Mikie Sherrill classmate says involvement in cheating scandal deeper than she claims POLITICAL KRYPTONITE: New Jersey Dems snub endorsing socialist candidate Mamdani as gubernatorial election looms OFF THE JOB?: Dem Rep Mikie Sherrill skips 145 House votes as NJ governor’s race heats up ‘I SAID NO’: Defiant Sliwa says ‘I am not dropping out’ of NYC mayor race: ‘Under no circumstance’ ‘DISOBEY’: Portland city council member calls on National Guard troops to defy deployment orders AUSTIN ATROCITY: Illegal immigrants arrested after woman found shot to death in Texas woods, 1 wanted by Mexican feds: police Get the latest updates on the Trump administration and Congress, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
Schumer requests meeting with Trump ‘any time, any place’ as Democrat stalemate drags on
The top congressional Democrats want a meeting with President Donald Trump as the government shutdown stretches on. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that both he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., reached out to Trump on Tuesday to set up a confab with the president. The top Senate Democrat said the duo “urged” Trump to meet with them, and that they were open to setting up “an appointment with him any time, any place.” SENATE DEMS EMBOLDENED BY WEEKEND RALLIES BLOCK GOP PLAN TO END SHUTDOWN FOR 11TH TIME “Hakeem and I reached out to the president today and urged him to sit down and negotiate with us to resolve the healthcare crisis, address it and end the Trump shutdown,” Schumer said. “He should sit — the things get worse every day for the American people. He should sit down with us, negotiate in a serious way before he goes away.” Congressional Democrats, particularly Schumer and his Democratic caucus, have remained steadfast in their demands for an extension to expiring Obamacare subsidies. Though Senate Republicans have been open to holding a vote on the matter after the government reopens, Democrats want an ironclad guarantee that the subsidies will be extended well before their expiration at the end of this year. Should Trump relent to their request, it would mark the first meeting among the trio since Schumer, Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., met in the Oval Office a day before the shutdown began. ‘GOOFBALLS’ AND HOSTAGES: GOP SENATORS SAY SCHUMER’S SHUTDOWN TACTICS DESTROYING THE SENATE Lawmakers left that meeting with no agreement to avert the shutdown, which has now dragged on for 21 days. Senate Democrats have also blocked Thune and Republicans’ attempts to reopen the government 11 times. Another vote on the House-passed continuing resolution, which would reopen the government until Nov. 21, is expected on Wednesday. And like the many attempts before, that latest effort is expected to fail. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans met with Trump for lunch at the White House Tuesday afternoon. THUNE SLAMS SCHUMER’S ‘KINGMAKER’ POLITICS, REFUSES TO ‘KISS THE RING’ IN SHUTDOWN TALKS Speaking to reporters afterward, Thune reiterated that Senate Republicans were united in their war of attrition strategy to continue putting the same bill on the floor again and again. He noted that Trump would likely agree to meet with Schumer and Jeffries, but only after Senate Democrats unlocked the votes needed to reopen the government. “We have negotiated. I don’t know what there is to negotiate. This is about opening up the government,” Thune said. “We have offered them several off-ramps. Now, the Democrats want something that’s totally untenable. I mean, they want $1.5 trillion in new spending. They want free healthcare for people who are noncitizens in this country. That is just a flat nonstarter. It doesn’t pass the Senate. It won’t pass the House. It won’t be signed into law by the president.” Fox News Digital reached out to Jeffries’ and the White House for comment but did not immediately hear back.
