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Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Police in west suburban Broadview are investigating the assault of a local journalist by federal immigration authorities. CBS Chicago Reporter Asal Rezaei said she was at the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview Sunday morning to report on the scene and was preparing to leave since there were no protesters. That's when a masked ICE agent inside the fencing shot a pepper ball from about 50 feet away, hitting Rezai's truck, which had its driver's side window down, "causing the chemical agents to engulf the inside," CBS Chicago reported. "An ICE agent took a direct shot at my car today. Absolutely unprovoked," Rezaei said on social media. "My window was open and chemicals went all over my face. Been puking for two hours."


Donald Trump's tariffs have triggered an explosion in cargo theft across the US as organized gangs target truck drivers. Drugmakers, clothes manufacturers and electronics companies are grappling with "unprecedented" numbers of crimes, which have surged by a third year-on-year, according to the boss of a supply chain security company.


Wisconsin business owner Bill Berrien, a supporter of President Donald Trump, ended his Republican campaign for governor on Friday, days after it was reported that he followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer. Berrien, a former Navy SEAL and one of three announced prominent Republican candidates, issued a lengthy statement saying "I had no idea that running for political office could be almost as dangerous" as "hunting down war criminals in Bosnia."


he man known for the Peanut Punch has punched out for the last time at the FBI. Former Bears cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman recently told The Pivot Podcast that he has resigned from the Bureau. He had joined the FBI in 2018. What did he disagree with? "Immigration," Tillman said. "I didn't agree with how the administration came in and tried to make individuals do things against their " it just didn't sit right. An example being immigration, right? Everybody was told it's " you're gonna go after like the most dangerous criminals. But what you see on TV and what actually was happening is, like, people weren't going after that, you know, and personally, that didn't sit right with me. That didn't sit right with my conscience." "I want to be on the right side of history when it's all said and done," Tillman said.


Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) almost certainly did not mean it when he said Democrats and Republicans should come together to "stop attacking pedophiles" " with the congressman making the unfortunate remark during a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning. "Sen. Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that's a great idea " we should have bipartisan agreement," Cruz said. "How about we all come together and say Let's stop murders.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop rape.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop attacking pedophiles."


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