Source: NBC News
“The Federal Aviation Administration will begin cutting the number of flights in the ‘high traffic’ parts of the country as the government shutdown grinds on and local airports have reported staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday. ‘There is going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations,’ Duffy said. ‘This is about where’s the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure.’ FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the reduction in capacity, spurred by ‘fatigue’ plaguing air traffic controllers, would start Friday.” (11/05/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flight-reduction-shutdown-faa-rcna242231
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“More or less open corruption in the White House. Pardons for sale. Wanton murder on the high seas. Using the Justice Department as a political hit squad. Chief Justice John Roberts’[s] creation, ex nihilo, of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution looks dumber every day. … While the DOJ has long held a prudential policy of not indicting presidents, there is no legitimate constitutional principle holding that the president or any other elected official is constitutionally immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office and under color of official deeds. The separation of powers does not require one: We do not, for example, insist that corrupt senators cannot be arrested by the FBI or prosecuted by the DOJ because FBI agents and DOJ lawyers are part of the executive branch.” (11/05/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-venezuela/
Source: The Intercept
“What Fourth Amendment? How the Killing of Trevon Cole Almost Made Prime-Time TV.” (11/05/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/05/collateral-damage-episode-five-fourth-amendment/
Source: Economic Times [India]
“Bitcoin rose 1.31% to $103,127 on Thursday, marking a brief rebound as overall market sentiment remained cautious ahead of key U.S. jobs data. At around 11:38 AM IST, Bitcoin was trading 1.51% higher over the past 24 hours, while Ethereum gained 2.03% to $3,387. Major altcoins, including BNB, XRP, Solana, Tron, and Cardano, were up over 4%, whereas Dogecoin and Hyperliquid slipped nearly 1%. The global crypto market cap rose 1.41% to $3.44 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap. The cryptocurrency tumbled as much as 7.4% on Tuesday, slipping below the $100,000 level for the first time since June and has now fallen over 20% from the record high it touched just a month ago.” (11/06/25)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/cryptocurrency/crypto-news/bitcoin-hovers-around-103k-as-traders-await-us-jobs-report-heres-what-experts-say/articleshow/125126058.cms?from=mdr
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“That the ‘government shutdown’ is disruptive is an indictment of just how far we’ve let the federal Leviathan intrude into areas it doesn’t belong. Of course, it’s not really a shutdown; it’s a temporary suspension of nonessential activities while lawmakers posture over budget issues for the edification of their core supporters. But we still see the air traffic control system in chaos and all too many Americans complaining that they won’t get full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because government officials always inconvenience the public first even as most of the federal behemoth chugs on as always. They want to convince us we need the state and get us begging for it to reopen. Instead, we should ween ourselves from government and relegate the federal apparatus to the irrelevance — or even nonexistence — that it deserves.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/05/keep-the-federal-government-closed/
Source: Independent [UK]
“Bulgaria is drafting new legislation that will allow it to seize control of an important oil refinery belonging to Russia’s sanctioned oil giant Lukoil. The Burgas refinery is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria and was a vital party of Lukoil’s foreign business empire. The company is now facing US sanctions over Russia’s war on Ukraine. Earlier, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered preparations for nuclear weapons testing after president Donald Trump announced last week that the US would be running its first tests in over three decades. … At the same meeting on Wednesday, Putin ordered the heightened defence of Russia’s oil refineries from Ukrainian drone attacks, signing a new law deploying millions of reservists to the task. And on the battlefield, Russia claimed its troops were advancing inside the key city of Pokrovsk, where the Ukrainian army said its units were battling hard to avoid being encircled by Moscow’s forces.” (11/06/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-nuclear-weapons-pokrovsk-latest-news-b2859596.html
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“The SNAP crisis has shown a flaw in encouraging people to become dependent on government for anything essential. If you allow yourself to become dependent on government, it will own you. Why would you do this to yourself? To your family? This isn’t only about food, but about a job, your personal safety, health care, or anything else you expect government to provide. Being dependent on government — something you have no real control over, and which relies on a steady stream of stolen money — is a terrible idea. Pure self-sufficiency is impossible, but it should remain a guiding principle.” (11/05/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/11/05/voices/opinion-you-dont-want-to-be-governments-pet/232063.html
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive. The United Nations'[s] humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it, but said that the situation in the Kordofan region was continuing to worsen. The war in Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more, has spread to new areas in recent days, sparking fears of an even greater humanitarian catastrophe. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the military since 2023, was preparing to launch an assault in Kordofan after capturing El-Fasher, the last army stronghold in the vast western Darfur region.” (11/05/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251105-sudan-funeral-attack-kills-at-least-40-fighting-speads-kordofan-region
Source: The Hill
by Kimberly Wehle
“On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, a case that asks whether private military contractors can be held liable in state court for negligence and other violations of law, or whether they are immune from lawsuits brought by people they injure. Its outcome could signal how the current majority feels about deputizing private actors with federal immunity even if they engage in blatantly illegal acts. … The Supreme Court hasn’t considered the issue of private contractor liability since 1988, when in Boyle v. United Technologies, it manufactured civil immunity for military equipment manufacturers. It did so even though Congress had specifically refused to protect private contractors under a statute that otherwise allows for negligence suits against the federal government.” (1/05/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5587971-will-the-justices-give-federal-contractors-a-free-pass/
Source: Los Angeles Times
“The Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Wednesday of President Trump’s claim that he has the power to set large tariffs on products coming from countries around the world. Most of the justices, both conservative and liberal, said Congress, not the president, had the power to impose taxes and tariffs. And they agreed Congress did not authorize tariffs in an emergency powers law adopted in 1977. It has ‘never before been used to justify tariffs, and no one had argued it before this case,’ Chief Justice John G. Roberts told Trump’s top courtroom attorney. ‘The imposition of taxes on Americans … has always been a core power of Congress.’ Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer argued that tariffs involve the president’s power over foreign affairs. They are ‘regulatory tariffs, not taxes,’ he said.” (11/05/25)
https://archive.is/yj8Am
