Source: Fox News
“The shutdown stalemate that has dragged on in the Senate officially ended late Monday night, and it places Congress on a path to reopen the government later this week. Senators advanced a bipartisan funding package to end the government shutdown after a group of Senate Democrats broke from their colleagues and joined Republicans in their bid to reopen the government. … Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., earlier Monday told Fox News Digital that he would bring the House back into session ‘immediately’ upon Senate passage of the legislation. He later told House Republicans on a lawmaker-only call that he anticipated a vote in their chamber midweek at the earliest, Fox News Digital was told.” (11/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-ends-41-day-government-shutdown-stalemate-sends-bipartisan-deal-house
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Richard M Ebeling
“I first met the free-market journalist Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) in June of 1974 at an Austrian economics conference in South Royalton, Vermont. I had been reading his articles and books for years, since I was around 14 or 15 years old, not long after I became interested in classical-liberal and libertarian ideas. His famous volume Economics in One Lesson (1946), which is now celebrating its 80th anniversary, had helped open my eyes to the nature of the market economy and the contradictions in and dangers from a wide variety of interventionist and socialist policies.” (11/10/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/henry-hazlitts-economics-in-one-lesson-at-80/
Source: Reason
“Did Democrats Blow It on the Government Shutdown?” (11/10/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/11/10/did-democrats-blow-it-on-the-government-shutdown/
Source: Reuters
“A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region damaged energy and transport infrastructure, injuring one person and sparking fires at multiple energy facilities, the regional governor said on Tuesday. The attack injured one person, sparked fires at various energy facilities and damaged a depot of the state-owned Ukrainian Railways.” (11/11/25)
https://archive.is/bc9nc
Source: The Atlantic
by Quinta Jurecic
“Early last month, the White House convened a meeting of right-wing influencers for a livestreamed discussion of antifa and the danger they claim it poses. Over the course of the roundtable, President Donald Trump suggested that protests against him had been organized by mysterious funders, who he hinted could soon be in ‘deep trouble.’ He complained about television networks that were biased against him but praised CBS, whose parent company had recently been purchased by a Trump-friendly billionaire. And he touted an executive order that demanded the Justice Department bring charges for burning American flags. ‘We took the freedom of speech away,’ the president said. Like so many of Trump’s pronouncements, this was something of an exaggeration …. But Trump’s comment did reflect a deeper truth about his administration’s effort to force an abrupt contraction of American civic space.” (11/10/25)
https://archive.is/HSAHs
Source: Politico
“A Utah judge on Monday rejected a Republican-passed redistricting plan that created two more-competitive districts in the state — a win for Democrats who thought the map did not go far enough. In denying the new map, the judge put in place one of two options offered by plaintiffs that creates a solidly-Democratic district that covers Salt Lake City, giving the party its second win in the redistricting wars that have swept the nation ahead of the midterms. In her ruling, issued minutes before a midnight deadline, Judge Dianna Gibson said the Republican map ‘fails to abide by and conform with the requirements’ of a 2018 voter-approved ballot measure that created nonpartisan redistricting standards for the state Legislature.” (11/11/25)
https://archive.is/yVo1T
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“In 2023, California adopted a law that raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour. It also created a Fast Food Council with the power to further increase wages by dictate every year. Twenty bucks an hour is a nice, round number which is probably why state lawmakers picked it — though it’s not clear why they stopped there. After all, if you’re going to create prosperity by command, why not shoot for the moon and make all the Golden State’s fry cooks millionaires? But it’s just as well that they didn’t go further — that hike to $20 per hour is killing jobs as it is.” (11/10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/10/californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-killing-jobs/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“At least two people including a child have been killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters in the besieged Palestinian territory. Hamas condemned Israel’s ‘daily and continuous violations’ since a truce came into effect last month, accusing it of maintaining a campaign of bombardments and demolitions across the besieged enclave. In a statement published on Telegram on Monday, the group said Israeli attacks had killed 271 people, over 90 percent of them civilians, and wounded 622 more since the ceasefire took effect on October 10.” (11/10/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/10/israeli-drone-strike-kills-two-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-violations-mount
Source: Law & Liberty
by Julia R Cartwright
“Good Constitutional rules are designed to resist precisely those situations when leaders feel the urge to break them.” (11/10/25)
https://lawliberty.org/odyssean-constitutionalism/
Source: New York Times
“President Trump has granted pre-emptive pardons to Rudolph W. Giuliani and others accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to an official familiar with the matter. The official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said on Monday that those pardoned include John Eastman, a lawyer who advised Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign, and Sidney Powell, a conservative pundit who was briefly a public face of his campaign. The presidential pardons, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic. None of those named are currently facing federal charges, and the pardons cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.” (11/10/25)
https://archive.is/eaygG