Trump claims Middle East countries offered to fight Hamas in Gaza
United States President Donald Trump has suggested that several countries in the Middle East have offered to send forces to Gaza to fight Hamas, renewing his threats to the Palestinian group amid the fragile ceasefire in the territory. “Numerous of our NOW GREAT ALLIES in the Middle East, and areas surrounding the Middle East, have explicitly and strongly, with great enthusiasm, informed me that they would welcome the opportunity, at my request, to go into GAZA with a heavy force and ‘straighten our Hamas’ if Hamas continues to act badly, in violation of their agreement with us,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Trump did not specify which countries offered to go into Gaza, but he did single out Indonesia for its assistance in the region. “I would like to thank the great and powerful country of Indonesia, and its wonderful leader, for all of the help they have shown and given to the Middle East, and to the USA,” Trump said. Jakarta and other governments have offered to send peacekeeping troops to restore security and stability in Gaza, but no country has said that it would be willing to clash directly with Hamas. “The love and spirit for the Middle East has not been seen like this in a thousand years! It is a beautiful thing to behold! I told these countries, and Israel, ‘NOT YET!’ There is still hope that Hamas will do what is right,” the US president said. “If they do not, an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL!” Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians since the ceasefire took effect on October 10. Trump often issues similar threats to Hamas. But it is not clear what the US or any other force can do to strong-arm the Palestinian group that Israel has not. Advertisement Over the past two years, Israel has killed most of Hamas’s political and military leaders, while also levelling Gaza to the ground and imposing famine on the territory in a campaign that leading rights groups and United Nations investigators say is a genocide. Shaky ceasefire Trump had been hailing the ceasefire, which his administration helped broker, as a historic turning point to bring peace to the region. But from the outset of the truce, Israel has been killing Palestinians it claims were approaching areas under control of the Israeli military, which are not clearly marked. Moreover, Israel has continued to restrict aid to Gaza despite commitments in the deal to allow a surge in humanitarian assistance to the territory. According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israel has only allowed the entry of 986 aid trucks into the enclave since the start of the ceasefire, a fraction of the expected 6,600 trucks, at a rate of 600 daily. On Sunday, the agreement was pushed to the brink when Israel launched a wave of air strikes that killed dozens of Palestinians and fully suspended the entry of aid to Gaza after two Israeli soldiers were killed in Rafah. Israel blamed Hamas for killing the troops, but the Palestinian group denied any involvement, underscoring that the incident took place in an area under Israeli control. Some US media outlets reported that the Israeli soldiers were killed after they drove over an unexploded ordnance. Besides the day-to-day issues threatening the truce, question marks continue to hang over the long-term future of Gaza, including how the territory will be governed. Trump has stressed that Hamas must disarm, but the Palestinian group has linked giving up its weapons to the establishment of a Palestinian state. On Sunday, Trump told Fox News that there is no hard timeline for Hamas disarmament. Later that day, his vice president, JD Vance, who is currently visiting Israel, suggested that an international force needs to deploy to Gaza and establish “security infrastructure” before Hamas disarms. Vance optimistic about ceasefire Speaking to reporters in Israel later on Tuesday, Vance expressed optimism about the future of the ceasefire, saying that the bursts of violence were not unexpected. “We are doing very well. We’re in a very good place. We’re going to have to keep working on it, but I think we have the team to do exactly that,” he said. Vance reiterated that Hamas must disarm, but he acknowledged that the process will take time. Asked about efforts to return the bodies of slain Israeli captives, an issue that Israel has cited to justify blocking aid to Gaza, the US vice president highlighted the difficulty in reaching the remains amid the widespread destruction. Advertisement “This is not going to happen overnight,” he said. “Some of the hostages are buried under thousands of pounds of rubble. Some of the hostages no one even knows where they are.” While the bodies of around 15 Israelis remain in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians have gone missing throughout the war, many are presumed dead and buried under the rubble. Israel has returned the bodies of at least 135 Palestinian captives to Gaza with many showing signs of torture and execution, according to health official in the territory. On Tuesday, Vance announced opening the Civilian Military Co-operation Centre (CMCC), a US-led base in Israel that will facilitate reconstruction and aid delivery to Gaza. Brad Cooper, the commander of the Middle East-based Central Command of the US military, said there are 200 American troops serving at the centre. “This facility will be the hub for the delivery of everything that goes into Gaza as we look to the future,” he told reporters. 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Dutch privacy watchdog warns voters against asking AI how to vote
