by David Rohde | Nov 8, 2026 | Iran, News, White House, World
A legal group accused the Trump administration on Sunday of planning to violate a judge’s order that bars the deportation of Iranian nationals back to their home country without sufficient notification to a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
In court filings, the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund said it had been told that 11 Iranian nationals — 10 men and one woman — were scheduled to be flown by Immigration Customs and Enforcement from Mesa, Arizona, to Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday. From there, Iranian officials would take them back to Iran, where they could face persecution from Iranian officials as well as dangers posed by potential U.S. airstrikes.
“We have received credible information from multiple independent sources indicating that the U.S. government is proceeding with plans to deport Iranian nationals, including asylum seekers, to Iran, via Pakistan, despite a federal court order requiring five business days’ advance notice,” Yasmine Chubin, the group’s executive director, told MS NOW.
The administration previously deported Iranians in the months leading up to the war President Donald Trump launched jointly with Israel against Iran. Some of the 11 people expected to be on the planned Sunday flight had been held in detention for months, according to lawyers and a relative of the detainees.
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Beyond the sheer recklessness of forcibly returning people to a country with which the United States is at war and against which it is actively conducting military strikes, the government appears poised to disregard a federal court order designed to ensure basic oversight and accountability,” Chubin added. ”These are
by The Associated Press | Nov 7, 2026 | News, White House, World
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Saturday night that he was giving opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition following elections on Oct. 27.
Eisenkot, a former military chief, ran as the main challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading a bloc of parties seeking to oust Israel’s longest-serving premier.
Neither Eisenkot nor Netanyahu won a clear majority in the vote. But in marathon discussions with the president this week, representatives from most of Israel’s main parties recommended Eisenkot be tasked with assembling a new government.
The announcement, which had been expected on Sunday, came shortly after Netanyahu called for a “national unity government” in a video statement and warned against “hastily swearing in a government with terrorist supporters” – an apparent reference to the Arab-led parties.
Netanyahu and his allies have repeatedly portrayed the Arab-led parties as a threat to national security, while Eisenkot has indicated a willingness to partner with them under certain conditions, including calling Hamas a terrorist group that needs to be destroyed.
Eisenkot’s party, Yashar, slammed the prime minister’s video with a statement posted on X and urged members of his party, Likud, to disavow their alliance with “radical parties,” in an apparent reference to the more extreme parties in his religious-nationalist base.
The statement argued that Eisenkot would only include parties and parliament members who support its principles, including recognizing Hamas as a terrorist organization.
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by David Rohde | Nov 7, 2026 | News, White House, World
Stephen Miller is widely known as the architect of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration deportation operations that have sent masked federal agents into neighborhoods, resulting in deadly confrontations.
But it has also been widely reported that the president’s newly minted chief of staff was a driving force behind Trump’s deadly strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Miller steered the drafting of a classified directive signed by Trump that authorized the U.S. military to use lethal force against two dozen foreign criminal groups the president had designated “foreign terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. official told The Washington Post. Legal experts say that declaring criminal groups terrorist organizations has no basis in law, but the administration argued that the groups used narcotics as a weapon to kill Americans.
Miller also initially proposed having the CIA conduct lethal strikes, but lawyers in the agency and other parts of the government questioned its legality, The Washington Post reported last year. Policymakers eventually decided to have the Pentagon carry out the strikes instead.
Strikes that started as part of an operation to pressure then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — who was captured by the U.S. in January — have continued for over a year with 236 people killed in 71 strikes, according to U.S. military figures. In recent months, the U.S. has been collaborating with countries like Ecuador to interdict suspected narco-terrorist vessels.
Legal groups say the boat strikes are illegal and condemned Miller’s promotion to White House chief of staff.
Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit group that has filed a lawsuit to make public the administration’s legal memo justifying the
by The Associated Press | Nov 6, 2026 | News, World
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is under criminal investigation following the collapse of a major digital bank, prosecutors announced, hours after the South American leader’s resignation and impeachment Thursday.
