“A video taken by a bystander, and seen by CBS News Chicago, captured two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents [abducting] a woman inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning. The video shows two masked federal agents in plainclothes and wearing vests labeled ‘POLICE’ inside the Rayita del Sol Spanish Immersion school and daycare’s Roscoe Village location. A woman can be heard screaming through the glass doors as the agents physically wrestle her out the door, at one point picking her up. They slam her, face-first, into the outer door as they push her outside. … Once outside, she’s pushed against a dark grey sedan parked outside the building as agents try to handcuff her with her hands behind her back.” (11/05/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“The European Green Deal, launched in 2019, is an ecological pact that has been, unequivocally, an enemy of European taxpayers and innovation. Its declared goal is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 through a dense web of regulations that reach deep into every sector of the European economy. More than any other sector, the automotive industry is being put at risk of an irreversible crash. Pressuring companies and citizens alike, the pact promotes the renunciation of capitalism, an inevitable sacrifice in the name of green policies. Such binding commitments will have severe economic consequences for a European Union increasingly weakened by its own laws and regulations.” (11/05/25)
“It is my duty as a political writer to fire off a take in the wake of an election, so here goes: Were it not for his positions on Israel and Palestine, I don’t think Zohran Mamdani would be mayor. There was a world, and it existed a few years ago, where the opposite would’ve been the case. I know the conventional wisdom is that American voters care about foreign relations, and it’s especially not supposed to matter in local elections, but Mamdani was the only candidate who represented a clear ‘No’ to the genocide in Gaza. … Although I’m much closer to Mamdani than Cuomo on Palestine, I remain a little nervous about the introduction of a foreign ethnic conflict into our city.” (11/05/25)
“Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that the harassment she suffered from a drunk man in the street near Mexico’s seat of government was an assault on all women and that’s why she decided to press charges against him. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada had announced overnight that the man had been arrested. In a video circulating widely on social platforms, the man appeared to lean in for a kiss and touch the president’s body with his hands on Tuesday. She gently pushed his hands away, maintaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She could be heard to say in part, ‘Don’t worry.’ On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was firm in emphasizing that this was not the first time she had suffered such harassment and that the problem went far beyond the president. ‘No man has the right to violate that space,’ she said.” (11/05/25)
“Finally, the city council of Castle Hills, Texas, is doing the right thing by Sylvia Gonzalez, accepting a settlement to resolve years of litigation against the city for violating her First Amendment rights. In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor, agreeing that courts may properly consider evidence that an arrest is retaliatory. According to Gonzalez’s lawsuit, in 2019 city leaders had lashed out against the councilwoman for her support of a nonbinding petition to remove a city manager. The city’s weapon? A rarely used law that it wielded against her for ‘briefly and inadvertently having the petition among her papers’ during a heated council meeting; she allegedly tried to ‘steal’ her own petition.” (11/05/25)
“Multiple contestants from the Miss Universe 2025 pageant walked out of an event in solidarity after an official of host nation Thailand publicly ‘humiliated’ Miss Mexico. The incident took place during a pre-pageant event on 3 November when Thai pageant director Nawat Itsaragrisil called Fátima Bosch of Mexico ‘dumb’ for failing to post promotional content and ordered security to remove her. … Along with Bosch, other contestants including reigning title-holder Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark, stood and walked out in protest. As the women begin to leave, Itsaragrisil can be heard telling them: ‘If anyone wants to continue, sit down.'” (11/05/25)