Body finds that chatbots provide biased advice, including by leading voters to the hard-right Party for Freedom. Published On 21 Oct 202521 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The Netherlands’s data protection watchdog has cautioned citizens against consulting with artificial intelligence on how to vote, warning that popular chatbots provide a “highly distorted and polarised view” of politics. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said on Tuesday that an increasing number of voters were using AI to help decide who to vote for, despite the models offering “unreliable and clearly biased” advice. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The watchdog issued the warning as it released the results of tests conducted on four popular chatbots – ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, and Grok – in the run-up to parliamentary elections on October 29. The research found that the chatbots more often recommended parties on the fringes of the political spectrum when asked to identify the three choices that best matched the policy preferences of 1,500 fictitious voter profiles. In more than half of cases, the AI models identified the hard-right Party for Freedom (PVV) or left-wing Green Left-Labour Party as the top choice, the watchdog said. Parties closer to the political middle ground – such as the right-leaning People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the centre-left Democrats 66 – were recommended much less often, according to the watchdog. Meanwhile, some groupings, including the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal and left-leaning Denk, were “almost never suggested”. Monique Verdier, deputy chair of the authority, said that voters who turned to AI risked being encouraged to vote for parties that do not align with their preferences. Advertisement “This directly impacts a cornerstone of democracy: the integrity of free and fair elections. We therefore urge voters not to use AI chatbots for voting advice because their operation is neither transparent nor verifiable,” Verdier said in a statement. “Additionally, we call on chatbot providers to prevent their systems from being used as voting guides.” The October 29 election comes after the PVV, led by anti-immigration firebrand Geert Wilders, pulled its support for the government after its coalition partners refused to back a 10-point plan to radically curtail immigration. Wilders’s PPV, which scored one of the biggest upsets in Dutch political history by winning the most seats in the 2023 election, has consistently led opinion polls before next week’s vote. While the PPV is on track to win the most seats for a second straight election, it is all but certain to fall far short of a parliamentary majority. The other major parties in the Netherlands, which has been governed by coalition governments without interruption since the 1940s, have all ruled out supporting the PPV in power. Adblock test (Why?)
LIVE: Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid – UEFA Champions League
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Delhi-NCR pollution soars after Diwali fireworks; AQI in ‘very poor’ category; Check 10 most polluted areas in Delhi
Delhi’s air quality worsened sharply after Diwali, reaching the ‘Very Poor’ category on the Air Quality Index. The city recorded alarming AQI levels due to fireworks, with Punjabi Bagh topping the list. Despite green cracker regulations, air pollution remains a significant issue.
Agra-Lucknow Expressway toll plaza employees refuse to collect toll, here’s all you need to know
The company officials and police arrived at the scene to negotiate with the employees and resolve the issue.
India’s Astra Mk-2: A 200km+ challenge to China’s PL-15
As per the new proposals, the missile’s range will be increased well beyond its earlier 160 km limit, giving it much longer reach. The Indian Air Force (IAF) plans to order about 700 upgraded Astra missiles, which will be fitted on its Sukhoi Su-30MKI and Tejas fighter jets.
Who is Mohammad Mustafa? Ex Punjab DGP, wife Razia Sultana booked in connection with son’s ‘suspicious’ death
Punjab’s former Director General of Police Mohammad Mustafa and his wife, former minister Razia Sultana, have been booked in connection with the ‘suspicious’ death of their 35-year-old son, Aqil Akhter, in Haryana’s Panchkula. They are charged with murder and criminal conspiracy under Sections 103(1) and 61 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Why no Muslim candidate from BJP, 27 from allies and opposition in Bihar Elections 2025?
Bihar Elections 2025 see declining Muslim representation as BJP fields none and RJD, JD(U), Congress, and AIMIM allocate limited tickets.