https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/25/trump-2028-steve-bannon-comments/86897789007/

WASHINGTON – MAGA podcaster and former West Wing aide Steve Bannon suggested in a recent interview that a plan exists for President Donald Trump to attempt to defy the Constitution and seek a third term in office in 2028.

"Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that," he told The Economist on Oct. 23.

Though Bannon, who served a four-month stint in prison last year and has pleaded guilty to separate fraud charges, isn't empowered in the White House like he was during Trump's first term, he indicated there are "many different alternatives" for keeping his former boss in the presidency.

"At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is," Bannon said. "But there is a plan."

Trump has toyed publicly with the idea on many occasions since he won reelection in 2024, despite the fact that the 22nd Amendment forbids a president from seeking office for more than two four-year terms, regardless of whether they were consecutive.

https://www.wect.com/2025/10/25/13-people-shot-2-dead-according-deputies-after-shooting-robeson-county/

ROBESON CO., N.C. (WECT) - Officials with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office confirm 13 people have been shot and at least two people are dead following a shooting.

Officials posted the information in a Facebook post saying it happened during a large party just outside of Maxton.

Deputies say there is no current threat to the community and it appears to have been an isolated incident.

The post says more than 150 of people ran from the location before law enforcement arrived. They’re asking anyone with information or anyone who was at the scene when it happened, to make contact with Sheriff’s Investigators by calling 910-671-3100 or email [email protected].

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-argentina-bailout-sparks-fury-among-farmers-republicans-10809559

President Donald Trump’s offer to prop up Argentina’s economy—and the political future of embattled President Javier Milei—has drawn the ire of farmers and lawmakers, who consider this an ill-judged use of American resources.

Milei, who has led the country since December 2023, is now facing off against several threats to his free market movement, including the recent electoral successes of his Peronist rivals and a depletion of his country’s foreign reserves.

Amid this and Milei’s declining prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, President Trump said he would help his counterpart secure “all of the things that you need to make Argentina great again.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, meanwhile, offered a $20 billion swap line and other forms of assistance to help stabilize the Argentine peso, and said the U.S. remained “prepared to do what is necessary” to sustain the “important strides” taken by Milei.

Newsweek contacted the White House via email for comment.

Why It Matters

Following years of inflationary struggles, Milei’s presidency and the economic turnaround it inaugurated has been hailed by some—including Trump and his allies—as a model of how slashing federal spending and bureaucracy can steady a faltering economy.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/truck-driver-country-illegally-influence-drugs-california-crash/story?id=126804313

The driver of a semi-truck that slammed into multiple vehicles, killing three people, on a California highway was allegedly under the influence of drugs, authorities said.

The driver -- identified by authorities as 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh -- has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence of a drug causing injury in connection with Tuesday's chain-reaction crash on Interstate 10 in Ontario, according to a criminal complaint.

He is in the United States illegally and an immigration detainer has also been placed on him, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/shutdown-budget-congress-republicans-noem-johnson-20251022.html

The power of the House, the Senate, and the White House belong to MAGA. A simple rules change in the Senate and vote on the clean continuing resolution would reopen the government in time to keep food on the table for millions this Thanksgiving. We don't need the Democrats to save our people from going hungry the one day no one should.

https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fluoride-kennedy-trump-science-antiscience-legislation-73af8e65f407331e8f31b2909812a004

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.

An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society. Around 30 bills have been enacted or adopted in 12 states.

Trump administration officials are directing activists to push anti-science legislation in the states – where public health authority rests – with the ultimate goal of changing laws and minds nationally.

The effort normalizes ideas fueled by the anti-vaccine movement that Kennedy has helped lead for years. His Make America Healthy Again agenda masks anti-science ideas while promoting goals such as making food more natural or reducing chemicals. Meanwhile, vaccination rates continue to fall, allowing the infectious diseases measles and whooping cough to make comebacks as Kennedy has sought to broadly remake federal policies on public health matters including fluoride and vaccines.

Kennedy’s allies dispute that their agenda is anti-science or driven by conspiracy theories, but many experts disagree.

“The march of conspiracy thinking from the margins to the mainstream now guiding public policy should be a wake-up call for all Americans,” said Devin Burghart, president and executive director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades. “People are literally going to die from it as a result.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/charlie-kirk-donations-critics-fraud-b2851182.html

A website that promised to unmask critics of conservative activist Charlie Kirk took tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency donations before going offline, according to a report.

The site “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” was launched hours after Kirk’s assassination on September 10 and pledged to name and shame those who spoke out against him to pursue “the largest firing operation in history.”

It asked supporters to contribute toward “a highly sophisticated enterprise system that will be impervious to Leftist attacks,” and directed them to cryptocurrency blockchains, the technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to Drop Site.

The website’s anonymous developers raised more than $30,000 from supporters between September 12 and 14, according to the outlet.

Now the domain www.charliesmurderers.com has gone dark.

The group justified asking for crypto donations at the time because it claimed it was working with Fortune 500 and Big Tech data scientists which didn’t come cheap.

“Our reputations are on the line. The people behind this are political operatives that have represented major parties and candidates,” the group previously wrote in a post on X. “Why would we jeopardize that for a 5-figure pay-day?”

The group, which changed its name to the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation, has not posted on X since September 23 and now faces allegations that it has scammed MAGA supporters.

The Independent has contacted the group for comment.

“I want my donation back!” one MAGA account replied to the group in a post on X last month.

“Everybody knows this isnt legitimate,” another said.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was terminating trade talks with Canada, effective immediately.

Trump accused Canada of trying to interfere with an upcoming Supreme Court case about the legality of his "reciprocal" tariffs.

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social after the Canadian province of Ontario began running a television advertisement in the United States featuring a speech from former President Ronald Reagan.

“They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts,” Trump wrote, referring to the high court’s scheduled Nov. 5 oral arguments on legal challenges to a significant part of Trump’s tariffs. They include the country-specific rates at the heart of both his foreign policy and economic agendas.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters Friday that his government stands ready to advance previously fruitful trade talks and "build on that progress when the Americans are ready to have those discussions."

The ad, which Ontario's premier, Doug Ford, posted on X, begins with Reagan saying, "When someone says, 'Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs, and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time."

>https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-trade-ronald-reagan-rcna239508

Inflation was lower this month than expected, only growing 0.3% for the month according to the Fed.
Inflation is now lower than at any point during Biden's presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/tame-inflation-report-keeps-fed-rate-cut-on-track-00621391
Tame inflation report keeps Fed rate cut on track
The CPI release offers a small reprieve for the Fed, which has been deprived of key economic data while much of the government is not operating.

The annual inflation rate ticked up to 3 percent in September but didn’t increase by as much as expected, leaving the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates again next week.
Prices rose 0.3 percent from August, according to the Labor Department’s latest consumer price index report, which drew more attention than usual because it was delayed by the government shutdown.
The report is also crucial because increases in Social Security benefits are tied to the inflation rate. After the CPI release, the Social Security Administration announced that benefits would rise 2.8 percent in 2026 in the annual cost-of-living adjustment.
Fed policymakers will decide next Wednesday whether to reduce interest rates again. Chair Jerome Powell has been under constant pressure from President Donald Trump to lower borrowing costs to spur the economy.
“There was little in today’s benign CPI report to ‘spook’ the Fed and we continue to expect further easing at next week’s Fed meeting,” Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector fixed income investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said in an emailed statement.
“A December rate cut also remains likely with the current data drought providing the Fed with little reason to deviate from the path set out” in policymakers’ September projections, she added.
The CPI report offers a small reprieve for the Fed, which has been deprived of key economic data while much of the government is not operating.