The crisis at Ueno Bank turned Peña’s long-ruling Colorado Party against him, a stunning reversal for the former International Monetary Fund economist who had enjoyed the backing of the country’s most powerful politicians and was welcomed in Washington just weeks ago as a key ally of the Trump administration.
Minutes after Peña’s announcement, the lower house voted 78-0 to impeach him; on Thursday evening, the Senate was debating whether to remove him from office. If he is removed from office, Vice President Pedro Alliana would be sworn in.
Legislators opted not to accept Peña’s resignation, meaning he could be stripped of legal protections that would prevent his prosecution, should Paraguay’s Attorney General Emiliano Rolón Fernández opt to file charges.
Rolón has ordered three criminal investigations into the Ueno Bank crisis, including allegations involving Peña and other current and former government officials, the prosecutor’s office said Thursday.
The investigations will examine authorities’ oversight of the bank, their handling of its failure and the placement of public funds in the lender.
Peña, whose spokesman said he remains in the capital, wrote on X that he would cooperate with investigators. “Whatever the outcome of this process, I will act with responsibility and respect for the Constitution.”
Earlier Thursday, Peña said in a video posted to X that he was stepping down in the interest of “the stability of our country, social peace and the need to preserve our democratic institutions.”
Even Peña’s mentor, Colorado Party leader and former President
by The Associated Press | Nov 5, 2026 | News, World, World News
PARIS (AP) — Multiple flights in Europe made emergency landings on Thursday after being diverted because of bomb threats, authorities said. The incidents followed hoax bomb threats earlier this week that prompted searches, diversions and in one case a military escort.
At least eight flights from Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan and Warsaw were confirmed to have been targeted with bomb threats, most diverted to other airports for emergency landings while others landed safely at their destinations. So far inspections have not turned up hazardous or suspicious materials.
Czech police said they deployed at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport to prepare for the landing of four planes after receiving a threat of explosive devices on board. Police said that “all necessary security measures have been activated.”
Earlier, a flight from Dublin to Rome was diverted to a military air base in western France because of a bomb threat, the French prime minister’s office said. The flight landed safely at the base in Evreux in Normandy, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s office said. All 151 passengers and six crew members were safe and military bomb disposal teams were examining the plane, the office said.
It added that it was following the situation in real time. No other information was immediately released.
A LOT Polish Airlines flight from Warsaw to Brussels landed at its destination, where inspections found no hazardous or suspicious items, the airline said. A Wizz Air flight from Milan to Bucharest landed safely in Bucharest following a bomb threat, airport spokesman Teo Postelnicu said.
Finnair said that Flight 1761 from Helsinki to Rome was targeted by a bomb threat, but nothing out of the ordinary was found
by Felicia Schwartz | Nov 5, 2026 | Congress, elections, News, World
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s prospects for the 2028 Republican nomination may have risen as Democrats wrenched control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections and voters punished the GOP for high gas prices and the Iran war.
Trey Gowdy, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, said Rubio was the ultimate victor of the GOP’s disappointing night.
“There’s one winner tonight on the Republican side, and that is Marco Rubio,” Gowdy said on Fox News early Wednesday.
While President Donald Trump won’t ever be on the ballot again, his allies will be, Gowdy said. Republican strategists are beginning to debate who from Trump’s camp will be able to mount a successful bid for the 2028 Republican nomination.
The field is likely to be broad. Outgoing Florida governor Ron DeSantis has hinted that he is open to running for president again, as he did in 2024 before being overshadowed by Trump in the Republican primary. So has Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who said in August that it was “no secret” he wanted to be president.
Inside Trump’s administration, speculation about who can carry Trump’s mantle forward centers on Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.
Rubio’s chief rival, Vance has already publicly blamed the war with Iran for the massive midterms rout, in what appears to be an early effort to put distance between himself and one of his boss’ most unpopular policies. From the start of the war, Vance had privately voiced opposition to it, and later led U.S. negotiations to end it.
Rubio, who was hawkish on Iran as a senator, is likely to be grouped into the pro-war camp as various GOP factions
